Technology and the built world

Michael T. Duke

Michael T. Duke, also known as Mike Duke, is an American industrial engineer and businessman who was the fourth CEO of Walmart and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2010.

Michael Tenenbaum

Michael Tenenbaum was an American metallurgist and steel executive who joined Inland Steel in 1940, patented an oxygen steelmaking process, and became its President in 1971.

Michael Thackeray

Michael M. Thackeray, born 1949 in Pretoria, South Africa, is a battery materials chemist who invented the manganese spinel and NMC lithium-ion cathodes at CSIR and Argonne National Laboratory.

Michael Tonks

Michael Tonks is a computational materials scientist who created the MARMOT mesoscale tool for modeling nuclear reactor fuels and received the 2017 Presidential Early Career Award.

Michael Truell

Michael Truell is an American technology entrepreneur who cofounded Anysphere in 2022 with MIT classmates and leads it as CEO behind the Cursor AI code editor.

Michaël Unser

Michaël Unser is a Swiss signal-processing and biomedical-imaging researcher, Full Professor at EPFL since 2000 after twelve years at the NIH, and recipient of the 2025 Norbert Wiener Award.

Michael V. Arbige

Michael V. Arbige is an industrial biotechnology scientist who led enzyme research at Genencor and then DuPont Industrial Biosciences, credited with helping create more than 300 commercial products.

Michael Vivian Sefton

Michael Vivian Sefton is a Canadian biomedical engineer and University Professor at the University of Toronto, known as a founder of cell-polymer tissue engineering and cell microencapsulation.

Michael W. Hunkapiller is an American biochemist and sequencing-technology executive whose automated DNA sequencers at Applied Biosystems enabled the Human Genome Project; he later led Pacific Biosciences.

Michael Wagner (mechanical engineer)

Michael J. Wagner is an American mechanical engineer who won a PECASE award at NREL for concentrating solar power modeling and is now a professor at UW–Madison.

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Michael Wooldridge

Michael Wooldridge is a computer scientist at the University of Oxford, recognized as one of the founders of multi-agent systems research, who gave the 2023 Royal Institution Christmas Lectures.

Michael Yachnis

Michael Yachnis (1922–2012) was a Greek-born American civil engineer, chief engineer of the Naval Facilities Engineering Command, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1985.

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Michael Z. Lin

Michael Z. Lin is a Stanford professor of Neurobiology and Bioengineering who engineers molecular tools for reading and controlling biology, including the ASAP voltage indicators and the RASER cancer-signaling system.

Michael-Christopher Koji Fox

Michael-Christopher Koji Fox, often called Koji Fox, is an American video game translator and localization director at Square Enix, known for Final Fantasy XI, XIV, and XVI.

Miche (robot)

Miche is a modular robot system developed at MIT's CSAIL that forms three-dimensional shapes by self-disassembly, described by Kyle Gilpin, Daniela Rus, and colleagues in 2008.

Michel Hug

Michel Hug (1930–2019) was a French hydraulic engineer and professor who led the planning, engineering, and construction of France's nuclear power program at Électricité de France from 1972 to 1982.

Michel T. Halbouty

Michel T. Halbouty (1909–2004) was an American geologist and petroleum engineer, an independent wildcatter credited with discovering more than fifty oil and gas fields while drilling in at least twenty-six states.

Michel Virlogeux

Michel Virlogeux Consultant SARL is the consulting practice of French bridge engineer Michel Virlogeux, who left public service in 1995 and designed the Pont de Normandie and Millau Viaduct.

Michel W. Barsoum

Michel W. Barsoum, also known as M. W. Barsoum, is a materials scientist and Distinguished Professor at Drexel University known for MAX phases and for discovering MXenes in 2011.

Michelangelo Hand

The Michelangelo Hand is a myoelectric prosthetic hand made by Ottobock of Germany, with four movable fingers, an electronically positioned thumb, and an integrated flexible wrist joint.

Michele Jamiolkowski

Michele Jamiolkowski (1932–2023) was a Polish-born Italian geotechnical engineer who founded the Politecnico di Torino's geotechnical school and led the effort to stabilize the Leaning Tower of Pisa.

Michele Romanow

Michele Romanow is a Canadian serial entrepreneur who started six companies, including Clearco, and has invested as a "Dragon" on CBC's Dragons' Den since 2015.

Michelin

Michelin (Compagnie Générale des Établissements Michelin) is a French tire manufacturer founded in Clermont-Ferrand in 1889 by the brothers André and Édouard Michelin, known for its tires and the MICHELIN Guide restaurant ratings.

Micheline (railcar)

The Micheline was a family of quiet, comfortable rubber-tyred railcars built by Michelin from 1929 onward, serving French main lines and colonies from the 1930s into the 1950s.

Michigan Central Station

Michigan Central Station, also known as Michigan Central Depot, is a former passenger rail depot in Detroit's Corktown neighborhood that served as the city's main station from 1913 to 1988.

Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy

The Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE) is Michigan's principal environmental agency, created by Governor Gretchen Whitmer in 2019 and headquartered in Lansing.

Michigan Department of Transportation

The Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) is the Michigan state agency responsible for the nearly 10,000-mile state highway system and transportation programs for aviation, rail, and transit.

Michigan Public Service Commission

The Michigan Public Service Commission (MPSC) is an independent three-member Michigan agency that sets rates for investor-owned electric and gas utilities, reviews energy infrastructure, and oversees pipeline safety.

Micky Arison (מיקי אריסון)

Micky Arison (מיקי אריסון), born in 1949, is an Israeli-born American business executive who was CEO of Carnival Corporation from 1979 to 2013 and owns the NBA's Miami HEAT.