Technology and the built world

Datsun Sports

Datsun Sports, also known as the Datsun Fairlady, is a series of open sports cars built by Nissan from 1959 to 1970 and exported as the Datsun 1500, 1600, and 2000.

Oct 15, 2026

Dauletabad-Sarakhs-Khangiran Gas Pipeline

The Dauletabad-Sarakhs-Khangiran gas pipeline runs from Turkmenistan's Dauletabad field to Iran's Khangiran refinery. Opened in January 2010, it can carry up to 12.5 billion cubic meters a year.

Oct 15, 2026

Daunia Coal Mine

Daunia Coal Mine is an open cut metallurgical coal mine in Queensland's Bowen Basin, near Moranbah, opened in 2013 and wholly owned by Whitehaven Coal since 2024.

Dava Newman

Dava Newman is an MIT aerospace engineer whose group developed the skintight BioSuit spacesuit, and who served as NASA Deputy Administrator from 2015 to 2017.

Dave Forney

G. David Forney, Jr., born 1940, is an American electrical engineer known for concatenated codes, the trellis diagram, and high-speed modems; MIT awarded him the 2016 IEEE Medal of Honor.

Dave Limp

Dave Limp (David Limp) is an American technology executive and CEO of Jeff Bezos's space company Blue Origin since December 2023, after 13 years running Amazon's Devices and Services.

Dave Ward (trade unionist)

Dave Ward, also known as David Ward, is a British trade unionist and General Secretary of the Communication Workers Union since 2015, having defeated Billy Hayes.

David 8

David 8 is a fictional android portrayed by Michael Fassbender in Ridley Scott's Alien prequel films Prometheus (2012) and Alien: Covenant (2017), created by Peter Weyland.

David A. Dzombak is an American environmental and civil engineer, Hamerschlag University Professor Emeritus at Carnegie Mellon, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2008 for models of chemical behavior in water quality engineering.

David A. Dornfeld

David A. Dornfeld (1949–2016) was an American mechanical engineer at UC Berkeley who worked on manufacturing process monitoring and green manufacturing, and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2013.

David A. Hodges

David A. Hodges (1937–2022) was an American electrical engineer and UC Berkeley professor, a pioneer in MOS integrated circuit design and dean of engineering from 1990 to 1996.

David A. Huffman

David A. Huffman (1925–1999) was an American computer scientist who invented Huffman coding in 1952, an optimal compression method still used in JPEG, zip, and fax machines.

David A. Markle

David A. Markle is an optical engineer who developed the Micralign and Micrascan projection lithography systems at Perkin-Elmer and Ultratech, winning the 1979 SEMI Award.

David A. Muller

David A. Muller is a Cornell University professor of applied physics and electron microscopist who developed pixel-array detectors and ptychography, setting a world record for microscope resolution in 2021.

David A. Patterson (American computer scientist)

David A. Patterson is an American computer scientist who led the RISC project at UC Berkeley, co-invented RAID storage, and shared the 2017 Turing Award with John Hennessy.

David A. Petti

David A. Petti is an American nuclear engineer who spent about 35 years at Idaho National Laboratory and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2022.

David Alan Friedman

David Alan Friedman is an American structural and earthquake engineer who led Forell/Elsesser in San Francisco and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2023.

David Allen Landgrebe

David Allen Landgrebe (1934–2020) was an American electrical engineer at Purdue University who helped originate multispectral remote sensing and led its Laboratory for Applications of Remote Sensing.

David B Lindell

David B Lindell is a computer scientist and computational imaging researcher, an assistant professor at the University of Toronto since 2022, co-author of the 2018 Nature paper introducing the light-cone transform for imaging hidden scenes.

David B. Geohegan

David B. Geohegan is a materials scientist who leads the Functional Hybrid Nanomaterials Group at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, developing laser-based synthesis of nanomaterials and 2D materials.

David B. Geselowitz

David B. Geselowitz (1930–2020) was an American bioengineer who worked on the theory of the electrocardiogram and the artificial heart, and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1989.

Sep 20, 2026

David B. Lobell

David B. Lobell is a Stanford Earth System Science professor and food-security researcher whose 2011 Science paper showed warming had cut global maize and wheat production since 1980.

David B. Lomet

David B. Lomet is a database systems researcher and principal researcher at Microsoft in Redmond, Washington, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2018.

David B. Marshall

David B. Marshall is an American materials scientist at the University of Colorado Boulder, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2007 for ceramic fracture mechanics.

Sep 20, 2026

David B. Mitzi

David B. Mitzi is a materials scientist and Simon Family Distinguished Professor at Duke University, known for pioneering work on organic–inorganic perovskites for solar energy.

David B. Spencer

David B. Spencer is an American materials engineer who founded wTe Corporation, a recycling company in Bedford, Massachusetts, and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2014.

David Barnes (poultry scientist)

David M. Barnes is an American nutritional biologist and poultry scientist, an assistant professor at the University of Arkansas honored with a 1996 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.

David Baszucki

David Baszucki, also known as Builderman, is a technology executive who co-founded Roblox in 2004 with Erik Cassel and has served as its CEO since.

David Brian Johnston

David Brian Johnston is an American research food technologist at the USDA's Eastern Regional Research Center in Wyndmoor, Pennsylvania, who won the 2005 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.