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Mark Kryder

Mark Kryder is an electrical engineer and CMU Professor recognized for his leading work on Perpendicular Recording in hard disk drives and for formulating Kryder's Law.

Mark Levinson (audio equipment designer)

Mark Levinson is an American audio equipment designer who founded Mark Levinson Audio Systems in 1972 and later Cello, Red Rose Music, and Daniel Hertz.

Mark Levinson Audio Systems

Mark Levinson Audio Systems (MLAS) was an American high-end audio manufacturer founded in 1972 by Mark Levinson in New Haven, Connecticut, maker of the LNP-2 preamplifier and ML-2 amplifier.

Mark Miodownik

Mark Miodownik is a materials scientist and engineer, Professor of Materials and Society at University College London, director of its Institute of Making, and author of Stuff Matters.

Mark N. Wegman

Mark N. Wegman is an IBM Fellow and Chief Scientist at IBM's Watson Research Center, known for Static Single Assignment form and Wegman–Carter hash functions.

Mark of the Web

Mark of the Web (MotW) is a Windows security feature that records a downloaded file's internet origin, so SmartScreen and Microsoft Office apply extra precautions before opening it.

Mark R. Pinto

Mark R. Pinto is an American electronics engineer and National Academy of Engineering member known for co-developing the PISCES semiconductor simulator and serving as CTO of Applied Materials.

Mark R. Prausnitz

Mark R. Prausnitz is an American chemical and biomedical engineer at Georgia Tech known for developing microneedle patches that deliver drugs and vaccines through the skin without needles.

Mark R. Wiesner

Mark R. Wiesner is an environmental engineer and James B. Duke Distinguished Professor at Duke University, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2015 for membrane water treatment and nanomaterials research.

Mark Raasveldt

Mark Raasveldt is the Dutch database researcher who co-created DuckDB at CWI Amsterdam and is co-founder and CTO of DuckLabs, lead architect of its execution engine.

Mark Rober

Mark Rober is an American mechanical engineer and YouTube creator known for large-scale science videos, the glitter bomb package-theft pranks, and co-founding the #TeamTrees and #TeamSeas fundraisers with MrBeast.

Mark S. Lundstrom

Mark S. Lundstrom is an American electrical engineer at Purdue University whose research on nanoscale transistor physics supported 10-nanometer device design, and who founded the nanoHUB simulation platform.

Mark Shuttleworth

Mark Shuttleworth, also known as Mark Richard Shuttleworth, is a South African-British entrepreneur who founded Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, and became the first South African in space in 2002.

Mark T. Bohr

Mark T. Bohr (born 1953) is an American semiconductor process engineer who spent his career at Intel, leading development of strained silicon, high-k metal gate, and tri-gate transistors.

Mark T. Swihart

Mark T. Swihart is a SUNY Distinguished Professor of chemical and biological engineering at the University at Buffalo, known for high-rate production of light-emitting silicon nanoparticles.

Mark Tilden

Mark Tilden is a Canadian robotics physicist, formerly of Los Alamos National Laboratory, who invented BEAM robotics and designed WowWee's Robosapien line, with nearly 25 million robots sold worldwide.

Mark Todd Peters

Mark Todd Peters is an American engineer who became the 10th president and CEO of MITRE Corporation in September 2024, after leading Idaho National Laboratory from 2015 to 2020.

Mark V tank

The Mark V, or Tank Mk V, was a British heavy tank of the First World War, the mainstay of the Tank Corps during the Hundred Days Offensive of 1918.

Mark V. Morkovin

Mark V. Morkovin, also known as Mark Vladimir Morkovin, was an aeronautical engineer and professor at the Illinois Institute of Technology known for the Morkovin hypothesis and receptivity.

Mark W. Verbrugge

Mark W. Verbrugge is an American battery researcher who led General Motors' materials research labs and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2009.

Mark Zuckerberg

Mark Zuckerberg, also known as Mark Elliot Zuckerberg, is an American technology executive who founded Facebook in 2004 and leads Meta Platforms, its parent company since 2021.

Markbygden wind farm

Markbygden wind farm, also marketed as Markbygden 1101, is a large onshore wind complex near Piteå in northern Sweden, planned for up to 1,101 turbines and about 4,000 MW of capacity.

Markdown

Markdown is a plain text format for structured documents, created by John Gruber with Aaron Swartz in 2004 and used widely on sites like GitHub.

MarkeDroid

MarkeDroid is an Estonian cleantech startup founded in Tallinn in 2023 by Toomas Teesaar and Toomas Kärner, whose AI platform turns distributed energy resources into a virtual power plant.

Marker (unmanned ground vehicle)

Marker (Маркер) is a Russian multifunctional unmanned ground vehicle developed from 2018 by NPO Androidnaya Tekhnika as a testbed for autonomous navigation and other robot technologies.

Marker pen

A marker pen, also called a felt-tip pen or texta, is a pen with a porous fiber tip that draws ink from an internal reservoir by capillary action.

Markerless motion capture

Markerless motion capture is a computer vision method that estimates body pose and movement from ordinary video without markers, producing 2D keypoints, 3D skeletal coordinates, and joint angles.

Market basket analysis

Market basket analysis, also called basket analysis, is a data mining method that finds which items are bought together in customer transactions, formulated in 1993.

Market Building

Market Building: a purpose-built, usually roofed civic structure housing market stalls. Named examples include the Grade I Penzance Market Building (1837, Harris of Bristol) and the Grade II Covent Garden Market Building (1828-30, Charles Fowler).

Market Stability Reserve

The Market Stability Reserve (MSR) is a mechanism of the European Union Emissions Trading System that automatically adjusts the supply of emission allowances, operating since 2019.