"We operate under a few basic assumptions around here, " says David Wheeler, 47, InfoGlide's red-bearded founder and chief technology officer.
Joe Perez, a founder of several technology companies, believes that, "mobile life coaches" will help monitor our diets and fitness regimes.
Jay Whitacre, a Carnegie Mellon professor as well as founder and chief technology officer of Aquion, is trying to change the equation.
Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer Randy Cortright says the proof is in the speed with which Virent went from the lab to demonstration.
During a recent company presentation, Xiaomi Technology founder Lei Jun reportedly wore jeans and a black top, emulating the style of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs.
Navigation will not likely be the most valuable service that the indoor version can provide, however, said Dan Ryan, co-founder and chief technology officer of ByteLight.
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Brian Behlendorf, founder and chief technology officer of CollabNet, says that the open-source ethos allows programmers, particularly those collaborating from different locations, to work together more efficiently.
Broad has also given millions to help fund embryonic stem cell research, as have fellow billionaires Ray Dolby, founder of audio technology maker Dolby Labs, and New York mayor Michael Bloomberg.
"Right now is the perfect time for augmented reality to gain new momentum because hardware finally has the needed sophistication of built-in cameras, " said Orbotix Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer Ian Bernstein.
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According to The San Jose Mercury News, Milner bought the property in Los Altos Hills with a combination of cash and pre-IPO Facebook shares, from Fred Chan, the founder of ESS Technology.
Krishna Kurapati, founder and chief technology officer of Sipera Systems , demonstrated vulnerabilities of several Wi-Fi devices at Wednesday's presentations, crashing a Blackberry and a D-Link phone onstage by hacking their wireless Internet connections.
Still, the shield's effectiveness as a defense in cyber-warfare is far from clear: Bruce Schneier, the founder and chief technology officer of security firm BT Counterpane, argues that no single strategy can stop determined hackers.
Broad has also given millions to help fund embryonic stem cell research, as have fellow billionaires Ray Dolby, founder of audio technology maker Dolby Labs (nyse: DLB - news - people ), and New York mayor Michael Bloomberg.
Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO) will reportedly add Max Levchin, the co-founder and former Chief Technology Officer of PayPal, to its board.
Larry Tabb, founder of the financial technology research firm, TABB Group, has in the past made two key points related to high-frequency trading.
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"Very little can happen without having the utilities involved in the process, " said Ron Pernick, a founder of clean-technology consulting firm Clean Edge.
"Of course when you are founding a company you say yes to almost anything, " says Michael Klug, a founder and now chief technology officer.
Stuart Miles, founder and head of technology news website Pocket-lint, said the Bluestacks software would likely prove popular with keen users of Android apps.
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In the 1980s Amar Bose, an electrical engineer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and founder of the audio company of that name, pulled off this trick for the first time by designing pilots' headphones that reduce the noise of jet engines.
But in a lecture on what he's learned about innovation, Mike Lynch - who's the founder of another Cambridge technology success story, Autonomy - bemoaned the fact that all the brilliant work done by the university's scientists had failed to translate into many big hitters in the FTSE-100.
"The essence of ETech is our idea that you often see the seeds of the future in places where people are having fun with technology, " says Timothy O'Reilly, the founder of ETech, as well as other technology shindigs, and the publishing house that carries his name.
Mr Colella's co-founder is now the chief technology officer for Mr Obama's health department.
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Louis Rossetto, the co-founder of Wired, a technology magazine, is on board as chief executive.
Enter Peter Lankford, founder of STAC (Securities Technology Analysis Center), in Warrenville, Ill.
It was that core technology that Compuware founder Peter Karmanos spotted in 2004, hoping to incorporate it into the health care industry, notoriously lagging when it came to information technology.
Rob Atkinson is founder and President of the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation and Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution Metropolitan Policy Program.
The PGM uses a semiconductor chip to sequencing DNA, a technology that Ion Torrent founder Jonathan Rothberg says will allow his machine to increase in speed at a rate of 10-fold every six months.
Gaikai founder Dave Perry explained that the technology is baked in to the PS4 architecture, and will give players new avenues of sharing their experiences by piping out video to Facebook and Ustream.
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Scott Dinhofer is co-founder of Redstar Exchange, a technology company that helps Wall Street investment firms identify the best and brightest young recruits through a high tech on-line platform that includes live video interviewing.
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