Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Brief Biographies of Inventors - Computing Telecommunication Devices - MIT Collection



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InventionInventor

56K ModemBrent Townshend

Adding MachineWilliam Seward Burroughs

AO-DVDFred Thomas III

Antenna Systems (Conformal)Howard S. Jones, Jr.

Apple® ComputerSteve Jobs & Steve Wozniak

Automated Scanning & Sorting MachinesJacob Rabinow

Blissymbol PrinterRachel Zimmerman

Blue Laser DiodeShuji Nakamura

C Programming LanguageDennis Ritchie

CB RadioAl Gross

Cellular TechnologyRichard Frenkiel & Joel Engel

Chemically Amplified ResistsEllen Reichmanis

Compact Disc (CD-ROM)James Russell

CompUrestJoanna Hardin

Computer CompilerGrace Murray Hopper

Computer Database SystemsLouise Kirkbride

Computer Disk DriveReynold Johnson

Computer GamesRoberta Williams

Computer MouseDouglas C. Engelbart

Computer, Mark IHoward Aiken

Computer-aided Tomography ScannerBernard Gordon

Computerized Telephone Switching SystemErna Schneider Hoover

Conformal Antenna SystemsHoward S. Jones, Jr.

Control-Alt-DeleteDavid J. Bradley

Difference EngineCharles Babbage

Differential CalculusGottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

Digital Micromirror Device (DMD)Larry J. Hornbeck

Digital Packet-SwitchingPaul Baran

Digital Protective Relay SystemsEdmund O. Schweitzer III

Direct/Reflecting Audio SpeakersAmar Bose

Disk GramophoneEmile Berliner

Doppler RadarBernard Gordon

Dynamic Random Access MemoryRobert Dennard

EDVACJohn von Neumann

Electrical Resistor and Variable ResistorOtis F. Boykin

Electrochemical PaintbrushAdam Cohen

Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer (ENIAC)John William Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert

EthernetRobert Metcalfe

Fiberoptic CommunicationsRobert D. Maurer, Donald B. Keck, and Peter C. Schultz

FM RadioEdwin Armstrong

Foil Electret MicrophoneJames Edward West and Gerhard M. Sessler

FortranJohn Backus

Gerber Variable Scale®Joseph Gerber

Google (PageRank)Sergey Brin & Larry Page

G-Speak Gestural Technology SystemJohn Underkoffler

Haptic Computer InterfaceThomas Massie

HEMTCarver Mead

HologramDennis Gabor

Humanoid Robotic TorsoAaron Edsinger

HypertextVannevar Bush

Illusion Transmitter Valerie Thomas

Industry Standard Architecture BusMark Edward Dean and Dennis Moeller

Injection LaserRobert Hall

Integrated Circuit (IC)Jack St. Clair Kilby

Integrated Optical Add/Drop FilterMichael Lim, M. Jalal Khan, Thomas Murphy

Internet Browser TechnologyMarc Andreesen & Eric Bina

Internet Protocols (TCP/IP)Vinton G. Cerf

Keyboard, World's SmallestDavid Levy

LaserGordon Gould,
Kumar Patel (CO2 Laser),
Robert N. Hall (Semiconductor Laser)

Laser Targeting & Telemetry SystemsHildreth (Hal) Walker

LEDs and Lasers (Semiconductor and Quantum well)Nick Holonyak, Jr.

LinuxLinus Torvalds

LP RecordPeter Goldmark

Machine Vision TechnologyJerome H. Lemelson

Magnetic Computer MemoryJacob Rabinow

Magnetic Core MemoryAn Wang

Magnetic RecordingS. Joseph Begun

MaserCharles Townes

Mechanical CalculatorBlaise Pascal

MicrochipJack St. Clair Kilby

MicroprocessorMarcian E. (Ted) Hoff

Microscopic "Hands"Chang-Jin Kim

Microwave Scanning SystemsRobert Rines

Military Communications SystemHedy Lamarr

Modern PhotocopierRobert W. Gundlach

Morse CodeSamuel Morse

Mouse, ComputerDouglas Engelbart

Multiplane CameraWalt Disney

Multiplex TelegraphGranville T. Woods

Nano-Assembly technologyBrian Hubert

Optical Analysis SystemsEllen Ochoa

Optical Data Storage & RetrievalJames T. Russell (Compact Disc),
Stanford Ovshinsky (Phase Change)

Optical Information Processing TechnologyCardinal Warde

Palm Pilot (PC)Jeff Hawkins

Personal Computer (PC)Steve Jobs & Steve Wozniak

Plastic Sheath CableW. Lincoln Hawkins

Polarized Light Emitting DiodeMartin Schubert

Pong®Nolan Bushnell

PostScriptCharles Geschke and John Warnock

Programming Languages and Real-Time Computing, Innovations inDavid Bacon

Pulse Transfer Controlling DeviceAn Wang

Puppet Control SystemTom Newby

RadarRobert Watson-Watt

Radio Operated Remote Control SystemsJohn Haynes Hammond

Radio TelescopeGrote Reber

Reading Machine for the blindRaymond Kurzweil

Real-time Computing TechnologiesRobert Everett and Jay Forrester

Reduced Instruction Set Computing (RISC)John Cocke

RFID ContributionsCharles Walton

Robot AntsJames McLurkin

Satellite, geosynchronousHarold Rosen

Satellite Servicing TechniquesFrank Cepollina

Scanning & Sorting Systems, AutomatedJacob Rabinow

Signal GeneratorsBetsy Ancker-Johnson

SketchpadIvan Sutherland

SmalltalkAlan Kay

Socially Intelligent RobotsCynthia Breazeal

Software InnovationsIrene Greif

SonarRobert Rines

Sound AbsorptionIlene Busch-Vishniac

Spanning Tree AlgorithmRadia Perlman

SupercomputerSeymour Cray

Telecommunications Cable AdditivesW. Lincoln Hawkins

Telegraph SystemsThomas EdisonSamuel Morse,Granville T. Woods

Telegraphone Valdemar Poulsen

Telephone Switching SystemErna Schneider Hoover

Telephony SoftwareKrisztina Holly

The StylusKrisztina Holly

Thin Film Transistor (TFT) technologyAnne Chiang

TransistorWilliam Shockley, Jonn Bardeen & Walter Brattain

Triode AmplifierLee DeForest

Very Large Scale Integrated (VLSI) CircuitsCarver Mead

Walkie-TalkieAl Gross

Wireless CommunicationGuglielmo Marconi

World Wide Web (WWW)Tim Berners-Lee







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Reproduced from
http://web.mit.edu/invent/iow/i-archive-ct.html

on 23.5.2012

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