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Alan Shugart
Alan Shugart, also known as Al Shugart, was an American engineer and executive who co-founded Shugart Associates and Seagate Technology, turning floppy and small hard disk drives into mass-produced products.
Alexander C. Monteith
Alexander C. Monteith (1902–1979) was a Canadian-born American electrical engineer who rose to senior vice president of Westinghouse, led the AIEE, and won the 1962 IEEE Edison Medal.
Bernard M. Oliver
Bernard M. Oliver (1916–1995) was an American electronics engineer who directed research at Hewlett-Packard, founded HP Laboratories in 1966, led NASA's SETI office, and received the National Medal of Science.
Bill Hewlett
Bill Hewlett, formally William Redington Hewlett, was an American engineer who co-founded Hewlett-Packard with David Packard in 1939, later serving as HP's president and chief executive officer.
Craig R. Barrett
Craig R. Barrett, born in 1939, is an American materials scientist who taught at Stanford before joining Intel in 1974 and rising to CEO and chairman.
George M. C. Fisher
George M. C. Fisher is an American engineer who served as President and CEO of Motorola from 1988 to 1993 and as CEO of Eastman Kodak from 1993 to 1999.
Gordon Moore
Gordon Moore (Gordon Earle Moore, 1929–2023) was an American chemist and business executive who co-founded Fairchild Semiconductor and Intel, led Intel as CEO, and formulated Moore's Law, the 1965 prediction that chip components would double regularly.
Henry E. Singleton
Henry E. Singleton, also known as Henry Earl Singleton, was an American electrical engineer who pioneered aircraft inertial navigation and co-founded the Teledyne conglomerate in 1960.
Henry Samueli
Henry Samueli, born in 1954 in Buffalo, New York, is an American electrical engineer who co-founded the semiconductor company Broadcom in 1991 and holds more than 75 U.S. patents.
Hugh S. Knowles
Hugh S. Knowles (1904–1988) was an American acoustical engineer who founded Knowles Electronics in 1946, held over 50 patents, and pioneered the miniaturization of hearing-aid microphones and receivers.
J. Erik Jonsson
J. Erik Jonsson, born John Erik Jonsson, was an American engineer and industrialist who co-founded Texas Instruments and served as mayor of Dallas from 1964 to 1971.
J. Fred Bucy
J. Fred Bucy is an American physicist and semiconductor executive who spent 1953 to 1985 at Texas Instruments, rising to president in 1976 and CEO in 1984.
Jack A. Morton
Jack A Morton was an American electrical engineer and Bell Labs vice president who led the mass-production of the transistor, earning the IEEE David Sarnoff Medal in 1965.
Jack Kuehler
Jack Kuehler (1932–2008) was an American electrical engineer who joined IBM in 1958, rose to president and vice chairman, and became the highest-ranking technologist in IBM's history.
Jerome Swartz
Jerome Swartz, known as Jerry Swartz, was an American electrical engineer who co-founded Symbol Technologies, patented the handheld laser bar-code scanner, and founded the Swartz Foundation for neuroscience.
Joel S. Birnbaum
Joel S. Birnbaum is an American computer scientist and physicist who directed HP Labs and served as Hewlett-Packard's senior vice president for research and development.
John A. Young
John A. Young was an American electrical engineer and business executive who led Hewlett-Packard as president and CEO from 1978 to 1992, succeeding founders Bill Hewlett and David Packard.
John H. Dessauer
John H. Dessauer (1905–1993) was a German-born American chemical engineer who, as research director of Haloid and later Xerox, brought Chester Carlson's xerography into the office.
Kōji Kobayashi (electronics engineer)
Kōji Kobayashi (小林宏治) was a Japanese electronics engineer who spent his career at NEC, becoming president in 1964 and conceiving the C&C strategy of integrating computers and communications.
Lester Hogan
C. Lester Hogan (1920–2008) was an American physicist and semiconductor executive who invented the microwave gyrator at Bell Labs, taught at Harvard, and led Motorola Semiconductor and Fairchild.
Lewis M. Branscomb
Lewis McAdory Branscomb (1926–2023) was an American physicist who directed the National Bureau of Standards, served as IBM's vice president and chief scientist, and taught at Harvard.
Masaru Ibuka (井深 大)
Masaru Ibuka (井深 大) was a Japanese electronics engineer who co-founded Sony with Akio Morita in 1946, developing Japan's first tape recorder and transistor radio.
Morgan Sparks
Morgan Sparks (1916–2008) was an American physical chemist who fabricated the first junction transistor at Bell Telephone Laboratories in 1951 and directed Sandia National Laboratories from 1972 to 1981.
Morris Chang (张忠谋)
Morris Chang (張忠謀, born 1931, Ningbo) founded TSMC in 1987 as an ITRI–Philips joint venture, pioneering the pure-play foundry model after a 25-year Texas Instruments career; retired as chairman June 5, 2018.
Nick Donofrio
Nick Donofrio is an American electrical engineer who spent 44 years at IBM, retiring in 2008 as Executive Vice President of Innovation and Technology, and now chairs Quantexa.
Pat Gelsinger
Pat Gelsinger, also known as Patrick Paul Gelsinger, is an American technology executive and electrical engineer who was CEO of Intel from 2021 to 2024, previously leading VMware.
Paul M. Cook
Paul M. Cook (1924–2020) was an American chemical engineer and entrepreneur who founded Raychem Corporation in 1957, commercializing radiation chemistry, and won the National Medal of Technology in 1988.
Robert Adler
Robert Adler (1913–2007) was an Austrian-born American physicist who spent nearly six decades at Zenith Electronics and created the ultrasonic wireless TV remote control, holding about 180 US patents.
Robert C. Sprague
Robert C. Sprague (1900–1991) was an American electronics engineer who founded the Sprague Electric Company in Quincy, Massachusetts, in 1926, a leader in capacitors and semiconductors.
Robert Mehrabian
Robert Mehrabian is an Armenian-American materials scientist and executive who led Carnegie Mellon University from 1990 to 1997 and spent over two decades as Teledyne Technologies' chairman and CEO.