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Herman Hollerith

Punch Card Tabulator

Herman Hollerith invented and developed a punch-card tabulation machine system that revolutionized statistical computation. Born in Buffalo, New York…
Inducted in: 1990
Born:
U.S. Patent Nos.: 395,781, 395,782, 395,783
Died:
Rory Cooper

Rory Cooper

Wheelchair Technology

Biomedical engineer Rory Cooper developed innovations in wheelchair technology that have improved manual and electric wheelchairs, and advanced the…
Inducted in: 2023
Born:
U.S. Patent Nos.: 6,276,705, 8,264,458
Military Service: U.S. Army

Tom Leighton

Content Delivery Network

In the late 1990s, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Mathematics Professor Dr. Tom Leighton and his graduate student Danny Lewin recognized…
Inducted in: 2017
Born:
U.S. Patent No.: 6,108,703

Ronald Rivest

RSA Cryptography

RSA Cryptography is the world’s most widely used public-key cryptography method for securing communication on the Internet. Instrumental to the…
Inducted in: 2018
Born:
U.S. Patent No.: 4,405,829

Adi Shamir

RSA Cryptography

RSA Cryptography is the world’s most widely used public-key cryptography method for securing communication on the Internet. Instrumental to the…
Inducted in: 2018
Born:
U.S. Patent No.: 4,405,829

Leonard Adleman

RSA Cryptography

RSA Cryptography is the world’s most widely used public-key cryptography method for securing communication on the Internet. Instrumental to the…
Inducted in: 2018
Born:
U.S. Patent No.: 4,405,829
Jaap C. Haartsen

Jaap C. Haartsen

Bluetooth® Wireless Technology

Jaap Haartsen led the invention of Bluetooth® wireless technology. Used worldwide, Bluetooth allows a seemingly endless array of devices to…
Inducted in: 2015
Born:
U.S. Patent No.: 6,590,928
James McEwen

James McEwen

Automatic Surgical Tourniquet

Biomedical engineer James McEwen invented the first microprocessor-controlled automatic surgical tourniquet system. Devices based on his innovations…
Inducted in: 2022
Born:
U.S. Patent No.: 4,469,099
Dana Bookbinder

Dana Bookbinder

Bend-Insensitive Optical Fiber

Dana Bookbinder, Ming-Jun Li and Pushkar Tandon invented bend-insensitive ClearCurve® optical fiber. Because this breakthrough technology can bend…
Inducted in: 2022
Born:
U.S. Patent Nos.: 7,450,806, 7,903,917, 8,385,701
Bantval Jayant Baliga

Bantval Jayant Baliga

Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistor

B. Jayant Baliga invented the insulated gate bipolar transistor (IGBT), a semiconductor power switch that has reduced gasoline consumption by 10% and…
Inducted in: 2016
Born:
U.S. Patent Nos.: 4,969,028, 5,998,833
Raffaello D’Andrea

Raffaello D’Andrea

Mobile Robotic Material Handling for Order Fulfillment

Raffaello D’Andrea, Mick Mountz and Peter Wurman dramatically advanced warehouse order fulfillment for e-commerce by creating the Kiva system, which…
Inducted in: 2022
Born:
U.S. Patent No.: 8,649,899