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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT has five schools and one college, containing a total of 32 academic departments, with a strong emphasis on scientific and technological research. MIT is one of two private land...
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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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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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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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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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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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Aileen Lee
Aileen Lee joined Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers in 1999. Her
primary areas of investment are in consumer and internet technologies,
wireless services and energy and environmental technologies. Aileen has
worked closely with the teams and...
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Russell Siegelman
As a Partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Russell invests
in consumer and energy related technologies and markets, including
software, electronic commerce, Web services, semiconductors, consumer
systems, media and telecommunications. He...
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Richard Wong
Richard Wong joined Accel Partners in 2006, with a focus on mobile and broadband
services software, as well as messaging and security applications. Rich
currently serves on the board of AdMob,
the leading mobile advertising company, and Sana...
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Arthur Reidel
For 25 years Arthur has helped build and scale profitable businesses in
the electronic design automation, pharmaceutical software,
semiconductor and communications industries. He was co-founder,
Chairman and CEO of Pharsight Corporation, the leader...
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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 2004 John Bates Clark Medal, he is currently the...
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Tim Chklovski
Dr. Timothy Chklovski is an Artificial Intelligence researcher at the Information Sciences Institute (ISI). He is a developer of Trellis, a system for automated assistance in support of human argumentation and analysis. Dr. Chklovski is one of the...
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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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Jerry Rudisin
Jerry Rudisin - CEO and President - joined Agitar as CEO in July
2003 and has served on Agitar's board of directors since November 2002. Jerry Rudisin joined Agitar in July 2003 from NightFire Software, a
startup offering service-management software...
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David Krall
Under
Krall's direction, Avid has revitalized its video postproduction
product line, grown its audio division through product development and
acquisitions, and expanded its broadcast business to become the global
leader in end-to-end news production...
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David Krall
Under
Krall's direction, Avid has revitalized its video postproduction
product line, grown its audio division through product development and
acquisitions, and expanded its broadcast business to become the global
leader in end-to-end news production...
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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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Arthur Amos Noyes
Arthur Amos Noyes (1866 – 1936) was a U.S. chemist and educator. He served as the acting president MIT between 1907 and 1909. He received in PhD. in 1890 at Leipzig under the guidance of Wilhelm Ostwald. Roscoe Gilkey Dickinson was one of his famous...
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Robert J. Gordon
Robert James "Bob" Gordon is an American economist. He is the Stanley G. Harris Professor of the Social Sciences at Northwestern University. He is known for his work on productivity, growth, the causes of unemployment, and airline economics.
From...
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David S. Saxon
David S. Saxon (1920 – December 8, 2005) was an American physicist and educator who served as the President of the University of California system as well as the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
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Martin Deutsch
Martin Deutsch (29 January 1917 – 16 August 2002) was an Austrian-American physicist, who was emeritus professor of physics at MIT. He is best known for being the discoverer of positronium.
Deutsch was born in Vienna during the First World War to a...
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Carl Hewitt
Carl E. Hewitt is Associate Professor Emeritus in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Hewitt is known for his design of Planner. This was the first programming language based...
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Henry F. Schaefer, III
Henry "Fritz" Schaefer III (born June 8, 1944) is a computational and theoretical chemist. He is the author of a large number of scientific publications, and was the 6th most cited chemist from 1981 to 1997 and the Graham Perdue Professor of...
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Peter Samson
Peter R. Samson (born 1941 in Fitchburg, Massachusetts) is an American computer scientist, best known for creating pioneering computer software.
Samson studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) between 1958-1963. He wrote, with...
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Joseph E. Stiglitz
Joseph Eugene Stiglitz (born February 9, 1943) is an American economist and a professor at Columbia University. He is a recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (2001) and the John Bates Clark Medal (1979). He is also the former...
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Manson Benedict
Manson Benedict (9 October 1907 in Lake Linden, Michigan — 18 September 2006 in Naples, Florida) was a professor of nuclear engineering at MIT. From 1958 to 1968, he was the chairman of the advisory committee to the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission....
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Push Singh
Push Singh was a Ph.D candidate at MIT who was slated to take over the Open Mind Common Sense project in 2007. He worked with common-sense machine learning and committed suicide in 2005. He was gifted in his ability in helping people collaborate...
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George Smoot
George Fitzgerald Smoot III (born February 20, 1945) is an American astrophysicist, cosmologist and Nobel Prize in Physics laureate, and a $1 million TV quiz show prize winner. He won the Nobel Prize in 2006 for his work on COBE with John C. Mather...
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- 1966
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Theodore Postol
Theodore A. Postol (1946 - ) is a professor of Science, Technology, and International Security at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is a prominent critic of U.S. government statements about missile defense.
He received his undergraduate...
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Robert Burns Woodward
Robert Burns Woodward (April 10, 1917 – July 8, 1979) was an American organic chemist. He made many significant contributions to modern organic chemistry, especially in the synthesis and structure determination of complex natural products, and...
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Robert Mundell
Robert Alexander Mundell, CC (born October 24, 1932) is a professor of economics at Columbia University and the recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics in 1999. Mundell laid the groundwork for the introduction of the euro through his...
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Murray Gell-Mann
Murray Gell-Mann (born September 15, 1929) is an American physicist who received the 1969 Nobel Prize in physics for his work on the theory of elementary particles.
He formulated the quark model of hadronic resonances, and identified the SU(3)...
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Manuel Vallarta
Manuel Sandoval Vallarta (11 February 1899 – 18 April 1977) was a Mexican physicist. He was a Physics professor at both MIT and the Institute of Physics at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).
Sandoval Vallarta was born in Mexico...
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Mehmet Toner
Mehmet Toner, PhD is a Turkish born American biomedical engineer. A professor of surgery at the Harvard Medical School and professor of biomedical engineering at the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology (HST), Toner first gained...
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Henry Way Kendall
Henry Way Kendall (December 9, 1926 – February 15, 1999) was an American particle physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1990 jointly with Jerome Isaac Friedman and Richard E. Taylor "for their pioneering investigations concerning deep...
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Peter T. Wolczanski
Peter Thomas Wolczanski is the George W. and Grace L. Todd professor of Chemistry at Cornell University.
Wolczanski obtained his B.S. in Chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1976 while doing research under the direction of Mark...
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Leonard H. Tower Jr.
Leonard "Len" H. Tower Jr. (born June 17, 1949) is a hacker and activist in the free software movement, environmentalist, artist, poet, and gardener. Tower became an Eagle Scout in 1967 and was also awarded the Vigil Honor in the Order of the Arrow....
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Alan Guth
Alan Harvey Guth (born February 27, 1947) is a theoretical physicist and cosmologist. Guth has researched elementary particle theory (and how particle theory is applicable to the early universe). Currently serving as Victor Weisskopf Professor of...
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Richard Feynman
Richard Phillips Feynman (pronounced /ˈfaɪnmən/; May 11, 1918 – February 15, 1988) was an American physicist known for the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics, the theory of quantum electrodynamics and the physics of the superfluidity of...
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- 1939
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Peter Shor
Peter Williston Shor (born August 14, 1959) is an American professor of applied mathematics at MIT, most famous for his work on quantum computation, in particular for devising Shor's algorithm, a quantum algorithm for factoring exponentially faster...
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George Akerlof
George Arthur Akerlof (born June 17, 1940) is an American economist and Koshland Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. He won the 2001 Nobel Prize in Economics (shared with Michael Spence and Joseph E. Stiglitz). His...
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Theodore Ts'o
Theodore Y. "Ted" Ts'o (born 1968) is a software developer mainly known for his contributions to the Linux kernel, in particular his contributions to file systems.
He graduated in 1990 from MIT with a degree in computer science. After graduation he...
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William Shockley
William Bradford Shockley (February 13, 1910 – August 12, 1989) was an American physicist and inventor. Along with John Bardeen and Walter Houser Brattain, Shockley co-invented the transistor, for which all three were awarded the 1956 Nobel Prize in...
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Carl Wieman
Carl Edwin Wieman (born March 26, 1951) is an American physicist at the University of British Columbia and Nobel Prize in Physics laureate for his production in 1995 with Eric Allin Cornell, the first true Bose-Einstein condensate.
Wieman was born...
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Alan Kotok
Alan Kotok (November 9, 1941 – May 26, 2006) was an American computer scientist known for his work at Digital Equipment Corporation (Digital, or DEC) and at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). Steven Levy, in his book Hackers: Heroes of the...
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Roscoe G. Dickinson
Roscoe Gilkey Dickinson (1894 - 1945) was a U.S. chemist, known primarily for his work on X-ray crystallography. As professor of chemistry at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), he was the doctoral advisor of Nobel laureate Linus...
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Robert Aumann
Robert John Aumann (Hebrew name: ישראל אומן - Yisrael Aumann, born June 8, 1930) is an Israeli/American mathematician and a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences. He is a professor at the Center for the Study of Rationality in the...
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Sameer Gandhi
Sameer Gandhi is a Sequoia Capital Partner specializing in software and
services investments. He is currently a Director of Aceva Technologies,
Gracenote, Internet Wire, Conformia, and Trados. He is responsible for
Sequoia Capital's investments...
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Sameer Gandhi
Sameer Gandhi is a Sequoia Capital Partner specializing in software and
services investments. He is currently a Director of Aceva Technologies,
Gracenote, Internet Wire, Conformia, and Trados. He is responsible for
Sequoia Capital's investments...
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Ashar Aziz
Ashar Aziz holds over 20 patents in the areas of networking, network
security, and datacenter virtualization. Prior to founding FireEye,
Ashar founded Terraspring, a company focused on datacenter automation
and virtualization. Terraspring was...
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Barry Fidelman
Barry J. Fidelman has served as a director since May 2003. Mr. Fidelman
has been a Senior Partner of Atlas Venture, a venture capital firm,
since 1988. Prior to Atlas Venture, Mr. Fidelman worked in senior
executive positions for Data General,...
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Jeremy Wertheimer
Jeremy has been developing ITA Software's technical platform and
business relationships since 1992. He has a Ph.D. in Artificial
Intelligence and an S.M. in Computer Science from MIT, and a B.E. in
Electrical Engineering from The Cooper Union for...
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Jeremy Wertheimer
Jeremy has been developing ITA Software's technical platform and
business relationships since 1992. He has a Ph.D. in Artificial
Intelligence and an S.M. in Computer Science from MIT, and a B.E. in
Electrical Engineering from The Cooper Union for...
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Tony McGettigan
Mr.
McGettigan has over 15 years experience in consumer electronics holding
leadership positions in manufacturing, product development, business
development and business unit management. Mr.
McGettigan spent 7 years managing the projection display...
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Tony McGettigan
Mr.
McGettigan has over 15 years experience in consumer electronics holding
leadership positions in manufacturing, product development, business
development and business unit management. Mr.
McGettigan spent 7 years managing the projection display...
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Sanjit Biswas
Sanjit Biswas is responsible for Meraki’s strategic direction and
day-to-day operations. He is currently on leave from the Ph.D. program
at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he co-led the research
project that won several academic...
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Douglas Leone
Douglas Leone focuses on internet and communication investments. Prior
to joining Sequoia Capital in 1988, Doug held sales and sales
management positions at Sun Microsystems, Hewlett-Packard and Prime
Computer. Douglas has a BS in Mechanical...
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Joseph Alsop
Joseph W. Alsop is co-founder and chief executive officer of
Progress Software Corporation, a global supplier of application
infrastructure software used to develop, deploy, integrate and manage
business applications. He has led PSC since its...
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Mitchel Resnick
Mitchel Resnick is LEGO Papert Professor of Learning Research, Director of the Okawa Center, and Director of the Lifelong Kindergarten group at the MIT Media Lab. Resnick currently serves as the head of the Media Arts and Sciences academic program,...
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