- John Muir
John Muir was one of the first modern preservationists. His letters, essays, and books telling of his adventures in nature, and wildlife, especially in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California, were read by millions and are still popular today. His direct activism helped to save the Yosemite Valley and other wilderness areas. The Sierra Club, which he founded, is now one of the most important conservation organizations in the United States. - Rube Goldberg
Reuben Garret L. Goldberg (July 4, 1883 - December 7, 1970) was an American cartoonist. He earned lasting fame for his Rube Goldberg machines (complex devices that perform simple tasks in indirect and convoluted ways). He was posthumously awarded the National Cartoonist Society Gold Key Award in 1980. Goldberg went to Lowell High School in San Francisco in 1900 and earned a degree in engineering from the University of California, Berkeley in 1904. - Clive Cussler
Clive Eric Cussler (born July 15, 1931 in Aurora, Illinois) is an American adventure novelist and successful amateur marine archaeologist. - Tom Lehrer
Thomas Andrew (Tom) Lehrer (born April 9, 1928) is an American singer-songwriter, satirist, pianist, and mathematician. He used to lecture on mathematics and musical theater. - Reza Pahlavi
Reza Pahlavi is the former Crown Prince of Iran, the eldest son of late Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and his Empress Consort, Farah Diba. He succeeded his father as Head of the House of the Pahlavi dynasty and is currently the successor to the former Pahlavi throne of Iran. As such he is referred to by supporters as "His Imperial Majesty Reza Shah II". - Harold Budd
Harold Budd (born May 24, 1936) is an American ambient/avant-garde composer. Born in Los Angeles, California, he was raised in the Mojave Desert, and was inspired at an early age by the humming tone caused by wind blown across telephone wires. His career as a composer began in 1962. In the following years he gained a notable reputation in the local avant-garde community. In 1966 he graduated from the University of Southern California with a degree in musical composition. - Richard Reeves
Richard Reeves is a writer, syndicated columnist and lecturer at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. - Keith Henson
Keith Henson On July 19, 2000, Keith Henson was arrested by the Riverside County, California, Sheriff’s Office for making terrorist threats on the Internet against the Church of Scientology. On April 26, 2001, a jury found Henson guilty of having committed a hate crime under section 422.6 of the California Penal Code . Henson was scheduled to appear for sentencing on May 16, 2001, but failed to appear and the Judge was forced to issue a warrant for his arrest. - Lillian Moller Gilbreth
Lillian Moller Gilbreth, BA, MA, PhD, (b. Lillian Evelyn Moller May 24 1878, Oakland, California - d. January 2, 1972, Phoenix, Arizona) was one of the first working female engineers holding a PhD. She is arguably the first true industrial/organizational psychologist. She and her husband Frank Bunker Gilbreth were pioneers in the field of industrial engineering. - Phil Austin
Phil Austin (often Philip) (born April 6, 1941 in Denver, Colorado) is a comedian and writer. He grew up in Fresno, California, attending Fresno High School. He attended Bowdoin College and UCLA, joining the staff of KPFK radio in Los Angeles in the late 1960s. Austin is best known for his work as part of The Firesign Theatre (of which he is the only constant member), where he plays the group's best-known creation, Nick Danger. - Andrew Viterbi
Andrew James Viterbi, Ph.D. (born March 9, 1935) is an Italian-American electrical engineer and businessman. Viterbi was born in Bergamo, Italy to Jewish parents and emigrated with them in 1939 to the United States as a refugee. His original name was Andrea, but when he was naturalized in the US, his parents changed it to "Andrew", since "Andrea" is a female name in many English-speaking countries. - John Flowers
John S. Flowers is a technology speaker, engineer, and reformed hacker. He has been involved in a number of technology-related start-up firms, both in Silicon Valley and Kansas, including the network security company nCircle (started in 1998 as Hiverworld.com and later renamed), and the search engine company Kozoru, which was sold to David Warthen, Co-Founder of Ask Jeeves on October 20, 2006. - Antony C. Sutton
Antony Cyril Sutton (February 14, 1925 - June 17, 2002) was a British-born economist, historian, and writer. He was a research fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution from 1968 to 1973. He is a former economics professor at California State University Los Angeles. He was educated at the universities of London, Goettingen and California with a D.Sc. degree from University of Southampton, England. - 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, … - Ulrich Walter
Ulrich Hans Walter (born February 9, 1954) is a German physicist/engineer and a former =DFVLR [astronaut]]. Walter was born in Iserlohn, Germany. After finishing secondary school there and two years in the Bundeswehr, he studied physics at the University of Cologne. In 1980, he was awarded a diploma degree, and five years later a doctorate, both in the field of solid state physics. After two post-doc positions at the Argonne National Laboratory, Chicago, Illinois, … - Mario J. Molina
Mario José Molina Henríquez was awarded the 1995 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his role in elucidating the threat to the Earth's ozone layer of chlorofluorocarbon gases (or CFCs). This Nobel Prize was shared with Paul J. Crutzen and F. Sherwood Rowland. Mario Molina became the first and only Mexican to ever receive a Nobel Prize for science. Until recently he was an Institute Professor in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences at MIT. - Hans Albert Einstein
Hans Albert Einstein was a Professor of hydraulic engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, and the first son of renowned physicist Albert Einstein (1879-1955) and his first wife Mileva Marić (1875-1948). - Deborah Holland
Deborah Holland was the lead singer and songwriter of Animal Logic featuring Stanley Clarke and Stewart Copeland. Beginning her musical studies at age 14, Holland attended the Berklee College of Music and Rutgers University, from which she received her B.A. with Highest Honors in Jazz Studies. A Los Angeles-based piano teacher and songwriter, Holland was hired for Animal Logic almost immediately after a two-song demo tape was forwarded to Copeland, … - George Chaffey
George Chaffey (born in Brockville, Ontario in 1848, died 1932) was a Canadian engineer who with his brother William developed large parts of Southern California, including what became the cities of Etiwanda, Ontario, and Upland, and undertook similar developments in Australia which became the city of Mildura, and the town of Renmark and Paringa. By 1880 he was well established as a designer of ships for Great Lakes traffic. - William F. Ballhaus Jr.
Dr. William F. Ballhaus, Jr. is an American engineer. On May 1, 2001, he was appointed president and chief executive officer of The Aerospace Corporation, an independent, nonprofit organization dedicated to the objective application of science and technology toward the solution of critical issues in the nation’s space program. He previously worked for Lockheed Martin Corporation, Martin Marietta Corporation and was director of NASA's Ames Research Center. - Arthur H Rosenfeld
Dr. Arthur H Rosenfeld (b. 1927) is a Commissioner of the California Energy Commission since 2000. Rosenfeld earned a PhD (1954) in Physics from the University of Chicago where he was the last graduate student of Enrico Fermi. 1955-1973 He worked in physics group at University of California, Berkeley where he did some of the key development of bubble chamber physics, particularly the hardware and software for photographing, measuring and analyzing data. - Michael Deering
Michael Frank Deering, PhD, (b. 1956) is a computer scientist, a former chief engineer for Sun Microsystems in Mountain View, California, and a widely recognized expert on artificial intelligence, computer vision, 3D graphics hardware/software, very-large-scale integration (VLSI) design and virtual reality. Deering oversaw Sun's 3D graphics technical strategy as the chief hardware graphics architect and is a co-architect of the Java 3D API, … - Shaun Lopez
Shaun Lopez is a US musician and was the guitarist for Far, a band from Sacramento, USA, spawned from the same local scene as the Deftones, their former touring partners, as well as Tinfed and Will Haven. After a number of local releases including their first demo tape "Sweat A River, Live No Lies" and two independent albums "Listening Game" and "Quick" they signed to Epic/Immortal Records and released their first major record, … - Tom Morey
Tom Morey (born Detroit, Michigan, August 15, 1935) also known by the moniker "Y" is a musician, engineer, and surfer responsible for several technological innovations that have heavily influenced modern developments in surfing equipment design. - Leo Breiman
Leo Breiman was a distinguished statistician at the University of California, Berkeley. He was the recipient of numerous honors and awards, and was a member of the United States National Academy of Science. Breiman's work bridged the gap between statisticians and computer scientists, particularly in the field of machine learning. Perhaps his most important contributions were his work on classification and regression trees and ensembles of trees fit to bootstrap samples. - Arnold Reisman
Arnold Reisman (born August 2, 1934) is an American engineer, historian and author living in Shaker Heights, Ohio. Arnold Reisman was born in Lodz, Poland, in 1934. He came to the United States after World War II and graduated from New York's Stuyvesant Height School of Math and Science in 1951. He received his BS, MS, and PhD degrees in engineering from University of California, Los Angeles. He is a registered Professional Engineer in California, Wisconsin, and Ohio, … - Hiroshi Komiyama
is a Japanese scientist. He has been the president of University of Tokyo since April 2005. His major research fields are Chemical engineering, Environmental engineering, functional material science and CVD reaction engineering. When he was an undergraduate, he belonged to the American football club at University of Tokyo. - Mark Fletcher
Mark Fletcher was the founder and CEO of the news aggregator website, Bloglines, and a Vice President of Ask.com until June 2006. Ask Jeeves acquired Bloglines on 8 February 2005. In February 2005, Fletcher won one of the annual Rave Awards, presented by "Wired" magazine. Fellow nominees in the Tech Innovator category were Jimmy Wales who is a co-founder of Wikipedia, Adam Curry, Bill Healy and Zhang Zuoyi. - Fyodor
Fyodor is the pseudonym of network security expert, open source programmer, writer, and self-proclaimed hacker Gordon Lyon. He authored the open source Nmap Security Scanner and numerous books, web sites, and technical papers focusing on network security. Fyodor is a founding member of the Honeynet Project and a board member of the Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility. - William Hammond Hall
William Hammond Hall (1846 in Hagerstown, Maryland, United States of America - 1934) was a civil engineer who was the first State Engineer of California, and designed Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, CA. After serving with the U.S. army engineers in the Civil War, Hall was assigned in the latter part of the 1860s to surveying the Western regions of the United States and preparing topographical maps. - Randy Cassingham
Randy Cassingham in a photo from his website, www.Cassingham.com Randy Cassingham is an American syndicated columnist, humorist, publisher, and speaker. He is a former member of the Society of Professional Journalists. He has been the keynote speaker at several of The Skeptics Society's annual conventions. Cassingham is the author of the weekly syndicated news column "This is True" (founded 1994), … - Bill Atkinson
Bill Atkinson (born 1951) is an American computer engineer and photographer. Atkinson worked at Apple Computer from 1978 to 1990. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of California, San Diego, where Apple Macintosh developer Jef Raskin was one of his professors. Atkinson continued his studies as a graduate student at the University of Washington. He designed and implemented HyperCard, the first popular hypermedia system. - Seth Lloyd
Seth Lloyd is a Professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. He refers to himself as a "quantum mechanic". Lloyd was born on August 2, 1960, received his AB from Harvard College in 1982, his Math.Cert. and M.Phil. from Cambridge University in 1983 and 1984, and his Ph.D. from Rockefeller University in 1988 (advisor Heinz Pagels) for a thesis entitled "Black Holes, Demons, and the Loss of Coherence: How complex systems get information, … - Claire J. Tomlin
Claire Jennifer Tomlin (b. Southampton, England 1969) is an American researcher in hybrid systems, distributed and decentralized optimization and control theory. Tomlin received her B.A.Sc. from the University of Waterloo in 1992. She then attended Imperial College London, where she earned her M.Sc. in 1993 and moved on to perform her PhD studies at the University of California, Berkeley, which she completed in 1998. - 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. - Frank Lenz
Frank Lenz (born 18 June 1967 in San Leandro, California) is a drummer from Southern California who has done work for many bands and artists, including but not limited to Daniel Amos, Crystal Lewis, Duraluxe, MAP, Charity Empressa, Kevin Max, Cush and The Dingees. - Paul H. Emmett
Paul Hugh Emmett (September 22, 1900 - April 22, 1985) was an American chemical engineer born in Portland, Oregon. After completing his baccalaureate at Oregon Agricultural College (now Oregon State University), Emmett went on to the California Institute of Technology, where he earned his Ph.D. He was also a classmate and close friend of Linus Pauling at both institutions. In 1976, Emmett married Pauling's sister, Pauline. Dr. - Waldo Waterman
Waldo Dean Waterman (June 16, 1894 - December 8, 1976) was an inventor and aviation pioneer from San Diego, California. His most notable contributions to aviation were the first tailless monoplane (the precursor to the flying wing), the first aircraft with modern tricycle landing gear and the first successful flying car. Waterman built his first aircraft, a glider, in 1909 while still in high school. He successfully flew the glider on a slope near his home and by auto-tow. - Ronald N. Bracewell
Ronald Newbold Bracewell (1921 -) is the Lewis M. Terman Professor of Electrical Engineering, Emeritus of the Space, Telecommunications and Radioscience Laboratory at Stanford University. Ronald Newbold Bracewell was born in Sydney, Australia, in 1921, and educated at Sydney Boys High School. He graduated from the University of Sydney in 1941 with the B.Sc. degree in mathematics and physics, later receiving the degrees of B.E. (1943), … - Al Zampa
Alfred Zampa (born March 12, 1905 in Selby, California; died April 23, 2000) was an American bridge construction worker who played an integral role in the construction of numerous San Francisco Bay Area bridges during the early twentieth century. He is most notable for being one of the first people to survive falling off the Golden Gate Bridge, …
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