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Computer & electronics hardware

Jonathan Abrams

Created the Nets top social-networking site, where eight million people communicate with friends and friends of friends.
Year Honored
2004
Organization
Founder and chairman, Friendster
Region
Global

"The Mountain View, CA, firm has raised $14 million in venture capital."

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Srinidhi Varadarajan

Conceived and built the worlds third-fastest supercomputer

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J. J. Cadiz

Invented a better approach to alleviating information overload.

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Adrian Colyer

Leads the effort to improve software quality and cut development costs.

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Vance Bjorn

Partnered with fellow TR100 honoree Serge Belongie (see above) to found a Redwood City, CA, biometrics company that specializes in fingerprint recog-nition for computer access.
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