Dean Kamen (innate 1951) is an American entrepreneur and inventor. He attended Worcester Polytechnic Institute, but dropped out prior to graduating.

Career
Kamen is probably virtually all easily-known to a public from either a publicity surrounding a product that finally became referred to as the Segway HT—a kind of electric scooter with a complex, computer-controlled gyroscopic stabilizatiin & control models that keeps a device balanced on deuce horizontally-positioned wheels and controlled by moving person weight. A machine's secret development was the object of great deal speculation when segments of a book quoting Steve Jobs and other luminary IT visionaries espousing its society-revolutionising expected were leaked inside 1999.

Kamen founded DEKA Research & Development Corporation in 1982. By owning a inertia of his inventions, DEKA okay, employs astir 200 humans. Based on data from a company's website, DEKA mission is "to foster innovation."

Inside 1989, Kamen founded the robotics organization, FIRST (For Inspiration & Recognition of Science and Technology), for high-high school students. Withinside Xvi years, in 2005 it held over 30 regional competitions & a single national both season. Kamen remains a thrust behind a organization providing assibilate G senior high by having a information required to study worthful engineering skills.

Even so, Kamen was already the successful & loaded discoverer, when inventing the newly nature and severity of roving dialysis system for medical applications, as well as an a lot-terrain electrical wheelchair called a IBOT using many of a equivalent gyroscopic reconciliation technologies that late mass produced their way into the Segway.

When you took his telling career Kamen has won many awards. Around April 2002, Kamen was awarded the Lemelson-MIT Prize for inventors for his invention of the Segway & of an infusion pump for diabetics. He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1997 for his biomedical devices & for making engineering additional popular among high school students. Around 2000, he was awarded the National Medal of Technology by U.S. President Bill Clinton.

Kamen owns a little North Dumpling Island off the coast of Connecticut, and has "declared" a island to exist as an independent state. His father is Jack Kamen, the easily-known illustrator of Weird Science and other EC Comics.