Computer & electronics hardware
Jonathan Abrams
Created the Nets top social-networking site, where eight million people communicate with friends and friends of friends.
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Andre Kulzer
Created a thermodynamic simulation that showed the feasibility of gasoline direct injection, which lowers auto fuel consumption and emissions and eliminates the electric starter.
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Mena Trott
Mena developed a simpler user interface which allows bloggers to create links to other pages by clicking and dragging items on-screen.
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Srinidhi Varadarajan
Conceived and built the worlds third-fastest supercomputer
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Shad Roundy
Built tiny generators for wireless sensor networks that convert low-level background vibrations into electricity, eliminating the need for batteries.