American businessman Travis Kalanick is best known as the Co-Founder and former Chief Executive Officer of Uber, the ride-hailing firm that exploded into one of Silicon Valley’s most successful companies. Born in 1976, Kalanick learned to code in middle school…
Tom Perez, a lawyer and the 26th U.S. Secretary of Labor, is a reminder that the American dream is alive and well. Born in Buffalo, New York, Perez came from humble beginnings. His parents were immigrants from the Dominican Republic, and he put himself through college with Pell Grants and by working on the back of a garbage truck…
Few have had a larger place in American literary criticism than Harold Bloom, a best-selling author, longtime Yale professor, and staunch supporter of the Western canon—the body of great works that represents the triumphant best of western culture. Born in 1930, Bloom was educated at Yale University, the University of Cambridge, and Cornell University…
As one of the youngest self-made billionaires in recent years, Evan Spiegel seems to be living the dream. Raised in Los Angeles, the 31-year-old entrepreneur is married to a supermodel, hobnobs with celebrities, and boasts a staggering net worth of $13.8 billion…
Known as “the father of information theory,” Claude Shannon laid the foundation for the entire communication infrastructure underlying the modern information age when he published his landmark paper, “A Mathematical Theory of Communication,” in 1948. In that paper, Shannon theorized that the content of a message simply consists of the number of 1s and 0s it takes to transmit it…
