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The International company of Inventors' (IFIA) is a non-profit, nongovernmental organization founded in London under the supervision of the United Nations, on July 11, 1968, by inventors of Denmark, Finland, Germany, Great Britain, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland. [5]
The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution is an overview of the history of computer science and the Digital Revolution. It was written by Walter Isaacson , and published in 2014 by Simon & Schuster .
The National Academy of Inventors (NAI) is a US non-profit organization dedicated to encouraging inventors in academia, following the model of the National Academies of the United States. [1] It was founded at the University of South Florida in 2010. Starting in 2012, the NAI has inducted 757 Fellows into the organization. [2]
Raymond Kurzweil (/ ˈ k ɜːr z w aɪ l / KURZ-wyle; born February 12, 1948) is an American computer scientist, author, entrepreneur, futurist, and inventor.He is involved in fields such as optical character recognition (OCR), text-to-speech synthesis, speech recognition technology and electronic keyboard instruments.
The National Inventors Hall of Fame is an American not-for-profit organization, founded in 1973, which recognizes individual engineers and inventors who hold a U.S. patent of significant technology. As of 2020, 603 inventors have been inducted, mostly constituting historic persons from the past three centuries, but including about 100 living ...
Mark E. Dean (born March 2, 1957) [1] is an American inventor and computer engineer. He developed the ISA bus with his partner Dennis Moeller, and he led a design team for making a one-gigahertz computer processor chip. [2] He holds three of nine PC patents for being the co-creator of the IBM personal computer released in 1981. [3]
Thomas Parke Hughes (September 13, 1923 [1] – February 3, 2014 [2]) was an American historian of technology.He was an emeritus professor of history at the University of Pennsylvania [3] and a visiting professor at MIT and Stanford.
Ida Rosenthal (1886–1973), Belarus/Russia/U.S. – Bra , the standard of cup sizes, nursing bra, full-figured bra, the first seamed uplift bra (all with her husband William) Sidney Rosenthal (1907–1979), U.S. – Magic Marker; Eugene Roshal (born 1972), Russia – FAR file manager, RAR file format, WinRAR file archiver