BLACK STEM INNOVATORS.
1% of blacks represent the Silicone Valley we need more stem researchers and innovators.
MARKK DEAN
Dr. Mark Dean is considered a genius in mathematics computer inventors in the world. He is an
American inventor and a computer engineer. He was part of the team that developed the ISA bus, and
he led a design team for making a one-gigahertz computer processor chip.
He holds three of IBM’s original nine PC patents. He was named an IBM fellow, the first African-
American ever to receive the honor. A year later, he was honored with the Black Engineer of the Year
President’s Award and was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame. In 2001, he was tapped to
be a member of the National Academy of Engineers. In 1995, Dr. Dean was named an IBM Fellow in
1995, one of only 50 active fellows of IBM’s 300,000 employees. Dean was the first African American to
be honored with IBM Fellowship
ROY CLARK SR.
He is a silicon valley pioneer who worked as a research and development director for Hewlett Packard
computer division working on the design and construction of the company first computers in the 1960.
He later founded Rod L electronics which tests for safety in electrical equipment and is consistently used
today.
JAMES WEST
Professor of electrical and computer engineering and mechanical engineering.
He is known worldwide as the co-inventor of the foil electret microphone. This is a type of condenser microphone upon which 90 percent of all microphones used today are based (such as telephones, sound and music recording equipment, and hearing aids). West developed the invention with his research partner Gerhard Sessler in 1962 while both were scientists at Bell Laboratories in Murray Hills, NJ.
Mr. West won the Benjamin Franklin Medal in electrical engineering from the Franklin Institute in 2010. He holds over 250 foreign and U.S.
patents for the production and design of microphones and techniques for creating polymer foil electrets.
West received a BS in Physics from Temple University in 1957. In 2001, West retired from Lucent
Technologies after a distinguished 40-year career at Bell Laboratories where he received the
organization’s highest honor, being named a Bell Laboratories Fellow. West then joined the faculty of
the Whiting School at Johns Hopkins University where he is currently a Professor in the Department of
Electrical and Computer Engineering. In 2007, West received an honorary doctorate from NJIT.
EMMIT J. MCHENRY
He co – founded the Network Solutions Inc In 1995. It is one of the prior leading internet domain services
providers. It is an international telecommunications and engineering company that has won award s
from IBM and NASA among others.
Gerald Lawson
In November 1976 and was the first programmable ROM cartridge-based video game console, as well as
the first console to use a microprocessor. In 1980 Lawson left Fairchild to set up his own game venture
called Videosoft , a video game development company which made software for the Atari 2600 in the
early 1980s, as the 2600 had displaced the Channel F as the top system in the market. His impressive
creation of the Fairchild Channel F video game console separated him from his contemporaries such as
Nolan Bushnell and Ralph Baer. Gerald Lawson’s main distinction as the inventor of the video game
cartridge that set the standard for how video games were played for the next 30 years. The cartridges
were sold separately, unlike previous games that were built into the hardware.
Gerald Lawson and Ron Jones were the sole black members of the Homebrew Computer Club, a group
of early computer hobbyists which would produce a number of industry legends, including Apple
founders Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. Lawson also produced one of the earliest arcade games which
he created in the 70’s in his garage Demolition Derby that incorporated a microprocessor which debuted
in a southern California pizzeria shortly after Pong. Lawson later worked with the Stanford mentor
program and was preparing to write a book on his career.
In March 2011, Lawson was honored as an industry pioneer by the International Game Developers
Association. One month later on April 9 he fell ill in Santa Clara were he resided. He went to the hospital
. He died of complications from diabetes at El Camino Hospital in Mountain View at the age of 70 as
stated by Karen Lawson his daughter in the LA Times. He was survived by his wife, Catherine, and two
children Karen and Marc.
Alan Emtage
Search Engine Inventor
Was employed as a systems Administrator for the School of Computer Science at McGill University. He
invented a program that would automate the time xonsuming process of finding software for teachers
and students. The program he named “Archie”, His program was the world.
Herman Chinery-Hesse
Software Entrepreneur
Known as the Bill Gates of Ghana he is known for the bootstrapping tech company offering a variety of
software services such as payroll management, airline ticketing and booking and much more.
Angela Benton Tech entrepreneur
She co founded Black web 2.0 now called B20 to highlight the exceptional innovation and talent of
blacks in the technology and new media industries. In 2011 she founded NewMe, which is a platform
that helps minority and women and men entrepreneurs create successful businesses the online platform
helped entrepreneurs raise more that $20 million in venture capital funding.
Frank Greene Tech entrepreneur
Developed high performance computers for the NSA . He worked for Fairchild semiconductor developed
the patented memory chip design. He holds the patent for the inrerfrated circuit that helped the
company becomes a reckoning force in the semiconductor space.
He has also taught electrical engineering and computer science for five universities he founded multiple
companies and was one of just a few dozen people to be inducted into the Silicon Valley Engineering
Hall Of Fame.
Kunle Olukotun
Electrical Engineering Professor
Julian Manly Earls, Physicist and Federal Government Advisor
In the course of four decades at Nasa became Nasa first black section head firs black office chief first
black division chief and first black deputy director not to mention he wrote nasas health and physics
guides he has so many researches under his belet which he developed he has been part of aeronautical
propulsion and microgravity sciences .