Computer & electronics hardware
Aaron Hertzmann
Combines machine learning and graphics to capture the motion of actors, dancers, and athletes -- and to generate realistic animations for films and video games.
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Kees Schep
Helped develop blue-laser optical-disc storage systems with much greater capacity than todays DVDs. The discs are now being introduced commercially.
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Chaitail Sengupta
Oversees the architecture of the communications chips used in advanced cellular systems now coming to market.
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Ali Hajimiri
Developed an entire radar system, squeezed into a single chip
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Nuria Oliver
Constructs more-intuitive human-computer interfaces.