- Burt Rutan
Elbert Leander "Burt" Rutan (born June 17, 1943 in Estacada, Oregon) is an American aerospace engineer noted for his originality in designing light, strong, unusual-looking, energy-efficient aircraft. He is most famous for his design of the record-breaking Voyager, which was the first plane to fly around the world without stopping or refueling, and the suborbital rocket plane SpaceShipOne, which won the Ansari X-Prize in 2004.
- John Poindexter
John Marlan Poindexter (born August 12, 1936 in Odon, Indiana) is a retired American naval officer and Department of Defense official. He was Deputy National Security Advisor and National Security Advisor for the Reagan administration. He was convicted of multiple felonies as a result of his actions in the Iran-Contra scandal. His convictions were eventually reversed on a legal technicality.
- Tony Tether
Anthony J. Tether was appointed as Director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) on June 18, 2001. DARPA is the principal Agency within the Department of Defense for research, development, and demonstration of concepts, devices, and systems that provide highly advanced military capabilities. As Director, Tether is responsible for management of the Agency’s projects for high-payoff, innovative research and development.
- Bob Kahn
Robert E. Kahn, (born December 23 1938) invented the TCP protocol, and along with Vinton G. Cerf created the IP protocol, the technologies used to transmit information on the Internet. After receiving a B.E.E. from the City College of New York in 1960, Dr. Kahn earned M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Princeton University in 1962 and 1964 respectively. In 1972 he moved to DARPA (back then known as just ARPA), and in October of that year, …
- Barry Boehm
Barry W. Boehm is known for many contributions to software engineering. He was the first to identify software as the primary expense of future computer systems, he developed COCOMO, the spiral model, wideband delphi, and many more contributions through his involvement in industry and academia. In an important report to DARPA (year?), Boehm predicted that software costs would overwhelm hardware costs.
- James Lovelock
Dr James Ephraim Lovelock, CH, CBE, FRS (born 26 July 1919) is an independent scientist, author, researcher, environmentalist, and futurologist who lives in Devon, in the south west of Great Britain. He is known for proposing the Gaia hypothesis, in which he postulates that the Earth functions as a kind of superorganism.
- Guido van Rossum
Guido van Rossum is a Dutch computer programmer who is best known as the author of the Python programming language. In the Python community, Van Rossum is known as a "Benevolent Dictator for Life", meaning that he continues to oversee the Python development process, making decisions where necessary.
- Robin Hanson
Robin Hanson is an associate professor of economics at George Mason University. He is known as an expert on idea futures markets and was involved in the creation of the Foresight Exchange and DARPA's FutureMAP project. Hanson has expressed great disappointment in the cancellation of the FutureMAP project, and he attributes this to the controversy surrounding the related Total Information Awareness program.
- Gio Wiederhold
Gio Wiederhold is Emeritus Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University, with courtesy appointments in Medicine and Electrical Engineering. His research focuses on large-scale systems design and evolution, specifically applied to information systems, the protection of their content, often using knowledge-based techniques.
- Lynn Conway
Lynn Conway is a famed pioneer of microelectronics chip design . Her innovations during the 1970's at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) have impacted chip design worldwide. Many high-tech companies and computing methods have foundations in her work. Thousands of chip designers learned their craft from Lynn's textbook Introduction to VLSI Systems , which she co-authored with Prof. Carver Mead of Caltech.
- Ronald J. Brachman
Ronald J. Brachman, or Ron Brachman, is a vice president of Yahoo! Research. Previously, he worked at DARPA as a Program Director of the Cognitive Systems area. Before that, he worked at AT&T Bell Laboratories (Murray Hill, NJ) as the Head of the Artificial Intelligence Principles Research Department (2004). He is the godfather of Description Logic, the logic-based knowledge representation formalism underlying the Web Ontology Language OWL.
- Bob Fabry
Bob Fabry was a computer science professor at the University of California at Berkeley who conceived the idea of obtaining DARPA funding for a radically improved version of AT&T Unix and started Computer Systems Research Group.
- Einar Stefferud
Einar Stefferud (Stef) (11 January 1930 –) is an Internet pioneer, computer researcher and entrepreneur, who has made many significant contributions to the development of the Internet, particularly in the areas of standards, secure online payment systems, and secure email. Stef was born in Wausau, Wisconsin and earned a BA and MBA from UCLA. He is a Retired Adjunct Professor of Information and Computer Science at the University of California, Irvine.
- Allen Barnett
Allen Barnett is a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the University of Delaware. He is the principal investigator of the DARPA-funded Consortium for Very High Efficiency Solar Cells. Barnett graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1963 and earned his doctorate in electrical engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in 1966.
- David L. Tennenhouse
David L. Tennenhouse was the Chief Executive Officer of A9.com, the search subsidiary of Amazon.com, from February 2006 through September 2006. He was previously an executive at Intel, a senior employee at DARPA and a professor at MIT.
- Douglas Lenat
Douglas B. Lenat (born in 1950) is the CEO of Cycorp, Inc. of Austin, Texas, and has been a prominent researcher in artificial intelligence, especially machine learning (with his AM and Eurisko programs), knowledge representation, blackboard systems, and "ontological engineering" (with his Cyc program at MCC and at Cycorp). He has also worked in military simulations and published a critique of conventional random-mutation Darwinism based on his experience with Eurisko.
- Anup K. Ghosh
Dr. Anup K. Ghosh has served as a Senior Scientist and Program Manager in the Advanced Technology Office (ATO) of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) where he creates and manages programs in information assurance and information operations. Dr. Ghosh, was honored with the 2005 Frank Byron Rowlett Award for Individual Excellence for his breakthrough research into cyber defense to include technology that automatically quarantines computer-based worms, …
- Donald C. Winter
Donald C. Winter, PhD. is the current United States Secretary of the Navy. A former top executive of Northrop Grumman, he was nominated in 2005 by President George W. Bush, confirmed by the United States Senate, and took the oath of office on January 3, 2006. Winter earned a bachelor's degree (with highest distinction) in physics from the University of Rochester in 1969. He received a master's degree in 1970, and a doctorate in physics in 1972, …
- Keith Uncapher
Keith Uncapher was born in Denver, Colorado April 1 1922 and died in Los Angeles, California on October 10 2002 of heart failure. Uncapher worked at the RAND Corporation and subsequently founded the Information Sciences Institute (ISI) at the University of Southern California, School of Engineering. While at RAND he spread the ideas that later evolved into the Internet. Under his leadership, ISI provided support for emerging DARPA programs in Information Technology.
- William Jeffrey
Dr. William Jeffrey is the 13th Director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), sworn into the office on July 26, 2005. He was nominated by President Bush on May 25, 2005, and confirmed by the U.S. Senate on July 22, 2005. He is a member of the Election Assistance Commission's Technical Guidelines Development Committee, tasked with assisting the EAC in drafting the Voluntary Voting System Guidelines.
- Richard Rashid
Richard 'Rick' Rashid currently oversees Microsoft Research's worldwide operations. Previously, he was the director of Microsoft Research. He joined Microsoft Research in 1991, and was promoted to vice president in 1994. In 2000, he became senior vice president. He has authored a number of patents in areas such as data compression, networking, and operating systems, and was a major developer of Microsoft's interactive TV system.
- Eberhardt Rechtin
Eberhardt Rechtin (1926-2006) was an American systems engineer and respected authority in aerospace systems and systems architecture. He received both his BS (1946) and PhD (1950) degrees from Caltech. He worked at Caltech's Jet Propulsion Laboratory from 1948-1967, holding, among other positions, that of chief architect and director of NASA's Deep Space Network. He became the Director of DARPA in 1967, …
- Robert Bass
Robert Muse Bass is a Texas billionaire worth approximately $5.46 billion as of 2006. Born into an extremely wealthy family with an uncle, Sid Richardson, worth $810 million, he and his three brothers Lee Marshall Bass, Ed, and Sid Richardson Bass all attended Yale University, where they solidified their moneyed and political connections. Ed Bass was a classmate and personal friend of George W. Bush, and the brothers, especially Lee Bass, …
- Robert Sproull
Robert Sproull is a retired American educator, physicist, and US Department of Defense official. A graduate of Deep Springs College, Sproull studied English literature at Cornell University before taking a Ph.D. at the same university in physics. He began a promising and productive career as a physicist at Cornell and headed the Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics (LASSP) and the Materials Science Center.
- Dermot Diamond
Professor Dermot Diamond is an author and academic at Dublin City University
- Barclay Shaw
Barclay Shaw is an American professional artist best known for his fantasy and science fiction artwork. He has been nominated five times for the Hugo Award for Best Professional Artist, and has earned a top ten ranking six times in the annual Locus Poll Award for Best Artist. In 1995, his work "Wonderland (wood)" won the Chesley Award for Best Three-Dimensional Art. Shaw has painted more than 500 book and magazine covers, …
- Steve Darpa
- Mehmet Toner
Mehmet Toner is Professor of Surgery (Biomedical Engineering) at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and is the founding director of the NIH BioMEMS Resource Center. Dr. Toner was born in Istanbul, Turkey in July 1958. Dr. Toner received a Bachelor of Science degree from Istanbul Technical University in 1983 and an M.S. degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1985, both in Mechanical Engineering.
- Jeff Greason
Jeff Greason co-founded XCOR in September 1999 and serves as its President. XCOR is a privately held company located in Mojave, California that provides rocket engines and rocket vehicles to cost-sensitive government and private markets. XCOR has developed several generations of long-life, highly reusable rocket engines, a low cost piston pump for rocket propellants, and a manned reusable rocket aircraft, the EZ-Rocket, which has flown nineteen times without mishap.
- Nicholas Naclerio
- Jennifer Darpa
I think of myself as a good person. If I know that someone is down I try to cheer them up any way that I can. I listen to people when they have a probelm. If I want something bad enough I find away to get it. And if there is ever a situation that gets a little sticky just call me I am really good at trying to figure a way to get out of it. I am a huge goofball if everyone is smiling then I am smiling too.
- Anna D'Arpa
Anna D'Arpa Partner Anna graduated in Law with commendation at the University of Palermo. She is qualified as avvocato (Italian Bar) and registered European lawyer with the Solicitors Regulation Authority. After attending a postgraduate school in Administrative, Civil and Penal law in Rome, Anna spent a number of years working as an avvocato at a legal practice based in Palermo specialising in Administrative law.
- Joe Darpa
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- John M. Poindexter
John Poindexter : Well, Total Information Awareness, in essence, means that you want to base decisions on the best and most detailed information that you could possibly have available. At least, that's the long-term objective. ... Now, with terrorism you have these shadowy networks of people that exist around the world. In other words, they're a transnational threat. You don't necessarily know who the people are in this terrorist network.
- Chris D'Arpa
My name is chris im interested in vidiogames.
- Barbaro Darpa
MY NAME IS BARBARO.
- Chris D'Arpa
Ilike star wars.
- Patrick J. Scannon
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