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David N. Kennedy
David N. Kennedy (1936-2007) was an American civil engineer who led the California Department of Water Resources from 1983 to 1998, longer than anyone, and joined the National Academy of Engineering in 1998.
David N. Seidman
David N. Seidman is an American materials scientist, Walter P. Murphy Professor Emeritus at Northwestern, known for atomic-scale characterization of metals and alloys by atom-probe tomography.
David Neeleman
David Gary Neeleman, born 1959 in Brazil, is a Brazilian-American airline entrepreneur who founded five airlines on three continents: Morris Air, WestJet, JetBlue, Azul, and Breeze Airways.
David O. Sacks
David O. Sacks is an American technology executive who led PayPal's product and operations, founded Yammer, and served as the White House AI and crypto czar from 2024 to 2026.
David Okrent
David Okrent (1922–2012) was an American nuclear engineer and physicist, a UCLA professor and pioneer of fast reactor safety and probabilistic risk assessment elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1974.
David P. Arnold
David P. Arnold is a University of Florida electrical engineer working on magnetic microsystems, MEMS sensors, and miniaturized power systems; he received a PECASE award in 2008.
David P. Billington
David P. Billington (1927–2018) was an American engineer and historian of engineering who taught at Princeton for fifty years and originated the discipline of structural art.
David Packard
David Packard, known as Dave Packard, was an American electrical engineer who co-founded Hewlett-Packard with William Hewlett in 1939 and served as Deputy Secretary of Defense from 1969 to 1971.
David Parrillo
David Parrillo is an American chemical engineer at Dow who led development of the POWERHOUSE Solar Shingle and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2023.
David Patterson (computer scientist)
David Andrew Patterson is an American computer scientist who led the Berkeley RISC project, co-invented RAID, and shared the 2017 Turing Award with John Hennessy.
David Pointcheval
David Pointcheval is a French cryptographer, a CNRS researcher at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris known for the forking lemma and repairing the RSA-OAEP security proof.
David R. Heebner
David R. Heebner (1927–2003) was an American defense systems engineer who made the towed sonar array practical, served in the Pentagon, and helped build SAIC.
David Richerby
David Richerby is a British computer scientist at the University of Essex who works on the complexity of counting problems and won the 2021 Gödel Prize.
David Roger Jones Owen
David Roger Jones Owen (1942–2020) was a Welsh computational mechanician at Swansea University known for finite and discrete element methods, who founded Rockfield Software and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2009.
David Rumelhart
David Rumelhart (1942–2011) was an American cognitive psychologist who, with Geoffrey Hinton and Ronald Williams, published the 1986 back-propagation paper that became the training method for deep learning.
David S. Johnson
David S. Johnson (1945–2016) was an American computer scientist who laid the foundations of approximation algorithms in his 1973 MIT thesis, coauthored Computers and Intractability, and won the 2010 Knuth Prize.
David S. Lewis
David S. Lewis (1917–2003) was an American aeronautical engineer and aerospace executive who led McDonnell Aircraft, McDonnell Douglas, and General Dynamics, directing the F-4 Phantom II and F-16 programs.
David S. Potter
David S. Potter, born 1925, was an American physicist in underwater acoustics who served as Under Secretary of the Navy and later as a General Motors vice president.
David Sarnoff (Давид Сарнов)
David Sarnoff (Давид Сарнов) was a Belarusian-born American media executive who rose from telegraph messenger to head of RCA and built NBC into a leading radio and television network.
David Scott
David Randolph Scott is a retired American Air Force colonel and NASA astronaut who commanded Apollo 15 in 1971 and became the seventh person to walk on the Moon.
David Scott Sholl
David Scott Sholl is an American chemical engineer known for computational modeling of chemical separations and carbon dioxide capture, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2024.
David Silver
David Silver is a reinforcement-learning researcher and UCL professor who led DeepMind's AlphaGo, AlphaZero, and MuZero teams, then left Google DeepMind in 2026 to found the London startup Ineffable Intelligence.
David Szymanski
David Szymanski is an American indie video game developer, published by New Blood Interactive, known for short retro horror games including Dusk (2018) and Iron Lung (2022).
David Tai Leong
David Tai Leong (David T. Leong) is a chemical and biomolecular engineer at the National University of Singapore who works at the interface of nanotechnology and biology.
David Taylor Model Basin
The David Taylor Model Basin is the United States Navy's ship-model testing facility at West Bethesda, Maryland, named for Rear Adm. David W. Taylor and dedicated in 1939.
David Thomas Allen
David Thomas Allen is an American chemical and environmental engineer at the University of Texas at Austin, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2017.
David Thompson (electrical engineer)
David A. Thompson is an American electrical engineer who led IBM research on thin-film and magnetoresistive recording heads underlying modern hard-disk drives, from 1968 to 2000.
David Tse
David Tse is an information theorist and electrical engineer who holds a professorship at Stanford University. He invented the proportional-fair scheduling algorithm used in 3G and 4G cellular networks.
David Turnbull (physical chemist)
David Turnbull (1915–2007) was an American physical chemist at General Electric and Harvard whose work on crystal nucleation and glass formation founded modern solidification science.
David U. Furrer
David U. Furrer is an American aerospace materials engineer at Pratt & Whitney, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2023 for computational modeling of aerospace alloys.