- Maria Klawe
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 professor of Computer Science at Princeton University and in several positions at the University of British Columbia including Dean of Science, Vice-President of Student and Academic Services, and Head of Computer Science. Maria has also worked at IBM Research in California, and at the University of Toronto. She received her Ph.D. and B.Sc. - Frank Perkins
Frank Perkins was a British engineer, businessman, creator of the Perkins Diesel Engine, and founder of the Perkins Engines Company. - Vincenzo Lancia
Vincenzo Lancia was an Italian pilot, engineer and founder of car making company Lancia. Vincenzo Lancia was born in the small village of Fobello on August 24, 1881, close to Turin. He was the youngest of four children (one sister and two brothers), his father being a soup canner who made his money in Argentina before returning to Turin to start his business. From an early age, Vincenzo showed a gift with numbers, and it was intended for him to become a bookkeeper, … - William Milnes Jr.
William Milnes, Jr. (December 8, 1827 - August 14, 1889) was a nineteenth century congressman and industrialist from Virginia and Pennsylvania. Born in Yorkshire, England, Milnes immigrated to the United States with his family in 1829, settling in Pottsville, Pennsylvania. He attended public schools as a child, going on to learning trade in machinery. He engaged in mining and coal shipping before moving to Shenandoah, Virginia in 1865 and engaged in the iron business. - Rolla C. Carpenter
Rolla Clinton Carpenter, C.E., M.M.E., LL.D. (1852-1919) was an American engineer, academic, and writer. Carpenter was born in Orion (now Lake Orion), Michigan. He earned a B.S. in 1873 from Michigan State Agricultural College (today, Michigan State University) and later received additional bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Michigan in 1875. From 1875 to 1890 he was professor of mathematics and civil engineering in the State Agricultural College. - Alexander Luchars
Alexander Luchars was an American publishing executive, originally from Scotland, who founded the Industrial Press Inc., publisher of "Machinery's Handbook". Luchars started a monthly magazine called "Machinery" in competition with other similar magazines in the metalworking field in 1894. - Pier Carlo Pozzati
Groups and Social Networks: --------------------------- BUSINESS CLUB MILAN 'IN' - http://www.milanin.com; Founder - President; Within the Club I have worked on: - Definition of Vision, Mission, Club's development Strategy; - Management team creation and motivation. Start-up of the main management teams: Operations, Marketing, IT&Web, Finance&Controlling; Achievements: - More than 300 members in 9 months; - National newspaper articles (Corriere della Sera 23 maggio . . . - Michael Richter
Michael Richter has more than 35 years practical experience in strategic marketing in/to all 5 continents and offers assistance and/or training in internationalizing >> market research, marketingplan, practical implementation - Europe and/or worldwide on the spot. In addition heI holds national and international, internal and external, seminars or lectures on 'international marketing' - especially into the European Union. - Alissa Krapchatova
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- Boaz Weiss
Boaz Weiss, is a seasoned international sales, marketing & business development executive in the high technology field with extensive experience in Europe, Asia, USA and South America. Mr. Weiss serves today as VP Sales & Marketing at Telkoor Power Supplies, a global leader in the field of military and telecom power supplies. Boaz holds B.Sc. degree in Industrial Engineering and Management and MBA in Marketing from the Tel Aviv University - Peter G. Neumann
Peter G. Neumann is a researcher who has worked on the Multics operating system in the 1960s. He edits the Computer Risks columns for ACM "Software Engineering Notes" and "Communications of the ACM". He founded ACM SIGSOFT and is a Fellow of the ACM, IEEE and AAAS. He studied at Harvard University (1950-1958), gaining a Ph.D. in 1961 after a Fulbright scholarship in Germany (1958-1960). He worked at Bell Labs from 1960 to 1970. - Gene Spafford
Eugene H. Spafford (born 1956) (known colloquially as "Spaf") is a professor of computer science at Purdue University and a leading computer security expert. - Hector García Garcia-Molina
Héctor García Molina is a Mexican computer scientist. He served at the U.S. President's Information Technology Advisory Committee (PITAC) from 1997 to 2001, as chairman of the Computer Science Department of Stanford University from January 2001 to December 2004 and is a member of Oracle Corporation's Board of Directors since October 2001. In 1999 he was laureated with the ACM SIGMOD Innovations Award. - Roger Moore
Roger D. Moore was the 1973 recipient (with Larry Breed and Richard Lathwell) of the Grace Murray Hopper Award from the Association for Computing Machinery. :"For their work in the design and implementation of APL360, setting new standards in simplicity, efficiency, reliability and response time for interactive systems." Moore was a founder of I.P. Sharp Associates and held a senior position in the company for many years. - Herbert Simon
Herbert Alexander Simon (June 15, 1916 - February 9, 2001) was an American political scientist whose research ranged across the fields of cognitive psychology, computer science, public administration, economics, management, and philosophy of science and a professor, most notably, at Carnegie Mellon University. With almost a thousand, often very highly cited publications, he is one of the most influential social scientists of the 20th century. - Dan Bricklin
Daniel S. Bricklin (born 16 July 1951) is the co-creator, with Bob Frankston, of the VisiCalc spreadsheet program. He also founded Software Garden, Inc., of which he is currently president, and Trellix Corporation, which is currently owned by Web.com. Bricklin was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, where he attended Akiba Hebrew Academy during his High School years. - Bernard Chazelle
Bernard Chazelle (born November 5, 1955) is a professor of computer science at Princeton University. Although he is best known for his invention of the soft heap data structure and the most asymptotically efficient known algorithm for finding minimum spanning trees, most of his work is in computational geometry, where he has found many of the best-known algorithms, such as linear-time triangulation of a simple polygon, as well as many useful complexity results, … - Donald Norman
Donald A. Norman is a professor emeritus of cognitive science at University of California, San Diego and a Professor of Computer Science at Northwestern University, but nowadays works mostly with cognitive science in the domain of usability engineering. He also teaches at Stanford University and is a member of the editorial board of Encyclopædia Britannica. He currently splits his time between consulting and his teaching and research at Northwestern and Stanford. - Azriel Rosenfeld
Professor Dr. Azriel Rosenfeld (February 19, 1931 - February 22, 2004) was an American Research Professor, a Distinguished University Professor, and Director of the Center for Automation Research at the University of Maryland in College Park, Maryland, where he also held affiliate professorships in the Departments of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, and Psychology. He held a Ph.D. in mathematics from Columbia University (1957), … - Ron Rivest
Professor Ronald Lorin Rivest (born 1947, Schenectady, New York) is a cryptographer, and is the Andrew and Erna Viterbi Professor of Computer Science at MIT's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (CSAIL). He is most celebrated for his work on public-key encryption with Len Adleman and Adi Shamir, specifically the RSA algorithm, for which they won the 2002 ACM Turing Award. - Surajit Chaudhuri
Surajit Chaudhuri is a computer scientist best-known for his contributions to database management systems. He is currently a senior researcher at Microsoft Research, where he leads the Data Management, Exploration and Mining group. Chaudhuri is an ACM Fellow. He received his Ph.D. in computer science from Stanford University in 1991. - John L. Hennessy
John LeRoy Hennessy, the founder of MIPS Computer Systems Inc., is currently serving as the 10th President of Stanford University. He earned his Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Villanova University, and his Master's degree and Ph.D. in computer science from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Hennessy became a Stanford faculty member in 1977. In 1984, he used his sabbatical year to found MIPS Computer Systems Inc. - Neil Immerman
Neil Immerman is one of the key developers of descriptive complexity, an approach he is currently applying to research in model checking, database theory, and computational complexity theory. Professor Immerman is an editor of the SIAM Journal on Computing and of Logical Methods in Computer Science. He received B.S. and M.S. degrees from Yale University in 1974 and his Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1980 under the supervision of Juris Hartmanis, … - John C. Reynolds
John C. Reynolds is an American computer scientist (born June 1, 1935). John Reynolds studied at Purdue University and then earned a PhD in theoretical physics from Harvard University in 1961. He was Professor of Information science at Syracuse University from 1970 to 1986. Since then he has been Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. He has held visiting positions at Aarhus University (Denmark), University of Edinburgh, … - Vijay Vazirani
Vijay Vazirani received his Bachelor's degree from MIT in 1979 and his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1983. He is a Professor of Computer Science at Georgia Tech, and is currently McKay Visiting Professor at the University of California, Berkeley. Prior to this he taught algorithms at the undergraduate level as a Professor of Computer Science at the Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi during the early to mid nineties. - Richard Hamming
Richard Wesley Hamming (February 11, 1915 - January 7, 1998) was an American mathematician whose work had many implications for computer science and telecommunications. His contributions include the Hamming code (which makes use of a Hamming matrix), the Hamming window (described in section 5.8 of his book "Digital Filters"), Hamming numbers, Sphere-packing (or hamming bound) and the Hamming distance. He was born in Chicago and died in Monterey, California. - Franz Alt
Dr. Franz L. Alt (born 1910 in Vienna, Austria) is an Austrian born American mathematician who made major contributions to computer science in its early days. Franz Alt grew up in Austria and received a Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Vienna in 1932, researching set-theoretic topology and logical foundations of geometry. He left Austria for the United States after the 1938 Anschluss. - Ben Shneiderman
Ben Shneiderman is an American computer scientist. He provided fundamental research in the field of human–computer interaction. Shneiderman currently holds a post as professor for Computer Science at the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is a graduate of the Bronx High School of Science; he received a B.S. in Mathematics/Physics from the City College of New York in 1968, … - Madhu Sudan
Madhu Sudan is an Indian computer scientist, professor of computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a member of MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. He was awarded the Rolf Nevanlinna Prize at the 24th International Congress of Mathematicians in 2002. The prize recognizes outstanding work in the mathematical aspects of computer science. - W. Daniel Hillis
William Daniel "Danny" Hillis (born September 25, 1956, in Baltimore, Maryland) is an American inventor, entrepreneur, and author. He co-founded Thinking Machines Corporation, a company that developed the Connection Machine, a parallel supercomputer designed by Hillis at MIT. He is also co-founder of the Long Now Foundation, Applied Minds, Metaweb Technologies, and author of The Pattern on the Stone: The Simple Ideas That Make Computers Work. - Jeff Rulifson
Johns F. (Jeff) Rulifson (born August 20, 1941) is a computer scientist largely known for his involvement at the Augmentation Research Center, at then-named Stanford Research Institute (now SRI International) in implementing the oN-Line System (NLS), a system that foreshadowed many future developments in modern computing and networking. Although Douglas Engelbart was the founder and leader of ARC, … - J Strother Moore
J Strother Moore is a computer scientist, and is co-developer of the Boyer-Moore string search algorithm and the Boyer-Moore automated theorem prover, Nqthm. A good example of the workings of the Boyer-Moore string search algorithm is given in his website along with the Knuth-Morris-Pratt algorithm. In addition, he is a co-author of the ACL2 automated theorem prover. - Rudi Studer
Rudi Studer (born 1951 in Stuttgart) is a German computer scientist and professor at the University of Karlsruhe, Germany. He is the head of the knowledge management research group at the Institute AIFB. He is president of the Semantic Web Science Association, Technical Director of the EU-funded SEKT project, and a member of numerous programme committees and editorial boards, including position of joint editor-in-chief of the Journal of Web Semantics. - Fred Brooks
Frederick Phillips Brooks, Jr. (born April 19, 1931) is a software engineer and computer scientist, best-known for managing the development of OS/360, then later writing candidly about the process in his seminal book "The Mythical Man-Month". "It is a very humbling experience to make a multi-million-dollar mistake, but it is also very memorable." Brooks received a Turing Award in 1999 and many other awards. Born in Durham, North Carolina, he attended Duke University, … - Rodney Brooks
Rodney Allen Brooks (b. December 30, 1954 in Adelaide) is Panasonic Professor of Robotics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is Chief Technical Officer and sits on the Board of iRobot Corp. From July 1, 2003 until June 30, 2007, he was director of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory; prior to that, he was director of the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. - Ivan Sutherland
Ivan Edward Sutherland (born 1938 in Hastings, Nebraska) is a computer programmer and Internet pioneer. He received the Turing Award in 1988 for the invention of Sketchpad, an early predecessor to the sort of graphical user interface that has become ubiquitous in personal computers. Sutherland earned his Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University), his Master's degree from Caltech, … - David A. Thomas
David A. Thomas is a well-known figure in modern software development and object technology. Thomas took undergraduate (1969) and graduate (1976) degrees at the Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, and held a number of software development positions in the ensuing years. Thomas is perhaps best known as the founder and past CEO of Object Technology International, Inc., now IBM OTI Labs. - 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. - Cleve Moler
Cleve Barry Moler is a mathematician and computer programmer specializing in numerical analysis. In the mid to late 1970s, he was one of the authors of LINPACK and EISPACK, Fortran libraries for numerical computing. He invented MATLAB, a numerical computing package, to give his students at the University of New Mexico easy access to these libraries without writing Fortran. In 1984, he co-founded The MathWorks with Jack Little to commercialize this program.
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