Computer & electronics hardware
Qian Zhang
Improved roaming between cellular networks
Global
J. J. Cadiz
Invented a better approach to alleviating information overload.
Global
Maria Petrucci-Samija
Created materials that might soon make such integrated photonic circuits possible.
Global
Kurt Huang
Launched a startup developing micropayments technology that allows artists, small businesses, and others to charge fees of as little as one cent for access to online content.
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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.