- Bell Labs
Bell Laboratories (also known as Bell Labs and formerly known as AT&T Bell Laboratories and Bell Telephone Laboratories) is part of the research and development organization of Alcatel-Lucent and previously the United States Bell System. Bell Labs is headquartered at Murray Hill, New Jersey, in the USA, and has research and development facilities throughout the world.
- Helmut Panke
Helmut Panke was Chairman of the Board of Management of BMW AG, Munich, between 2002 and September 2006. Panke was Chairman of the Board of Management of BMW AG, Munich, between 2002 and September 2006. He has been with the company since 1982, when he joined as head of Planning and Controlling in the Research and Development Division. He has been with the company since 1982, when he joined as head of Planning and Controlling in the Research and Development Division.
- Raymond L. Orbach
Raymond Orbach was sworn in as the Director of the Department's Office of Science on March 14,2002. With an annual budget of$3.3 billion, the Office of Science is the principal funding agency of the nation's research programs in high-energy physics, nuclear physics and fusion energy sciences. The office also manages research programs in basic energy sciences, biological and environmental sciences, and computational science, all of which also support the missions of the department.
- Paul Goodman
Paul Goodman was an American poet, writer, and public intellectual. He described his politics as anarchist, his loves as bisexual, and his profession as that of "man of letters". Goodman is now mainly remembered as the author of "Growing up Absurd" and for having been, during the 1960s, an activist on the pacifist Left and an inspiration to the counterculture of that era. He is less remembered as a cofounder of Gestalt Therapy in the 1940s and 50s.
- Tom Coates
Tom Coates (Born 19 July 1972) is an early weblogger based in London, England, who has been writing plasticbag.org since 1999. He's also well-known as an expert in social software and for his thinking on future media distribution and the web of data. Educated at the Norwich School, the University of Bristol and the London College of Printing, Coates currently works for Yahoo! Tech Development with Caterina Fake and Jeremy Zawodny.
- Henry H. Arnold
General of the Air Force Henry Harley "Hap" Arnold GCB (June 25, 1886 – January 15, 1950) was an aviation pioneer and Chief of the United States Army Air Corps (from 1938), Commanding General of the U.S. Army Air Forces (from 1941 until 1945) and the first and only General of the Air Force (in 1949). He is also the only American to achieve five-star rank in two of its armed services.
- Tao Yang
Tao Yang is Chief Scientist and Senior Vice President of Ask.com for web search. He is a tenured full professor in Computer Science at University of California, Santa Barbara. Yang co-ran research and development of Teoma search engine with Apostolos Gerasoulis from its earlier startup stage in 2000 and at Ask Jeeves (now Ask.com) for Teoma web search after it acquired Teoma in 2001. Teoma has been the backend search engine for Ask.com since December 2001, …
- Weld Pond
Chris Wysopal (better known as Weld Pond) was a member of the high profile hacker think tank, the L0pht. Weld Pond earned a bachelor's degree in Computer Systems & Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Weld Pond was the seventh member to join the L0pht. His projects there included L0phtCrack and Netcat for Windows. He was also webmaster/graphic designer for the L0pht's web site, and for Hacker News Network (the first hacker blog).
- Gunpei Yokoi
Gunpei Yokoi, also seen as (September 10, 1941–October 4, 1997) was one of the most important figures in the history of the video game company Nintendo.
- Greg Sacks
Greg Sacks (born November 3 1952, in Mattituck, Long Island, New York) is a NASCAR Nextel Cup driver. Currently he drives the #13 Dodge sponsored by Who's Your Daddy? fielded by Daytona Speed Inc., a team he co-owns. He is married to his wife Vicky and lives in Ormond Beach, Florida. Together they had three children: Paul, Brian, and Rachel. Sacks has spent most of his career as a Research & Development driver for many NASCAR teams.
- Rolf Landauer
Rolf Landauer was an IBM physicist who in 1961 demonstrated that when information is lost in an irreversible circuit, the information becomes entropy and an associated amount of energy is dissipated as heat. This principle is relevant to reversible computing, quantum information and quantum computing. Landauer was born on February 4, 1927 in Stuttgart, Germany. Of Jewish parentage, he immigrated to the United States in 1938, graduated in 1943 from Stuyvesant High School, …
- Joep Lange
Joep MA Lange (MD 1981, PhD 1987) is a clinical researcher from The Netherlands, specialising in HIV therapy. He is currently (2006) Professor of Medicine at the Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam and Senior Scientific Advisor to the International Antiviral Therapy Evaluation Centre, Amsterdam. He is also co-director of the HIV Netherlands Australia Research Collaboration (HIV-NAT), based in Thailand.
- 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).
- Ram Mudambi
Ram Mudambi is Professor and Washburn Research Fellow in General and Strategic Management at the Fox School of Business and Management at Temple University, USA. He has published over fifty refereed journal articles and six books on the multinational strategies of entrepreneurial firms; the location and research and development strategies of multinational firms, and the politics of international business. Dr.
- Pat Symonds
Patrick (Pat) Bruce Reith Symonds (born June 11 1953 in England) is currently the Executive Director of Engineering of the Renault Formula One team. After Gresham's School, Holt, Symonds worked in the lower motor sport categories and joined the Toleman team in the early 1980s. As Toleman grew, was taken over to become Benetton, and was subsequently sold and renamed Renault F1, Symonds remained with the team and worked his way through the technical ranks.
- Sam Michael
Sam Michael is technical director of WilliamsF1, a Formula One constructor. He was born on April 29, 1971 in Western Australia and grew up in Canberra. After studying Mechanical Engineering at the University of New South Wales with a thesis on data acquisition systems for racing cars, he worked with the Formula Holden team. The team owner, Gregg Siddle, employed him on a part-time basis so that Michael could continue his studies.
- Joe Baugher
Joseph F. Baugher (born 1941) is a retired physicist, software engineer, and textbook author, who is also notable for his series of articles on aviation. He graduated from Gettysburg College in 1963, and studied physics under Philip J. Bray at Brown University, receiving a Ph.D. in 1968. After fellowships at University of Sheffield and University of Chicago, he became a professor at the Illinois Institute of Technology in 1971.
- Mauro Magnani
SGI STUDIO GALLI INGEGNERIA SPA: SGI is an Italian leading consultancy specialised in the sectors of water, environment, energy, civil engineering and transportation. Since its establishment in 1920, SGI has expanded into a joint stock company that currently employs over 120 staff and has 8 offices throughout Italy. In order to support the implementation of major projects in the Middle and Far East and in North Africa. Committed to providing the highest standards to its clients, SGI has...
- Robert Drost
Dr. Robert Drost , a Principal Research Scientist at Sun Labs' has been named to the 2004 list of the world's 100 Top Young Innovators by Technology Review, MIT's Magazine of Innovation. As a research project in Ivan Sutherland's Asynchronous Design group at Sun Labs, Proximity Communications has been under development for 5 years. Robert Drost , the principal investigator on the project, has been with Sun since 1993.
- Peter T. Kirstein
Peter T. Kirstein is a British computer scientist, best known for playing a significant role in the creation of the Internet. He received a B.A. from Cambridge University in 1954, an M.Sc. and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Stanford University (in 1955 and 1957, respectively) and a D.Sc. in engineering from the University of London in 1970. He was a member of the staff at CERN from 1959-1963. He did research for General Electric at Zurich from 1963-1967.
- Mikhail Mil
Mikhail Leontyevich Mil (Russian language: Михаил Леонтьевич Миль 22 November, 1909 - 31 January, 1970) was a founder of the Mil Moscow Helicopter Plant, which is responsible for many of the well-known Russian helicopter models, notably the Mil Mi-24 'Hind'. He was born to a middle-class Jewish family, his grandfather was a cantonist drafted from Libava (today Liepaja), Latvia who settled in Siberia after 25 years of military service.
- Idit Harel Caperton
Idit Harel Caperton, Ph.D. (born September 18 1958 in Tel Aviv, Israel) is an educational psychologist and epistemologist specializing in the study of the impact of computer-based new media technology on the social and academic development of children. Her research, along with that of Seymour Papert, has contributed to the development of constructionist learning theory, a hands-on approach to the use of technology as a tool in juvenile education and acculturation.
- Joep Gommers
Joep Gommers (born on 2 July 1984 in Breda) is a Dutch security and intelligence professional from the Netherlands. Joep became known among security professionals after an article of his writing appeared on the technology-related news website slashdot on January 23, 2006, stating that "current approaches to Information Security are fundamentally wrong". With this, and other ideas, he gives talks at conferences, universities and communities throughout Europe.
- Roy C. Newton
Roy C. Newton was an American food scientist who was involved in research and development of antioxidants in food and meat products during the 20th century. He also was a founding member of the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) in 1939.
- Frederick Brian Pickering
Professor Frederick Brian Pickering is a leading British metallurgist. His research and development activities contributed significantly to the creation of the stronger and lighter steels. His notable research and development work in the field of physical metallurgy throughout the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s laid the foundations for much of the physical metallurgy of high strength, low alloy steels.
- Greg Frame
Greg Frame (born 1967 in Dover, Ohio) is the co-founder and current Chief Gaming Officer of Kaneva, Inc. and a founder and former CTO of Indigo Olive Software, Inc. Frame formed Indigo Olive Software in the late 1990's under the name BeverageOne with his brother Rob Frame to automate the sales forces of the wine and spirits industry. In recent years Frame has become one of Georgia’s most visible game professionals, advising local Colleges including the Georgia Institute of Technology, …
- Gharda Keki Hormisji
Dr. Gharda Keki Hormusji is a prominent Indian chemical engineer, chemist and entrepreneur. He is the chairman and managing director of Gharda Chemicals Limited (GCL). GCL is an R&D based company with business interests in agrochemicals, polymers and is actively pursuing an entry in to high performance pigments. Dr. Gharda has a Bachelor of Science (Tech) degree from Mumbai University Department of Chemical Technology UDCT (Now known as UICT).
- George Clifford Sziklai
George Clifford Sziklai (July 9, 1909 in Budapest, Hungary - September 9, 1998 in Los Altos, California) was a renowned electronics engineer, who among many other contributions to radio and TV electronics invented the transistor configuration named after him, the Sziklai pair. Educated at the University of Budapest and the Technical Institute of Munich, Sziklai emigrated to New York in 1930.
- Alfred G. Holtum
Alfred G. "Bud" Holtum Ph.D. (August 26, 1918- October 18, 2000) was a noted American Electrical Engineer and Scientist. Bud Holtum was born to Alfred and Gunda Marie Holtum nee Hovden in Freeport, Illinois. He has one sister, Phyllis Joyce ("Sister, or Sis.") Schauer of Freeport, Illinois. During World War II he served in the United States Navy as a radio technician and after the war, he worked for the Signal Corps as a draftsmen and research engineer.
- John D. Roush
John Roush is a California native, philanthropist, community volunteer, and notable computer scientist. He has been a software research and development executive since 1993. His carrier began with a scholastic extension at IBM's Log Gatos Research Laboratories (California) in 1978 on the IBM 360 mainframe.
- Lewis Elton
Lewis R. B. Elton is a German-born British researcher into education, specialising in higher education. Born Ludwig Ehrenberg in Tübingen to the scholars Victor Ehrenberg and Eva Dorothea Sommer, his (Jewish) family moved to Prague in 1929, and from there to England in February 1939, to escape the threat of Nazism. He changed his name to Lewis Elton during the Second World War, after which he obtained British citizenship.
- Murty Bvns
Bookseller, Publisher, BOTB Indexer, Consultant in Office and Personal productivity tools specializing in Virtual Working. Founder of Project Vyas through which he is trying to teach people of all walks of life to use Internet for their personal and professional use. He is also part of Citizenship program proposed by Jaycees to teach Internet to ten million people over a period of time. Practitioner of advanced form of Yoga discipline called Purna Yoga an esoteric branch of Raja Yoga.
- Erkki Liikanen
Erkki Liikanen On 16 September 1999, Mr. Erkki Liikanen was appointed as Member of the European Commission responsible for enterprise and information society. Prior to his current appointment, Mr. Liikanen served (from 1995 to 1999) as Member of the European Commission, responsible for budget issues, personnel and internal administration. From 1990 - 1994 Mr. Liikanen was the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary from Finland to the European Union.
- Whurley
I am currently the Chief Technology Officer at Qlusters, Inc. and Chairman of The Open Management Consortium; http://www.qlusters.com; http://openmanagement.org; Prior to Qlusters, I was among the founders of Symbiot, the pioneering firm in the application of risk metrics to adaptive network security. I am also a founder of the OpenSIMS project, the world's first framework for collaborative "Community Centric Security." I am also a director of the Linux Top Gun and WNDC (World . . .
- Josh More
Where science and art combine... I thrive in the intersection of business, security, and information technology, and enjoy helping clients balance the three to reduce risk, or to accept the risk and make changes to improve and enhance their business. I enjoy reading books from various genres (my current favorites are Business, Photography, Mythology, Mythic Fiction and Natural History). I also enjoy the practice of the artistic sciences, currently focusing on Photography and Cooking.
- Salvatore Pulvirenti
Salvatore Pulvirenti Member of the Managing Committee. Salvatore Pulvirenti holds a degree in Electronic Engineering from Pisa University. He is serving the company since beginning of 2003 as Chief Information Officer (CIO) at international level, in charge of technology guidelines for the group and technical infrastructure integration and operation.
- Eric Hayes
Eric Hayes : Co-Founder, Vice President of Research and Development VP of R&D, Eric J. Hayes' Blog Eric is a software pioneer with 18 years experience in software architecture, design, engineering and technical team leadership. His innovative work in RSS networks, clustered server architecture, user experience, attention streams and scaled analytics is at the foundation of new standards and technologies developed by Attensa.
- Sébastien Barré
Sebastien Barre is a Research and Development Engineer at Kitware, Inc. He received his M.S. in Computer Science from the Technological University of Compiegne (France) in 1995, his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Poitiers (France) in 2001.
- Robert Catell
Mr. Catell is an ex officio Director and Chairman Emeritus of The Partnership for New York City, Inc., a past Chairman of The Houston Exploration Company, and a past Chairman of the American Gas Association. He is a Vice-Chairman of the National Petroleum Council's Natural Gas Committee and also a member of its Finance Committee.
- Ian Gust
Ian Gust , MD (Ex-Officio, Secretary) Professorial Fellow, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, University of Melbourne Former Director, Research and Development, CSL Ltd. Dr. Ian Gust is currently a Professorial Fellow in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Melbourne.