Shuji Nakamura

Shuji Nakamura

male (Japan)
Millennium Technology Prize, led, US$, University of California, Santa Barbara, Tokushima, Blu-ray Disc
Dr. Shuji Nakamura, who developed the world's first gallium nitride (GaN) LED, led the UCSB team, which focused on resonant cavity light-emitting...
Nariman Farvardin

Nariman Farvardin

male
William Destler, Sharif University of Technology, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute alumni, rensselaer polytechnic institute, signal compression, Master's Degree
Nariman Farvardin became dean of the A. James Clark University in 2001, after serving five years as chair of the department of electrical and...
Jim Kurose

Jim Kurose

male
middletown, university of massachusetts amherst, chairman, scientist, Distinguished University, Distinguished University Professor
Jim Kurose is a computer science professor at University of Massachusetts Amherst. He was born in 1949 in Middletown, Massachusetts, USA. His main...
Teri Garr

Teri Garr

female, 65 years old
multiple sclerosis, Tootsie, Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute alumni, Ohio actor, comédienne, Law & Order Special Victims Unit cast
Since Garr announced publicly that she had been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, she has become a leading advocate in raising awareness for MS...
Steven M. Bellovin

Steven M. Bellovin

male (San Francisco, California, United States)
DNSSEC, Encrypted key exchange, AT&T Labs, Internet Engineering Steering Group, Defending Against Sequence Number Attacks, Security Mechanisms for the Internet
Steven M. Bellovin is a researcher on computer networking and security. He is currently a Professor in the Computer Science department at Columbia...
George E. Smith

George E. Smith

male, 79 years old
Franklin Institute, Charles Stark Draper Prize, physicist, scientist at Bell Labs, Charge-coupled device, American
George E. Smith is an American scientist and co-inventor of the Charge-coupled device. Smith worked at Bell Labs from 1959 to 1986, where he led...
James Trefil

James Trefil

male, deceased (1938)
Stanford University, human intelligence, James S. Trefil, author, American, artificial intelligence
Physicist and author James Trefil is known for his writing and his interest in teaching science to nonscientists. He accepted an offer of a...
James D. Meindl

James D. Meindl

male, 76 years old
national academy of engineering, IEEE, AAAS, Georgia Institute of Technology faculty, IEEE Medal of Honor, Ph.D.
James Meindl is the director of the Joseph M. Pettit Microelectronics Research Center and is the founding director of the Nanotechnology Research...
John Vlissides

John Vlissides

male, deceased (2005)
Brain tumour death, thanksgiving, technology writer, brain tumor, IBM employee, IBM
John Matthew Vlissides (August 2, 1961 - 24 November 2005) was a software scientist known mainly as one of the four authors (referred to as the...