Hal Abelson

Hal Abelson

male
Taylor L. Booth, Princeton University alumni, Princeton University, Apple II family, Ph.D., IEEE Computer Society…MIT Class of 1922, electrical engineer, MIT
Harold (Hal) Abelson is Class of 1922 Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT and a Fellow of the IEEE. He holds an A.B....
Charles Stark Draper

Charles Stark Draper

male, deceased (1987)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty, Sc.D., University of Missouri–Columbia, University of Missouri–Columbia alumni, Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni, submarine…MIT, engineer
Charles Stark Draper, Sc.D. is often referred to as "the father of inertial navigation." Born in Windsor, Missouri, he attended the University of...
Ivan Sutherland

Ivan Sutherland

male, 71 years old
computer scientist, Virtual reality pioneer, Computer graphics professionals, virtual reality, graphical user interface, Harvard University…engineer, MIT
Ivan Edward Sutherland (born 1938 in Hastings, Nebraska) is a computer programmer and Internet pioneer. He received the Turing Award in 1988 for...
David Scott

David Scott

male, 77 years old
astronaut, Group Three astronaut, Boy Scouts of America, Apollo 15, Astronaut Group 3, U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame Inductee…Engineer in Aeronautics/Astronautics, MIT
Colonel David Randolph Scott (born June 6, 1932) is a former NASA astronaut, was one of the third group of astronauts named by NASA in October...
Seth Lloyd

Seth Lloyd

male
Harvard College, rockefeller university, california institute of technology, los alamos national laboratory, cambridge university, quantum computer…mechanical engineer, MIT, Professor of Quantum-Mechanical Engineering at MIT
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,...
Herman Hollerith

Herman Hollerith

male, deceased (1929)
National Inventors Hall of Fame, American, German-American, computer pioneer, inventor, Statistician…engineer, MIT
Herman Hollerith (February 29, 1860 - November 17, 1929) was an American statistician who developed a mechanical tabulator based on punched cards...
K. Eric Drexler

K. Eric Drexler

male, 54 years old
Kim Eric Drexler, engineer, Science writer, MIT, American, molecular nanotechnology
Often described as the 'father of nanotechnology', K. Eric Drexler is a researcher whose work focuses on advanced nanotechnologies and directions...
Raymond Kurzweil

Raymond Kurzweil

male, 61 years old
transhumanist, Futurologist, Artificial intelligence researcher, technological singularity, artificial intelligence, speech synthesis…MIT, engineer
Raymond Kurzweil (pronounced:) (born February 12, 1948) is a pioneer in the fields of optical character recognition (OCR), text-to-speech...

Angela Belcher

female
Escherichea Coli, molecular biology, electrical engineering, Polymath, Materials engineer, Nanotechnologist…MIT
Angela M. Belcher is a polymath, having (so far) mastered materials science,biochemistry,molecular biology and electrical engineering. She is...
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