Dan Cederholm is a web designer, author, and speaker living in Salem, Massachusetts. He's the founder of SimpleBits, a web design studio (and weblog), where he writes articles and commentary about the web, technology, and life. Cederholm is the author of two books on standards-based web design and CSS: Bulletproof Web Design and Web Standards Solutions. Dan also co-founded and runs the wine review webpage, Cork'd.
Dr. Steve Wozniak is a U.S. computer engineer and the co-founder of Apple Inc., with Steve Jobs. His inventions and machines are credited with contributing greatly to the personal computer revolution of the 1970s. Wozniak created the Apple I and Apple II computers in the mid-1970s. The Apple II gained a sizable amount of popularity, eventually becoming one of the best selling personal computers of the 1970s and early 1980s.
He is known for his introverted character, and he finds his level of celebrity somewhat annoying.Wozniak ended his full time employment with Apple for good on February 6, 1987, twelve ...
Frank Shepard Fairey is a contemporary artist/graphic designer/illustrator. He is most noted for being the artist who created the "André the Giant Has a Posse" sticker campaign, which has evolved into the "Obey Giant" campaign, and can now be seen all over the world. He usually goes under his middle and last name, Shepard Fairey.
Places you can find his work...
- Wikipedia - Shepard Fairey
- Wikipedia - Andre the Giant Has a Posse
- www.obeygiant.com
- www.thegiant.org
- your local street sign or subway...
He is an American film director and producer. Spielberg is a three-time Academy Award winner and is the highest grossing filmmaker of all time, with an estimated net worth of $3 billion. As of 2006, Premiere listed him as the most powerful and influential figure in the motion picture industry. TIME named him in the '100 Greatest People of the Century'. At the end of the 20th century LIFE named him the most influential person of his generation.He has credited the Macintosh as a major part of his movies, and he couldn't create them with out it.
He has ...
Miguel de Icaza is the creator of the GNOME desktop environment for Linux and the Mono project. He's received the Free Software Foundation 1999 Award for the Advancement of Free Software, the MIT Technology Review Innovator of the Year Award 1999, and was named one of Time Magazine's 100 innovators for the new century in September 2000.
Tony Fadell created the iPod.
He is Apple Inc.'s Senior Vice President of the iPod Division, having succeeded Jon Rubinstein in 2006.Fadell graduated from University of Michigan with a BS in Computer Engineering in 1991. While still at Michigan, he was CEO of Constructive Instruments, which marketed MediaText, multimedia composition software for children.
He worked for Apple spinoff General Magic for three years, starting in 1992 as a diagnostics engineer and progressing to a systems architect, where he was responsible for the development of a number of technologies and devices including the Sony Magic Link and Motorola Envoy, both of ...
Lisa Voldeng, named one of the Top 10 "Next Generation Media Thinkers" by Nikkei Electronics and one of the "Top 25 Women in Technology" by ZDnet, is an internationally recognized media strategist. She is CEO and founder of sugarlab corporation, a next-gen media company, and founder and President of [ultra-future], a global future of media, technology and resources event, which is presented in partnership with the Hong Kong Trade Development Council and Pico Worldwide.
Voldeng has been profiled in publications from Electronic Media, The Industry Standard, USA Today and The Globe and Mail to The National Post. She's a founding ...
Peter Norvig is an American computer scientist. He is currently the Director of Research (formerly Director of Search Quality) at Google Inc.
He is also the lead Designer of Google.com
He is a Fellow and Councilor of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence and co-author, with Stuart Russell, of Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, now the standard college text. He previously was head of the Computational Sciences Division (now the Intelligent Systems Division) at NASA Ames Research Center, where he oversaw a staff of 200 scientists performing NASA's research and development in autonomy and robotics, automated software ...
Steve Chen is the co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of the popular video sharing website YouTube.
Chen grew up in Taiwan until the age of 8, when his family emigrated to the United States. He attended high school at John Hersey High School as well as the Illinois Math and Science Academy and college from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
He was an early employee at PayPal, where he met Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim. In 2005, the three founded YouTube, a video sharing website. He currently holds the position of Chief Technology Officer at YouTube. Chen was ...
The name Les Paul is synonymous with the electric guitar. As a player, inventor and recording artist, Paul has been an innovator from the early years of his life. Born Lester William Polfus in 1915 in Waukesha, Wisconsin, Paul built his first crystal radio at age nine - which was about the time he first picked up a guitar. By age 13 he was performing semi-professionally as a country-music guitarist and working diligently on sound-related inventions. In 1941, Paul built his first solid-body electric guitar, and he continued to make refinements to his prototype throughout the decade. He also worked ...
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