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Chris Malachowsky is an American electrical engineer, one of the founders of computer graphics company Nvidia. He received a B.S. degree in 1983 in electrical engineering from the University of Florida and an M.S. degree in 1986 from Santa Clara University. In 2008, he received the Distinguished... Alumni Award from Santa Clara University and in 2009 he was inducted into the inaugural set of members of University of Florida's ECE Academy, "alumni who have made a significant mark in engineering". Early in his career, he worked for Hewlett-Packard and Sun Microsystems. He co-founded Nvidia in April 1993 with Curtis Priem and Jen-Hsun Huang and is still a Senior Vice President for Engineering and Operations.
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Curtis R. Priem is an American computer scientist. He received a B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1982. He designed the first graphics processor for the PC, the IBM Professional Graphics Adapter. From 1986 to 1993, he was a senior staff engineer at Sun... Microsystems, where he developed the GX graphics chip. He cofounded NVIDIA with Jen-Hsun Huang and Chris Malachowsky and was its Chief Technical Officer from 1993 to 2003. He retired from NVIDIA in 2003. In 2000, RPI named him Entrepreneur of the Year. From 2003 to 2007 he was a trustee of Rensselaer. In 2004 he announced that he would donate an unrestricted gift of $40 million to the Institute. Rensselaer subsequently created the Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center, named in his honor and usually referred to as "EMPAC" for short. He is also president of the Priem Family Foundation, which he established with his wife Veronica in September, 1999. The foundation is non-operating and exists only to give money to other foundations or charities.
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Steven Chu is an American physicist and the 12th United States Secretary of Energy. Chu is known for his research at Bell Labs in cooling and... trapping of atoms with laser light, which won him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1997, along with his scientific colleagues Claude Cohen-Tannoudji and William Daniel Phillips. At the time of his appointment as Energy Secretary, he was a professor of physics and molecular and cellular biology at the University of California, Berkeley and the director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, where his research was concerned primarily with the study of biological systems at the single molecule level. Previously, he had been a professor of physics at Stanford University. He is a vocal advocate for more research into renewable energy and nuclear power, arguing that a shift away from fossil fuels is essential to combating climate change. For example, he has conceived of a global "glucose economy", a form of a low-carbon economy, in which glucose from tropical plants is shipped around like oil is today. Chu, a Chinese American, was born in St.
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Mark Stevens focuses on semiconductor, software, systems and energy-related investments. Prior to joining Sequoia Capital in 1989, he held technical... and field sales positions at Intel and was a member of the technical staff at Hughes Aircraft. Mark is a member of the Board of Trustees of the University of Southern California. In addition, Mark is a board member of the Venture Capital Advisory Board for the Fabless Semiconductor Association. Mark has a BS in Electrical Engineering, a BA in Economics and an MS in Computer Engineering from the University of Southern California and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
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Tench Coxe is an American venture capital who serves as a director of a number of small or start-up companies. After graduating from Dartmouth... College in 1980, he earned an MBA from the Harvard Business School in 1984 while working as a Wall Street analyst for Lehman Brothers. He entered the direct business world as a product manager Digital Communications Associates, before assuming his current role as Managing Director for Sutter Hill Ventures. For the past five years Forbes magazine has ranked him as one of the top 20 venture capitalists in the United States.
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