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An electrical engineer who developed blue light-emitting diodes.[ref]
Professional profile of Isamu Akasaki (meijo-u.ac.jp). Independent professional identity
Portrait of Isamu Akasaki
. 大臣官房人事課; attribution: 文部科学省ホームページ. CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Source.An electrical engineer researching semiconductor devices and crystal growth.[ref]
Professional profile of Hiroshi Amano (profs.provost.nagoya-u.ac.jp). Independent professional identity
Portrait of Hiroshi Amano
. 研究振興局振興企画課; attribution: 文部科学省ホームページ. CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Source.An electrical engineer researching gallium nitride light emitters.[ref]
Professional profile of Shuji Nakamura (engineering.ucsb.edu). Independent professional identity
Portrait of Shuji Nakamura
. Glenn Beltz. CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Source.An electrical engineer researching semiconductor crystal growth and optoelectronics.[ref]
Professional profile of Kazumasa Hiramatsu (www2.elec.mie-u.ac.jp). Independent professional identity
An electrical engineer who developed semiconductor light-emitting devices at Nichia.[ref]
High-Power Pure Blue InGaN Laser Diodes by Atsuo Michiue and others. Independent professional identity
A physicist researching condensed matter physics.[ref]
Gérard Mourou – Biographical by Gérard Mourou. Independent professional identity
An electrical engineer who develops quantum-computing hardware.[ref]
Professional profile of Marissa Giustina (mcqst.de). Opening professional description; Vienna research paragraph.
Portrait of Marissa Giustina
. Google. CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Source.A computer scientist.[ref]
https://engineering.oregonstate.edu/alumni-partners/oregon-stater-awards/searchable-awards-database/paul-e-mckenney-academy. Independent biography: identity and specialization
A computer scientist.[ref]
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/people/thoare/. Institutional biography, opening identity and computer-science research
Portrait of Tony Hoare
. Dennis Hamilton (orcmid), Flickr; File caption identifies FLoC 2006, 18 August 2006. Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic., via Wikimedia Commons. Source.A computer scientist.[ref]
https://www.cs.huji.ac.il/w~kirk/. Independent biographical source: Institutional homepage identifies School of Computer Science and Engineering and research interests; self-authored January 2009 CV confirms physics PhD and computer science professorship. No life dates asserted.
Portrait of Scott Kirkpatrick
. Photograph from Hebrew University of Jerusalem's official researcher profile. Source.Homepage: www.cs.princeton.edu/~ret/
Institutional profile: www.hertzfoundation.org/people/robert-tarjan/
Portrait of Gerald Jay Sussman
. Phoebe, own photograph at MIT, 29 January 2024; existing Commons crop. Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International., via Wikimedia Commons. Source.Homepage: jeffe.cs.illinois.edu/
Portrait drawing of Jeff Erickson
. Drawing by Damien Erickson (2018), from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign's official researcher profile. Source.Identity source: theory.cs.berkeley.edu/
Portrait of Venkatesan Guruswami
. Photograph from University of California, Berkeley's official researcher profile. Source.Identity source: www.cs.ubc.ca/~nickhar/W12/
Portrait of Nicholas Harvey
. Portrait identified on the cited institutional profile.Identity source: www2.cs.sfu.ca/~kabanets/
Portrait of Valentine Kabanets
. Portrait identified on the cited institutional profile.A computer scientist researching adaptive and distributed computing.[ref]
David H. Ackley by David H. Ackley. Homepage: emeritus Computer Science professorship and computing research
Pinned article: Introduction to the OurBigBook Project
Welcome to the OurBigBook Project! Our goal is to create the perfect publishing platform for STEM subjects, and get university-level students to write the best free STEM tutorials ever.
Everyone is welcome to create an account and play with the site: ourbigbook.com/go/register. We belive that students themselves can write amazing tutorials, but teachers are welcome too. You can write about anything you want, it doesn't have to be STEM or even educational. Silly test content is very welcome and you won't be penalized in any way. Just keep it legal!
Intro to OurBigBook
. Source. We have two killer features:
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- a Wikipedia where each user can have their own version of each article
- a Q&A website like Stack Overflow, where multiple people can give their views on a given topic, and the best ones are sorted by upvote. Except you don't need to wait for someone to ask first, and any topic goes, no matter how narrow or broad
This feature makes it possible for readers to find better explanations of any topic created by other writers. And it allows writers to create an explanation in a place that readers might actually find it.Figure 1. Screenshot of the "Derivative" topic page. View it live at: ourbigbook.com/go/topic/derivativeVideo 2. OurBigBook Web topics demo. Source. - local editing: you can store all your personal knowledge base content locally in a plaintext markup format that can be edited locally and published either:This way you can be sure that even if OurBigBook.com were to go down one day (which we have no plans to do as it is quite cheap to host!), your content will still be perfectly readable as a static site.
- to OurBigBook.com to get awesome multi-user features like topics and likes
- as HTML files to a static website, which you can host yourself for free on many external providers like GitHub Pages, and remain in full control
Figure 2. You can publish local OurBigBook lightweight markup files to either OurBigBook.com or as a static website.Figure 3. Visual Studio Code extension installation.Figure 5. . You can also edit articles on the Web editor without installing anything locally. Video 3. Edit locally and publish demo. Source. This shows editing OurBigBook Markup and publishing it using the Visual Studio Code extension. - Infinitely deep tables of contents:
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