- Lorenzo Lanzi
Lorenzo Lanzi (born in Cesena, 26 October 1981) is an Italian WSBK rider. Prior to 2005 he has raced in World Superbike, World Supersport and World Superstock championships, as well as a successful one off in the AMA Superbike Championship. In 2004 Supersport World Championship he raced with Ducati 749R, placed 6th in final classified. In 2005 Lanzi rode mainly for the Caracchi Ducati team. After a poor first 2 rounds, and injury keeping him out of the next two, … - Chester Carlson
Chester Floyd Carlson (February 8, 1906 - September 19, 1968) was an American physicist, inventor, and patent attorney born in Seattle, Washington. He invented the process of instant copying which he called electrophotography, and which was subsequently named xerography and commercialized by the Haloid Corporation (Xerox). A hard worker, he persisted in his quest, meeting disappointment and failure for many years before finally succeeding. - John Warnock
John Warnock (b. October 6, 1940) is an American computer scientist best known as the co-founder with Charles Geschke of Adobe Systems Inc., the graphics and publishing software company. Although retired as CEO in 2001, he still co-chairs the board with Geschke. Warnock was born in Salt Lake City, Utah. He has a B.S. in mathematics and philosophy, an M.S. in mathematics, and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering, all from the University of Utah. - Anne M. Mulcahy
Anne M. Mulcahy is chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Xerox Corporation, Stamford, Conn. She was named CEO of Xerox on Aug. 1, 2001, and chairman on Jan. 1, 2002. In addition to the Xerox board, she is a member of the boards of directors of Catalyst, Citigroup Inc., Fuji Xerox Co. Ltd. and Target Corporation, and is a member of The Business Council. - 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. - Terry Winograd
Terry Allen Winograd (born February 24, 1946) is a professor of computer science at Stanford University. He is known within the philosophy of mind and artificial intelligence fields for his work on natural language using the SHRDLU program. SHRDLU was written in the years from 1968-70. In making the program Winograd was concerned with the problem of providing a computer with sufficient "understanding" to be able to use natural language. - Yotaro Kobayashi
Yotaro Kobayashi, born April 1933 in England, is chairman of the Fuji Xerox company of Tokyo, Japan. He is also Pacific Asia chairman of the Trilateral Commission. He was educated at Keio University and the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, graduating in 1956 and 1958 respectively. His father, Setsutaro Kobayashi, was the first president of the Fuji Xerox company. He was Chair of the Board of the International University of Japan, … - Charles Geschke
Charles M. "Chuck" Geschke (b. 1939) is best known as the co-founder with John Warnock of Adobe Systems Inc., the graphics and publishing software company, in 1982. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, on September 11, 1939, Geschke attended Saint Ignatius High School and went on to earn a BA in classics and an MS in mathematics from Xavier University, as well as a PhD in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University. - Paul Dourish
Paul Dourish is a computer scientist best known for his work at the intersection of computer science and social science. He is a professor at the University of California, Irvine, where he joined the faculty in 2000. Born and raised in Glasgow, Dourish received a B.Sc. in Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science from the University of Edinburgh in 1989. While at Rank Xerox EuroPARC (later the Xerox Research Center Europe) in Cambridge, UK, … - George Pake
George Pake (April 1 1924 - March 4 2004) was a physicist and research executive primarily known for helping found Xerox PARC. Pake earned his bachelors and masters degrees from the Carnegie Institute of Technology and his doctorate in physics at Harvard University in 1948. After four years as a physics professor at Washington University in St. Louis, Pake became the head of the physics department at age 28. - Joseph C. Wilson
Joseph C. Wilson was the founder of the Xerox Corporation, a graduate of the University of Rochester and a member of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity. As president of Xerox, he made an effort to integrate Xerox during the late 1960s. After the race riots that began in Detroit had reached Xerox headquarters in Rochester, New York, … - Byran Uyesugi
Byran Koji Uyesugi (born 1959) was a former Xerox service technician in Honolulu, Hawaii who was convicted of killing seven of his co-workers on November 2, 1999, in what has been called the Xerox murders, the worst mass murder case in the history of Hawaii. The case also heightened awareness of workplace violence in Hawaii and elsewhere. - Bertrand Serlet
Bertrand Serlet is senior vice president of software engineering at Apple Inc. He succeeded Avie Tevanian to the position in July 2003. In this position he has been primarily responsible for the release of the 10.4 versions of Mac OS X and Mac OS X Server and the upcoming 10.5 versions. Before Apple he worked at Xerox and NeXT. He spoke at WWDC 2006 on the similarities between Mac OS X Tiger and Windows Vista, … - David Watters
David Watters is a Canadian politician who ran for office in the 2004 Canadian election as a candidate for the Conservative Party of Canada. He is a self described Red Tory, which he frequently links to his very red hair. He was born in Saint John, New Brunswick in 1968 and has lived in Toronto since 1999 with his wife of seven years. Prior to coming to Toronto, he earned his B.A. in Political Science from the University of New Brunswick, Saint John in 1993. - Doug Cutting
Doug Cutting is an advocate and creator of open-source search technology. He originated the Lucene and, with Mike Cafarella, the Nutch open-source search technology projects, which are now managed through the Apache Software Foundation. Prior to developing Lucene, Doug held search technology positions at Excite and Xerox PARC. Lucene, a search indexer, and Nutch, a spider or crawler, are the two key components of an open-source general search platform, … - Justin Rattner
Justin Rattner , 59, is vice president and chief technology officer (CTO). He is also an Intel Senior Fellow and head of the Corporate Technology Group. In the latter role, he directs Intel's global research efforts in microprocessors, systems, and communications including the company's disruptive research activity. In 1989, Rattner was named Scientist of the Year by R&D Magazine for his leadership in parallel and distributed computer architecture. - Sol M. Linowitz
Sol M. Linowitz (deceased 1913-2005) was "a 1938 graduate of the Cornell Law School. A cofounder and former chairman of the Xerox Corporation, Linowitz served as ambassador to the Organization of American States under President Lyndon Johnson and as the chief conegotiator of the Panama Canal Treaties under President Jimmy Carter . He also served as President Carter's representative to the Middle East peace talks. - Makoto Murata
is a Japanese computer scientist. He participated in the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) XML Working Group. The Working Group designed XML1.0, a markup language specification. Murata and James Clark designed RELAX NG, an XML schema language. In 1982, Murata received his bachelor's degree from the Faculty of Science, Kyoto University. In 1985, he joined Fuji Xerox. From 1993 to 1995, he researched structured document at Xerox Webster Research Center. - Jack Goldman
Jack Goldman is an American physicist and former Chief Scientist of Xerox Corporation. He is especially notable for hiring physicist Dr. George Pake to create the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center. - Mathew Knowles
Mathew Knowles is an American record executive and manager. He is the father and manager of R&B star Beyoncé Knowles and her sister Solange Knowles, and is best known as the manager of his daughters and of the female R&B group Destiny's Child. Formerly a salesman at Xerox, Knowles gave up his career in sales in the early 1990s to manage Beyoncé's singing group, then called "Girl's Tyme". - Max Palevsky
Max Palevsky (born 1924 in Illinois) is an American art collector, venture capitalist, philanthropist, and computer technology pioneer. He served in the US Army as a meteorological officer during World War II. Palevsky first worked on a computer project at Bendix, and went on to work at Packard Bell. He convinced the company that they should enter the computer business and helped develop the PB-250 at Packard Bell, which was modestly successful. - Tim Powers
Tim Powers was born in 1952. He attended and graduated from California State University, Fullerton, in 1976. In 1980 he was married to Serena Batsford . In 1984, he received the Philip K. Dick Memorial Award for The Anubis Gates and, later, his novel Last Call won the World Fantasy Award. - Jim Horning
James J. "Jim" Horning is an American computer scientist and ACM Fellow. Jim Horning received a PhD in computer science from Stanford University in 1969 for a thesis entitled "A Study of Grammatical Inference." He was a founding member, and later Chairman, of the "Computer Systems Research Group" at the University of Toronto, Canada (1969-1977). He was then a Research Fellow at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC, … - Charles Peter McColough
Charles Peter Philip Paul McColough (August 1 1922 - December 13 2006) was a former Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board at the Xerox Corporation. He retired in the late 1980s, after serving over 25 years as CEO. Aside from building Xerox to the corporate empire it is today, McColough was Chairman of United Way of America, and served on the Board of Trustees at New York Stock Exchange, Bank of New York, Wachovia, Citibank, and Union Carbide Corporation. - Myron Tribus
Myron T Tribus (October 30, 1921 -) is perhaps best known as former director of the Center for Advanced Engineering Study at MIT. He headed the center when it published W. Edwards Deming's book, "Out of the Crisis", and became a leading supporter and interpreter of W. Edwards Deming. He is also known in the 1970s for an insightful book called "Rational descriptions, decisions and designs" which popularized Bayesian methods with examples. - David Turnbull
David Turnbull (born March 17, 1942 in Newcastle upon Tyne, England) is a politician in Ontario, Canada. He was a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1990 to 2003, and was a candidate for the Conservative Party of Canada in the federal election of 2004. Turnbull was educated at the Edinburgh College of Domestic Sciences, and worked as a hotel manager in Scotland, Switzerland and Germany. - William W. George
William W. George is a professor of Management Practice at Harvard Business School, former Executive-in-Residence at the Yale School of Management, and former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Medtronic. He is the author of the 2003 book, "Authentic Leadership" which was a BusinessWeek best-seller and the 2007 release, "True North" released by Jossey-Bass. - Alexander King
Alexander King CMG, CBE (26 January 1909 - 28 February 2007) was a scientist and pioneer of the sustainable development movement who co-founded the Club of Rome in 1968 with the Italian industrialist Aurelio Peccei. At the time of the Club of Rome's founding, King was a "top international scientific civil servant, Scots by birth, living in Paris." - Boris Artzybasheff
Boris Artzybasheff (1899-1965) was a Russian-born illustrator active in America, notable for his strongly worked and often surreal designs. Artzybasheff was born in Kharkiv, Russia (now in Ukraine), the son of Mikhail Petrovich Artzybashev. He is said to have fought as a White Russian. In 1919 he arrived in New York City, where he worked in an engraving shop. - Floyd H. Flake
Reverend Dr. Floyd Harold Flake (born January 30, 1945 in Los Angeles) is the senior pastor of the 23,000 member Greater Allen African Methodist Episcopal Cathedral in Jamaica, Queens, New York, and president of Wilberforce University. He is a former member of the United States House of Representatives. - Gary Williams
I work in international IT and change management. See LinkedIn and ecademy for my professional profile, references and resume. I'm an Open Networker open to connect on gary.williams@runbox.com at ecademy.com, plaxo.com, linkedin.com, konnects.com, naymz.com and facebook.com. Email is best to contact me. I work hard, love friends and family, having fun, sport, cars, motorbikes and very loud music. Life is short, you get one shot and I figure I've had more than half of mine already! :-) - Michael Shur
Michael Shur is the Patricia W. and C. Sheldon Roberts '48 professor of solid state electronics and a professor of physics at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. - Franklin C. Crow
Franklin C. Crow or Frank Crow is a computer scientist who has made important contributions to computer graphics, including some of the first practical anti-aliasing techniques. Crow studied electrical engineering at the University of Utah under Ivan Sutherland, a pioneer in computer graphics. He taught at the University of Texas and Ohio State University and was involved with research at Xerox PARC, Apple Computer's Advanced Technology Group, … - Shanti Snyder
Shanti Snyder is a Japanese/American lyricist, singer, and songwriter, frequently appearing with her father (Tommy Snyder) in the band "Snyder’s Market". Shanti has appeared with such artists as Maaya Sakamoto, Mickie Yoshino, Keisuke Kuwata, Crystal Kay, Origa, Genta, Hiroshi Matsuda, Yoko Kanno (e.g. in "Escaflowne the Movie"), Ike's Band, and Scorpion Death Funk. Ms. - Doyald Young
Since 1955, Doyald Young has specialized in the design of logotypes, corporate alphabets, and typefaces. He has designed logotypes and trademarks for the industrial design firm of Henry Dreyfuss Associates, California Institute of Technology, University of California at Los Angeles, exhibition catalogs for UCLA’s Clark Memorial Library, The Music Center of Los Angeles County, Mattel Toys, Max Factor, and Vidal Sassoon. - Dick Hustvedt
Richard (Dick) Irvin Hustvedt (born February 18, 1946) is a renowned software engineer, designer and developer of several operating systems including the RSX-11, 782 ASMP and VMS (OpenVMS) systems of Digital Equipment Corporation. He also was a principal kernel developer of the Xerox Data Systems (XDS) RAD-75, RBM-1 and CP-V operating systems. - Maurizio Taglioretti
- Charles T. Lanham
Major General Charles T. Lanham known as "Buck" was born September 14, 1902 in Washington D. C. He graduated from West Point in 1924. He included among his many military adventures the command of the U.S. 22d Infantry Regiment in Normandy in July 1944, and was the first American officer to lead a break through the Siegfried Line on Sept. 14, 1944. He led a breakout in the Battle of the Bulge after surviving a bloody ordeal in the Battle of Hurtgen Forest. - Peter Penny
Peter Penny joined the corporate communications industry over 30 years ago and has specialized in the conception and production of events, product launches and road shows for many multi national clients such as Inland Revenue, DTI, Directorate General Regional Policy for the EU, FCO & DG ten in the Public sector, and IBM, Ford, Peugeot, BA, Mobil, BT, PricewaterhouseCoopers and Xerox in the Private sector Mittal Steel and Arcelor Mittal. - Wen-Mei Hwu
Wen-mei W. Hwu is the Walter J. ("Jerry") Sanders - Advanced Micro Devices Endowed Chair in Electrical and Computer Engineering in the Coordinated Science Laboratory of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. From 1997 to 1999, Dr. Hwu served as the chairman of the Computer Engineering Program at the University of Illinois. His research interest is in the area of architecture, implementation, and software for high-performance computer systems.
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