- Sami Al-Arian
Sami Amin Al-Arian is a Palestinian computer engineer who was convicted of conspiracy to help Palestinian Islamic Jihad. Al-Arian, a former university professor, was arrested by the United States government in 2003 on charges of funding terrorists. He was acquitted on eight of the 17 charges against him December 2005 after a six month trial with three co-defendants.
- Larry Page
Lawrence Edward "Larry" Page (born March 26 1973 in Lansing, Michigan) is an American entrepreneur who co-founded the Google internet search engine, now Google Inc., with Sergey Brin. Page is currently the President of Products at Google Inc. and has a net worth estimated at 16.6 billion dollars, making him the 26th richest (living) person in the world together with Sergey Brin according to Forbes' annual list of billionaires on 2007
- Yale Patt
Yale Nance Patt is an American professor of electrical and computer engineering at The University of Texas at Austin. He holds the Ernest Cockrell, Jr. Centennial Chair in Engineering. In 1965, Patt introduced the WOS module, the first complex logic gate implemented on a single piece of silicon. He is a fellow of both the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and the Association for Computing Machinery.
- Ross Anderson
Ross J. Anderson is a researcher, writer, and industry consultant in security engineering. He is a professor in security engineering at Cambridge University where he leads the computer security group. In cryptography, he, together with Eli Biham, designed the BEAR, LION and Tiger cryptographic primitives, the block cipher Serpent (with Biham and Lars Knudsen), and the stream cipher Pike. He has also discovered weaknesses in many algorithms (FISH) and security systems.
- David Filo
David Filo (born 1966 in Wisconsin) is the co-founder of Yahoo! with Jerry Yang. David Filo, at age 6, moved to Moss Bluff, Louisiana, a suburb of Lake Charles, Louisiana. He graduated from Sam Houston High School and then earned a BS in Computer Engineering from Tulane University (through the Dean's Honor Scholarship) and a MS from Stanford University. Until the company recently decided to switch to PHP, his Filo Server Program, …
- Robert Hecht-Nielsen
Robert Hecht-Nielsen is an adjunct professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of California, San Diego. He co-founded HNC Software, and became a vice president of R&D at Fair Isaac Corporation when it acquired the company. In March, 2005, he held an event to announce "the fundamental mechanism of cognition", which he believes is a process of confabulation. He posits that all actions and thoughts begin as the "winners" of competitions, …
- Arvind
Arvind is the Johnson Professor of Computer Science and Engineering in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research work includes verification of large-scale digital systems. He is a Distinguished Alumnus of the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur and of the University of Minnesota. He is also a Fellow of the IEEE.
- Alan Kotok
Alan Kotok was an American computer scientist. He was known for his contributions to the Internet and World Wide Web through his work at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), to computer engineering through his work at Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), and to gaming for his work on computer game and computer chess programs built at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Kotok recorded a video oral history at the Computer History Museum in 2004.
- Terry Sejnowski
Terrence Joseph Sejnowski is an Investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and is the Francis Crick Professor at The Salk Institute for Biological Studies where he directs the Computational Neurobiology Laboratory. He is also Professor of Biological Sciences and Adjunct Professor in the Departments of Neurosciences, Psychology, Cognitive Science, and Computer Science and Engineering at the University of California, San Diego, …
- Howard Heys
Howard M. Heys is a cryptographer, currently chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Memorial University of Newfoundland. His research includes the design and analysis of stream and block ciphers and efficient hardware implementations of them; he participated in the design of CAST-256 and has published notable cryptanalyses of such block ciphers as RC5 and CIKS-1. Heys received his Ph.D. in 1994 from Queen's University.
- Mark Jen
Mark Jen is known for being terminated with cause by Google, Inc. for distributing corporate secrets in his personal blog, 99zeros. His original writings are still available for viewing in the archives at his current blog. Jen worked for Google between January 17, 2005 and January 28, 2005, a total of 10 business days. Jen currently works for Tagged.com
- Manindra Agrawal
Manindra Agrawal (मणीन्द्र अग्रवाल) is a Professor and Head of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. He obtained a B.Tech and Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. His advisor was Dr. Somenath Biswas. He co-created the AKS primality test with Neeraj Kayal and Nitin Saxena, and won the 2002 Clay Research Award, …
- Robert Carr
Robert Carr (born 1956) is credited as the architect of GO Corporation's PenPoint OS. He was profiled in the book "Programmers at Work" (ISBN 0-914845-71-3), where he was credited as the author of Framework. Robert Carr is mostly known for being the inventor of the Framework integrated office suite.
- José Tribolet
José Tribolet is a full professor of the Computer Engineering Department at the Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) of the Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal. Tribolet holds a Sc.D. from MIT and earned his MBA as a Sloan Fellow from the MIT Sloan School of Management. He is chairman of INESC.
- Ben Goodger
Ben Goodger (born in London, England) is a former employee of Netscape Communications Corporation and the Mozilla Foundation and lead developer of the Firefox web browser. Goodger grew up in Auckland, New Zealand, and graduated from the University of Auckland in 2003 with a Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering. He now lives in Mountain View, California and is currently working for Google Inc.
- Rob Ketterson
Robert Clayton Ketterson is the Managing Partner of Fidelity Ventures, a leading venture capital organization. It is the venture capital arm of Fidelity Investments, focusing on go-to-market stage investments and managing $1.5B in assets. Prior to joining Fidelity Ventures in 1993, he was a manager in the high tech practice of the Boston Consulting Group.
- Ray Dragon
Ray Dragon is a gay American pornographic performer (porn star) who appears in gay pornographic films. He has also had careers in fashion design and as a photographer. A former gymnast, Dragon attended school at Michigan State University and received both computer engineering and performing arts degrees. His dancing and acting skills led to his performance in a Metropolitan Opera production of Hector Berlioz's 's "least-perfomed opera", "Benvenuto Cellini ", …
- Chan Yik Hei
Chan Yik Hei (born 1989;, Jyutping: can4 yik6 hei1) is a science amateur in Hong Kong. He graduated from CCC Tam Lee Lai Fun Memorial Secondary School for his secondary education. In 2004, he achieved a Second Award in Engineering Category of the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair for his "Total Equip", a robot for domestic security modelled after R2-D2.
- Andrey Golub
BSc- Applied Mathematics/ Software Engineering, PhD- Systems Analysis and Design. Who's Who in the World- 2008 (Marquis), . Prof: IT/TLC/Web Project- Product Manager, Sr.Systems/ Business Analyst and Team Leader. Web: Web 2.0 Evangelist and Researcher (Marketing 2.0/ PR 2.0/ Community Manager) with some broad experience in leading Open-Community (and Open-Source) projects.Co-founder, VP and IT/Web Manager of Business Club 2.0 Milan-IN (official LinkedIn Italia supporter Club).
- Jacek Karpiński
Jacek Karpiński, pioneer in computer engineering and computer science. He is responsible for the construction of the first transistor-based differential analyzer and for the development of one of the first machine learning algorithms and techniques for character and image recognition. He is also the designer of one of the first minicomputers, the K-202, which because of the policy on computer development in the People's Republic of Poland at the time, …
- Fran Mirabella III
Francis Michael Mirabella III (born 1980) is an editor at IGN Entertainment. He is currently the chief video producer, overseeing all video projects at IGN Entertainment, a division of News Corporation's Fox Interactive Media. Formerly a computer engineering student at University of Cincinnati, Fran was a writer at the Dolphin Cove website, the predecessor to N-sider. In 2000, he left to join Matt Casamassina as co-editor of IGN64, IGN's Nintendo 64 section, and IGN Cube.
- Thierry St-Cyr
Thierry St-Cyr is an engineer and Bloc Québécois politician in Quebec, Canada. He is the Member of Parliament from Jeanne-Le Ber, and was first elected in the 2006 election. He has a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Engineering at the University of Sherbrooke and Université de technologie de Compiègne in France as well as an International Bachelor's in science and nature in Geneva.
- John Whitaker Fairclough
John Whitaker Fairclough (August 23, 1930 - June 5, 2003) was a British computer designer, and later government policy advisor.
- Mark Coutts
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- Andy Bechtolsheim
Andy Bechtolsheim , co-founder of Sun Microsystems, Inc. and employee number one, is a product architect with the Systems Group. Andy works with the Systems Group to help drive next generation X64 and storage servers product architecture as well as HPC opportunities. Bechtolsheim has more than 25 years of Network Computing knowledge and expertise.
- Trent Reznor
Trent Reznor founded the '90s rock group Nine Inch Nails ; with Chris Vrenna at the drums, Reznor did all of the writing, performing and producing himself. Other musicians were brought in only on tour or if a desperate need arose. Born May 17, 1965, in Mercer, Pennsylvania, Trent Reznor began his musical career at five years old studying piano, later teaching himself tuba and saxophone. His parents divorced in 1970, and he was raised by his maternal grandparents.
- Kurt Bollacker
Kurt is a computer scientist with a research background in the areas of machine learning, digital libraries, and electro-cardiographic modeling. He received a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin and was co-creator of the CiteSeer research tool while a researcher at The NEC Research Institute . He was the technical director of The Internet Archive , and a research engineer at the Duke University Medical Center .
- Jaideep Singh
Jaideep Singh is a co-founder and CEO of SPOCK. Prior to SPOCK, Jaideep was an early stage venture capitalist at Clearstone Venture Partners. He got his MBA from the Wharton School in 2002 and a BS in Computer Engineering from the University of Arizona in 1991. He also completed all the required coursework for his MS in Computer Engineering. From 1992 to 2000 Jaideep worked in various marketing and engineering roles, mostly at Wind River. He started his engineering career at IBM
- Alan Steremberg
Alan Steremberg President Alan Steremberg worked on the original Weather Underground project at the University of Michigan, where he also started Student Mac Programmers, a student organization which gathered talented students in the U of M community together. Alan graduated with a BSE in Computer Engineering, Alan moved on to work at Apple Computer and then a small 3D internet startup in Seattle.
- Martin Holmgren
Martin Holmgren (born June 21 1974) is a Swedish engineer och musician. Since 2000, Martin works at Kartena, currently as CTO. In 2000 he graduated from Chalmers University of Technology, where he studied computer engineering. In 1999 he studied entrepreneurship at Chalmers School of Entrepreneurship (CSE). As a musician, Martin is mainly active in the quintet E:5, where he sings and dances. He plays double bass and guitar, most recently in the group sonores (double bass).
- Piergiorgio Lucidi
Open Source Software Engineer on content management, content delivery and system integration applications.- JBoss Committer at JBoss for projects dedicated to Portals;- Editor at HTML.it for open source blog oneOpenSource;- Reviewer at Packt Publishing for books about J2EE and Portals.Videogame tester, barcamper, Creative Commons supporter, jazz guitarist.
- Chris Schwerzler
Chris Schwerzler Director Chris joined the other founders of the Weather Underground at the University of Michigan, where he received his BSE degree in Computer Engineering.
- Blair Bitonti
- Harish Mandyam
Graduated With A Film & Electrical Engineering Degree from Southern Methodist University. Used to be a stand-up comedian Named His Production Company "Aum Productions" After The Hindu "Aum" Used To Tap Dance Used To Work For Geroge Lucas's Industrial Light & Magic Special Effects Company Doing Special Effects
- Kris Brown
- Stefano Zanero
- Otto Leichliter
- Faysal Sohail
Faysal Sohail is a General Partner with CMEA Ventures. Mr. Sohail has more than a decade of senior executive experience in engineering, marketing and business development. He was CEO of Cadabra Design Automation and managed its acquisition by Numerical Technologies (NMTC) where he served as Sr. Vice President of Worldwide Field Operations. Prior to Numerical Technologies, Faysal was Senior Vice President of Corporate Strategy for Synopsys Inc. (SNPS).
- Kareem Irfan
Kareem Irfan Mr. Irfan has served as Chairman of the Council of Islamic Organizations of Greater Chicago, a broad-based federation serving over 400,000 Muslim Americans, for four years since January 2001. He has contributed in a leadership capacity for over 20 years with Muslim community projects focusing on Media Affairs, Inter-faith & Civic Collaborations, Leadership Development, Strategic Planning, and Advocacy with Public & Law Enforcement Officials.
- Tom Conrad
I'm a HUGE metalhead; mainly old school stuff (see my favorite bands). I love going to concerts, listening to music, hanging out with friends, watching movies, playing video games, reading, learning new things, getting drunk, but mos