The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge,Massachusetts. Established in 1861,MIT has since played a key role in the development of modern technology and science,ranking among the top academic institutions in the world.
Barbara Liskov is an American computer scientist who has made pioneering contributions to programming languages and distributed computing. Her notable work includes the development of the Liskov substitution principle which describes the fundamental nature of data abstraction,and is used in type theory and in object-oriented programming. Her work was recognized with the 2008 Turing Award,the highest distinction in computer science.
The Fannie and John Hertz Foundation is an American non-profit organization that awards fellowships to Ph.D. students in the applied physical,biological and engineering sciences. The fellowship provides $250,000 of support over five years. The goal is for Fellows to be financially independent and free from traditional restrictions of their academic departments in order to promote innovation in collaboration with leading professors in the field. Through a rigorous application and interview process,the Hertz Foundation seeks to identify young scientists and engineers with the potential to change the world for the better and supports their research endeavors from an early stage. Fellowship recipients pledge to make their skills available to the United States in times of national emergency.
Stuart E. Madnick is an American computer scientist,and professor of information technology at the MIT Sloan School of Management and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology school of engineering. He is the director of Cybersecurity at MIT Sloan (CAMS),formerly called the MIT Interdisciplinary Consortium for Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity ( ³).
Michael Jones is an American entrepreneur and investor. Jones is currently the CEO of startup studio Science Inc. In 2017,Jones was named one of Los Angeless 500 most influential people by the Los Angeles Business Journal.
The Sloan Research Fellowships are awarded annually by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation since 1955 to "provide support and recognition to early-career scientists and scholars". This program is one of the oldest of its kind in the United States.
AngelPad is an American seed-stage startup incubator,launched in September 2010 by Thomas Korte and Carine Magescas with six other former Google employees as mentors. AngelPad provides mentorship,seed money,and networking at two 10-week courses per year.
Dev Bootcamp was an immersive 19-week coding bootcamp founded by Shereef Bishay,Jesse Farmer,and Dave Hoover in February 2012. It is designed to make graduates job-ready by the end of the program. Dev Bootcamp was headquartered in San Francisco,California,with additional locations in Seattle,Chicago,New York City,Washington DC,San Diego,and Austin. It was acquired by for-profit education company Kaplan,Inc in 2014. Dev Bootcamp closed in 2017. The Dev Bootcamp domain was acquired by Noble Desktop in 2019.
Geoffrey G Parker is a scholar whose work focuses on distributed innovation,energy markets,and the economics of information. He co-developed the theory of two-sided markets with Marshall Van Alstyne.
Bill Aulet is the Managing Director of the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship at MIT and Professor of the Practice at the MIT Sloan School of Management and MIT Sloan Executive Education. He is also the author of Disciplined Entrepreneurship:24 Steps to a Successful Startup.
Fei-Fei Li is an American computer scientist. She is the Sequoia Capital Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University. Li is a Co-Director of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence,and a Co-Director of the Stanford Vision and Learning Lab. She served as the director of the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (SAIL) from 2013 to 2018.
The Data Incubator is a data science education company. It offers corporate data science training and placement services. It is best known for an 8-week educational fellowship preparing students with Master's degrees and PhDs for careers in big data and data science.
Coding bootcamps are intensive programs of software development. They first appeared in 2011.
Vikas Kapoor is the CEO of Mezocliq,an enterprise technology company.
Jelani Osei Nelson is an Ethiopian-American Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California,Berkeley. He won the 2014 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. Nelson is the creator of AddisCoder,a computer science summer program for Ethiopian high school students in Addis Ababa.
Micah Altman is an American social scientist who conducts research in social science informatics. Since 2012,he has worked as the head research scientist in the MIT Libraries,first as director of the Program on Information Science (2012-2018) and subsequently as director of research for the libraries' Center for Research on Equitable and Open Scholarship. Altman previously worked at Harvard University. He is known for his work on redistricting,scholarly communication,privacy and open science. Altman is a co-founder of Public Mapping Project,which develops DistrictBuilder,an open-source software.
Tamara Ann Broderick is an American computer scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She works on machine learning and Bayesian inference.
Monika Schleier-Smith is an American experimental physicist studying many-body quantum physics by precisely assembling systems of ultracold atoms. These atomic,molecular,and optical physics (AMO) engineered systems have applications in quantum sensing,coherent control,and quantum computing. Schleier-Smith is an Associate Professor of Physics at Stanford University,a Sloan Research Fellow,and a National Science Foundation CAREER Award recipient. Schleier-Smith also serves on the board of directors for the Hertz Foundation.
The Center of Applied Data Science (CADS) is a private company established in Malaysia in October 2015. CADS's professed purpose is to nurture a new generation of data scientists and data professionals through programs that focus on solving real business challenges.
Jesse Thaler is an American particle physicist who is a professor at the MIT Department of Physics. He was named director of the NSF Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Fundamental Interactions (IAIFI) upon its creation in August 2020.
