In 1996, he returned to MIT, serving as the director of research at the Media Lab and taught courses on art and design.

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He and his co-founders took their research from a Cambridge engineering lab where they were working on a microchip design and turned it into a business.

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It acquired a research lab in India from Swedish telecom titan Ericsson and a telecom-chip design firm in Austria.

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Finally, Google could continue creating jobs as it research, design, and manufacture the systems close to its current operations in Mountain View and the secret Google X Lab believed to be in the Bay Area, where the autonomous cars were developed.

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