Sergio Verdú is a Professor of Electrical Engineering at Princeton University where he teaches and conducts research on information theory in the Information Sciences and Systems Group. He is also affiliated with the Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics. A native of Barcelona, Sergio Verdú received the Telecommunications Engineering degree from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain, …

Gerald S. Jakubowski, P.E., is the president of Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. He became the 13th President of Rose-Hulman on 1 July 2006, and was Inaugurated on 27 April 2007. From 2004 to 2006, he was Vice President of Arizona State University and Provost of its Polytechnic campus; from 1990 to 2004, he was the Dean of the College of Science and Engineering at Loyola Marymount University.

Tom Byers is a professor at Stanford University in the USA. He concentrates in the area of high-technology ventures and serves as the faculty director for the Stanford Technology Ventures Program. Byers was an early employee at Go Corporation and Symantec. He is also brother of famous entrepreneur Brook Byers. At Stanford he has established and directs Stanford Center for Entrepreneurial Studies to train and encourage students to become entrepreneurs.

Henry T. Yang is the Chancellor of the University of California, Santa Barbara. Appointed in 1994, he is the fifth chancellor of the university. He also holds a professorship in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. He had held the post of Neil A. Armstrong Distinguished Professor of Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering at Purdue University. He had also held the post of dean of engineering at Purdue. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, …

Donald Bitzer, most notably inventor of the plasma display and largely regarded as the "father of PLATO", has made a career of improving classroom productivity by using computer and telecommunications technologies. The creation of PLATO, the first system to combine graphics and touch-sensitive screens, is the hallmark of his efforts. In October of 2002, Dr.

Gerald W. Smith (born 1 December 1929, Des Moines, Iowa, USA) is the American author of "Engineering Economy: Analysis of Capital Expenditures" (Iowa State Press) the textbook used by several generations of Industrial Engineering college students from around the world. He is an Emeritus Professor of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering at Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa where he was a Professor of Industrial Engineering from 1956-1988.

Clarence Hugo Linder (January 18, 1903 - May 7, 1994) was a noted American electrical engineer and a founding member of the National Academy of Engineering. Linder was born in Ogema, Wisconsin, received his education through master's degree at the University of Texas, and in 1924 started his long career at General Electric. He held a number of positions in GE's Schenectady Works, including superintendent of the Searchlight Department at the start of World War II, …

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