Kool Korean-Americans, Celebrities+Inventors+Artists Options

[JuMong]

Minority Report comes alive:


Jeff Han

Jefferson Y. Han is a research scientist for New York University's (NYU) Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, and one of the main developers of an "interface-free" touch-driven computer screen. The screen is based on "multi-touch sensing," which is similar to existing touch-screen interfaces but able to recognize multiple points of contact.

Jeff Han also works on other projects in the fields of autonomous robot navigation, motion capture, real-time computer graphics, and human-computer interaction.

He presented his multi-touch sensing work in February 2006 at the TED (Technology Entertainment Design) Conference in Monterey, California. TED released the video online 6 months later and it spread quickly on YouTube.

Han has founded a company called Perceptive Pixel to develop his touch screen technology further, and he has already shipped touch screens to parts of the military.[1]

Han studied computer science and electrical engineering for three years at Cornell University before leaving to join a start-up company to commercialize the CU-SeeMe video-conferencing software that he helped develop while an undergraduate at Cornell.[1]



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Han

http://youtube.com/results?search_query=je...p;search=Search

http://blog.centopeia.com/2007/03/21/jeff-...itouch-demo-ii/

[JuMong]

Michelle Wie


http://forums.superiorpics.com/ubbthreads/.../page/1#1313826

Michelle Sung Wie (born October 11, 1989 in Honolulu, Hawaii) is an American professional golfer who has gained fame for her attempts to make a cut at a PGA Tour event. In 2006, she was named in a Time magazine article, "one of 100 people who shape our world."[1] She has been accepted to Stanford University and has said she will be enrolling in fall 2007.[2]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Wie

This post has been edited by JuMong: Jun 10 2007, 12:46 AM

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Jim Lee



Jim Lee (born August 11, 1964) is a Korean American comic book artist, writer, creator and publisher. Jim Lee's distinctive, crisply hatched line art style and rigid, idealized anatomical forms established a new stylistic standard for superhero comic-book illustration, and reinforced a popular trend away from brushed to penned inking in the latter 20th and early 21st century. Lee is currently one of the most successful artists in American comics.

He has received a great deal of recognition for his work in the industry, including the Harvey Special Award for New Talent in 1990.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Lee

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Grace Park



Grace Park (born March 14, 1974[1][2]) is a American-Canadian actress of Korean descent. She is best known as Sharon Valerii (and the various iterations of Number Eight, a humanoid Cylon) on Battlestar Galactica, as well as Shannon Ng in the Canadian television series teen soap Edgemont.

Born in Los Angeles, California, Park and her family moved to Canada when she was 22 months old. Grace Park graduated from Magee Secondary in 1992, holds a degree in psychology from the University of British Columbia and speaks English and Korean, along with some French and Cantonese. She is currently studying Spanish. As of 2005, Park lives in Vancouver with her husband, real estate developer Phil Kim. She was named #93 in Maxim Online's 2006 List[3].

Park has a role in the movie West 32nd,[4] a crime drama dealing with NYC’s Korean underworld which is currently in post-production and expected to be released in 2008.[4][5]

She appeared as Lt. Sandra Telfair in Electronic Arts' Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars, along with her Battlestar Galactica co-star, Tricia Helfer.[6][7]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Park_(actress)

This post has been edited by JuMong: Jun 10 2007, 07:20 PM

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Yujin Kim





Yunjin Kim (Hangul: 김윤진, Hanja: 金允珍, RR: Gim Yun-jin, M-R: Kim Yun-chin, born November 7, 1973) is a Korean American film and theatre actress, best known outside South Korea for her role as Sun Kwon on ABC television series Lost.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yunjin_Kim

She has a very cool website:
http://www.yunjinkim.com/

*I really don't know if she became an American Citizen. For all I know, she still could be Korean National. Some Koreans still tend to be fiercely nationalistic.

This post has been edited by JuMong: Jun 10 2007, 07:31 PM

[namjanurse7]

Sarah Chang





Sarah Chang (born December 10, 1980) is a Korean American violinist with Korean nationality.

Chang was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania of Korean heritage. She asked her parents for a violin at the age of 3 and auditioned for the Juilliard School at 7 playing the Bruch Violin Concerto.
Chang was recognized as a child prodigy early on and when she was 8, was given the opportunity to audition with such names as Zubin Mehta and Riccardo Muti, who were working, respectively, with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra and the Philadelphia Orchestra. Both gave her immediate engagements. At 9, she was possibly the youngest violinist ever to record. Her teacher in an interview claimed that no one had ever seen "anything like her".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Chang

This post has been edited by namjanurse7: Jun 11 2007, 03:19 PM