Craig Barrett
Craig Barrett is the retired CEO and chair of semiconductor giant Intel Corp., where he rose through the company’s ranks to become president in 1997 and CEO a year later.
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Andreas Bechtolsheim
Andreas “Andy” Bechtolsheim built the path-breaking SUN workstation while working as a doctoral student at Stanford in computer science and electrical engineering.
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Morris Chang
Morris Chang is the founding chairman of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), a pioneer of the dedicated integrated circuit foundry model.
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George Dantzig
A trained mathematician, George Dantzig (1914-2005) is known as the “father” of linear programming and the “simplex algorithm.”
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Theodore Maiman
Theodore “Ted” Maiman (1927-2007) holds U.S. Patent 3,353,115 for the world’s first working laser.
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Bradford Parkinson
Bradford Parkinson is chief architect of the now-ubiquitous Global Positioning System (GPS), whose design he led as a U.S. Air Force colonel in 1973.
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Calvin Quate
Calvin “Cal” Quate is the brilliant mind behind acoustic and atomic force microscopy.
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Stephen Timoshenko
Stephen Timoshenko (1878-1972) was a renowned expert, teacher and writer widely regarded as the “father” of applied mechanics in the U.S.
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