Marian Rogers Croak is a Vice President of Engineering at Google. She was previously the Senior Vice President of Research and Development at AT&T.[1] She holds more than 200 patents.[2] She was inducted into the Women in Technology International Hall of Fame in 2013.[2] In 2022, Croak was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame for her patent regarding VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) Technology.[3] She is […]
Mukesh Dhirubhai Ambani (born 19 April 1957) is an Indian business magnate, chairman, managing director, and the largest shareholder of Reliance Industries Ltd. (RIL), a Fortune Global 500 company and India’s most valuable company by market value. According to Forbes and Bloomberg Billionaires Index, Ambani’s net worth is estimated at US$86.3 billion as of 4 July 2022, making him the second richest person in Asia after Gautam […]
COL Dave Barnes, PhD is Professor, United States Military Academy (USMA) and Deputy Head of the Department of English and Philosophy. He serves as the Chief AI Ethics Officer for the US Army’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) Task Force, advising the Army on incorporating ethics, law, and policy into Army AI design, development, testing, and employment, […]
Francesca Rossi (born December 7, 1962) is an Italian computer scientist, doing research in artificial intelligence. She is a full professor at the University of Padua.[1] She is the president of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence and is Associate Editor in Chief of the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research. She has been appointed an IBM Fellow in 2020.[2] She […]
William Henry Gates III (born October 28, 1955) is an American business magnate, software developer, investor, author, and philanthropist. He is a co-founder of Microsoft, along with his late childhood friend Paul Allen. During his career at Microsoft, Gates held the positions of chairman, chief executive officer (CEO), president and chief software architect, while also being the largest individual shareholder until May 2014. He was a major entrepreneur of […]
Paula Goldman is Salesforce’s first-ever Chief Ethical and Humane Use Officer. In her role, she leads Salesforce in creating a framework to build and deploy ethical technology that optimizes social benefit. Prior to Salesforce, Paula served as Vice President, Global Lead, Tech and Society Solutions Lab, at Omidyar Network, a social impact investment firm established […]
Jordan Bernt Peterson (born 12 June 1962) is a Canadian clinical psychologist, YouTube personality, author, and a professor emeritus at the University of Toronto.[7] He began to receive widespread attention as a public intellectual in the late 2010s for his views on cultural and political issues, often described as conservative.[8][9][10] Peterson has described himself as a “classic British liberal“[11][12][13] and a “traditionalist“.[14] Born and raised in Alberta, Peterson […]
Mills played college basketball for the Princeton Tigers, where he was teammate of future NBA coach David Blatt, under the tutelage of coach Pete Carril from 1978 to 1981.[2] During his senior season, Mills averaged 12.0 points and 1.5 steals. After going undrafted in the 1981 NBA draft, he initially accepted a position as manager of new business development for Chemical Bank. After […]
Alan Dershowitz, in full Alan Morton Dershowitz, (born September 1, 1938, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.), American lawyer and author known for his writings and media appearances in which he strongly and often controversially defended civil liberties, in particular those regarding freedom of speech. He also garnered attention for his involvement in numerous prominent legal cases. Dershowitz earned a […]
Sonia Sotomayor, in full Sonia Maria Sotomayor, (born June 25, 1954, Bronx, New York, U.S.), associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 2009. She was the first Hispanic and the third woman to serve on the Supreme Court. The daughter of parents who moved to New York City from Puerto Rico, Sotomayor was raised […]
Elena Kagan, (born April 28, 1960, New York, New York, U.S.), associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 2010. She also was the first woman to serve as U.S. solicitor general (2009–10). Elena Kagan being sworn in as associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court by Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr., August […]
Microsoft’s CEO Warns of the Impact of All Those Late-Night Emails Microsoft Corp. Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella warned that employee well-being could suffer from an ever-expanding workday that often now creeps well into the night. Nadella, whose company has studied how remote work impacts collaboration to improve its Teams software, cited Microsoft research showing that about […]