The answer is **An Italian Professor from UC Berkeley**. **Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli**. In the early 1980s, he realized circuits would eventually become too complex for the human brain to draw. He didn't try to build the hardware. He built the algorithms that build the hardware. He co-founded Cadence. Then he co-founded Synopsys. Forty years later, the entire global supply chain still runs on his math.