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Mike Finley \u201990 doesn\u2019t wait for the next big thing to happen. He\u2019s too busy anticipating, inventing, marketing and selling it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Have you used an automated gas pump lately? That\u2019s Finley. Wish you had sunglasses that offered polarized peripheral vision? His patent. These are two of what he calls the \u201cless esoteric\u201d of his 14 patents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These days, his primary focus is on artificial intelligence\u2014the biggest technological shift he\u2019s witnessed in his 30-year career. He operates with the knowledge that \u201cin a commercially interesting timeframe, companies will be hiring software as if it were a knowledge worker.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finley, who balances invention and viable enterprise in the full scale of his work, is able to recognize the need and opportunity, develop the tools to meet it, communicate and market the results and embrace the changes in what\u2019s to come. He creates the vision and has the tools to carry it out. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A scientist, innovator of technology, co-founder of companies, author and a volunteer who is committed to education, Finley easily traces the multiple facets of his success to Transylvania: learning to think, innovate, write and communicate, and having the freedom to follow his interests by taking a wide array of classes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The world of technology has changed profoundly since Finley graduated from Transylvania in 1990, yet, three decades later, he continues to thrive, ever on the cutting edge, finding his own tailwind, as he describes it, the difference between leading with creative vision and following the status quo. For a company, he notes, it\u2019s about survival. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFiguring out how to make something useful out of the technology that\u2019s arising and getting that into the marketplace\u2014that\u2019s really the key difference,\u201d he explains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Finley\u2019s experience, profitable success requires innovation. \u201cYou can\u2019t thrive in an environment where you\u2019re not on the cutting edge of technology,\u201d he explains. \u201cSo, by definition, what I do every day is pushing the boundary precisely to make sure that I\u2019m not competing against anybody else\u2014basically, creating my own tailwind by being out in front of everybody.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

To get at what sharpened the many facets of his edge, Finley contrasts his experience at Transylvania, which encouraged curiosity and multiple approaches, with other college programs that emphasize memorization of current knowledge that, as Finley points out, will be out of date by the time students enter the workforce. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe engineering curriculum at famous schools prepares you for all the things that they know are out there. What Transy did for me was prepare me for the things we didn\u2019t know were out there.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Instead of graduating prepared for everything that already exists, he says, \u201cI was prepared for what might come.\u201d Part of that was having the freedom to explore many disciplines and perspectives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFor me it was being able to say, \u2018I\u2019m going to take a film class. I\u2019m going to learn to write, to learn about Baroque music. And, yes, at the same time I\u2019m going to take accounting and physics.\u2019 It was just having that flexibility to take everything that I enjoyed and lots of opportunities sponsored by Transy, such as my internship at IBM.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By the time he graduated, Finley was surprised to have earned not only a physics major, but additional majors in math and computer science. And within those disciplines he found that same liberal arts sense of scope.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSomething I really appreciated about Transy was that I wasn\u2019t in the hardware track or the software track; I was in computer science, so I started learning about computer architecture one day, learning about linear algebra the next day, about data structure the day after that. It was really a very broad set of skills that I was fortunate to be a part of.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

He recounts the intimacy of the classroom, how the professors held him accountable and the small class size required him to interact, communicate and develop the soft skills that are necessary in the workplace. They also allowed for multiple approaches to solutions and even reconfiguring the problem\u2014so essential to Finley\u2019s success after graduation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt was all about the techniques that you were going to use to get to the answer,\u201d he explains, \u201cnot about whether the answer was correct or not, because there\u2019s usually not just one correct answer\u2014the world is full of ambiguities.\u201d Professors presented real-world problems. And they checked up on him if he missed a class.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s great to have all of that under one roof,\u201d he acknowledges. \u201cThat\u2019s super powerful.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The power of this education and the generosity of those who made his time at Transy possible motivate the focus of Finley\u2019s volunteer work. \u201cKnowing what a difference this education makes,\u201d he says, is why \u201cI\u2019m not volunteering to put dinner in front of somebody; I\u2019m volunteering to help somebody to be able to put dinner in front of themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI look at what Transylvania and the William T. Young Scholarship did for me,\u201d he says, \u201cand I feel a tremendous sense of debt and obligation to pay that forward.\u201d   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finley serves on Transylvania\u2019s Board of Trustees and as a mentor in the 100 Doors to Success program; he chairs the board of a K-8 charter school in Atlanta; and he is on the committee that guides Georgia\u2019s computer science curriculum. His goal is to help diversify the students who thrive in science. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBut broader and bigger than that,\u201d he adds, returning attention to the role of artificial intelligence in the near future, \u201cI do believe we are facing a world where the fundamental currency of life is going to change.\u201d Having the right education will be essential in meeting those challenges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mike Finley \u201990 doesn\u2019t wait for the next big thing to happen. He\u2019s too busy anticipating, inventing, marketing and selling it. Have you used an automated gas pump lately? That\u2019s Finley. Wish you had sunglasses that offered polarized peripheral vision? His patent. These are two of what he calls the \u201cless esoteric\u201d of his 14 patents. These days, his primary focus is on artificial intelligence\u2014the biggest technological shift he\u2019s witnessed in his 30-year career. He operates with the knowledge that \u201cin a commercially interesting timeframe, companies will be hiring software as if it were a knowledge worker.\u201d Finley, who balances invention and viable enterprise in the full scale of his work, is able to recognize the need and opportunity, develop the tools to meet it, communicate and market the results and embrace the changes in what\u2019s to come. He creates the vision and has the tools to carry it out. A scientist, innovator of technology, co-founder of companies, author and a volunteer who is committed to education, Finley easily traces the multiple facets of his success to Transylvania: learning to think, innovate, write and communicate, and having the freedom to follow his interests by taking a wide array of classes. The world of technology has changed profoundly since Finley graduated from Transylvania in 1990, yet, three decades later, he continues to thrive, ever on the cutting edge, finding his own tailwind, as he describes it, the difference between leading with<\/p>\n

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