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American computer scientist who joined Renaissance Technologies from IBM, co-developed language models for speech recognition, became co-CEO of RenTec, and used his enormous wealth to fund right-wing political causes including Breitbart and Cambridge Analytica.
American quantitative hedge fund founded by David E. Shaw in 1988, known for hiring academic computer scientists and mathematicians to apply computational methods to financial markets.
American computer scientist and founder of D.E. Shaw & Co., one of the first and most successful quantitative hedge funds, which used computational methods to identify statistical arbitrage opportunities across financial markets.
American computer scientist who worked on speech recognition and natural language processing at IBM before joining Renaissance Technologies — where he eventually became co-CEO and dramatically expanded the computing infrastructure behind the Medallion Fund.
Thomas Peterffy's options market making firm founded in 1982 — which developed electronic trading systems to price and trade options — and which became the foundation for Interactive Brokers.