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Richard Skalak
Richard Skalak (1923–1997) was an American biomedical engineer known for research on blood flow and bone growth, with a long career at Columbia University and then UC San Diego.
Richard Socher
Richard Socher is a computer scientist and AI entrepreneur who earned a Stanford PhD in 2014, served as Salesforce's chief scientist, founded You.com, and co-founded Recursive in 2026.
Richard Söderberg
Richard Söderberg (1895–1979) was a Swedish-born American power engineer who led steam turbine design at Westinghouse and later served as Dean of Engineering at MIT.
Richard Stallman
Richard Stallman (Richard Matthew Stallman, known as RMS) is an American programmer who founded the free software movement, announced the GNU operating system in 1983, and wrote the GNU General Public License.
Richard Sutton
Richard Sutton is a computer scientist and founding figure of reinforcement learning, co-recipient of the 2024 Turing Award with Andrew Barto and author of "The Bitter Lesson".
Richard Swanson
Richard Swanson, born 1945 in Davenport, Iowa, is an American electrical engineer who developed the back-contact silicon solar cell, founded SunPower in 1985, and named Swanson's law.
Richard Szeliski
Richard Szeliski is a computer vision researcher, now a Distinguished Scientist at Google DeepMind, known for panoramic image stitching, Photosynth, and his widely used textbook Computer Vision: Algorithms and Applications.
Richard T. Lahey Jr.
Richard T. Lahey Jr. is an American nuclear engineer, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1994, and Professor Emeritus at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Richard T. Whitcomb
Richard T. Whitcomb (1921–2009) was an American aeronautical engineer at NACA and NASA's Langley Research Center who conceived the area rule, the supercritical wing, and winglets, winning the 1954 Collier Trophy.
Richard Trevithick
Richard Trevithick (1771–1833) was a Cornish engineer who developed the high-pressure steam engine and built early steam locomotives, including one that hauled a train in Wales in 1804.
Richard von Helmholtz
Richard von Helmholtz (1852–1934) was a German railway engineer and locomotive designer, son of physicist Hermann von Helmholtz, who led the Krauss design bureau in Munich from about 1880 to 1918 and invented the Krauss-Helmholtz bogie.
Richard W. Couch Jr.
Richard W. Couch Jr., known as Dick Couch, is an American engineer who co-founded Hypertherm in 1968, patented the water-injection plasma cutting process, and led the company for 51 years.
Richard Wayne Skaggs
Richard Wayne Skaggs, also known as R. Wayne Skaggs, is an American agricultural engineer at North Carolina State University who developed the DRAINMOD drainage simulation models.
Richard White (businessman)
Richard White is an Australian technology entrepreneur and billionaire who co-founded WiseTech Global, the company behind the CargoWise logistics platform, and led it as CEO for 30 years.
Richard Y. Wang
Richard Y. Wang, MIT Sloan-trained information systems researcher and TDQM creator, co-authored the Wang-Strong data quality dimensions framework and led the MIT CDOIQ Symposium and U.S. Army data quality efforts.
Richards Bay Minerals
Richards Bay Minerals is a South African mining company established in 1976 at Richards Bay, KwaZulu-Natal, producing zircon, rutile, ilmenite, and titania slag from coastal dunes.
Richelieu-class battleship
The Richelieu class was a pair of French fast battleships, Richelieu and Jean Bart, built in the late 1930s with eight 380 mm guns in two forward quadruple turrets.
Richfield Oil Corporation
Richfield Oil Corporation was an American oil company based in Los Angeles that operated on the West Coast until its 1966 merger into Atlantic Richfield Company (ARCO).
Richmond Heights, Florida
Richmond Heights, Florida, also known as Richmond Heights, FL, is a Miami-Dade County community founded in 1949 as a planned suburb for African American World War II veterans.
Richmond Palace
Richmond Palace, formerly Shene, was a royal residence on the Thames at Richmond, rebuilt by Henry VII after a 1497 fire and demolished in the 1650s.
Richmond–San Rafael Bridge
The Richmond–San Rafael Bridge, officially the John F. McCarthy Memorial Bridge, is a double-deck cantilever toll bridge carrying Interstate 580 between Richmond and San Rafael, opened in 1956.
Rician fading
Rician fading is a statistical model for radio signal fading where a dominant line-of-sight path coexists with scattered multipath, and it becomes Rayleigh fading when the direct path vanishes.
Rick Husband
Rick Husband, born Richard Douglas Husband, was an American astronaut and Air Force colonel who commanded Space Shuttle Columbia on the STS-107 science mission, dying in its 2003 breakup.
Rickenbacker
Rickenbacker is an American manufacturer of electric guitars and basses in Santa Ana, California, descended from the first commercially successful electric guitar, the "Frying Pan" of 1932.
Rickshaw (人力車)
A rickshaw (人力車), from the Japanese jinrikisha, is a two-wheeled passenger cart pulled by a person, invented in Tokyo in 1870 and adapted worldwide into cycle rickshaws and motorized auto-rickshaws.
Ricoh (リコー)
Ricoh Company, Ltd. (株式会社リコー) is a Japanese technology company headquartered in Tokyo, founded in 1936 as a sensitized-paper maker and renamed Ricoh in 1963, known for office printers, copiers, and the GR camera series.
Rideau Canal
The Rideau Canal is a 202 km waterway in eastern Ontario linking Ottawa to Kingston, built between 1826 and 1832 under Lieutenant-Colonel John By and now a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Rideau Street McDonald's
The Rideau Street McDonald's, known as the Rideau McDonald's, was an Ottawa restaurant at 99 Rideau Street, infamous as the "world's worst McDonald's" before closing in 2023.
Ridge Route
The Ridge Route, officially the Castaic-Tejon Route, is a historic mountain highway in Southern California, opened in 1915 as the first direct road between Los Angeles and Bakersfield.
Ridgeback
Ridgeback is an indoor omnidirectional mobile robot platform from Clearpath Robotics, announced in 2015, that carries manipulator arms and other payloads of up to 100 kg.