| |  | Jack Kilby , an engineer with a background in ceramic-based silk screen circuit boards and transistor-based hearing aids, started working for Texas... |  | Ruth J. Simmons (born 1945 in Grapeland, Texas), is the 18th president of Brown University and first black president of an Ivy League institution.... |  | David R. Goode is the retired Chairman, President, and CEO of Norfolk Southern Corporation (holding company engaged principally in surface... | | | Mark Shepherd (January 18, 1923, Dallas, Texas, USA -) is the chairman and chief executive officer of Texas Instruments. He attended Southern... |  | Floyd Anthony Raines (born April 14, 1964) is an American NASCAR driver. Born in LaPorte, Indiana, he drives the #96 Texas Instruments Chevy for... |  | Rod Canion co-founded Compaq with Jim Harris and Bill Murto in 1982, investing $1000 in the company. Before co-founding Compaq Canion worked at... | | | Bill Murto co-founded Compaq with Jim Harris and Rod Canion in 1982, investing $1000 in the company. Before co-founding Compaq, Murto worked at... | | | Dr. Héctor de Jesús Ruiz is the current Chairman and CEO of semiconductor company Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD). Ruiz was born in the border to... |  | Cecil Howard Green (August 6, 1900 - April 11, 2003) (aged: 102) was a British-born American geophysicist who trained at the University of British... | | | Eugene McDermott (1899-1973) was a co-founder of Texas Instruments. Born in Brooklyn, New York, he graduated from Stevens Institute of Technology... | |
