- Ratan Naval Tata
"One hundred years from now, I expect the Tatas to be much bigger than it is now. More importantly, I hope the Group comes to be regarded as being the best in India - best in the manner in which we operate, best in the products we deliver, and best in our value systems and ethics. Having said that, I hope that a hundred years from now we will spread our wings far beyond India..." Ratan Tata - Bart Selman
Bart Selman is an associate professor of computer science at Cornell University. He previously was at AT&T Bell Laboratories. He has (co-)authored over 90 publications, which have appeared in venues spanning Nature, Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and a variety of conferences and journals in AI and Computer Science. He has received five Best Paper Awards. He has also received the Cornell Stephen Miles Excellence in Teaching Award, … - John S. Knight
John Shively Knight was an American newspaper publisher and editor. He was born in Bluefield, West Virginia to Charles Landon Knight and Clara Scheifley. He attended Cornell University but never graduated, leaving early to enlist in the Army. While at Cornell he was a member of the Phi Sigma Kappa fraternity. In 1920 he started at his father's newspaper, "The Beacon-Journal", as sportswriter, and moved up to managing editor before inheriting the paper in 1933. - Juris Hartmanis
Juris Hartmanis (born July 7, 1928 in Riga, Latvia) is a prominent computer scientist and computational theorist who, with Richard E. Stearns, received the 1993 ACM Turing Award "in recognition of their seminal paper which established the foundations for the field of computational complexity theory". Hartmanis was born in Latvia. He was a son of Martins Hermanis, a general in the Latvian Army. After the Soviet Union occupied Latvia in 1940, … - Donald Kagan
Donald Kagan (born 1932) is a Yale historian specializing in ancient Greece, notable for his four-volume history of the Peloponnesian War. He was Dean of Yale College from 1989-1992. He formerly taught in the Department of History at Cornell University. Born into a Jewish family in Lithuania, Kagan grew up in Brooklyn, New York, where his family emigrated shortly after the death of his father. - James Richards
James Robert Richards was an American veterinarian who was a noted expert on cats. He headed the Feline Health Center of the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine from 1997 until his death. Born in Richmond, Indiana, he grew up in rural Ohio. He earned a math degree from Berea College in 1970 and his veterinary degree from Ohio State University in 1979. He began at Cornell in 1991. - Rod Serling
Rodman Edward "Rod" Serling (December 25, 1924 - June 28, 1975) was an American screenwriter, most famous for his science fiction anthology television series, "The Twilight Zone". - Kenneth G. Wilson
Kenneth Geddes Wilson (born June 8, 1936) is an American theoretical physicist. As an undergraduate at Harvard, he was a Putnam Fellow. He earned his PhD from Caltech in 1961, studying under Murray Gell-Mann. He joined Cornell University in 1963 in the Department of Physics as a junior faculty member, becoming a full professor in 1970. His brother David is also a Professor at Cornell in the department of Molecular Biology and Genetics. - David K. Wyatt
David K. Wyatt (September 21 1937 - November 15 2006) was a highly acclaimed American historian, working on Southeast Asian topics, especially Thailand. His book "Thailand. A Short History" has become the authority on Thai history in the English language. Born in Fitchburg, Massachusetts in 1937, he grew up in Iowa. Wyatt studied philosophy at Harvard University, where he received a bachelor's degree in 1959. - Louis Bromfield
Louis Bromfield (December 27, 1896 - March 18, 1956) is one of Mansfield, Ohio's most famous natives, a man who became internationally renowned both as a Pulitzer Prize winning author and as an innovative conservationist and scientific farmer. He was a friend with some of the most celebrated personalities of his era. Malabar Farm near Lucas, Ohio south of Mansfield, was Bromfield's home from 1939 until his death in 1956. - Paul Ebert
Paul Allen Ebert (born August 11, 1932 in Columbus, Ohio) is a former director of the American College of Surgeons and a noted former athlete. He had been Chairman of the Departments of Surgery at both Cornell University Medical College and the University of California San Francisco Medical Center, as well as the President of the American College of Cardiology, the American Association for Thoracic Surgery, the Society of University Surgeons, … - Byron Grote
Byron E. Grote (born 1948 or 1949) is currently the chief financial officer of BP. He has been with the company since 1987 following their acquisition of Standard Oil of Ohio where he had worked since 1979. He took the position of CFO in 2002. He received a Ph.D in 1981 in quantitative analysis from Cornell University. - Gertrude Blanch
Gertrude Blanch ("ca." 1897 - 1996) was an American mathematician who did pioneering work in numerical analysis and computation. Blanch was born Gittel Kaimowitz in Kolno, Poland, arrived in the United States as a child, and attended public schools in New York City. She spent fourteen years as a clerk, saving money for school. She received her B.S. in mathematics (minor in physics) from New York University in 1932. - Joseph B. Foraker
Joseph Benson Foraker (July 5, 1846 - May 10, 1917) was a Republican politician from Ohio. He was the 37th Governor of Ohio. Foraker was born near Rainsboro, Highland County, Ohio. After serving in the Union Army during the Civil War, Foraker attended Cornell University, where he was a member of Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity. He was unsuccessful in running for the governorship in 1883, but won election two years later and served two two-year terms from 1886-1890. - James Laurence Laughlin
James Laurence Laughlin (April 2 1850 - November 28 1933) was an American economist who helped to found the Federal Reserve System. Born in Deerfield, Ohio, Laughlin received his PhD from Harvard University. His thesis regarded "Anglo-Saxon Legal Procedure". A conservative, he generally subscribed to the economic theories of John Stuart Mill and opposed bimetallism. He taught in Boston for five years, at Cornell for two years, … - Tom Raga
Thomas A. Raga (born 1965) is an American politician of the Republican Party who previously represented the Sixty-seventh District (Warren County) in the Ohio House of Representatives. In February 2006, he was named by J. Kenneth Blackwell as his running mate in the May 2, 2006, primary for Governor and Lieutenant Governor. Blackwell and Raga won the Republican nomination, but lost the November 7, 2006, general election to Ted Strickland and Lee Fisher in a landslide, … - Boyd Henry Bode
Boyd Henry Bode (October 4, 1873-March 29, 1953) was an American academic and philosopher, notable for his work on philosophy of education. Bode was born in Ridott, Illinois. He grew up in rural areas of Iowa and South Dakota and attended Pennsylvania College in Iowa and later the University of Michigan, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1897, and Cornell University, where he received his Ph.D. in 1900. - Edwin Sweetland
Edwin Regur Sweetland (January 10, 1875 - October 21, 1951) was a coach and athletic administrator at several universities, including Syracuse, Ohio State, Colgate, Kentucky, Miami University, West Virginia, Tulane, and Alfred University. During his career he has been head coach of football, basketball, track and field and crew. He is best known for being the first paid coach of the University of Kentucky Wildcats basketball team and founding the Syracuse University Crew. - William Littell Everitt
William Littell Everitt (1900 -) was an American educator and founding member of the National Academy of Engineering. Everitt was educated in electrical engineering and physics at Cornell University and Ohio State University, from which he received his Ph.D. in 1933 under Prof. Frederick Blake. His dissertation was entitled "The Calculation and Design of Alternating Current Networks Employing Triodes Operating During a Portion of a Cycle". - Subagio Sastrowardoyo
Subagio Sastrowardoyo (February 1, 1924-July 18, 1995) was an Indonesian poet, short-story writer, essayist and literary critic. Born in Madiun, East Java, the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia), he was educated at Gadjah Mada University, Cornell University and Yale University. For many years, he was a director of Balai Pustaka, a publishing firm in Indonesia, as well as a senior lecturer at Salisbury College of Advanced Education and Flinders University in Adelaide, … - Randall James Bayer
Randall James Bayer (born 13 July, 1955) is an American systematic botanist, published mostly as "R.J. Bayer", who was born in Buffalo, New York, U.S.A. He spent childhood and attended public school in East Aurora, New York. He completed his B.Sc. with major in Plant Breeding and minor in Horticulture in 1978 from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York; an M.Sc. in Systematic Botany in 1980 from the Ohio State University, Columbus, … - Edward A. Deeds
Edward Andrew Deeds was an engineer, inventor and industrialist. Born in 1874 near Granville, Ohio, he was graduated in 1897 from Denison University where he was valedictorian. He studied electrical engineering at Cornell University and later went to Dayton, Ohio as an electrical engineer and draftsman for the Thresher Company, designing and installing electric motors. After eighteen months, he was named superintendent and chief engineer of the firm. - William H. Shideler
William Henry "Doc" Shideler (born July 14, 1886 in West Middletown, Ohio and died 1958 in Oxford, Ohio) was an American geologist who was founder and longtime chair of the department of geology at Miami University and was a founder of the national college fraternity, Phi Kappa Tau. His family moved to Hamilton, Ohio, when he was quite young. In 1904 he graduated from Hamilton High School and entered Miami University in September of that year. - James H. Southard
James Harding Southard (January 20, 1851 - February 20, 1919) was a U.S. Representative from Ohio. Born near Toledo, Washington Township, Lucas County, Ohio, Southard attended the public schools and was graduated from Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, in 1874. He studied law. He was admitted to the bar in 1877 and commenced practice in Toledo, Ohio. He was appointed assistant prosecuting attorney of Lucas County in 1882. - Benjamin S. Graham
Benjamin S. Graham, Sr. was a pioneer in the development and application of scientific management and industrial engineering techniques to office and factory clerical work. He is recognized as the founder of paperwork simplification. He saw a growing need for improvement in information processing back in the 1940’s (when the professional and clerical segments of the workforce were still in the minority). - Peter N. Kirsanow
Peter N. Kirsanow President Bush recess appointed Peter N. Kirsanow to be a Member of the National Labor Relations Board on January 4, 2006. He can serve until the sine die adjournment of Congress in 2007 unless the Senate confirms his pending nomination. Mr. Kirsanow was a partner with the Cleveland-based law firm Benesch Friedlander Coplan & Aronoff, LLP, in the Labor and Employment Practice Group. - Rutherford Hayes
Despite being nearly 40 at the outbreak of the Civil War, Hayes joined as a three-year volunteer and was commissioned as a major of the Twenty-third Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry on June 27, 1861 despite having no previous military experience. Promoted to lieutenant colonel on October 24, 1861, Hayes was severely wounded at the Battle of South Mountain while commanding the 23rd at Fox Gap when a musket ball struck him in the left arm above the elbow. - Toni Morrison
Hello my name is Toni. I am a hardworking, fun-loving African American. I live in Northern Maine. - Irina
When not time traveling to such world shattering events as the signing of the Magna Carta, the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius, or Mary Magdeleine's birthing of the Sang Raal (or "Blood Royal"), I strive to further my film career by starring in campy low-budget films with real artistic integrity. Check out such upcoming soon-to-be classics as "Monkfish"(. - Paul Dicorleto
Dr. DiCorleto studies how hardening and narrowing of arteries (atherosclerosis) occurs by focusing on which genes get turned on or off during the process. APPOINTMENTS Chairman, Lerner Research Institute, CCF Chairman, Department of Molecular Medicine, Case Professor, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, OSU Professor, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Case Adjunct Faculty, Department of Biology, CSU Adjunct Faculty, Department of Biology, Case - John A. Mogen
John A. Mogen , President, has more than 25 years experience in the real estate industry. His firm, Mogen Real Estate Company, specializes in commercial, industrial and investment real estate. Formerly associated with a commercial real estate brokerage firm for 18 years, as well as president of a property management firm, John has a history of many transaction involving the sale or lease of commercial properties. - Joseph A. Alutto
Joseph A. Alutto – Director since 2000 Joseph A. Alutto is Executive Dean of the Professional Colleges for Ohio State University, which includes the Max M. Fisher College of Business, of which he is also Dean and Professor of Management. Previously, Dr. Alutto was Dean of the School of Management for the State University of New York at Buffalo, a position which he held for 14 years. - Lauren
I am a dreamer, a visionary and an artist. Most who don't know me, see me as quiet and reserved. I am always thinking and imagining. I'm a little shy but not as much as I used to be. That's because I have let go of most of my fears and I know much more about myself. Sometimes people just have to start talking to me first and then I know if we have a connection. There's no use trying to psycho-analyze me based on your first impression. - Richard Mallery
Richard Mallery , Esq. , Director (pro-bono), (Chairman) Richard Mallery , is a (pro-bono) Director of The Molecular Profiling Institute, and is a senior partner and member of the executive committee of Snell & Wilmer, a law firm based in Phoenix with offices in Denver, Salt Lake City, Las Vegas, Tucson and Orange County. - Kyle Baldwin
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My body is made of dirt and muscle. My mind is made up of logic and confusing girl thoughts. My heart is made of distant antiqued sunsets. My soul is made of trance. - Jen Rose
Im a designer who's always trembling precariously (a bit dramatic, I know, but it's a synonym for teetering!) between doing extremely cool and exclusive runway shows during NY fashion week, having my shit on the pages of Vogue, and being a bum who sleeps until 2pm and doesn't do one constructive thing for four days straight. Just trying to strike a balance. It's tough being an artist. I guess I have the best of both worlds, except that I have no health insurance. - Ellen
Gemini, 5'4, perpetual optimist. And I love carbohydrates. Thats right I said it. - Nasheet Zaman
I smile a lot. - Fil Schniter
silly, very silly.
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