- 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, … - Nariman Farvardin
Nariman Farvardin became dean of the A. James Clark University in 2001, after serving five years as chair of the department of electrical and computer engineering. He joined the university in January 1984, as a professor of electrical and computer engineering with a joint appointment with the Institute of System Research. Dean Farvardin was also a visiting professor at Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications, Paris, France, during 1990-91. - Duy-Loan Le
Duy-Loan Le (born 1962, Vietnam) was the first woman and the first Asian to get elected to the rank of Texas Instruments Senior Fellow. - Krishna Saraswat
Prof. Krishna C. Saraswat received the B.E. degree in electronics and telecommunications in 1968 from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, India, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering in 1969 and 1974 respectively from Stanford University, Stanford, CA. - Steve Jobs
Steven Paul Jobs (born February 24 1955) is the co-founder and CEO of Apple and was the CEO of Pixar until its acquisition by Disney. He is currently the largest Disney shareholder and a member of Disney's Board of Directors. He is considered a leading figure in both the computer and entertainment industries. Jobs' history in business has contributed greatly to the mythos of the quirky, individualistic Silicon Valley entrepreneur, … - Anilkumar Nair
A never married bachelor graduate engineer with 31 years service in Indian Private sector industries at senior managment levels,now retired and operating as a Project Consultant with ISO Certification/Audit & Tutoring Where there is a will there is a way - Fred Plimley
Fred Plimley is President of DK Malaysia Development, LLC and responsible for guiding the strategic direction of the company, business development and day-to-day operations. Fred has successfully created International business strategies affectively presenting Malaysia as the "Gateway" to Asia Pacific and Middle East markets.Other profiles: www.linkedin.com/in/fredplimley - http://www.naymz.com/search/fred/plimley/792293 - http://www.ecademy.com/account.php?id=113481 - Graham Webb
Born in Birmingham, UK, to L. Webb a battle of El Alamein war widow, I was the youngest of 5 children. Started cycling at the age of 8 and was many times British National cycling champion and National record holder at 10 miles, 25 miles and 1 hour. Moved to the Netherlands in 1967 where I became world cycling road champion, signed a professional contract with the French Mercier team in 1968 and moved to Belgium, where I still live with my family. http://crazyaboutbelgium.co.uk/blogs/webb.htm - Madman Muntz
Earl "Madman" Muntz (1914 - 1987), born in Elgin, Illinois, was a merchandiser of used cars and consumer electronics in the 1940s and 50s, mostly in California. He developed the Muntz Stereo-Pak, better known as the 4-track cartridge (predecessor to the 8-Track cartridge developed by Lear Industries). He later founded the Muntz Car Company, which made the Muntz Jet, a sports car with jet-like contours. The car was manufactured between 1951 and 1953, … - Max Grundig
Max Grundig (7 May 1908 - 8 December 1989) was the founder of electronics company Grundig AG. He was raised by his parents in Nuremberg, where delayed his final school exams (Abitur) and completed training as an electrician. In 1930 he and a colleague opened a store selling radios under the name Fuerth, Grundig & Wurzer (RVF), generating 1 million Reichsmark in sales by 1938. After World War II business expanded with a successful range of consumer electronics. - Jack Kilby
Jack Kilby , an engineer with a background in ceramic-based silk screen circuit boards and transistor-based hearing aids, started working for Texas Instruments in 1958. - Kim Komando
Currently America's most popular computer/digital lifestyle expert, her weekly talk radio show is heard (via her own network) on over 450 stations. In addition, she does a daily "tip of the day" radio feature heard five days a week; has written seven successful books about life in the digital age; and still authors a widely syndicated newspaper column. Some 4.6 million people receive her tips by e-mail weekly. - Anthony Harper
Anthony Harper (born August, 1964) is an American actor, radio personality, freemason, writer, author, model, disc jockey, and voice-over artist. Harper was born in August 1964 in Baraboo, Wisconsin. Harper has appeared in dozens of television commercials and sponsored films for a wide range of products from Miller brewing product lines to consumer electronics, to automobiles and more, as well as his portrayal of Mr. - Angela Rossoni
- Rajib Lochan Mahalik
14yrs of varied experiences in the key areas of telecoms and broadcasting industries with proven track records for successfully leading & implementing wide varieties of Projects. IPTV, Digital TV, Mobile TV, ATSC, DVB, MHP, ARIB, iTV, HDTV, Cable TV, Set top boxes, STB; FTA, CI, CAS, IP, mobile phones; satellite, GSM, DVB-H, DMB, mobile TV; DMB, DVB-H, VSAT, VoIP, wireless, 2way systems; DVB-RCS, DVB-RCT, DVB-S-WCDMA, encoders, decoders, CAS, Middleware, invisible dot codes, etc. - Tom Metzger
Tom Metzger (born April 1938) is the founder of the White Aryan Resistance. Metzger has been incarcerated in Los Angeles County, California and Toronto, Canada, and has been involved in several government inquiries and lawsuits. He has participated in race discussions and interviews with CNN and Telemundo, as well as appearing in numerous documentaries about the White Power movement. - 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, … - Niklaus Wirth
Niklaus E. Wirth (b. February 15, 1934) is a Swiss computer scientist, best known for designing several programming languages, including Pascal, and for pioneering several classic topics in software engineering. In 1984 he won the Turing Award for developing a sequence of innovative computer languages. - David Packard
David Packard (September 7, 1912 - March 26, 1996) was a cofounder of Hewlett-Packard. Born in Pueblo, Colorado, he received his B.A. from Stanford University in 1934. Afterwards he worked for the General Electric Company in Schenectady, New York. In 1938, he returned from New York to Stanford, where he received a master's in electrical engineering the following year. In the same year, he married Lucile Salter with whom he had four children: David, Nancy, Susan, and Julie. - Rosalind Picard
Rosalind W. Picard is founder and director of the Affective Computing Research Group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Laboratory and is co-director of the Things That Think Consortium, the largest industrial sponsorship organization at the lab. She holds a Bachelors in Electrical Engineering with highest honors from the Georgia Institute of Technology, and Masters and Doctorate degrees, both in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, from MIT. - Ivor Catt
Ivor Catt (born 1935) is a British electronics engineer known principally for his controversial approach to electromagnetism. He received B.Eng. degree from Cambridge University, and has won two major product awards for his innovative computer chip designs (see Awards section below). His most recent challenge to the status quo in electromagnetism is called "The Catt anomaly". - Ryo Kawasaki
Ryo Kawasaki (February 25 1947 -) chose a career as a jazz fusion guitarist after spending some years studying as a scientist. During the 60s he played with various Japanese jazz groups and also formed his own bands. In the early 70s he came to New York where he settled and found steady work in very distinguished company, including the bands of Gil Evans, Elvin Jones, Chico Hamilton, Ted Curson and Joanne Brackeen. - Param Vir
Param Vir (born February 6, 1952 in Delhi) is a British composer originally from India. - Robert Watson-Watt
Sir Robert Alexander Watson-Watt, FRS FRAeS (April 13, 1892-December 5, 1973), is considered by many to be the "inventor of radar". Radar development was first started elsewhere (see History of radar), but Watson-Watt created the first workable radar system, turning the theory into one of the most important war-winning weapons. The Official WEB Page:- www.watsonwatt.org - Lew Wasserman
Lew Wasserman (March 15, 1913 - June 3, 2002) was a Hollywood agent and studio executive credited with first creating and then taking apart the studio system in a career spanning more than six decades. The son of Russian Jewish immigrants in Cleveland, Ohio, Wasserman started out as a booking agent for the Music Corporation of America (MCA) under its founder Dr. Jules Stein. - Alan Blumlein
Alan Dower Blumlein, (born June 29, 1903 in Hampstead, London, died June 7, 1942) was an electronics engineer who made a great many inventions in telecommunications, sound recording, stereo, television and radar. He received 128 patents. Front cover of Blumlein [http://www.doramusic.com/blumlein.htm biography] - Tommy Flowers
Thomas (Tommy) Harold Flowers, MBE (22 December 1905 - 28 October 1998) was a British engineer. During World War II, Flowers designed "Colossus", an early electronic computer, to help solve encrypted German messages. Flowers was born in London's East End on 22 December 1905, the son of a bricklayer. After an apprenticeship in mechanical engineering, he earned a degree in electrical engineering at the University of London. - Godfrey Hounsfield
Sir Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield CBE, FRS, (28 August 1919 - 12 August 2004) was an English electrical engineer who shared the 1979 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with Allan McLeod Cormack for his part in developing the diagnostic technique of X-ray computed tomography (CT). His name is immortalised in the Hounsfield scale, a quantitative measure of radiodensity used in evaluating CT scans. The scale is defined in Hounsfield units (symbol HF), … - Julian Vereker
Julian Charles Prendergast Vereker, MBE (7 May 1945-14 January 2000) was an English audio electronics engineer, and founder of Naim Audio Ltd. of Salisbury, Wiltshire. Vereker was an engineer in the specialist high fidelity audio equipment field. He was a very influentual figure in the manufacture and retail of British audio in the 1970s and 1980s, and was appointed MBE by HM Queen Elizabeth II in 1995. - Julius Futterman
Julius Futterman (? - 1979) was an American electronics engineer who designed a valve amplifier that did not have an output transformer. This was originally done to reduce costs, as output transformers can be rather expensive. Output transformers also have a reputation for coloring the sound and some enthusiasts came to believe that the OTL design offered better sound. - Edwin Howard Armstrong
Edwin Howard Armstrong (December 18, 1890 - January 31, 1954) was an American electrical engineer and inventor. Armstrong was the inventor of the FM radio. - Ralph Hartley
Ralph Vinton Lyon Hartley was an electronics researcher. He invented the Hartley oscillator and the Hartley transform, and contributed to the foundations of information theory. Hartley was born in Spruce, Nevada, USA and attended the University of Utah, receiving an A.B. degree in 1909. He became a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University and received a B.A. degree in 1912 and a B.Sc. degree in 1913. He married Florence Vail of Brooklyn on March 21, 1916. - Vladimir Savchenko
Vladimir Ivanovich Savchenko ([Ukrainian]: Володимир Іванович Савченко;Russian language: Владимир Иванович Савченко), born 15 February 1933 in Poltava, died 24 January 2005 in Kiev), was a Ukrainian science fiction writer. He studied at the Moscow Energy Institute, and was an electronics engineer. Savchenko, who wrote in Russian as well as in his native Ukrainian language, … - Lars Monrad Krohn
Lars Monrad-Krohn (born July 14, 1933) is a Norwegian engineer and entrepreneur. He graduated from the Norwegian Institute of Technology, Institute for Radio Technology, (NTH, Institutt for Radioteknikk) in 1959. His master thesis addressed construction of computer core memory and was the first computer-oriented thesis handed in at NTH. As an entrepreneur, Monrad-Krohn established Norsk Data AS in 1967 (CEO 1967-1972), established A/S Mycron in 1975 (CEO 1975-1982), … - Alec Reeves
Alec Harley Reeves (10 March 1902 - 13 October 1971) was a British scientist best known for his invention of pulse-code modulation (PCM). Reeves was born in Redhill, Surrey. His father Edward was surveyor to the Royal Geographical Society. Alec studied engineering at Imperial College London and in 1923 joined International Western Electric, a leading manufacturer of radio and telecommunications equipment. - Geoffrey Dummer
Geoffrey William Arnold Dummer, MBE (1945), C.Eng., IEE Premium Award, FIEEE, MIEE, USA Medal of Freedom with Bronze Palm (February 25, 1909 - September 16, 2002) is an electronics author and consultant who is credited as being the first person to conceptualise the integrated circuit, commonly called the microchip, in the late-1940s and early 1950s. - Camillo Olivetti
Camillo Olivetti (born August 1868 in Ivrea - died December 1943 in Biella) was an Italian electrical engineer and founder of Olivetti & Co., SpA., the Italian manufacturer of computers, printers and other business machines. - Martin Mobberley
Martin P. Mobberley (born 1958) is an amateur British astronomer, author, and former electronics engineer. He images a wide variety of objects, including comets, planets, novae, supernovae and asteroids from his observatory in Suffolk, England. - Alan Archibald Campbell-Swinton
Alan Archibald Campbell-Swinton, FRS (1863–1930) was a Scottish consulting electrical engineer born in Edinburgh. He described an electronic basis of producing television in a 1908 letter to "Nature".
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