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John C. Platt
John C. Platt is a computer scientist known for the SMO algorithm and Platt scaling, with a research career at Synaptics, Microsoft Research, and Google.
John C. Wall
John C. Wall is an American mechanical engineer who was Vice President and Chief Technical Officer of Cummins, the diesel engine manufacturer, from 2000 until 2015.
John C.C. Fan
John C.C. Fan is a Chinese-born American materials scientist who founded Kopin Corporation, a maker of microdisplays, and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2020.
John Canny
John Canny is an Australian-born computer scientist and professor at UC Berkeley, best known for the Canny edge detector, a standard image-processing algorithm published in 1986.
John Carmack
John D. Carmack II, known as John Carmack, is an American programmer who co-founded id Software in 1991, creating the engines behind Doom and Quake, and later served as Oculus CTO.
John Caudwell
John Caudwell, full name John David Caudwell, is a British billionaire who built the Caudwell Group and Phones 4u, selling it in 2006 for £1.46 billion.
John Chae
John Chae is a physician-scientist in physical medicine and rehabilitation who leads academic affairs at MetroHealth in Cleveland and studies electrical stimulation for post-stroke limb function and pain.
John Charles Vassberg
John Charles Vassberg is an American aerodynamicist, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2025, who led Boeing aerodynamics for decades and now designs JetZero's blended wing body Z4.
John Chipman (metallurgist)
John Chipman (1897–1983) was an American metallurgist and physical chemist who brought thermodynamics into industrial steelmaking, led MIT's Department of Metallurgy, and headed the Manhattan Project's metallurgy section in Chicago.
John Christopher Mauro
John Christopher Mauro is an American glass scientist at Penn State who co-invented Gorilla Glass at Corning and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2022.
John Christopher Morris
John Christopher Morris is a storage engineer who joined Seagate in 1996, holds 32 hard-drive patents, and has been its Chief Technology Officer since November 2018.
John Cioffi
John Cioffi is an American electrical engineer, Stanford professor emeritus, known as "the father of DSL" for the discrete multitone research that became the 1993 US standard.
John Cocke (computer scientist)
John Cocke was an American computer scientist at IBM who pioneered RISC architecture and optimizing compilers, earning the 1987 A.M. Turing Award and the National Medal of Science.
John Collison
John Collison is an Irish entrepreneur, born in 1990 in Limerick, who cofounded the online payments company Stripe with his brother Patrick and serves as its president.
John D. Anderson
John D. Anderson is an American aerospace engineer at the University of Maryland and the Smithsonian, known for hypersonic gas dynamics and textbooks like Introduction to Flight.
John D. Caplan
John D. Caplan (circa 1926–1998) was an American chemical engineer who led General Motors Research Laboratories from 1969 and spearheaded drastic cuts in vehicle emissions in the 1960s and 1970s.
John D. Kraus
John D. Kraus (1910–2004) was an American radio astronomer and electrical engineer at Ohio State University who invented the helical antenna and built the Big Ear radio telescope.
John D. Mackenzie
John D. Mackenzie was a materials scientist at UCLA who trained in London, pioneered glass and ceramics processing, and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1976.
John D. McDonald
John D. McDonald is an American electric power engineer, a pioneer of grid automation and smart grid development elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2022.
John D. O'Brien
John D. O'Brien was an American electrical engineer and USC professor known for photonic-crystal nanocavity lasers and the 1998 PECASE award; he died in 2017.
John David Kubiatowicz
John David Kubiatowicz is an American computer scientist and professor of electrical engineering and computer sciences at UC Berkeley, known for the Alewife multiprocessor, OceanStore, and Tapestry, and a 2000 PECASE award.
John David Rhodes
John David Rhodes, born in 1943, is a British microwave engineer, emeritus professor at the University of Leeds, and founder of Filtronic plc, elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1993.
John Day Dam
John Day Dam is a federal hydroelectric and navigation dam on the Columbia River near Rufus, Oregon, built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and completed in 1971.
John Deere
John Deere, the brand of Deere & Company, is an American manufacturer of agricultural, construction, and forestry equipment based in Moline, Illinois, founded by blacksmith John Deere in 1837.
John Deere (inventor)
John Deere (1804–1886) was an American blacksmith and manufacturer who developed a self-scouring steel plow at Grand Detour, Illinois, in 1837 and founded Deere & Company.
John Deere Autonomous 8R Tractor
The John Deere Autonomous 8R Tractor is a driverless row-crop tractor that Deere & Company unveiled at CES 2022, combining the 8R tractor with GPS guidance and stereo cameras for autonomous tillage.
John Deere AutoTrac
John Deere AutoTrac is an assisted steering system that automatically steers tractors, sprayers, and combines along a guidance line using StarFire satellite positioning, launched in 2002.
John DeLorean
John Zachary DeLorean was an American automotive executive who created the Pontiac GTO at General Motors and founded the DeLorean Motor Company, maker of the DMC-12.
John Doerr
John Doerr is an American venture capitalist and chairman of Kleiner Perkins known for early investments in Google, Amazon, Netscape, and Intuit, and for popularizing OKRs.
John Doyle (control theorist)
John Comstock Doyle is a Caltech control theorist, emeritus as of 2025, known for the structured singular value, H-infinity control, and highly optimized tolerance theory of robust-yet-fragile complex systems.