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Ph.D.
A doctorate is an academic degree or professional degree that in most countries represents the highest level of formal study or research in a given field. In some countries it also refers to a class of degrees which qualify the holder to practice in a specific profession, such as law or medicine....
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Jon Bridgman
Jon Bridgman is an American historian and a professor emeritus of the University of Washington.
Bridgman, a graduate of Stanford University, who received his doctorate from Stanford University in 1961 spent his entire teaching career at the...
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- 1961
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Niall Mellon
Niall Mellon was born in 1967 is an Irish entrepreneur and philanthropist who founded the Niall Mellon Township Trust to provide homes to impoverished communities in South Africa's townships.
Mellon grew up in Ballyroan in South County Dublin. After...
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Jacob Wolfowitz
Jacob Wolfowitz, Ph.D. (March 19, 1910–July 16, 1981, age 71) was a Polish-born American statistician and Shannon Award-winning information theorist. He was the father of former Deputy Secretary of Defense and World Bank Group President Paul...
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- 1942
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David Hillis
David Mark Hillis (born December 21, 1958 in Copenhagen, Denmark) is the Alfred W. Roark Centennial Professor of Biology at the University of Texas at Austin. He is a prominent American evolutionary biologist. He is best known for his studies of...
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Carl Sagan
Carl Edward Sagan (November 9, 1934 – December 20, 1996) was an American astronomer, astrochemist, author, and highly successful popularizer of astronomy, astrophysics and other natural sciences. He pioneered exobiology and promoted the Search for...
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- 1960
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Kurt Gödel
Kurt Gödel (German pronunciation: [kʊʁt ˈɡøːdl̩] ( listen); April 28, 1906, Brno, Moravia – January 14, 1978, Princeton, New Jersey, USA) was an Austrian-American logician, mathematician and philosopher. One of the most significant logicians of all...
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Jeffrey Sachs
Jeffrey David Sachs (born November 5, 1954, in Detroit, Michigan) is an American economist and Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University. One of the youngest economics professors in the history of Harvard University, Sachs became...
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- 1980
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Jeffrey Wigand
Dr. Jeffrey S. Wigand (pronounced /ˈwaɪɡænd/; born December 17, 1945) is a former vice president of research and development at Brown & Williamson in Louisville, Kentucky, who worked on the development of reduced-harm cigarettes. He lectures around...
Jeffrey A. Hoffman
Jeffrey Alan Hoffman, Ph.D. (born November 2, 1944) is an American former NASA astronaut and currently a professor of aeronautics and astronautics at MIT.
Hoffman made five flights as a space shuttle astronaut, including the first mission to repair...
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- 1971
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L. Peter Deutsch
L Peter Deutsch or Peter Deutsch (born Laurence Peter Deutsch) is the founder of Aladdin Enterprises and creator of Ghostscript, a free software PostScript and Pdf interpreter.
Deutsch's other work includes the definitive Smalltalk implementation...
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- 1973
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Jon Wefald
Jon Michael Wefald (b. November 24, 1937, in Minneapolis, Minnesota) was an American educator and the twelfth President of Kansas State University.
Wefald was born in Minneapolis and moved, at age six, with his family to Minot, North Dakota. After...
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- 1961
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Jon Gettman
Jon B. Gettman is a marijuana reform activist, a leader of the Coalition for Rescheduling Cannabis, and a former head of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws. He has a PhD in public policy and regional economic development from...
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Jon Kleinberg
Jon Michael Kleinberg (born October 1971) is an American computer scientist, MacArthur Fellow, Nevanlinna Prize winner, and the Tisch University Professor of Computer Science at Cornell University.
Jon Kleinberg was born in 1971 in Boston,...
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- 1996
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Richard Dawkins
Clinton Richard Dawkins, FRS, FRSL (born 26 March 1941) is a British biological theorist with a background in ethology. He is a popular science author focusing on evolution.
Dawkins is one of Britain's best-known academics. He came to prominence...
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- 1966
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Daniel Dennett
Daniel Clement Dennett (born March 28, 1942 in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American philosopher whose research centers on philosophy of mind, philosophy of science and philosophy of biology, particularly as those fields relate to evolutionary...
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- 1965
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Douglas Hofstadter
Douglas Richard Hofstadter (born February 15, 1945 in New York, New York) is an American academic whose research focuses on consciousness, thinking and creativity. He is best known for his book Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid, first...
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- 1975
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Greg Papadopoulos
As Chief Technology Officer and Executive Vice President of Research
and Development at Sun, Greg Papadopoulos directs the company's
approximate $2B in R&D portfolio with an eye toward innovation,
simplicity, and eco-responsibility. With more...
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- 1988
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Daniel Carruth
Daniel Carruth is an Assistant Research Professor at the Center for Advanced Vehicular Studies at Mississippi State University. He earned his PhD in the Cognitive Science program in the Psychology Department at Mississippi State University in 2008....
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- Aug 2008
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- Jan 2001
Alex Balkanski
Prior to joining Benchmark, Alex led C-Cube
and DiviCom, two pioneering companies that drove the MPEG standard to
dominance in consumer electronics and broadcasting. Alex founded C-Cube
in 1988. In 1994, he took the company public, and in 1998 he...
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Vincent Scully
Vincent Joseph Scully, Jr. (born 1920) is Sterling Professor Emeritus of the History of Art in Architecture at Yale University, and the author of several books on the subject. Architect Philip Johnson once described Scully as "the most influential...
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- 1949
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Jay Rubin
Jay Rubin (b. 1941) is an American academic and translator. He is most notable for being one of the main translators into English of the works of the Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami. He also wrote a guide to Japanese, Making Sense of Japanese ...
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Wen Hsieh
Prior
to KPCB, Wen was an Associate Principal at McKinsey & Co San
Francisco and a leader of McKinsey’s Asia Semiconductor Practice.
During his 5 years at McKinsey, Wen’s primary focus was on serving
leading companies across the global...
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Ray Lane
Ray Lane is a Managing Partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers,
focused on helping entrepreneurs with technological and market insight,
organizational development, team building, selling and managing growth.
Since joining KPCB, Ray has...
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Darren Erik Vengroff
Darren has spent his career building world-class computer systems in a variety of domains. Most recently he was a principal engineer at Amazon.com with
responsibilities in personalization, automated email targeting,
time-series analysis, content...
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Ajit Nazre
Ajit joined Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers in 2003. His areas of
investment are enterprise software and services, new materials and
greentech. Ajit came to KPCB from SAP. At SAP he worked for Dr. Hasso
Plattner, CEO, Chairman and co-founder,...
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Risa Stack
Risa Stack joined Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers in 2003. Risa
specializes in the development of life science companies. She was the
founding CEO and is currently a board member of several companies
including CardioDx, Nodality, and an...
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David Weinberger
David Weinberger (born 1950 in New York) is an American technologist, professional speaker, and commentator, probably best known as co-author of the Cluetrain Manifesto (originally a website, and eventually a book, which has been described as "a...
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- 1978
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Start Date:
- 1973
Yogen Dalal
Yogen Dalal's successful history as an entrepreneur and executive coupled with his legacy as an engineer makes him enormously valuable as a venture capitalist and Mayfield leader since 1991. He brings broad talent to a wide range of early-stage...
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Dries Buytaert
Dries Buytaert (born 19 November 1978 in Wilrijk, Belgium) is an open-source software programmer and the founder and lead of the Drupal CMS. Buytaert defended his PhD dissertation in Computer Science on January 27, 2008 at the University of Ghent in...
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Steven D. Levitt
Steven David "Steve" Levitt (born May 29, 1967) is an American economist known for his work in the field of crime, in particular on the link between legalized abortion and crime rates. Winner of the 2003 John Bates Clark Medal, he is currently the...
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- 1994
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Karl Oskar Medin
Karl Oskar Medin (August 14, 1847 – December 24, 1927) was a Swedish pediatrician. He was born at Axberg, Örebro and died in Stockholm. He is most famous for his study of poliomyelitis, an illness often known as the Heine-Medin disease, named after...
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- 1880
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Richard Smalley
Richard Errett Smalley (June 6, 1943 – October 28, 2005) was the Gene and Norman Hackerman Professor of Chemistry and a Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Rice University, in Houston, Texas. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1996 for...
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- 1973
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Danny 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...
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- 1988
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Alan J. Heeger
Alan Jay Heeger (born January 22, 1936) is an American physicist, academic and Nobel Prize laureate in chemistry.
Heeger was born in Sioux City, Iowa to a Jewish family. He earned a B.S. in physics and mathematics from the University of Nebraska in...
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- 1961
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Ebba Witt-Brattström
Ebba Witt-Brattström (born 1953) is a Swedish scholar in comparative literature. She is Professor of Literature and head of department at Södertörn University outside Stockholm, and a well-known feminist. In the 1970s she was a member of the...
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- 1988
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Hilary Bok
Hilary Bok (born 1959) is the Henry R. Luce Professor of Bioethics and Moral & Political Theory at the Johns Hopkins University.
Bok received a B.A. in Philosophy from Princeton University in 1981 and her Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1991.
She...
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Glenn B. Hamm
Glenn Bruce Hamm Jr. (May 30, 1936 in Dayton, Ohio – August 1980) was a noted artist who worked and lived in Richmond, Virginia.
Hamm taught art at Carlow College from 1963 to 1964, West Virginia University from 1965 to 1969 and Virginia...
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Ken Perlin
Ken Perlin is a professor in the Department of Computer Science at New York University. His research interests include graphics, animation, multimedia, and science education. He has developed or been involved with developing techniques such as...
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- 1986
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Stephen Thorsett
Stephen Erik Thorsett (b. December 3, 1964 in New Haven, Connecticut) is an American professor and astronomer. His research interests include radio pulsars and gamma ray bursts. He is best known for measurements of the masses of neutron stars and...
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End Date:
- 1991
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Start Date:
- 1987
Sashi Reddi
Sashi P. Reddi is founder and chairman of AppLabs, a software testing company based in Philadelphia, US. Sashi is also a founder and chairman of FXLabs, a developer of high quality game products in India for PC’s and Videogame consoles. Sashi has...
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Dominic Orr
Dominic Orr was named President and CEO of Aruba Networks in April
2006. Prior to that, Mr. Orr served as the company's Chairman of the
Board. Previously, Dominic Orr was the president of Nortel Networks,
Intelligent Internet Web Systems. He...
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Craig Venter
John Craig Venter (born October 14, 1946) is an American biologist and entrepreneur. Venter founded Celera Genomics, The Institute for Genomic Research and the J. Craig Venter Institute, now working at the latter to create synthetic biological...
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- 1975
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Cem Kaner
Cem Kaner J.D., Ph.D., is a Professor of Software Engineering at Florida Institute of Technology, and the Director of Florida Tech's Center for Software Testing Education & Research (CSTER) since 2004. He is perhaps best known outside academia as an...
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End Date:
- 1983
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Start Date:
- 1976
Richard Rorty
Richard McKay Rorty (October 4, 1931 – June 8, 2007) was an American philosopher. He had a long and diverse career in Philosophy, Humanities, and Literature departments. His complex intellectual background gave him a comprehensive and nuanced...
End Date:
- 1956
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Sissela Bok
Sissela Bok, born 2 December 1934, is a Swedish-born philosopher and ethicist, the daughter of two Nobel Prize winners: Gunnar Myrdal who won the Economics prize with Friedrich Hayek in 1974, and Alva Myrdal who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1982....
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- 1979
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Peter Englund
Peter Englund (born April 4, 1957 in Boden) is a Swedish author and historian, and the permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy since June 1, 2009.
Englund was born into a military family in Boden and studied caretaking for two years and then...
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- 1989
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Annalee Newitz
Annalee Newitz (born 1969) is an American journalist who covers the cultural impact of science and technology, such as topics on open source software and hacker subcultures. She writes for many periodicals from Popular Science to Wired, and since...
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- 1998
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Buzz Aldrin
Buzz Aldrin (born Edwin Eugene Aldrin, Jr., January 20, 1930) is an American mechanical engineer, retired United States Air Force pilot and astronaut who was the Lunar Module pilot on Apollo 11, the first lunar landing. On July 20, 1969, he was the...
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Rudolf Arnheim
Rudolf Arnheim (July 15, 1904 – June 9, 2007) was a German-born author, art and film theorist and perceptual psychologist. He himself said that his major books are Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of the Creative Eye (1954), Visual Thinking ...
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- 1928
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Donald Knuth
Donald Ervin Knuth (pronounced /kəˈnuːθ/) (born January 10, 1938) is a renowned computer scientist and Professor Emeritus of the Art of Computer Programming at Stanford University.
Author of the seminal multi-volume work The Art of Computer...
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- 1963
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Robert Andrews Millikan
Robert A. Millikan (22 March 1868 – 19 December 1953) was an American experimental physicist, and Nobel laureate in physics for his measurement of the charge on the electron and for his work on the photoelectric effect. He served as president of...
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- 1895
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Start Date:
- 1893
