Published: September 15, 2026
The electronics and embedded systems we design today—from tiny ESP32 IoT nodes to massive wireless infrastructure—stand on the shoulders of brilliant researchers who solved the foundational problems of hardware design, communications, and digital logic decades ago. Recently, the engineering community lost several of its most influential pioneers. Their contributions to packet-switched wireless networking, cellular infrastructure, digital logic design automation, and biomedical engineering defined the modern technological landscape.
In this tribute, we look at the lives, achievements, and technical legacies of these remarkable individuals and how their work continues to impact developers, engineers, and makers today.
