"People are using photovoltaic cells to recharge mobile phones, and to power computers, light bulbs and satellite TVs," says Yoshihiro Hamakawa, deputy dean at Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto, Japan, and a key inventor of solar power generation technology.
"People are using photovoltaic cells to recharge mobile phones and to power computers, light bulbs and satellite TVs," says Yoshihiro Hamakawa, deputy dean at Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto and a key inventor of solar power generation technology.
You don't ever want to have to tell your board of directors, "Our key inventor left a month ago, and those patents we thought were assigned to the company, well, they weren't".
Hall was a key inventor of the idea of adolescence as a period of life distinct from both childhood and adulthood, as is generally accepted today.
While graphic novelist Warren Ellis, a key re-inventor of Tony Stark over the past decade, calls Stark "a test pilot for the future," this version is losing altitude.
The results show that while collaboration within firms, research centres and universities remains crucial, external networks of inventors are key feature of innovation teams.
Mr. Key was also an inventor of anthropomorphic animal characters, among them Mr. Peabody, the time-traveling professor who happened to be a dog, and his little boy sidekick, Sherman, created to fill out a half-hour cartoon show, "Rocky and His Friends".
"Clearly the answer is no," said Whitfield Diffie, the inventor of public key cryptography, a method of encoding communications sent on the Internet.
Many of the leaders of key projects (like Guido van Rossum, the inventor of Python, who works at Google ) are paid by their employers to continue to lead their projects.
By the time Kocher graduated from Stanford, he was already well-known as a protégé of Martin Hellman, the co-inventor of public key encryption, the most widely used security technique on the Internet.
