Computer & electronics hardware
Shad Roundy
Built tiny generators for wireless sensor networks that convert low-level background vibrations into electricity, eliminating the need for batteries.
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Scott Heiferman
Built a database and developed software that would help people organize themselves.
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Aref Chowdhury
Invented techniques at Bell Labs that enable higher-speed transmission of data over very long distances (up to 6,400 kilometers) within fiber-optic networks.
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J. J. Cadiz
Invented a better approach to alleviating information overload.
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Simeon Simeonov
Left software engineering to engineer startups.