Hiranya Peiris
speaker
454 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 25 May
Hiranya Peiris’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But when he told me that I could do it, I didn't know anything about Cambridge, so I applied to a college.
It's called Newhall at the time, now Murray Edwards.
And there's a very iconic dome, which...
It's suggestive of an observatory dome.
And that's the reason I picked that college.
We were not well off and at that time computer science was one of those subjects that was held to have very good career prospects.
I remember applying to so many different jobs and I accumulated the rejection letters in a binder.
I still have that somewhere to remind me that rejection is OK.
Eventually, I got into a scheme called the Ian Industry at Nuclear Electric, which ran the UK's nuclear reactors at the time.
And I was placed in a team which was monitoring the turbo generator system for cracks and
There was not a woman in sight.
And I was a young woman of color.
But I was placed in this team which treated me no different.
I was just told, this is what you have to do.
And I taught myself to code in C++.
I learned Unix.
That's correct.
What helped me is this feeling that, and once you've done something hard once, you can do it innumerable other times.
I could learn to do anything.
Again, I didn't really connect to the way of learning in lectures and so on.
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