People from United States
326 profiles
Technology
Robert Noyce
Co-inventor of the integrated circuit and co-founder of Intel, the “Mayor of Silicon Valley”
1927 – 1990
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Richard Garriott
Creator of the Ultima games and private astronaut
Born 1961
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Paul Baran
RAND engineer who devised packet switching for networks that survive attack
1926 – 2011
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Gordon Bell
DEC engineer who designed the PDP minicomputers and the VAX
1934 – 2024
Gary Kildall
Creator of CP/M, the first popular microcomputer operating system
1942 – 1994
Technology
Edwin Howard Armstrong
Inventor of FM radio and the superheterodyne receiver
1890 – 1954
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Drew Houston
Co-founder and CEO of Dropbox
Born 1983
Donna Dubinsky
CEO of Palm who made the PalmPilot a success
Born 1955
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Dave Duffield
Founder of PeopleSoft and co-founder of Workday
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Chris Malachowsky
Engineer who co-founded Nvidia
Born 1959
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Chad Hurley
Co-founder and first CEO of YouTube
Born 1977
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Bruce Schneier
Cryptographer and security expert known for Applied Cryptography
Born 1963
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Bruce Perens
Author of the Open Source Definition and co-founder of the Open Source Initiative
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Aneel Bhusri
Co-founder, chairman and CEO of Workday
Born 1966