Biography
Mike Horton was born October 23, 1973 in Austin, Texas, the second of two children of Claude Wendell Horton, Jr. and Elisabeth Alice Becker. Horton earned a B.S. and an M.S. in electrical engineering from the University of California at Berkeley. Following his graduation, Horton co-founded Crossbow Technology with his advisor A. Richard Newton. In 2003, MIT’s Technology Review magazine named Mike Horton one of the top young innovators under 35.
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