I not an expert on software design or networking but I do know a little about chip design. Here's some of the most significant people in the invention and develpment of ICs and where they went to school:
Noyce - Cornell and MIT Moore - Berkeley and CalTech Shockley - CalTech and MIT Kilby - UI and Wisconsin
I'm coming from the other side...currently BSEE doing chip design but recently started a PhD is biomedical engineering, specializing in medical imaging.
If you were to pick up the programming skills (you could get into image registration, segmentation, computer-aided diagnois, etc...) or the EE skills (you could work on the detectors for digital x-ray systems or CT front-end design) you could apply them to imaging diseases of which you already have a fundamental knowledge. This is very powerful and missing in a lot of the research I've seen.
One last word of warning: I would think one reason you got you MD was to help people...I've personally found that a huge portion of the high-tech industry is just out to make money, regardless of the effects it has on it's workers, the environment or the betterment of society. This is why I'm getting out.
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I not an expert on software design or networking but I do know a little about chip design. Here's some of the most significant people in the invention and develpment of ICs and where they went to school:
Noyce - Cornell and MIT
Moore - Berkeley and CalTech
Shockley - CalTech and MIT
Kilby - UI and Wisconsin
Don't see any Stanford people here...
I'm coming from the other side...currently BSEE doing chip design but recently started a PhD is biomedical engineering, specializing in medical imaging.
If you were to pick up the programming skills (you could get into image registration, segmentation, computer-aided diagnois, etc...) or the EE skills (you could work on the detectors for digital x-ray systems or CT front-end design) you could apply them to imaging diseases of which you already have a fundamental knowledge. This is very powerful and missing in a lot of the research I've seen.
One last word of warning: I would think one reason you got you MD was to help people...I've personally found that a huge portion of the high-tech industry is just out to make money, regardless of the effects it has on it's workers, the environment or the betterment of society. This is why I'm getting out.