Autodesk might have made a name for itself with the CAD software used by architects and engineers to design and model everything from buildings to machines, but the San Francisco-based company has also had a hand in helping bring many Hollywood blockbusters to the big screen.
In his work for IBM, which spanned 30 years, he persuaded Watson to unify all aspects of the company's design, from typewriters to computers to buildings (for which Noyes recruited an all-star cast of architects including Ludwig Mies van der Rohe).