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Inventors, engineers and architects who built the machines, networks and skylines.

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Ludwig Mies van der Rohe 1886–1969Engineering & ArchitectureDirected architecture at Illinois Institute of Technology and defined American modernist steel-and-glass buildings.Louis Kahn 1901–1974Engineering & ArchitectureThe Salk Institute, the Kimbell and the National Assembly at Dhaka, from an architect who began at 50.Marvin Minsky 1927–2016Technology & InventionBuilt the first neural network learning machine, then wrote the book blamed for burying the idea.Frederick Terman 1900–1982Technology & InventionStanford dean and provost who built the first university industrial parkTheodore von Karman 1881–1963Engineering & ArchitectureAerodynamics, the Karman vortex street, and the founding of JPL