John Palmour Changed Recipe for Making Microchips
As a graduate student in materials science in the early 1980s,
John Palmour
took a chance on an unproven way to make semiconductors, substituting silicon…
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Executive Managed Seminal Computer System at IBM
Dr. Frederick P. Brooks Jr. liked building things, first laying foundations for modern computer systems at International Business Machines Corp. and later at the University of North…
Peter Eckersley Helped Encrypt Internet Traffic to Foil Snoops
Peter Eckersley,
who earned a Ph.D. in computer science and law from the University of Melbourne in Australia, found a mission in San Francisco: Protecting…
Tom Alberg, Early Amazon Investor, Cultivated Tech Startups
At the age of 27,
Tom Alberg
gave up his job at the prestigious New York law firm of Cravath, Swaine & Moore to return home to Seattle. It might have…
Tom Alberg, Early Amazon Investor and Long-Time Amazon Board Member, Dies at 82
Tom Alberg,
an early investor in
Amazon.com Inc.,
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longtime adviser to
Jeff…
Vin Scully, Dodgers broadcaster for 67 years and radio, television icon, dies at 94
Beth Harris
Associated Press
LOS ANGELES — Hall of Fame broadcaster Vin Scully, whose dulcet tones provided the soundtrack of summer while entertaining…
Robert Curl, Nobel-Winning Chemist, Helped Spur Nanotechnology Boom
When
Robert Curl
was 9 years old, his parents gave him a chemistry set for Christmas. Though his mother was upset when nitric acid…
Immigrant From India Headed U.S. Software Firms
After earning an M.B.A. at Kent State University and working for International Business Machines Corp., Umang Gupta was tempted to return to his native India and start his own company. He…
Holocaust Survivor, Who Hid in a Sewer, Headed U.S. Tech Firm
At age 16,
Carl H. Rosner
already had endured the breakup of his parents’ marriage in Hamburg, Germany, life in an orphanage with other Jewish children, the…
Entrepreneur Drove Computing and Audio Forward Through Decades of Disease
Thomas Yuen
was working in 1980 as an electrical engineer in Southern California when his kidneys failed and he learned he would require dialysis treatments…