Vint Cerf

Vint Cerf

male
TCP/IP, Google employee, Internet pioneer, founding fathers of the Internet, Internet history, internet…National Inventors Hall of Fame, Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient, national academy of engineering, NationalMedal
Vinton Gray Cerf (born June 23, 1943) (last name pronounced just like the English word "surf") is an American computer scientist who is commonly...
Leonard Slatkin

Leonard Slatkin

male, 65 years old (SAINT LOUIS, Missouri, United States)
Frederick Zlotkin, St. Louis Cardinal, Juilliard School of Music alumni, New Orleans Symphony, New Orleans Philharmonic Orchestra, digital stereo…National Symphony Orchestra, United States National Medal of Arts recipient, director of the National Conducting Institute, Washington National, NationalMedal
Leonard Slatkin (born September 1 1944) is an American conductor. His father was the violinist, conductor and founder of the Hollywood String...
Gordon Bell

Gordon Bell

male, 75 years old (San Francisco, California, United States)
Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research, Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, Microsoft Corporation, Microsoft employee, digital equipment corporation…NationalMedal, National Research and Education, national academy of engineering, medal, national academy of science
C. Gordon Bell (born August 19, 1934) is a computer engineer and manager, an early employee of Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) who designed...
Raymond Kurzweil

Raymond Kurzweil

male, 61 years old
transhumanist, Futurologist, Artificial intelligence researcher, technological singularity, artificial intelligence, speech synthesis…National Inventors Hall of Fame, NationalMedal
Raymond Kurzweil (pronounced:) (born February 12, 1948) is a pioneer in the fields of optical character recognition (OCR), text-to-speech...
Mario Capecchi

Mario Capecchi

male
National Academy of Sciences, Harvard University alumni, geneticist, Human genetics, Harvard School of Medicine, biology…NationalMedal
Mario Capecchi , Ph.D. Distinguished Professor Co-Chairman of Human Genetics Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Watts Humphrey

Watts Humphrey

male
software license, MBA, Watts S. Humphrey, Quality experts, University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University…National Medal of Technology, NationalMedal, The National
Watts S. Humphrey is a key thinker in the discipline of the management of software development, often called the father of software quality. His...
Tina Ramirez

Tina Ramirez

female
American, United States National Medal of Arts recipient, National Medal of Arts, lute song, Choreographer, kismet…NationalMedal
Tina Ramirez (born ca. 1928) is an American dancer and choreographer, best known as the founder of Ballet Hispanico, the leading Hispanic dance...
John N. Bahcall

John N. Bahcall

male, deceased (2005)
Astronomer, John Norris Bahcall, solar neutrino problem, from Louisiana, princeton, National Medal of Science recipient…National Academy of Sciences, medal, NationalMedal, Royal Astronomical Society Gold Medal
John Norris Bahcall (December 30 1934 - August 17 2005) was an American astrophysicist. He is best known for his contributions to the solar...
Burt Rutan

Burt Rutan

male, 66 years old
Ansari X-Prize, rocket plane, spaceshipone, suborbital, United States aerospace engineer, Aerospace engineer…NationalMedal, National Aviation Hall, national academy of engineering, medal
Elbert Leander "Burt" Rutan (born June 17, 1943 in Estacada, Oregon) is an American aerospace engineer noted for his originality in designing...
Gene Likens

Gene Likens

male
Institute of Ecosystem Studies, National Academy of Sciences, Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest, new york botanical garden, ecology, sulphur dioxide…NationalMedal
Gene Likens is an American ecologist and a leading pioneer in the study of acid rain. Likens obtained his PhD from the University of Wisconsin,...