Charles-Edouard Jeanneret, who chose to be known as Le Corbusier (October 6, 1887 – August 27, 1965), was a Swiss-born architect and writer, who is famous for his contributions to what now is called Modern Architecture. He is considered to be both Swiss and French, having become a citizen of France in his 30's.
He was a pioneer in theoretical studies of modern design and was dedicated to providing better living conditions for the residents of crowded cities. His career spanned five decades, with his iconic buildings constructed throughout central Europe, India, Russia, and one structure each in North and ...
Jake Burton Carpenter is an American snowboarder; he is the founder of Burton Snowboards.
Birthday: April 29, 1954
Home Town: Stowe, Vermont
Years Riding 36 years
Number of days riding last season: 113
Favorite Resort: Stowe
Favorite summer destination: Surfing off a boat in the Indian Ocean
Carpenter was born in New York City, but was raised Cedarhurst, New York.
After graduating from The Marvelwood School in Connecticut, he enrolled at the University of Colorado in Boulder.
An avid skier, Carpenter hoped to join the university's successful ski team, but his competitive skiing career was ended when his ...
Edward Tufte has written seven books, including Visual Explanations, Envisioning Information, The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, and Data Analysis for Politics and Policy. He writes, designs, and self-publishes his books on analytical design, which have received more than 40 awards for content and design. He is Professor Emeritus at Yale University, where he taught courses in statistical evidence, information design, and interface design. His current work includes landscape sculpture, printmaking, video and a new book.
A Hungarian physicist, Szilard was instrumental in the development of the Manhattan Project. He conceived the idea of sending a confidential letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt, warning him about the possibility of an atomic bomb and encouraging the U.S. development of such a program, and obtained Albert Einstein's endorsement in August 1939.
He later worked with Enrico Fermi to construct the first nuclear reactor. He circulated petitions among the scientists demanding greater scientific input on the future use of atomic weapons. After the war, he continued to worked toward peaceful uses of atomic energy and international arms control.
Philip Masters found the Queen Anne's Revenge, BlackBeard's pirate ship. QAR originally a French slave ship until BlackBeard commandeered it in 1717.
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Creator of the award-winning programming language Leopard, that has been featured on countless websites, computer magazines, and radio programs. Columnist in popular technology magazine such as Microsoft Windows XP: The Official Magazine. An active contributer to Lockergnome.
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Don Hopkins is an artist and programmer specializing in computer-human interaction and computer graphics, and so much more! He invented pie menus, inspired Richard Stallman to use the term copyleft, coined Deep Crack as the name of the EFF DES cracker, built imaginative applications for the NeWS window system, ported the 'SimCity'computer game to several versions of Unix and developed a multi player version of SimCity for X11, and did much of the core programming of ''The Sims''. Don also wrote demonstrations of the ScriptX multimedia scripting language created by the Apple/IBM research spinoff Kaleida Labs, and developed various OpenLaszlo ...
Co-Founder of VMWare Inc. (NYSE:VMW) and Chief Scientist.
In addition, Mendel Rosenblum is a 41-year-old Associate Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University, where he leads a group focused on operating systems research. Together with his students, he developed the Hive operating system, the SimOS machine simulator and the Disco virtual machine monitor. In 2002, he received the ACM SIGOPS Mark Weiser Award for his creativity, innovation and vision in operating systems research.
He holds a doctorate and master's degree in computer science from the University of California at Berkeley and a bachelor's degree in mathematics from the University of ...
