October : Math & Filipinos
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Gemma Teresa Narisma
“I think it is very important to sort of zoom out at how everything pieces together. In zooming out, understanding also the opportunity for space-based information to somehow lead us to look at this and say, “This is how we should attack it.” ~ Gemma Teresa Narisma
Gemma Teresa NarismaDiosdado P. Banatao was a Filipino businessman and electrical engineer working in the high-tech industry, credited with having developed the first 10-Mbit Ethernet CMOS chip, the first system logic chipset compatible with IBM's PC/XT and the PC/AT, and one of the first GUI accelerators for personal computers. Without Dado’s innovations, the computing power we have today would not exist! Dado is the man who invented a graphical chipset that took us from black screens with green writing to the dynamic displays we have today. Still moving, he brought GPS to consumers, and then created the PCI Bus which paved the way for “plug and play” with our computer hardware peripherals. | He then conceived the concept of a “fabless” semi-conductor company, and was able to transform an entire industry by crushing the capital driven barriers to entry and making it possible for small players to enter the market; this paradigm shift naturally resulted in increased competition, technological advancements in semiconductors and massive benefits to consumers and society. Mr. Banatao’s start-up, Chips & Technology (C&T), dramatically launched, making over $12 million in its first four months. IPOed, a follow on launch, after only 22 months, was the fastest selling stock in the US at the time with revenues of over $650 million in less than four years. |
Sustainable Asia Leadership Program: Gemma Narisma
Dado Banatao
“If you’re not called a disruptor, either you did something irrelevant or you did not make a difference at all. ~ Dado Banatao
“Innovation is more important than invention. Innovation implies industry.” ~ Dado Banatao
Dado BanataoDiosdado P. Banatao was a Filipino businessman and electrical engineer working in the high-tech industry, credited with having developed the first 10-Mbit Ethernet CMOS chip, the first system logic chipset compatible with IBM's PC/XT and the PC/AT, and one of the first GUI accelerators for personal computers. Without Dado’s innovations, the computing power we have today would not exist! Dado is the man who invented a graphical chipset that took us from black screens with green writing to the dynamic displays we have today. Still moving, he brought GPS to consumers, and then created the PCI Bus which paved the way for “plug and play” with our computer hardware peripherals. | He then conceived the concept of a “fabless” semi-conductor company, and was able to transform an entire industry by crushing the capital driven barriers to entry and making it possible for small players to enter the market; this paradigm shift naturally resulted in increased competition, technological advancements in semiconductors and massive benefits to consumers and society. Mr. Banatao’s start-up, Chips & Technology (C&T), dramatically launched, making over $12 million in its first four months. IPOed, a follow on launch, after only 22 months, was the fastest selling stock in the US at the time with revenues of over $650 million in less than four years. |
The legacy of Diosdado "Dado" Banatao's Legacy
Gregorio Zara
"Science is the key to progress." ~ Gregorio Ynciong Zara
Gregorio Ynciong ZaraGregorio Ynciong Zara (8 March 1902 – 15 October 1978) was a Filipino engineer, physicist, a National Scientist, and inventor. He was known as the father of videoconferencing for having invented the first two-way videophone. He was also one of the country's pioneer aeronautical engineer having invented an airplane engine that ran on plain alcohol as fuel. Among his other notable inventions include a solar-powered water heater, the discovery of the physical law of electrical kinetic resistance called the Zara effect, and a propeller-cutting machine, among others. | A native of Lipa, Batangas, Zara finished primary schooling at Lipa Elementary School, where he graduated as valedictorian in 1918. In 1922, he again graduated valedictorian in Batangas High School, an accolade which warranted him a grant to study abroad. With full support from his parents he then enrolled at the University of the Philippines in Manila. Zara then enrolled at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the United States, and graduated with a degree of BS in Mechanical Engineering in 1926. |
Gregorio Zara - 1st Videophone Inventor
Dr. Faye Cruz
“Climate change will make extreme climate events, including heatwaves, heavy rainfall, and drought, more frequent and severe,” ~ Dr. Faye Cruz
Faye CruzDr. Faye Abigail Cruz is head of the Regional Climate Systems Lab of the Manila Observatory. She obtained her PhD in Climate Science at the University of New South Wales, and her MSc and BSc in Physics from Ateneo de Manila University. She was also an International Research Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. She is actively involved in atmospheric and climate research in the Philippines and in Southeast Asia, and is a core member of the Southeast Asia Regional Climate Downscaling/Coordinated Regional Climate Downscaling Experiment Southeast Asia project, which aims to provide finer resolution climate change information for the region. | She was a Lead Author in the IPCC AR6 Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis, and a contributing author to the 2016 Philippine Climate Change Assessment: The Physical Science Basis, and the Philippine Climate Extremes Report 2020. |
Filipino climate scientist Dr. Faye Cruz
Jurgenne Primavera
People might think the mangroves are just wet trees, but they give us so much. All we have to do is use them”~ Jurgenne Primavera
Jurgenne H. PrimaveraoséJurgenne Honculada-Primavera (born February 22, 1947) is a widely cited Filipina marine scientist. For her research in mangrove ecosystem conservation she was honored as one of Time magazine's Heroes of the Environment for 2008. She was inducted into the National Academy of Science and Technology (NAST) in 2015. Jurgenne and her twin sister, Georgette, were born on February 22, 1947 in Mindanao, in the Philippines. Primavera completed a BS in zoology from the University of the Philippines Diliman in 1966, an MA in zoology from Indiana University Bloomington in 1969, and a PhD in marine science from the University of the Philippines in 1996. For nearly a decade she taught biology and zoology at Mindanao State University, until a growing insurgency caused her to take a research position with the Aquaculture Department of the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center in the safer Visayas where she retired as scientist emerita in 2007. | Primavera was conferred a PhD honoris causa by Stockholm University in 2004 for her scientific work that shows the role of mangroves as vital recruitment areas for marine life, and that destruction of mangrove areas associated with pond farming of shrimp may have far-reaching negative socioeconomic implications. In 2005, she received a Pew Fellowship in marine conservation. In 2015, she was inducted as academician of the National Academy of Science and Technology (NAST). In 2022, she was elected as a fellow of The World Academy of Sciences. She currently serves as the chief mangrove scientific adviser for the Zoological Society of London. |
Jurgenne H. Primavera - Marine Scientist
Dr. Janice Isabelle Lao
As a parent, we may feel like we want to protect kids from the bad in the world, but climate change is a matter that affects their generation the most. ~ Janice Lao
Janice LaoJanice Lao is both an Environmental Scientist and a Development Economist. For over 20 years, she has been multi-awarded internationally for her work in sustainability, including being named in Forbes Magazine as one of the world’s most influential sustainability leaders, the only Asian, and one of the youngest, in the list. | At 30, she developed the initial mathematical and economic modeling that was the basis for international aviation’s carbon-neutral growth strategy. In 2019, she became the first Asian and the youngest person to win the Edie Sustainability Leader of the Year Award, the Oscars of the international sustainability community. |
Filipina scientist Janice Lao recognized as one of the most powerful leaders in sustainability
Josefino Comiso
Many countries such like Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and Thailand and succeeded in advancing their technologies and I think the Philippines is in a position to jumpstart some of the technologie that are her. ~ Josefino Comiso
Josefino Cacas ComisoJosefino Cacas Comiso (born September 21, 1940) is a Filipino-born Emeritus Scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. He served as a research scientist for 38 years, conducting fieldwork in Antarctica, the Arctic, Alaska, and Greenland. Dr. Comiso has been a leading physical scientist with the Goddard Space Flight Center and NASA since 1979, and has worked on research related to climate change ever since. He has authored more than 150 peer-reviewed journal articles and eight books, and was a coordinating lead author for Working Group I of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's Fifth Assessment Report (2013–2014). His specialties include polar oceanography, sea ice, climate change, and satellite remote sensing. | Reading biographies of scientists, he developed the ambition to become a missionary physician like Albert Schweitzer. He enrolled at Florida State University in Tallahassee, where he studied fundamental particle physics under the supervision of John Albright and received a MS in physics (1966). Continuing his studies, Comiso entered a doctoral program in particle physics at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he completed a dissertation on time reversal invariance in electromagnetic interaction. His experimental work was conducted at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, and he received his PhD in 1972 |
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