Computer & electronics hardware
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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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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Jesse Schell
Invents new forms of digital visualization.
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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.