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Eric E. Fullerton
Eric E. Fullerton is an American experimental physicist and materials scientist, a Distinguished Professor at UC San Diego who invented high-density magnetic recording media for hard disk drives.
Eric Fossum
Eric Fossum is an American engineer who invented the CMOS active pixel image sensor, the camera-on-a-chip in nearly every smartphone, at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in the early 1990s.
Eric Harold Mansfield
Eric Harold Mansfield (1923–2016) was a British aeronautical structural engineer at the Royal Aircraft Establishment Farnborough, elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1971.
Eric Henriot Ducharme
Eric Henriot Ducharme is an aeronautical engineer who retired in 2021 as chief engineer at GE Aviation after leading the GE90 program and certification of the LEAP, Passport, and GE9X engines.
Eric Laithwaite
Eric Laithwaite (1921–1997) was a British electrical engineer who made the linear induction motor practical, then damaged his career by claiming gyroscopes violate energy conservation.
Eric Ly
Eric Ly (Eric Thich Vi Ly), born 1969 in Saigon, Vietnam, is a Vietnamese-American entrepreneur who co-founded LinkedIn as its founding CTO and now leads the background screening company KarmaCheck.
Eric Poe Xing
Eric Poe Xing, who publishes as Eric P. Xing, is a machine learning researcher and the first president of MBZUAI in Abu Dhabi since 2021.
Eric Pop
Eric Pop is an electrical engineer and Pease-Ye Professor at Stanford, known for energy-efficient nanoelectronics research on carbon nanotubes, graphene, and low-current phase-change memory, and elected an IEEE Fellow in 2021.
Eric S. Raymond
Eric S. Raymond is an American software developer and open-source advocate, best known for the 1997 essay The Cathedral and the Bazaar and for co-founding the Open Source Initiative.
Eric Schmidt
Eric Schmidt, born Eric Emerson Schmidt, is an American computer scientist and technology executive who served as Google's CEO from 2001 to 2011 and later as Alphabet's executive chairman.
Eric Toberer
Eric Toberer is an American materials scientist and professor of physics at the Colorado School of Mines who researches thermoelectric materials and received the PECASE in 2016.
Eric W. Kaler
Eric W. Kaler is an American chemical engineer, a member of the National Academy of Engineering, and president of Case Western Reserve University since 2021.
Eric W. McFarland
Eric W. McFarland is a chemical engineer and professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, known for molten-metal catalysis converting methane to hydrogen and solid carbon.
Eric Wachsman
Eric D. Wachsman is an American materials scientist and University of Maryland professor known for lowering solid oxide fuel cell temperatures and for 3D ceramic solid-state battery electrolytes.
Eric Yuan (袁征)
Eric S. Yuan (袁征) is a Chinese-American software engineer who founded Zoom in June 2011 after rising to Vice President of Engineering at WebEx and Cisco.
Erica (robot)
Erica (エリカ), named for ERATO Intelligent Conversational Android, is an autonomous conversational android developed by Hiroshi Ishiguro's group at Osaka University, announced in 2015, that works as a receptionist in Kyoto.
Erich Bloch
Erich Bloch (1925–2016) was a German-born American electrical engineer who managed IBM's Stretch supercomputer and System/360, then directed the National Science Foundation from 1984 to 1990.
Erich Hartmann
Erich Hartmann (Erich Alfred Hartmann, 1922–1993) was a German Luftwaffe fighter pilot credited with 352 aerial victories, the highest total of any pilot, mostly on the Eastern Front.
Erich Spitz
Erich Spitz (Эрих Шпиц) is a Czech-born French physicist, born in Brno in 1931, who with J.C. Simon at CSF realized single-mode propagation would benefit optical fiber communication.
Ericofon
The Ericofon, also sold as the Ericophone and nicknamed the Cobra, is a one-piece rotary telephone made by Ericsson from 1956 to 1982, with over 2.5 million units produced.
Ericsson
Ericsson, formally Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson, is a Swedish telecommunications networking equipment and software company founded in 1876 in Stockholm, a leading supplier of 5G networks worldwide.
Erie Canal
The Erie Canal is a waterway in New York State linking the Hudson River at Albany with Lake Erie at Buffalo, opened in 1825 and now used mainly by recreational boaters.
Erie Canal Lock 52 Complex
The Erie Canal Lock 52 Complex is a historic district at Port Byron, New York, preserving a double-chamber Enlarged Erie Canal lock used from 1853 to 1917.
Erie Canalway National Heritage Corridor
The Erie Canalway National Heritage Corridor is a National Heritage Area in upstate New York, designated by Congress in 2000 to preserve and promote its canal system.
Erie Lackawanna Railway
The Erie Lackawanna Railway, or Erie Lackawanna Railroad, was an American Class I railroad formed on October 17, 1960 by merging the Erie Railroad and the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad.
Erie Railroad
The Erie Railroad, first chartered in 1832 as the New York and Erie Railroad, linked the Hudson River to Lake Erie across New York's Southern Tier.
Eriez Magnetics
Eriez Magnetics, recorded as Michael J. Mankosa, is the American mining engineer elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2018, known for the HydroFloat and StackCell separators.
Erik Bernhardsson
Erik Bernhardsson, Swedish engineer, founder and CEO of Modal Labs; ex-CTO of Better.com and Spotify engineer who built its music recommendations and created Luigi and Annoy.
Erik C. Garnett
Erik C. Garnett (born 1982) is a Dutch-based materials chemist who leads the Nanoscale Solar Cells group at AMOLF, Amsterdam, and won the 2022 KNCV gold medal.
Erik Cassel
Erik Cassel (Erik Stefan Cassel) was an American software engineer who co-founded Roblox with David Baszucki in 2004, serving as vice president of engineering and later chief scientist.