- Master Ms
Master MS was a 16th century painter and sculptor who specialized in Gothic art. He was active in Banská Štiavnica, Kingdom of Hungary (today Slovakia) and probably led a workshop there. Since his true name is unknown, he is sometimes identified with various other Gothic "masters".
- Norman Borlaug
Norman Ernest Borlaug (born March 25 1914) is an American agricultural scientist, humanitarian, Nobel laureate, and has been called the father of the Green Revolution. Borlaug is a recipient of the Congressional Gold Medal. Borlaug received his Ph.D. in plant pathology and genetics from the University of Minnesota in 1942. He took up an agricultural research position in Mexico, where he developed semi-dwarf high-yield, disease-resistant wheat varieties.
- Joseph Banks
Sir Joseph Banks, 1st Baronet, PRS (13 February 1743 - 19 June 1820) was an English naturalist, botanist and science patron. He took part in Cook's first great voyage (1768-1771) and around 80 species bear Banks' name. He is credited with the introduction to the West of eucalyptus, acacia, mimosa, and the genus named after him, "Banksia".
- Richard Walker
Richard Walker, (November 18 1897 - August 26 1989) was an English opera singer and actor, best known for his performances in the baritone roles of the Savoy Operas with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company. Between 1932 and 1939 Walker was married to D'Oyly Carte chorister Ena Martin. He married D'Oyly Carte soprano Helen Roberts in 1944, who survived him and lives in Australia.
- T. Colin Campbell
T. Colin Campbell is a nutritionist at Cornell University, director of the China Project, and author of "The China Study". He has been a researcher, lecturer, and policy advisor in the field of diet and cancer for nearly forty years. "The China Study" is a study of 6,500 rural Chinese that found a statistical correlation between meat and dairy consumption and the incidence of various diseases and health conditions, including heart disease, …
- Charles Lawrence
Charles Lawrence (December 14, 1709 - October 19, 1760) was a British military officer who, as lieutenant governor and subsequently governor of Nova Scotia, was responsible for overseeing the expulsion of Acadians from the colony in the Great Upheaval. He was born in Plymouth, England and died in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
- Vern Paxson
Vern Paxson is a senior scientist with the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI) Center for Internet Research, a non-profit research institute located in Berkeley, California. He is also a staff computer scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), where his research focuses on network intrusion detection systems (NIDS), Internet attacks, and Internet measurement.
- Matt Cutts
Matt Cutt's wants you to use 'no follow' so that Google can provide better search results. He also has a vested interest in increasing Google's take on Adword sales and this is a nice customer self-service model for Google that doesn't force them to do anything.
- Tao Yang
Tao Yang is Chief Scientist and Senior Vice President of Ask.com for web search. He is a tenured full professor in Computer Science at University of California, Santa Barbara. Yang co-ran research and development of Teoma search engine with Apostolos Gerasoulis from its earlier startup stage in 2000 and at Ask Jeeves (now Ask.com) for Teoma web search after it acquired Teoma in 2001. Teoma has been the backend search engine for Ask.com since December 2001, …
- Dennis Ritchie
Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie (born September 9, 1941) is an American computer scientist notable for his influence on ALTRAN, B, BCPL, C, Multics, and Unix. He received the Turing Award in 1983 and the National Medal of Technology in 1998. Ritchie is currently the head of Lucent Technologies' System Software Research Department.
- Shuji Nakamura
Dr. Shuji Nakamura, who developed the world's first gallium nitride (GaN) LED, led the UCSB team, which focused on resonant cavity light-emitting structures. The LRC team, led by Director of Research Dr. N. Narendran, focused on challenges in packaging, testing and evaluation of nitride-based solid-state lighting. The LRC's work included:
- 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.
- Jim Kurose
Jim Kurose is a computer science professor at University of Massachusetts Amherst. He was born in 1949 in Middletown, Massachusetts, USA. His main area of research is computer networking. He is co-author of the well known textbook "Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach" currently in its Fourth Edition with Addison-Wesley as the publisher.
- Teri Garr
Since Garr announced publicly that she had been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, she has become a leading advocate in raising awareness for MS and the latest treatments for the disease. She is actively involved with the National MS Society and the MS community, and travels across the United States speaking about her experiences living with MS, empowering others with MS to educate themselves about the disease and to seek treatment early.
- Steven M. Bellovin
Steven M. Bellovin is a researcher on computer networking and security. He is currently a Professor in the Computer Science department at Columbia University, having previously been a long time employee at AT&T Labs Research in Florham Park, New Jersey. As a graduate student, Bellovin was one of the originators of USENET. He later suggested that Gene Spafford should create the Phage mailing list as a response to the Morris Worm.
- George E. Smith
George E. Smith is an American scientist and co-inventor of the Charge-coupled device. Smith worked at Bell Labs from 1959 to 1986, where he led research into novel lasers and semiconductor devices. In 1969, Smith and Willard Boyle invented the Charge-Coupled Device (CCD), for which they have been joint recipients of the Franklin Institute’s Stuart Ballantine Medal in 1973, the IEEE’s 1974 Morris Liebmann Award, and the 2006 Charles Stark Draper Prize.
- Peter Gleick
Dr. Peter Gleick President
- James Trefil
Physicist and author James Trefil is known for his writing and his interest in teaching science to nonscientists. He accepted an offer of a Robinson Professorship in order to develop a new kind of science curriculum for general education, one based on developing scientific literacy among college graduates. Joined later by Robinson Professor Robert Hazen , he developed a course and textbook series that is now being used in approximately 200 colleges and universities around the country.
- James D. Meindl
James Meindl is the director of the Joseph M. Pettit Microelectronics Research Center and is the founding director of the Nanotechnology Research Center. He has been the Joseph M. Pettit Chair Professor of Microsystems at Georgia Institute of Technology since 1993. Professor Meindl was born in Pittsburgh, PA, and received his Ph.D., M.S., and B.S., in 1958, 1956, and 1955, respectively, in Electrical Engineering at Carnegie Institute of Technology (Carnegie-Mellon University).
- John Vlissides
John Matthew Vlissides (August 2, 1961 - 24 November 2005) was a software scientist known mainly as one of the four authors (referred to as the Gang of Four) of the book "Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software". Vlissides humbly called himself "#4 of the Gang of Four and wouldn't have it any other way." Vlissides studied electrical engineering at University of Virginia and Stanford University.
- Donald Adams
Charles Donald Adams (December 20 1928 - April 8 1996) was an English singer and actor, best known for his performances in bass-baritone roles of the Savoy Operas with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company.
- Isidore Godfrey
Isidore Godfrey (September 27 1900 - September 12 1977) was musical director of the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company for 39 years, from 1929 to 1968. He conducted most of the Company's performances during that period, except for a few London seasons when Malcolm Sargent was guest conductor and brief periods in the summers of 1947 and 1948 when Boyd Neel filled in as guest conductor.
- George Grossmith
George Grossmith (December 9 1847 - March 1 1912) was an English comedian, writer, actor, and singer, best remembered for creating a series of comic characters in the comic operas of Gilbert and Sullivan, for performing his own comic sketches, and for writing the comic novel (with his brother Weedon) "Diary of a Nobody".
- Steve Kirsch
Steve has been involved with the Internet and high-tech companies for more than 27 years. Steve has been involved with the Internet and high-tech companies for more than 27 years. Since the early 80s, he has founded three successful technology companies. Since the early 80s, he has founded three successful technology companies. Prior to Propel, he founded Infoseek Corporation, which was acquired by Disney in November of 1999.
- John E. Douglas
John E. Douglas (born June 18, 1945) is a former FBI agent and one of the first profilers. Douglas was instrumental in the capture of numerous serial killers, and for years he attempted to find out the identity of the Green River Killer, an endeavor that nearly cost him his life when his stress-wracked body was unable to fight off viral encephalitis. Following his retirement from the FBI in 1995, …
- George H. Brown
George H. Brown was an American research engineer. He was a prolific inventor who held more than 80 patents and wrote over 100 technical papers. He led the RCA Corporation's efforts to develop a color television system which is still in use today. He was associated with the RCA for over forty years, becoming an executive vice president for research and engineering in November 1961.
- Karl Taylor Compton
Karl Taylor Compton (September 14, 1887 - June 22, 1954) was a prominent American physicist and president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from 1930 to 1948.
- Bonnie Prudden
Bonnie Prudden (Born January 29, 1914) was a leading American rock climber in the 1940s and 1950s, with 30 documented first ascents to her credit in New Yorks Shawangunks mountains. Along with Hans Kraus, she was a pioneering advocate of physical fitness and later developed a form of trigger point therapy called "Myotherapy". Prudden was a tomboy and a hellraiser as a child. Her father had lost the family money in the Great Depression.
- Walter Veith
Professor Walter J. Veith has traveled widely throughout North America and the world presenting his visually documented "Amazing Discoveries Seminar," to large enthusiastic crowds. The information presented is based on his in-depth research in the areas of evolution/creation, health and diet, and Bible prophecy. Professor Walter Veith obtained his doctorate in zoology from the University of Cape Town in 1979.
- Alan Osmond
Alan Ralph Osmond (born June 22, 1949) was a member of the 1970s music group The Osmonds and the head of the Osmond Family. Osmond dated the Carpenters' lead singer, Karen Carpenter. He married Suzanne Pinegar on July 16, 1974; they have eight sons who perform as The Osmonds - Second Generation. Alan's son Michael has five children Suzannah Renee, Sarah Anne, Sasha Louise, Sean Michael, and Sophie Osmond.
- Patricia Leonard
Patricia Leonard, (born c. 1943) is an English opera singer, best known for her performances in mezzo-soprano and contralto roles of the Savoy Operas with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company. She married another D'Oyly Carte performer, Michael Buchan.
- Leo Sheffield
Leo Sheffield (November 15 1873 - September 3 1951) was an English singer and actor best known for his performances in baritone roles of the Savoy Operas with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company.
- Dennis Olsen
Dennis Olsen (born February 28 1938 in Adelaide, South Australia, Australia), is an accomplished pianist, actor and director. He is Australia's leading exponent of Gilbert and Sullivan operas. Dennis Olsen originally trained for a professional career as a pianist, but decided to become an actor and attended the prestigious National Institute of Dramatic Art in Sydney, New South Wales. He has appeared with the following theatre companies: Old Tote Company, …
- Derek Oldham
Derek Oldham, (March 29 1887 - March 20 1968) was an English singer and actor, best known for his performances in the tenor roles of the Savoy Operas with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company.
- Alexander Wetmore
Frank Alexander Wetmore (June 18, 1886 - December 7, 1978) was an American ornithologist and avian paleontologist. Wetmore was born at North Freedom, Wisconsin and studied at the University of Kansas. He later studied at George Washington University, receiving his masters degree and doctorate. Wetmore began federal service in 1910, working for the Biological Survey of the Department of Agriculture. In 1915, he researched the use of lead shot in causing death in waterfowl.
- Sydney Granville
Sydney Granville, (1880 - December 27 1959) was an English singer and actor, best known for his performances in baritone roles of the Savoy Operas with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company.
- Walter F. Tichy
Walter F. Tichy has been a professor of Computer Science at the University Karlsruhe, Germany since 1986. Previously, he was a senior scientist at Carnegie Group, Inc., in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and served six years on the faculty of Computer Science at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. His primary research interests are software engineering and parallelism.
- Jessie Bond
Jessie Bond (January 10 1853-June 17 1942) was an English singer and actress best known for creating most of the mezzo-soprano soubrette roles in the Gilbert and Sullivan comic operas. She was the sister of Neva Bond, a D'Oyly Carte Opera Company chorister for approximately twelve years, from 1880 to 1891, who created the role of Isabel in the London production of "The Pirates of Penzance".
- Alice Barnett
Alice Barnett (May 17 1846 - April 14 1901) was an English singer and actress, best known for her performances in contralto roles of the Gilbert and Sullivan operas with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company.
- Peter Senge
Peter Senge received a B.S. in engineering from Stanford University, an M.S. in social systems modeling and Ph.D. in management from MIT. He lives with his wife and their two children in central Massachusetts. Peter M. Senge is a senior lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.