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Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering
- D. Brainerd HolmesD. Brainerd Holmes studied engineering at Cornell University, receiving a degree in electrical engineering. He first worked for Bell Labs and Western…
- Elon MuskElon Reeve Musk sold a video game he wrote himself at age twelve for approximately $500. The game was called Blastar, built in BASIC, and sold to a magazine…
- Arthur E. BrysonArthur Earl Bryson Jr. was born on the 7th of October 1925, and he would come to be called the father of modern optimal control theory.
- Yu-Chi HoYu-Chi Ho was born on the 1st of March, 1934, in Shanghai, and by the time he was fifteen, the world had already rerouted his life once.
- William R. LucasWilliam Ray Lucas was born in Newbern, Tennessee on the 1st of March 1922. He graduated from Memphis State College with a degree in chemistry in 1943.
- Neil ArmstrongNeil Armstrong set his left boot on the lunar surface at 02:56 UTC on the 21st of July 1969, and said seven words that an estimated 530 million people heard…
- Bill GatesBill Gates was born on the 28th of October, 1955, in Seattle, Washington, and by age 31 he had become the world's youngest-ever billionaire.
- Eric SchmidtEric Schmidt was born on the 27th of April, 1955, in Falls Church, Virginia, into a family shaped by academia and government service.
- Marvin MinskyMarvin Minsky once described intelligence as the possible product of the interaction of non-intelligent parts. That idea alone reshaped how scientists and…
- Gordon MooreGordon Earle Moore was born on the 3rd of January, 1929, in a world where the idea of a transistor had not yet been publicly demonstrated.
- William AndersWilliam Anders took what many consider the most consequential photograph in human history, and he did it almost by accident.
- John HouboltJohn Cornelius Houbolt was born in Altoona, Iowa on the 10th of April 1919. His parents were first-generation Dutch immigrants who raised him during a time…
- Cynthia DworkCynthia Dwork holds a black belt in taekwondo, and it turns out that discipline maps neatly onto her scientific career. Born on the 27th of June, 1958, Dwork…
- Judea PearlJudea Pearl entered the world on the 4th of September 1936 in Tel Aviv. This city sat within the British Mandate for Palestine at that time.
- Rodney BrooksRodney Allen Brooks was born on the 30th of December 1954 in Australia. He began his academic journey studying pure mathematics at Flinders University of…