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Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield
CT Scan
In the late 1960s, Godfrey Hounsfield began developing computer-assisted tomography, or CAT scanning, an improved form of diagnostic imaging. At…
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Gary K. Starkweather
Laser Printer
While working for Xerox in Webster, New York, Gary Starkweather began work on an idea for a laser printer, a machine that could print any image…
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Chieko Asakawa
Home Page Reader
Chieko Asakawa invented the Home Page Reader (HPR), the first practical voice browser to provide effective Internet access for blind and visually…
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Daniel Lewin
Content Delivery Network
In the late 1990s, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) graduate student Danny Lewin and MIT Mathematics Professor Dr. Tom Leighton recognized…
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Vannevar Bush
Differential Analyzer
In 1931, Vannevar Bush completed work on his most significant invention, the differential analyzer, a precursor to the modern computer. It used…
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Vinton G. Cerf
Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol
Vinton Cerf and Robert Kahn designed the architecture of the Internet and the procedures known as the Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol…
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Robert M. Metcalfe
Ethernet
Robert Metcalfe invented, standardized, and commercialized Ethernet. Developed as a way to link the computers at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center (…
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Walter H. Brattain
Transistor
Physicist Walter Brattain shared the 1956 Nobel Prize with William Shockley and John Bardeen for jointly inventing the transistor, a device that…
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Mark Dean
Peripherals
Mark Dean and his co-inventor Dennis Moeller created a microcomputer system with bus control means for peripheral processing devices. Their invention…
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Marcian E. (Ted) Hoff
Microprocessor
Marcian "Ted" Hoff, Jr. led the team at Intel that defined the architecture of the first single-chip computer CPU, after which the CPU was designed…
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Federico Faggin
Microprocessor
Federico Faggin joined the MOS group at Intel in 1970 as principal designer and leader of the team that designed the first microprocessor after…
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Jeff Kodosky
Virtual Instrumentation - LabVIEW™
In the 1970s, Jeff Kodosky and James Truchard were researchers at the Applied Research Laboratories at the University of Texas, responsible for…
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Raymond Kurzweil
Optical Character Recognition
Ray Kurzweil invented the Kurzweil Reading Machine, the first device to transform print into computer-spoken words, enabling blind and visually…
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Dov Frohman-Bentchkowsky
Electrically Programmable Read-Only Memory Array
Dov Frohman-Bentchkowsky invented a computer chip that could be erased by exposing it to ultraviolet light, then have new data written onto it.…
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Claude Shannon
Pulse Code Modulation
Claude Shannon produced one of the great conceptual breakthroughs of his generation with the publication of his seminal work, "A Mathematical Theory…
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James Truchard
Virtual Instrumentation - LabVIEW™
In 1986, James Truchard and Jeff Kodosky introduced LabVIEW, a graphical programming language that enables user-defined testing, measurement and…
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John Bardeen
Transistor
The only person to win two Nobel Prizes in physics was John Bardeen, first in 1956 for the transistor, and then in 1972 for his theory of…
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Francis Hamilton
Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (Mark I)
Frank Hamilton, along with Benjamin Durfee, assisted IBM's Clair Lake in developing the large-scale calculator conceived by Harvard's Howard Aiken.…
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John G. Daugman
Iris Recognition Algorithm
John Daugman invented iris recognition, biometric algorithms for identifying persons reliably and rapidly using the random texture visible in the…
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James E. West
Electret Microphone
James West and Gerhard Sessler invented the electret microphone, which has advanced the sound industry and become the standard microphone used in…
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Raffaello D’Andrea
Mobile Robotic Material Handling for Order Fulfillment
Raffaello D’Andrea, Mick Mountz and Peter Wurman created the Kiva system, which has dramatically advanced warehouse order fulfillment for e-commerce…
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John Joseph Lynott
Magnetic Disk Drive
John Lynott and William Goddard, together with Louis Stevens and a team of engineers, invented a unique magnetic disk storage device at the IBM Lab…
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Gordon Moore
Method for Fabricating Transistors
As a cofounder of both Fairchild Semiconductor and Intel, Gordon Moore set the pace and standards for Silicon Valley's chip manufacturing methods.…
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Edmund O. Schweitzer III
Digital Protective Relay
Edmund O. Schweitzer III invented the first microprocessor-based digital protective relay, revolutionizing the performance of electric power systems…
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James L. Fergason
Liquid Crystal Display
James Fergason held a series of patents that form the foundation of the multi-billion dollar LCD industry which has been rapidly growing since 1971.…