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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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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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- 1956
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Lise Meitner
Lise Meitner (7 or 17 November 1878 – 27 October 1968) was an Austrian-born, later Swedish physicist who worked on radioactivity and nuclear physics. Meitner was part of the team that discovered nuclear fission, an achievement for which her...
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- 1905
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- 1901
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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Robert L. Cook
Robert L. Cook (December 10, 1952) is a computer graphics researcher and developer, and the co-creator of the RenderMan rendering software. Cook was born in Knoxville, Tennessee and educated at Duke University and Cornell University. While at...
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- 1973
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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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- 1984
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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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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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- 1991
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- 1987
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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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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- 1893
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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Stephen Hawking
Stephen William Hawking, CH, CBE, FRS, FRSA (born 8 January 1942) is a British theoretical physicist, whose world-renowned scientific career spans over 40 years. His books and public appearances have made him an academic celebrity and he is an...
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- 1962
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Bud Tribble
Guy L. "Bud" Tribble, MD, PhD, is Vice President of Software Technology at Apple Inc. Tribble served as the manager of the original Macintosh software development team where he helped to design the Mac OS and user interface. He was among the...
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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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- 1978
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Max Rible Kaehn
"Max Rible Kaehn" is my married name; I was "Max Rible" as a bachelor.
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- 1993
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- 1989
Pete Flint
Pete earned his Master's degree in Physics from the University of Oxford and his MBA from Stanford University. His
inspiration for Trulia came from the challenges he faced during his own home research online, after which he committed to
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Harry Weller
Harry joined NEA in 2002 as a Partner. He focuses on technology investments and co-leads NEA's activities in China. Harry's current board memberships include Availink, Echo Global, LianLian, Realtime Worlds, and Suniva. His past board seats include...
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Federico Faggin
Federico Faggin (born December 1, 1941 in Vicenza) is an Italian physicist/electrical engineer, naturalized U.S. citizen, principally responsible for the design of the first microprocessor and responsible for leading the 4004 (MCS-4) project to its...
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B.J. Stanbery
Dr. B.J. Stanbery has achieved an illustrious career spanning more than
28 years in the solar industry. He is an expert in the business and
science of photovoltaic materials. In 2005, he won international
recognition for his theoretical model of...
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Robert D. Ulrich
Robert D. Ulrich, Ph.D. has served as
a member of our board of directors since November 1997. Since October
1995, Dr. Ulrich has been a general partner at Vanguard Ventures, a
venture capital firm. Dr. Ulrich currently serves on the boards of...
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Gardner Hendrie
Gardner joined Sigma in 1985. Prior to joining Sigma, he was in the
computer systems business for 30 years. Gardner fostered the strong
belief in operational fundamentals as an essential part of the Sigma
culture. He has helped many Sigma portfolio...
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Gardner Hendrie
Gardner joined Sigma in 1985. Prior to joining Sigma, he was in the
computer systems business for 30 years. Gardner fostered the strong
belief in operational fundamentals as an essential part of the Sigma
culture. He has helped many Sigma portfolio...
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Ólafur Jóhann Ólafsson
Ólafur Jóhann Ólafsson, known internationally as Olaf Olafsson (born September 26, 1962) is an Icelandic writer and businessman. He is currently the Executive Vice President of Time Warner.
He received his bachelor's degree in Physics from Brandeis...
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Anne Lauvergeon
Anne Lauvergeon is the CEO and Chairman of the Executive Board of AREVA, the leading French energy company. She holds a degree of Physics and is a graduate of the French National School of Mining Engineer (Ecole des Mines) and the French "Ecole...
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- 1978
Gil Amelio
Gilbert Frank Amelio (born 1 March 1943 in New York City) is an American technology executive. He grew up in Miami, Florida and received a bachelors, masters, and PhD in physics from the Georgia Institute of Technology. Amelio worked at Bell Labs,...
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Neil deGrasse Tyson
Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson (born October 5, 1958) is an American astrophysicist and, since 1996, the Frederick P. Rose Director of the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History in Manhattan. A charismatic television personality, he...
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- Jun 1980
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Gordon Moore
Gordon Earle Moore (born 3 January 1929) is the co-founder and Chairman Emeritus of Intel Corporation and the author of Moore's Law (published in an article 19 April 1965 in Electronics Magazine).
Moore was born in San Francisco, California, but his...
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- 1954
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Walter E. Massey
Walter Eugene Massey, is an educator, physicist and corporate executive, born in Hattiesburg, Mississippi on April 5, 1938. He was elected Chairman of Bank of America Corporation on April 29, 2009, replacing Ken Lewis.
Massey graduated from...
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- 1966
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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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Stephen Omohundro
Stephen Omohundro has had a wide-ranging career as a scientist,
university professor, author, software architect, and entrepreneur. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Stanford University with Honors and Distinction in Physics and with Distinction in ...
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Martin Heller
Martin Heller, a Web and Windows programming consultant, is a Contributing Editor, reviewer and blogger for InfoWorld, and was previously associated with Byte Magazine and Windows Magazine. He was the author of two early Windows...
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- May 1972
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- Sep 1968
Martin Heller
Martin Heller, a Web and Windows programming consultant, is a Contributing Editor, reviewer and blogger for InfoWorld, and was previously associated with Byte Magazine and Windows Magazine. He was the author of two early Windows...
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- May 1980
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- Sep 1972
James H. Clark
Dr. James H. Clark (born March 23, 1944) is a prolific entrepreneur and former computer scientist. He founded several notable Silicon Valley technology companies, including Silicon Graphics, Inc., Netscape Communications Corporation, myCFO and...
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Wolfgang Rose
Wolfgang is a Partner at BV Capital and is focused on telecommunications and media investments in Europe. As one of the co-founders of the first BV Capital Fund, Wolfgang
worked in the US for 3 years and served as a board member for several
portfolio...
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Mark Eaton
Mark brings 24 years of industry experience designing, developing and
implementing mission-critical systems for the financial services and
enterprise software markets to NorthStar. Mark's expertise in financial
services ranges from program and...
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Les Kohn
Les Kohn co-founded Ambarella Inc. in 2004 along with other
Ambarella founding members to spearhead the development of
next-generation video compression technology. Prior to
co-founding Ambarella, Kohn was CTO and co-founder at Afara Websystems,
a...
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Dan Maydan
Dan Maydan, Ph.D. has been a member of Infinera´s board of directors since
September 2001. From April 2003 to September 2005, Dr. Maydan served as
the President Emeritus of Applied Materials, Inc., a company that
manufactures semiconductor equipment...
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Peter Wagner
Peter Wagner has worked in technology since the mid-1980's, as a
physicist, line manager and venture investor. He focuses primarily in
Information Technology Infrastructure, including the networking,
computing, storage, and wireless sectors. Some of...
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Kathleen Hartnett
Kathleen brings nearly 20 years experience in market and product
development, and product management to Picarro. She was previously a
Senior Product Marketing Manager at Spectra-Physics where she led the
product management team for cw and quasi-cw...
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Charles Stark Draper
Charles Stark Draper (October 2, 1901 – July 25, 1987) was an American scientist and engineer, often referred to as "the father of inertial navigation." He was the founder and director of the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory, later renamed the Charles...
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- 1928
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- 1926
Charles Stark Draper
Charles Stark Draper (October 2, 1901 – July 25, 1987) was an American scientist and engineer, often referred to as "the father of inertial navigation." He was the founder and director of the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory, later renamed the Charles...
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- 1938
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- 1928
Bob Pavey
Bob
Pavey has 35 years of venture capital experience, joining Morgenthaler
in 1969. His investment focus is on communications and components. Bob
sits on the boards of Lamina Ceramics and Paratek Microwave. He is
...
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Stephen Omohundro
Stephen Omohundro has had a wide-ranging career as a scientist,
university professor, author, software architect, and entrepreneur. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Stanford University with Honors and Distinction in Physics and with Distinction in ...
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John Seely Brown
John Seely Brown (also known as JSB) is a researcher who specializes in organizational studies with a particular bent towards the organizational implications of computer-supported activities.
His research interests include the management of radical...
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Winston Fu
Winston Fu is a General Partner at U.S. Venture Partners, and he enjoys helping
entrepreneurs build teams that are passionate, fun-loving and fanatical
about their pursuit to build great companies.
Winston serves on the boards of Active-Semi...
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Narasimha Chari
Narasimha Chari is Tropos Networks' Chief
Architect. Along with Mr. Devabhaktuni, Mr. Chari was responsible for
developing Tropos Networks' core intellectual property, including the
design and development of the company’s wireless networking and...
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Matthew Self
Matthew Self is VUDU’s Vice President of Operations. Matthew is
responsible for VUDU’s content management, network operations, and
customer support. Prior
to joining VUDU, Matthew was Vice President, CRM Development at Oracle
where he was...
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Wolfgang Fichtner
Dr. Wolfgang Fichtner has served as Senior Vice President and
General Manager of the Silicon Engineering Group since December 2006.
Prior to that time, Dr. Fichtner was Vice President and General
Manager, TCAD products for Synopsys, from November...
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Alain Rossmann
With more than twenty years' experience, Chairman and co-founder Alain
Rossmann is a well-known technology industry leader and entrepreneur.
He has held many positions in consumer electronics companies, managing
marketing for the original Macintosh...
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Craig Taylor
Craig Taylor, a member of the OptiMedica Board of Directors, has been an
active venture capitalist since 1977. Specializing in the heathcare industry, he
has served as a director for a number of publicly traded companies, including
Adeza...
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- 1972
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Craig Taylor
Craig Taylor, a member of the OptiMedica Board of Directors, has been an
active venture capitalist since 1977. Specializing in the heathcare industry, he
has served as a director for a number of publicly traded companies, including
Adeza...
End Date:
- 1974
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Randall Munroe
Randall Patrick Munroe is a programmer best known for creating the webcomic xkcd. He and the webcomic have developed a cult following, and he is one of a small but growing group of webcomic artists who are self-sufficient.
Munroe was a fan of the...
