Norbert Wiener

Norbert Wiener

male, deceased (1964)
Jewish person, society, philosophy, mathematician, Harvard University alumni, Harvard University faculty…applied, applied math
Norbert Wiener was an American theoretical and applied mathematician. He was a pioneer in the study of stochastic and noise processes, contributing...

Jeff McMahan

male
Rutgers University, applied ethics, normative ethics, Alumni of the University of Oxford, Alumni of the University of Cambridge, University of Oxford…applied
Jeff McMahan is an American philosopher. McMahan was educated at Oxford and Cambridge, and is currently professor of philosophy at Rutgers...
Maria Klawe

Maria Klawe

female
Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, aphasia, fellow, Association for Computing Machinery, Human-Computer Interaction, University of Alberta alumni…applied
Dr. Maria Klawe became fifth president of Harvey Mudd College in July, 2006. Prior to joining HMC, Maria served as Dean of Engineering and a...
Steven Strogatz

Steven Strogatz

male (Ithaca, New York, United States)
nature, Marshall Scholar, Loomis Chaffee, Trinity College, Cambridge, Complex network, small-world networks…Applied Mathematics, applied, Applied Mathematician, Department of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics
Steven H. Strogatz (born August 13, 1959) is an American mathematician and the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Applied Mathematics at Cornell...

Frank Moss

male
MIT Media Laboratory, tivoli, Tivoli Systems, Inc., IBM, MIT, IBM employee…applied
Frank Moss is the a technologist and a "serial entrepreneur." Currently, Moss is the director of the MIT Media Laboratory. Prior to heading the...
Russell Impagliazzo

Russell Impagliazzo

male (La Jolla, California, United States)
University of California, Berkeley, 2004 Guggenheim fellow, XOR lemma, American, university of toronto, computer scientist…applied
Professor Impagliazzo is a mathematician who focuses on the foundations of cryptography, or using "hard problems" for security applications. Hard...
D. Allan Bromley

D. Allan Bromley

male, deceased (2005)
immigrant to the United States, atomic nuclei, Queen's University alumni, American, Queen's University, westmeath…applied
David Allan Bromley was a Canadian-American physicist, academic administrator and a science advisor to President George H. W. Bush. Born in...
Herman Chernoff

Herman Chernoff

male, 86 years old
Jewish person, Harvard University, Jewish, physicist, mathematician, Statistician…applied, Applied Mathematics
Herman Chernoff (born July 1, 1923) is an American applied mathematician, statistician and physicist latterly working at Harvard University.
L. W. Sumner

L. W. Sumner

male, 68 years old
Princeton University, applied ethics, normative ethics, Leonard Wayne Sumner, Welfare, Happiness and Ethics, Royal Society of Canada…applied
Leonard Wayne Sumner (born 1941) is a Canadian philosopher notable for his work on normative and applied ethics, political philosophy, and the...
William Randolph Hearst III

William Randolph Hearst III

male, 60 years old (California, United States)
director of the Hearst Corporation, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, AB degree in Mathematics, Editor and Publisher of SF Examiner, graduate of Harvard University…applied
William R. Hearst III joined KPCB in January, 1995, and currently serves on the boards of Akimbo, Applied Minds, Juniper Networks, Oblix, OnFiber,...