Leo Rafael Reif belongs to the record of technology as a figure whose work outlasted the moment that produced it.
The record lists Leo Rafael Reif as Venezuelan-born American electrical engineer, writer and academic administrator.
Leo Rafael Reif was born at Maracaibo in 1950. His recorded nationality is the United States. He was educated at Stanford University and University of Carabobo.
The twentieth century made work collective, expensive and political, with consequences that reached well beyond the people doing it.
He worked as inventor, university teacher and administrator.
His affiliations include Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Simón Bolívar University.
Technology is judged by adoption: an invention nobody uses is a curiosity.
His recorded fields of work are electrical engineering.
His work was formally recognised with the Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and honorary doctor of the Tsinghua University.
That the work was done from the United States matters. Opportunity has never been evenly distributed, and where a person is based shapes which doors open and whose work gets seen.
Leo Rafael Reif is still at work, and the final assessment has not been made - the ordinary condition of a living career.
Achievements
- Affiliated with Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Simón Bolívar University
- Educated at Stanford University and University of Carabobo
- Worked as inventor, university teacher and administrator
