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Edmund M. Clarke
Edmund M. Clarke was an American computer scientist at Carnegie Mellon University who co-founded model checking, an automated method for finding design errors, and shared the 2007 Turing Award.
Edsger W. Dijkstra
Edsger W. Dijkstra was a Dutch computer scientist who devised Dijkstra's shortest-path algorithm, built the first ALGOL 60 compiler, and won the 1972 Turing Award.
Eduard Pestel
Eduard Pestel (1914–1988) was a German engineer and physicist, professor of mechanics and rector at Hannover, co-founder of the Club of Rome, and Lower Saxony's science minister from 1977 to 1981.
Eduardo D. Glandt
Eduardo D. Glandt is a chemical engineer and Professor Emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania, who served as dean of its engineering school from 1999 to 2015.
Edvard Rusjan
Edvard Rusjan (1886–1911) was a Slovenian aircraft constructor and aviator who made the first powered flight in Slovenia, near Gorizia, in 1909, flying his biplane EDA I.
Edward A. Botchwey III
Edward A. Botchwey III is an American biomedical engineer, associate professor at Georgia Tech and Emory, known for biomaterials that reprogram immune responses and for the 2009 PECASE award.
Edward A. Hiler
Edward A. Hiler is an American agricultural engineer and university administrator who led Texas A&M's agriculture program, researched irrigation scheduling, and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering.
Edward A. Miller
Edward A. Miller was an American mechanical engineer who led General Electric's Corona project, producing the first object recovered from orbit, and won the 2005 Draper Prize.
Edward A. Murphy, Jr.
Edward A. Murphy, Jr. (1918–1989) was an American Air Force engineer whose name is traditionally tied to Murphy's Law through a 1949 rocket-sled test at Edwards Air Force Base.
Edward C. Jordan
Edward C. Jordan was an electrical engineer who led antenna and radio direction finding research at the University of Illinois and headed its electrical engineering department for twenty-five years.
Edward Curtis Wells
Edward Curtis Wells (1910–1986) was an American aeronautical engineer and Boeing executive, chief engineer and senior vice president, who helped design the B-17, B-29, B-47, 707, and 747 airliners and bombers.
Edward Cussler
Edward Cussler, born 1940, is an American chemical engineer at the University of Minnesota known for diffusion and membrane separations and for the textbook Diffusion: Mass Transfer in Fluid Systems.
Edward D. Lazowska
Edward D. Lazowska is an American computer scientist who joined the University of Washington in 1977, led its computer science school, and worked on high-performance computing and data science.
Edward E. David Jr.
Edward E. David Jr. was an American electrical engineer who served as President Nixon's Science Adviser from 1970 to 1973 and led Bell Labs research.
Edward E. Horton
Edward E. Horton (1927–2015) was an American offshore structures engineer who invented the tension leg platform and the spar, the dominant deepwater oil production platforms.
Edward Exum Hood Jr.
Edward Exum Hood Jr. is an aerospace engineer elected a Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics in 1989 and a member of the National Academy of Engineering.
Edward F. Crawley
Edward F. Crawley is an American aerospace engineer and Ford Professor at MIT known for structural dynamics and for leading the international CDIO engineering education reform.
Edward Feigenbaum
Edward Feigenbaum, born in 1936, is an American artificial intelligence researcher and Stanford professor emeritus, called the father of expert systems, who won the 1994 Turing Award.
Edward Felten
Edward Felten is an American computer scientist at Princeton University, the first FTC Chief Technologist and a Deputy U.S. Chief Technology Officer in the Obama White House.
Edward Fredkin
Edward Fredkin (1934–2023) was an American computer scientist who designed the reversible Fredkin gate, used in quantum computing, and pioneered digital physics, the idea that the universe is a computer.
Edward G. Bowen
Edward George "Ted" Bowen (1911-1991) was a Welsh-born Australian radiophysicist who helped develop radar in World War II and led CSIRO's Division of Radiophysics from 1946 to 1971.
Edward H. Adelson
Edward H. Adelson, known as Ted Adelson, is an American vision scientist at MIT, a National Academy of Sciences member best known for the GelSight tactile sensor.
Edward H. Sussenguth
Edward H. Sussenguth was an American computer scientist and IBM researcher, a Harvard-trained National Academy of Engineering member who won the 1989 IEEE Simon Ramo Medal.
Edward J. Cording
Edward J. Cording is an American geotechnical engineer and professor emeritus at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1988 for underground construction research.
Edward J. McCluskey
Edward J. McCluskey (1929–2016) was an American computer engineer and Stanford professor who created the Quine–McCluskey algorithm and served as the first president of the IEEE Computer Society.
Edward Joseph Davison
Edward Joseph Davison is a Canadian control systems engineer at the University of Toronto known for decentralized and robust control, elected to the US National Academy of Engineering in 2010.
Edward Kimbark
Edward Kimbark was an American electrical power engineer known for his work on power system stability and HVDC transmission, and for standard textbooks in both fields.
Edward Kohler
Edward Kohler, often published as Eddie Kohler, is an American computer scientist known for operating systems and file systems research, who received a 2006 PECASE award.
Edward L. Cochrane
Edward L. Cochrane (1892–1959) was an American naval architect and Vice-Admiral credited with the designs of modern American submarines and new battleships, cruisers, carriers, and destroyers, and later Dean of Engineering at MIT.
Edward L. Glaser
Edward L. Glaser (1929–1990) was an American computer systems designer who helped build one of the world's first time-shared computer systems at MIT, then led computing at Case Western Reserve University.