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Bantval Jayant Baliga
Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistor
B. Jayant Baliga invented the insulated gate bipolar transistor (IGBT), a semiconductor power switch that has reduced gasoline consumption by 10% and…
Dana Bookbinder
Bend-Insensitive Optical Fiber
Corning Incorporated researchers Dana Bookbinder, Ming-Jun Li and Pushkar Tandon invented and developed the bend-insensitive ClearCurve® optical…
Herman Hollerith
Punch Card Tabulator
Herman Hollerith invented and developed a punch-card tabulation machine system that revolutionized statistical computation. Born in Buffalo, New York…
Rory Cooper
Wheelchair Technology
Biomedical engineer Rory Cooper developed innovations in wheelchair technology that have improved manual and electric wheelchairs, and advanced the…
Tom Leighton
Content Delivery Network
In the late 1990s, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Mathematics Professor Dr. Tom Leighton and his graduate student Danny Lewin recognized…
Ronald Rivest
RSA Cryptography
RSA Cryptography is the world’s most widely used public-key cryptography method for securing communication on the Internet. Instrumental to the…
Adi Shamir
RSA Cryptography
RSA Cryptography is the world’s most widely used public-key cryptography method for securing communication on the Internet. Instrumental to the…
Leonard Adleman
RSA Cryptography
RSA Cryptography is the world’s most widely used public-key cryptography method for securing communication on the Internet. Instrumental to the…