Computer & electronics hardware
Ramesh Raskar
Built large computer display systems that seamlessly combine images from multiple projectors.
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Guido Appenzeller
Started a Palo Alto, CA, firm to commercialize an encryption technology that uses a simple ID, such as an e-mail address, to ensure secure communications.
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Raffaele Colombelli
Develops new types of quantum cascade microlasers with a variety of sensing and imaging applications.
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Ali Hajimiri
Developed an entire radar system, squeezed into a single chip
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Maria Petrucci-Samija
Created materials that might soon make such integrated photonic circuits possible.