Technology and the built world

Daniel W. Dobberpuhl

Daniel W. Dobberpuhl (1945–2019) was an American electrical engineer who led the design of the DEC Alpha and StrongARM microprocessors and won the IEEE Pederson Award in 2003.

Daniel W. van der Weide

Daniel W. van der Weide is an American electrical engineer and professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison since 1999, known for terahertz integrated circuits and a PECASE award.

Daniel Walczyk

Daniel Walczyk is an American mechanical engineer, professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and 1998 recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.

Daniel Yergin

Daniel Yergin is an American energy historian and author who won the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for The Prize, a history of the oil industry, and chairs the CERAWeek energy conference.

Daniela Amodei

Daniela Amodei is an American entrepreneur who co-founded the AI company Anthropic in 2021 and serves as its president, running it day to day alongside her brother, CEO Dario Amodei.

Daniela L. Rus

Daniela L. Rus is a Romanian-born roboticist, MIT professor, and director of CSAIL, the first woman to lead the lab, known for soft and self-reconfiguring robots.

Daniela Oliveira

Daniela Oliveira is a computer scientist trained in Brazil and at UC Davis who won the 2012 PECASE award and now leads NSF's flagship academic cybersecurity funding program.

Daniela Rus is a roboticist and computer scientist who directs MIT's CSAIL, holds the Viterbi Professorship there, and is known for self-reconfiguring robots, soft robotics, and liquid neural networks.

Danielle George

Danielle George is a British radio frequency engineer and University of Manchester professor, appointed Chief Scientific Adviser for National Security in 2025, advising GCHQ, MI5, and SIS.

Danielle W. Merfeld

Danielle W. Merfeld is an American electrical engineer who served as CTO of GE Renewable Energy and is now global chief technology officer of Qcells North America.

Danielle Wood (aerospace engineer)

Danielle Wood is an American aerospace engineer and MIT associate professor who directs the Space Enabled Research Group, applying satellite technology to sustainable development problems.

Danijar Hafner

Danijar Hafner is an AI researcher and startup founder known for creating the PlaNet and Dreamer world-model reinforcement-learning algorithms, who left Google DeepMind in 2025.

Danish Academy of Technical Sciences

The Danish Academy of Technical Sciences (Akademiet for de Tekniske Videnskaber, ATV) is an independent Danish engineering academy founded in 1937 to bridge technical research and industry.

Daniudi Tight Gas Field

The Daniudi Tight Gas Field (大牛地气田) is a tight sandstone gas field in the northern Ordos Basin, Inner Mongolia, China, discovered in 1985 and operated wholly by Sinopec.

Danjiangkou Dam

The Danjiangkou Dam (丹江口大坝) is a dam on the Han River in Danjiangkou, Hubei, China, built in 1958–1973 and heightened from 2005 to 2013 to head the Middle Route of the South–North Water Transfer Project.

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Danny

Danny (Danny House), Grade I listed Elizabethan brick mansion at Hurstpierpoint, West Sussex; built 1593-5 by George Goring, refronted 1728, hosted Lloyd George's War Cabinet armistice meeting in October 1918.

Danny Cohen

Danny Cohen (1937–2019) was an Israeli-born American computer scientist who built the first real-time visual flight simulator on a general-purpose computer, sent the first packet voice and video over the ARPANET in 1973, and coined "endianness."

Danny Dolev

Danny Dolev is a computer scientist and professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, known for the Dolev–Strong broadcast protocol, the Dolev–Yao adversary model, and Byzantine agreement lower bounds.

Danse Macabre (Efteling)

Danse Macabre is a haunted dark ride at the Efteling theme park in the Netherlands, opened in 2024 on the site of the former Spookslot Haunted House.

Dansk Undergrunds Consortium

Dansk Undergrunds Consortium (DUC) is a joint venture producing most of Denmark's oil and natural gas from the Danish North Sea, formed in 1962 around A.P. Møller's sole concession.

Dante (networking)

Dante, also called the Dante protocol, is a proprietary audio-video-over-IP platform developed by the Australian company Audinate, distributing digital audio, video, and control over standard Ethernet networks.

Dante C. Youla

Dante C. Youla (1925–2021) was an electrical engineer who spent over six decades at the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn and created broadband matching theory and the Youla–Kučera parameterization.

Dante II

Dante II was a tethered, eight-legged walking robot built at Carnegie Mellon University with NASA funding, which in July 1994 rappelled into the Mount Spurr volcano crater in Alaska and sampled gases.

Dante Patrick Bonaquist

Dante Patrick Bonaquist is an American chemical engineer who spent his career at Praxair pioneering cryogenic air separation technologies, earning 123 US patents and the 2015 Schoellkopf Medal.

Danube Refinery

The Danube Refinery (Dunai Finomító) is an oil refinery in Százhalombatta, Hungary, about 30 km south of Budapest, operated by MOL Group with a capacity of 8.1 million tonnes per year.

Danyang–Kunshan Grand Bridge

The Danyang–Kunshan Grand Bridge (丹昆特大桥) is a 164.851-kilometer railway viaduct in Jiangsu, China, and the world's longest bridge, carrying the Beijing–Shanghai High-Speed Railway since 2011.

Daphne Koller

Daphne Koller (דפנה קולר) is a computer scientist in machine learning who co-founded Coursera, taught at Stanford for 18 years, and founded the drug discovery company insitro.

DAPO

DAPO is an open-source reinforcement learning recipe for training large language models on reasoning tasks, released in March 2025 by ByteDance Seed and Tsinghua University researchers.

Daqing Field

Daqing Field (大庆油田) is a giant oil field in Heilongjiang Province, China, discovered in 1959; it is China's largest and a pioneer of polymer flooding and chemical enhanced oil recovery.