Technologists buried nearby include Hewlett-Packard co-founder David Packard and engineer Lewis Terman, who mentored Packard and HP co-founder Walter Hewlett.
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Conceived in the 1940s, and co-designed by engineer Sir Charles Husband, the main telescope at Jodrell Bank was completed in 1957.
"We wanted to make it sound a bit like a Neil Young album, " says O'Brien, who recorded Becoming a Jackal with engineer and co-producer Tommy McLaughlin.
Its only non-engineer team member, co-founder and Chief Executive Aydin Ghajar, says he was lucky: Salesforce hired him as a director of product management.
If it pans out, "this enables us to rapidly customize implants for whoever needs them, " said Cornell biomedical engineer Lawrence Bonassar, who co-authored the research published online in the journal PLoS One.
But while co-founder Steve Wozniak was an archetypal engineer--a veteran of Hewlett-Packard--Jobs was something new.
But while co-founder Steve Wozniak was an archetypal engineer--a veteran of Hewlett-Packard (nyse: HPQ - news - people )--Jobs was something new.
Flipboard Chief Executive Mike McCue is a well-known entity in Silicon Valley from his days at Netscape and Tellme Networks, and co-founder Evan Doll is a former Apple engineer.
Born in Strasbourg, France, Stephan is an engineer and entrepreneur who met two of his co-founders, Stephane Dehoche and Thomas Boudalier at Ecole Centrale de Paris, and third co-founder, Benoit Gourdon shortly thereafter.
NetApp co-founder Dave Hitz invited Vu Nguyen, the infrastructure engineer for the Curiosity project to discuss the big data behind the process of landing Curiosity safely on the surface of Mars.
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He was a top engineer at Check Point Software (Nasdaq: CHKP), co-founded OneSecure and served as the CTO of NetScreen, which was sold to Juniper Networks (Nasdaq:JNPR) in 2004.
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"Faced with constraints for energy efficiency and analytic compute capacity to support world-leading geosciences research, we absolutely require technological innovations from leading companies like HP, " said Chris Hill, principal research engineer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and co-chair, Research and Education Subcommittee, Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing.
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"Business ties start with personal relationships, " said Mr. Lee, a Chinese-born engineer who moved to the area 40 years ago to join Boeing Co.
Former investment banker and engineer-by-training Tina Ju got into China venture through co-founding VTDF in 2000 and TDF Capital in 2005, and she made several well-timed investments in some of the best China hits, Alibaba, Baidu, Focus Media and Hurray.
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Co-founders Eric Ho, formerly in digital partnerships at American Express, and Stanley Wong, previously an engineer at Sony, started working on Husky Chat full-time in June after a few months of kicking around ideas.
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