THE NATURE OF INNOVATION Clayton Christensen ENABLING COMPONENTS The devices that drive the systems we use. Richard K. Williams The engineer behind the modern low-voltage power FET Zvi Or-Bach Erected the scaffolding for the structured ASIC. DIGITAL MEDIA The era of digital music, movies, radio and TV. Fred Von Lohmann Jim Barton The man behind 'God's machine' for consumers Ron Kolessar Inventor of the Portable People Meter Suji Nakamura Blindsided Japan's old guard with blue LED THE NEED FOR SPEED Pushing systems and networks into today's Gigahertz Era. John Cioffi Built a route to broadband on digital subscriber lines Ajay Bhatt Pushed the PC into the gigahertz era BEYOND THE BOX Pioneering the software the fuels our systems. Joe Santos Pilot's software smooths bumps in chip design Chandu Visweswariah He's getting the chips to run on time Niklas Zennström &Janus Friis The disruptive duo of peer-to-peer networking MOBILITY The wireless nets and devices we take on the road. Dov Moran Progenitor of the USB flash drive THE DIGITAL FRONTIER Digital technology enables new medical, automotive and industrial applications. Scott Vanstone Early advocate of elliptic-curve public-key cryptography Toshi Doi Machine learning luminary—and Aibo's first master