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Authors in Technology & Building

130 people, across 9 fields.

Jane Jacobs 1916–2006Engineering & ArchitectureWriter and activist whose defense of mixed, walkable neighborhoods transformed urban planning.Frederick Winslow Taylor 1856–1915Engineering & ArchitectureMechanical engineer who pioneered scientific management, reshaping industrial efficiency worldwide.Ray Kurzweil b. 1948Technology & InventionBuilt the first machine that read print aloud to the blind, then spent decades predicting when machines would surpass us.Sheryl Sandberg b. 1969Technology & InventionFormer COO of Meta who wrote Lean In and became a prominent voice on women in leadership.Robert Venturi 1925–2018Engineering & ArchitectureArchitect and author of Complexity and Contradiction in ArchitectureDonald Knuth b. 1938Technology & InventionWrote The Art of Computer Programming and created the TeX typesetting system.