MAYA
Morrison was wrong about many things. But not this.
The patent files covered every surface of Dominic's office. Desk, chairs, even parts of the floor. I'd been here for sixteen hours straight, fueled by coffee and dread.
My laptop screen glowed in the dim light. Patent US8754291B2, filed March 2009. Neural network architecture for natural language processing. Inventor: Marcus Chen.
I pulled up the developer logs from that same year. Three names appeared: David Rodriguez, Jennifer park, Hassan Al-Mansi. All hired from competing firms. All let go within eighteen months.
My stomach twisted.
I opened another file. Patent US9123847B1, filed June 2011. Machine learning framework for predictive analytics. Inventor: Marcus Chen.
Developer logs: Sarah Mitchell, formerly of IBM. Thomas N
