Nobel

Nobel Prize

The Nobel Prizes are annual international awards bestowed by Scandinavian committees in recognition of cultural and scientific advances. The will of the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, established the prizes in 1895...

 laureates

• Clifford Shull
  Clifford Shull
  Clifford Glenwood Shull was a Nobel Prize-winning American physicist.-Biography:...
  
   (B.S. 1937), 1994 Nobel Prize in Physics
  Nobel Prize in Physics
  The Nobel Prize in Physics is awarded once a year by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895 and awarded since 1901; the others are the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Peace Prize, and...
  
  
• John Forbes Nash
  John Forbes Nash
  John Forbes Nash, Jr. is an American mathematician whose works in game theory, differential geometry, and partial differential equations have provided insight into the forces that govern chance and events inside complex systems in daily life...
  
   (B.S. 1948, M.S. 1948), 1994 Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences, the subject of A Beautiful Mind
  A Beautiful Mind (book)
  A Beautiful Mind is an unauthorized biography of Nobel Prize-winning economist and mathematician John Forbes Nash, Jr. by Sylvia Nasar, professor of journalism at Columbia University...
  
  
• Finn E. Kydland
  Finn E. Kydland
  Finn Erling Kydland is a Norwegian economist. He is currently the Henley Professor of Economics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He also holds the Richard P...
  
   (Ph.D. 1973, Faculty member), 2004 Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences
• Edward C. Prescott
  Edward C. Prescott
  Edward Christian Prescott is an American economist. He received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics in 2004, sharing the award with Finn E. Kydland, "for their contributions to dynamic macroeconomics: the time consistency of economic policy and the driving forces behind business cycles"...
  
   (Ph.D. 1967, Faculty member 1971–1980), 2004 Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences
• John L. Hall
  John L. Hall
  John Lewis "Jan" Hall is an American physicist, and Nobel laureate in physics. He shared one half of the 2005 Nobel Prize in Physics with Theodor W. Hänsch for his work in precision spectroscopy.-Biography:...
  
   (B.S. 1956, M.S. 1958, Ph.D. 1961), 2005 Nobel Prize in Physics
  Nobel Prize in Physics
  The Nobel Prize in Physics is awarded once a year by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895 and awarded since 1901; the others are the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Peace Prize, and...
  
  
• Oliver E. Williamson
  Oliver E. Williamson
  Oliver Eaton Williamson is an American economist, professor at the University of California, Berkeley and recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences....
  
   (Ph.D. 1963), 2009 Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences
• Dale Thomas Mortensen (Ph.D. 1967), 2010 Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences

Turing Award

Turing Award

The Turing Award, in full The ACM A.M. Turing Award, is an annual award given by the Association for Computing Machinery to "an individual selected for contributions of a technical nature made to the computing community. The contributions should be of lasting and major technical importance to the...

 recipients

• Alan Perlis
  Alan Perlis
  Alan Jay Perlis was an American computer scientist known for his pioneering work in programming languages and the first recipient of the Turing Award.-Biography:...
  
   (B.S. 1943, Faculty Member 1956-1971), compiler
  Compiler
  A compiler is a computer program that transforms source code written in a programming language into another computer language...
  
   construction, 1966 - first Turing Award
  Turing Award
  The Turing Award, in full The ACM A.M. Turing Award, is an annual award given by the Association for Computing Machinery to "an individual selected for contributions of a technical nature made to the computing community. The contributions should be of lasting and major technical importance to the...
  
   winner
• Allen Newell
  Allen Newell
  Allen Newell was a researcher in computer science and cognitive psychology at the RAND corporation and at Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Computer Science, Tepper School of Business, and Department of Psychology...
  
   (Ph.D 1957, Faculty Member 1961-1992), artificial intelligence
  Artificial intelligence
  Artificial intelligence is the intelligence of machines and the branch of computer science that aims to create it. AI textbooks define the field as "the study and design of intelligent agents" where an intelligent agent is a system that perceives its environment and takes actions that maximize its...
  
  , 1975
• Ivan Sutherland
  Ivan Sutherland
  Ivan Edward Sutherland is an American computer scientist and Internet pioneer. He received the Turing Award from the Association for Computing Machinery in 1988 for the invention of Sketchpad, an early predecessor to the sort of graphical user interface that has become ubiquitous in personal...
  
   (B.S. 1959) Computer graphics, 1988
• Edward Feigenbaum
  Edward Feigenbaum
  Edward Albert Feigenbaum is a computer scientist working in the field of artificial intelligence. He is often called the "father of expert systems."...
  
   (B.S. 1956, Ph.D 1960), artificial intelligence
  Artificial intelligence
  Artificial intelligence is the intelligence of machines and the branch of computer science that aims to create it. AI textbooks define the field as "the study and design of intelligent agents" where an intelligent agent is a system that perceives its environment and takes actions that maximize its...
  
  , 1994

Enrico Fermi Award

Enrico Fermi Award

The Enrico Fermi Award is an award honoring scientists of international stature for their lifetime achievement in the development, use, or production of energy. It is administered by the U.S. government's Department of Energy...

 winners

• George Cowan
  George Cowan
  George A. Cowan is an American physical chemist, a businessman and philanthropist. He conducted early research in the Manhattan Project. George served 39 years at Los Alamos National Laboratory as director of chemistry, associate director of research and senior laboratory fellow. He participated...
  
   (Ph.D. 1950), nuclear scientist who was involved in the Manhattan Project
  Manhattan Project
  The Manhattan Project was a research and development program, led by the United States with participation from the United Kingdom and Canada, that produced the first atomic bomb during World War II. From 1942 to 1946, the project was under the direction of Major General Leslie Groves of the US Army...
  
  , the U.S. atomic initiative during World War II and founder of the Santa Fe Institute
  Santa Fe Institute
  The Santa Fe Institute is an independent, nonprofit theoretical research institute located in Santa Fe and dedicated to the multidisciplinary study of the fundamental principles of complex adaptive systems, including physical, computational, biological, and social systems.The Institute houses a...
  
  

National Medal of Science

National Medal of Science

The National Medal of Science is an honor bestowed by the President of the United States to individuals in science and engineering who have made important contributions to the advancement of knowledge in the fields of behavioral and social sciences, biology, chemistry, engineering, mathematics and...

 recipients

• Frederick Rossini
  Frederick Rossini
  Frederick Dominic Rossini was an American thermodynamicist noted for his work in chemical thermodynamics.In 1920, at the age of twenty-one, Rossini entered Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh, and soon was awarded a full-time teaching scholarship. He graduated with a B.S. in chemical...
  
   (B.S. 1925, M.S. 1926, DSc (hon.) 1948), Chemistry
• Raoul Bott
  Raoul Bott
  Raoul Bott, FRS was a Hungarian mathematician known for numerous basic contributions to geometry in its broad sense...
  
   (Ph.D. 1949), Mathematical, Statistical, and Computer Sciences, 1987
• George Pake
  George Pake
  George Pake was a physicist and research executive primarily known for helping found Xerox PARC. Pake earned his bachelors and masters degrees from the Carnegie Institute of Technology and his doctorate in physics at Harvard University in 1948.A rather serious case of scoliosis kept Pake out of...
  
   (B.S., M.S. 1945), Physical Sciences, 1987
• Allen Newell
  Allen Newell
  Allen Newell was a researcher in computer science and cognitive psychology at the RAND corporation and at Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Computer Science, Tepper School of Business, and Department of Psychology...
  
   (Ph.D 1957, Professor), Mathematical, Statistical, and Computer Sciences, 1992

National Medal of Technology

National Medal of Technology

The National Medal of Technology and Innovation is an honor granted by the President of the United States to American inventors and innovators who have made significant contributions to the development of new and important technology...

 recipients

• Frank L. Stulen
  Frank L. Stulen
  Frank L. Stulen invented numerical control of machine tools, together with his employer John T. Parsons, in the 1940s. Parsons received most of the credit, since he came up with most of the original ideas; However, Stulen was the one who turned these ideas into working machines.In 1985, Stulen and...
  
   (1943), numerical control
  Numerical control
  Numerical control refers to the automation of machine tools that are operated by abstractly programmed commands encoded on a storage medium, as opposed to controlled manually via handwheels or levers, or mechanically automated via cams alone...
  
   of machine tools, 1985
• Robert Dennard
  Robert Dennard
  Robert Dennard is an American electrical engineer and inventor.Dennard was born in Terrell, Texas, U.S.. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Southern Methodist University, Dallas, in 1954 and 1956, respectively. He earned a Ph.D. from Carnegie Institute of...
  
   (Ph.D. 1958), dynamic random access memory
  Dynamic random access memory
  Dynamic random-access memory is a type of random-access memory that stores each bit of data in a separate capacitor within an integrated circuit. The capacitor can be either charged or discharged; these two states are taken to represent the two values of a bit, conventionally called 0 and 1...
  
   (DRAM), 1988
• Stephanie Kwolek
  Stephanie Kwolek
  Stephanie Louise Kwolek is a Polish-American chemist who invented poly-paraphenylene terephtalamide—better known as Kevlar. She was born in the Pittsburgh suburb of New Kensington, Pennsylvania. Kwolek has won numerous awards for her work in polymer chemistry.- Early life and education :Kwolek was...
  
   (B.S. 1946), inventor of Kevlar
  Kevlar
  Kevlar is the registered trademark for a para-aramid synthetic fiber, related to other aramids such as Nomex and Technora. Developed at DuPont in 1965, this high strength material was first commercially used in the early 1970s as a replacement for steel in racing tires...
  
  , 1996

Business

• Elizabeth Adkins (M.A. 1980), Director of Global Information Management at Ford Motor Company
  Ford Motor Company
  Ford Motor Company is an American multinational automaker based in Dearborn, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit. The automaker was founded by Henry Ford and incorporated on June 16, 1903. In addition to the Ford and Lincoln brands, Ford also owns a small stake in Mazda in Japan and Aston Martin in the UK...
  
  
• Paul Allaire
  Paul Allaire
  Paul Arthur Allaire is a businessman who served as CEO and Chairman of Xerox Corporation, and as a director on several other public companies.He was first hired by Xerox in 1966....
  
   (MBA 1966), former Xerox
  Xerox
  Xerox Corporation is an American multinational document management corporation that produced and sells a range of color and black-and-white printers, multifunction systems, photo copiers, digital production printing presses, and related consulting services and supplies...
  
   director (1986–1990) CEO (1990–2000) and Chairman (1991–2000)
• Donna M. Auguste (Ph.D. 1983), founder and CEO of Freshwater Software, Inc.
• Susan R. Bailey (B.S. 1983, Ph.D. 1988), Vice President of Global Network Operation Planning, AT&T
  AT&T
  AT&T Inc. is an American multinational telecommunications corporation headquartered in Whitacre Tower, Dallas, Texas, United States. It is the largest provider of mobile telephony and fixed telephony in the United States, and is also a provider of broadband and subscription television services...
  
  
• Donald L. Baeder (B.S. 1951), Former Executive Vice President of Science and Technology at Occidental Petroleum
  Occidental Petroleum
  Occidental Petroleum Corporation is a California-based oil and gas exploration and production company with operations in the United States, the Middle East, North Africa, and South America...
  
  
• Raymond T. Betler (1979), Vice President of Wabtec Corporation
• Keith G. Block (B.S., M.S.), Executive Vice President of North America Consulting and Executive Vice President of North America Sales, Oracle Corporation
  Oracle Corporation
  Oracle Corporation is an American multinational computer technology corporation that specializes in developing and marketing hardware systems and enterprise software products – particularly database management systems...
  
  
• Theodore A. Burtis (B.S. 1943), Former CEO and President, Sunoco (1978–1985)
• Robert H. Campbell (M.S. 1961), Chairman of Hershey Company, former President and CEO of Sunoco
  Sunoco
  Sunoco Inc. is an American petroleum and petrochemical manufacturer headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, formerly known as Sun Company Inc. and Sun Oil Co. ....
  
   (1991–2000)
• Robert Cochran (1992) president, CEO, and owner of #1 Cochran automotive dealership in Monroeville, Pennsylvania. #1 Cochran is the largest dealership in the northeastern United States.
• David A. Coulter (BS 1971, MSIA 1971), retired Vice Chairman of JP Morgan Chase (early 2000s); former Chairman and CEO of Bank of America
  Bank of America
  Bank of America Corporation, an American multinational banking and financial services corporation, is the second largest bank holding company in the United States by assets, and the fourth largest bank in the U.S. by market capitalization. The bank is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina...
  
   (late 1990s) and engineered the largest financial merger of all time (Nations & BofA).
• Erroll Davis (1965), retired CEO and Chairman of Alliant Energy
  Alliant Energy
  Alliant Energy Corporation is a public utility holding company that incorporated in Madison, Wisconsin in 1981. It consists of two subsidiaries:...
  
  , board member of BP
  BP
  BP p.l.c. is a global oil and gas company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It is the third-largest energy company and fourth-largest company in the world measured by revenues and one of the six oil and gas "supermajors"...
  
  , General Motors
  General Motors
  General Motors Company , commonly known as GM, formerly incorporated as General Motors Corporation, is an American multinational automotive corporation headquartered in Detroit, Michigan and the world's second-largest automaker in 2010...
  
  , and PPG Industries
  PPG Industries
  PPG Industries is a global supplier of paints, coatings, optical products, specialty materials, chemicals, glass and fiber glass. With headquarters in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, PPG operates in more than 60 countries around the globe. Sales in 2010 were $13.4 billion...
  
   (See also: Academia section)
• Linda Dickerson (B.S. 1981), CEO of National Aviary
  National Aviary
  The National Aviary, located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is America's only independent indoor nonprofit aviary. It is also America's largest aviary, and the only accorded honorary "National" status by the United States Congress.-Location and features:...
  
  
• Jean-Pierre Durant des Aulnois (MSIA), Head of Operational Control, Capgemini
  Capgemini
  Capgemini is a French global IT services company, one of the world's largest management consulting, outsourcing and professional services companies with a staff of 114,274 operating in 40 countries. It is headquartered in Paris and was founded in 1967 by Serge Kampf, the current chairman, in...
  
  
• Dina Dublon
  Dina Dublon
  Dina Dublon is a Senior Lecturer at Harvard Business School and current member of the boards of directors at Microsoft, Accenture, and PepsiCo. She also serves as a trustee of Carnegie Mellon University and on the boards of several non-profit organizations, including the Global Fund for Women and...
  
   (MBA 1979), former EVP and CFO of JP Morgan Chase
  JPMorgan Chase & Co.
  JPMorgan Chase & Co. is an American multinational banking corporation of securities, investments and retail. It is the largest bank in the United States by assets and market capitalization.It is a major provider of financial services, with assets of $2 trillion and according to Forbes magazine is...
  
  ; board member of Microsoft
  Microsoft
  Microsoft Corporation is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions...
  
  , Accenture
  Accenture
  Accenture plc is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company headquartered in Dublin, Republic of Ireland. It is the largest consulting firm in the world and is a Fortune Global 500 company. As of September 2011, the company had more than 236,000 employees across...
  
  , PepsiCo, and Carnegie Mellon University
  Carnegie Mellon University
  Carnegie Mellon University is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States....
  
  
• William B. Ellis (B.S. 1962), retired CEO of Northeast Utilities
  Northeast Utilities
  Northeast Utilities is a publicly-traded, Fortune 500 energy company headquartered in Berlin, Connecticut, with several regulated subsidiaries offering retail electricity and natural gas service to more than 2.1 million customers in New England....
  
   (1983–1993)
• Thomas J. Elzey (M.S. 1977), Senior Vice President, Treasurer, & Chief Financial Officer of Drexel University
  Drexel University
  Drexel University is a private research university with the main campus located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. It was founded in 1891 by Anthony J. Drexel, a noted financier and philanthropist. Drexel offers 70 full-time undergraduate programs and accelerated degrees...
  
  
• Marc Ewing
  Marc Ewing
  Marc Ewing is the creator and originator of the Red Hat brand of software, most notably the Red Hat range of Linux operating system distributions. He was involved in the 86open project in the mid-90s....
  
   (B.S. 1992), co-founder of Red Hat
  Red Hat
  Red Hat, Inc. is an S&P 500 company in the free and open source software sector, and a major Linux distribution vendor. Founded in 1993, Red Hat has its corporate headquarters in Raleigh, North Carolina with satellite offices worldwide....
  
   Inc., maker of Red Hat Enterprise Linux
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux is a Linux-based operating system developed by Red Hat and targeted toward the commercial market. Red Hat Enterprise Linux is released in server versions for x86, x86-64, Itanium, PowerPC and IBM System z, and desktop versions for x86 and x86-64...
  
  
• Cyrus F. Freidheim, Jr. (MSIA 1963), President and CEO, Sun-Times Media Group
  Sun-Times Media Group
  Sun-Times Media Group is a Chicago-based newspaper publisher. It is known for its prior association with controversial Canadian businessman Conrad Black.-History:...
  
   (2006–2009); President and CEO, Chiquita Brands International
  Chiquita Brands International
  Chiquita Brands International Inc. is an American producer and distributor of bananas and other produce, under a variety of subsidiary brand names, collectively known as Chiquita. Other brands include Fresh Express salads, which it purchased from Performance Food Group in 2005...
  
   (2002–2004)
• Yoshiaki Fujimori (MBA 1981), President and CEO of General Electric
  General Electric
  General Electric Company , or GE, is an American multinational conglomerate corporation incorporated in Schenectady, New York and headquartered in Fairfield, Connecticut, United States...
  
   Asia
• John F. Graham, Jr. (B.S. 1958), President of Graham Consulting Inc
• Scott Griffith
  Scott Griffith
  Scott Griffith is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Zipcar, Inc. since February 2003.Scott earned his BS in engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in 1981 and his MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business in 1990....
  
   (1981), Chairman and CEO of Zipcar
  Zipcar
  Zipcar is an American membership-based car sharing company providing automobile reservations to its members, billable by the hour or day. Zipcar was founded in 2000 by Cambridge, Massachusetts residents Antje Danielson and Robin Chase, and is now led by Scott Griffith, Chairman and Chief Executive...
  
  
• Victor Grijalva (B.S.), former Vice Chairman of Schlumberger
  Schlumberger
  Schlumberger Limited is the world's largest oilfield services company. Schlumberger employs over 110,000 people of more than 140 nationalities working in approximately 80 countries...
  
   (1999–2001)
• Lewis Hay III (MSIA 1982), President and CEO of FPL Group
  Florida Power & Light
  Florida Power & Light Company, the principal subsidiary of NextEra Energy Inc. , commonly referred to by its initials, FPL, is a Juno Beach, Florida-based power utility which serves roughly 4.4 million customers in Florida. FPL Group holds power generation assets in more than 20 U.S...
  
  
• Wilton A. Hawkins (B.S. 1948, Ph.D.(Hon) 2007), Founder of Chemplast Inc
• Kathryn J. Jackson (Ph.D. 1990), Vice President of Westinghouse Electric Company
  Westinghouse Electric Company
  Westinghouse Electric Company LLC is a nuclear power company, offering a wide range of nuclear products and services to utilities throughout the world, including nuclear fuel, service and maintenance, instrumentation and control and advanced nuclear plant designs...
  
  
• Larry Kurzweil (B.S. 1977, MBA 1978), President and COO of Universal Studios Hollywood
• Frank L. Lederman (B.S. 1971, M.S. 1971), Vice President of Alcoa
  Alcoa
  Alcoa Inc. is the world's third largest producer of aluminum, behind Rio Tinto Alcan and Rusal. From its operational headquarters in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Alcoa conducts operations in 31 countries...
  
  
• Jim Levy
  Jim Levy
  Jim Levy was initially a music industry executive, but he is known better for his efforts as the founding Chief Executive Officer for Activision.. , Gamasutra. , Billboard ...
  
   (B.S. 1965, MSIA 1966), founding CEO of Activision
  Activision
  Activision is an American publisher, majority owned by French conglomerate Vivendi SA. Its current CEO is Robert Kotick. It was founded on October 1, 1979 and was the world's first independent developer and distributor of video games for gaming consoles...
  
   (1979–1986)
• William Santana Li (1991), co-founder, chair, and CEO of Carbon Motors Corporation
• Per Lofberg (MSIA 1973), President and CEO of Merck Capital Ventures, a subsidiary of Merck & Co.
  Merck & Co.
  Merck & Co., Inc. , also known as Merck Sharp & Dohme or MSD outside the United States and Canada, is one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world. The Merck headquarters is located in Whitehouse Station, New Jersey, an unincorporated area in Readington Township...
  
  
• Edward E. Lucente, former Chairman, CEO, QMS-Minolta; former EVP, Nortel
  Nortel
  Nortel Networks Corporation, formerly known as Northern Telecom Limited and sometimes known simply as Nortel, was a multinational telecommunications equipment manufacturer headquartered in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada...
  
  ; former Corporate Vice President, IBM
  IBM
  International Business Machines Corporation or IBM is an American multinational technology and consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York, United States. IBM manufactures and sells computer hardware and software, and it offers infrastructure, hosting and consulting services in areas...
  
  
• Harsh Manglik (MSIA 1976), Chairman and Managing Director of Accenture
  Accenture
  Accenture plc is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company headquartered in Dublin, Republic of Ireland. It is the largest consulting firm in the world and is a Fortune Global 500 company. As of September 2011, the company had more than 236,000 employees across...
  
   India
• Frank Marshall
  Frank J. Marshall (engineer)
  Frank J. Marshall is a private investor and a member of the Silicon Valley Advisory Council. He holds a B.S. in EE from Carnegie Mellon. He has been written about or mentioned in various executive profiles, news stories, and IEEE papers.-References:...
  
   (B.S.), former Director of Juniper Networks
  Juniper Networks
  Juniper Networks is an information technology and computer networking products multinational company, founded in 1996. It is head quartered in Sunnyvale, California, USA. The company designs and sells high-performance Internet Protocol network products and services...
  
  , former Vice President of Cisco
  Cisco
  Cisco may refer to:Companies:*Cisco Systems, a computer networking company* Certis CISCO, corporatised entity of the former Commercial and Industrial Security Corporation in Singapore...
  
   (1992–1997)
• Gerald C. Meyers
  Gerald C. Meyers
  Gerald C. Meyers, former chairman and CEO of American Motors Corporation is an industrialist, author, lecturer, and management consultant.-Career:...
  
   (B.S., M.S.), former Chairman of American Motors
  American Motors
  American Motors Corporation was an American automobile company formed by the 1954 merger of Nash-Kelvinator Corporation and Hudson Motor Car Company. At the time, it was the largest corporate merger in U.S. history.George W...
  
  
• Sulajja Motwani (MSIA 1992), Director of Kinetic Motor Company
  Kinetic Motor Company
  Kinetic Engineering Limited is an automotive component manufacturer in India which formerly sold two-wheelers under the brand names Kinetic Honda and later Kinetic. In 2008, it stopped selling two-wheelers after entering into a joint venture with Mahindra Automobiles, where Mahindra held the major ...
  
  
• Ted Nierenberg
  Ted Nierenberg
  Theodore David "Ted" Nierenberg was an American business executive and entrepreneur who created Dansk International Designs, a company that sells Scandinavian Design-style cooking and serving utensils and other home furnishings, established after discovering the simple but elegant design style on...
  
   (B.S. 1944), founder of Dansk International Designs
  Dansk International Designs
  Dansk Designs was an American distributor and retailer of cookware, tableware, and other home accessories based in Mount Kisco, New York...
  
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• Michael J. Partsch (GSIA 1998), Kauffman Fellowship award winner, Founder and CEO of AcceleMed Management, Inc.
• Howard Pien (MBA 1981), former CEO and Chairman of Chiron Corporation
  Chiron Corporation
  Chiron Corporation was a multinational biotechnology firm based in Emeryville, California that was acquired by Novartis International AG on April 20, 2006. It had offices and facilities in eighteen countries on five continents. Chiron's business and research was in three main areas:...
  
   (2003–2006), President, Pharmaceuticals International Division of GlaxoSmithKline
  GlaxoSmithKline
  GlaxoSmithKline plc is a global pharmaceutical, biologics, vaccines and consumer healthcare company headquartered in London, United Kingdom...
  
   (mid-90's-2003)
• George A. Roberts (B.S. 1939, M.S. 1941, Ph.D. 1942), former President and CEO of Teledyne
  Teledyne
  Teledyne Technologies Incorporated is an industrial conglomerate primarily based in the United States but with global operations. It was founded in 1960, as Teledyne, Inc., by Henry Singleton and George Kozmetsky....
  
  
• Robert G. Shimp (B.S. 1981), Vice President of the Global Technology Business Unit for Oracle Corporation
  Oracle Corporation
  Oracle Corporation is an American multinational computer technology corporation that specializes in developing and marketing hardware systems and enterprise software products – particularly database management systems...
  
  
• Les Silverman (B.S. 1969, MSIA 1969, Ph.D. 1973), co-founder and director of McKinsey
  McKinsey & Company
  McKinsey & Company, Inc. is a global management consulting firm that focuses on solving issues of concern to senior management. McKinsey serves as an adviser to many businesses, governments, and institutions...
  
  's Nonprofit Practice group
• John Swearingen (M.S. 1939, Ph.D. (Hon.) 1981), former President and CEO of Standard Oil Company
  Standard Oil
  Standard Oil was a predominant American integrated oil producing, transporting, refining, and marketing company. Established in 1870 as a corporation in Ohio, it was the largest oil refiner in the world and operated as a major company trust and was one of the world's first and largest multinational...
  
  
• David Tepper
  David Tepper
  David Alan Tepper is an American hedge fund manager and the founder of Appaloosa Management. His investment specialty is distressed companies....
  
   (MBA 1982), Founder and Chairman of Appaloosa Management
  Appaloosa Management
  Appaloosa Management is an American hedge fund founded in 1993 by David Tepper and Jack Walton specializing in distressed debt. Appaloosa Management invests in public equity and fixed income markets around the world.-History:...
  
  
• Charles Erwin Wilson
  Charles Erwin Wilson
  Charles Erwin Wilson , American businessman and politician, was United States Secretary of Defense from 1953 to 1957 under President Eisenhower. Known as "Engine Charlie", he previously worked as CEO for General Motors. In the wake of the Korean War, he cut the defense budget significantly.-Early...
  
   (1909), CEO of General Motors
  General Motors
  General Motors Company , commonly known as GM, formerly incorporated as General Motors Corporation, is an American multinational automotive corporation headquartered in Detroit, Michigan and the world's second-largest automaker in 2010...
  
   (1946–1953), President of General Motors (1941–1953) (See also: Government and politics section)
• Edgar A. Sack (B.S. 1951, M.S. 1952, Ph.D. 1954), former President and CEO of Zilog
  Zilog
  Zilog, Inc., previously known as ZiLOG , is a manufacturer of 8-bit and 24-bit microcontrollers, and is most famous for its Intel 8080-compatible Z80 series.-History:...
  
   Inc.
• H. Robert Sharbaugh (1948), President and Chairman of Sunoco (1970–1978)
• Raymond W. Smith
  Raymond W. Smith
  Raymond W. Smith is currently the Chairman of Rothschild Continuation Investments, Founding Partner of Arlington Capital Partners, a private equity firm, and Chairman of Verizon Ventures.-Career:...
  
   (1959), Chairman of Rothschild
  N M Rothschild & Sons
  N M Rothschild & Sons is a private investment banking company, belonging to the Rothschild family...
  
   North America, and the Chairman of Arlington Capital Partners
  Arlington Capital Partners
  Arlington Capital Partners is a Washington, DC based private equity firm focusing on leveraged buyout and recapitalization investments in middle market companies. Since inception in 1999, the firm has raised approximately $1.0 billion in investor commitments across two private equity funds.In...
  
  , former CEO of Verizon and Bell Atlantic
• Donald E. Stingel (1941), former Director at Export-Import Bank of the United States
  Export-Import Bank of the United States
  The Export-Import Bank of the United States is the official export credit agency of the United States federal government. It was established in 1934 by an executive order, and made an independent agency in the Executive branch by Congress in 1945, for the purposes of financing and insuring...
  
  
• James R. Swartz (MSIA 1966), General Partner and Co-Founder, Accel Partners
  Accel Partners
  Accel Partners is a global venture and growth equity firm funding companies from inception through the growth stage.The firm is based in Palo Alto, California with major offices in Bangalore, Beijing, London, and Shanghai....
  
  
• Julius A. Vida (M.S. 1960, Ph.D. 1961), Lead Director of Spectrum Pharmaceuticals
  Spectrum Pharmaceuticals
  Spectrum Pharmaceuticals is an American biopharmaceutical company. The company is located in Irvine, California.-Approved drugs:In the US, Spectrum markets Fusilev and Zevalin.Fusilev for injection is a drug that was approved by the U.S...
  
  
• Amit Zavery (M.S.), Vice President of product management in Oracle
  Oracle Corporation
  Oracle Corporation is an American multinational computer technology corporation that specializes in developing and marketing hardware systems and enterprise software products – particularly database management systems...
  
   Server Technologies Division

Science and technology

• Aditya Agarwal (B.S., M.S. 2004), Director of Engineering at Facebook
  Facebook
  Facebook is a social networking service and website launched in February 2004, operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc. , Facebook has more than 800 million active users. Users must register before using the site, after which they may create a personal profile, add other users as...
  
  
• Allen Barnett
  Allen Barnett
  Allen M. Barnett was a research professor of electrical engineering at the University of Delaware. He was the principal investigator of the DARPA-funded Consortium for Very High Efficiency Solar Cells....
  
   (1966) He is the principal investigator of the DARPA-funded Consortium for Very High Efficiency Solar Cell
  Solar cell
  A solar cell is a solid state electrical device that converts the energy of light directly into electricity by the photovoltaic effect....
  
  s.
• Andy Bechtolsheim
  Andy Bechtolsheim
  Andreas von Bechtolsheim is an electrical engineer who co-founded Sun Microsystems in 1982 and was its chief hardware designer....
  
   (M.S. 1976), co-founder of Sun Microsystems
  Sun Microsystems
  Sun Microsystems, Inc. was a company that sold :computers, computer components, :computer software, and :information technology services. Sun was founded on February 24, 1982...
  
  , Managing Director of Cisco
  Cisco
  Cisco may refer to:Companies:*Cisco Systems, a computer networking company* Certis CISCO, corporatised entity of the former Commercial and Industrial Security Corporation in Singapore...
  
   1996–2002, Chief Architect of Sun Microsystems
  Sun Microsystems
  Sun Microsystems, Inc. was a company that sold :computers, computer components, :computer software, and :information technology services. Sun was founded on February 24, 1982...
  
   2003–2005. One of the original investors in Google
  Google
  Google Inc. is an American multinational public corporation invested in Internet search, cloud computing, and advertising technologies. Google hosts and develops a number of Internet-based services and products, and generates profit primarily from advertising through its AdWords program...
  
  , being the first person ever to document the company name.
• Joshua Bloch
  Joshua Bloch
  Joshua J. Bloch is a software engineer, currently employed at Google, and a technology author. He led the design and implementation of numerous Java platform features, including the Java Collections Framework, the java.math package, and the assert mechanism...
  
   (Ph.D. 1990), Chief Java Architect of Google
  Google
  Google Inc. is an American multinational public corporation invested in Internet search, cloud computing, and advertising technologies. Google hosts and develops a number of Internet-based services and products, and generates profit primarily from advertising through its AdWords program...
  
  , author of Jolt Award-winning book Effective Java
• Nathaniel Borenstein
  Nathaniel Borenstein
  Nathaniel S. Borenstein is an American computer scientist.He is one of the original designers of the MIME protocol for formatting multimedia Internet electronic mail.-Biography:...
  
   (M.S. 1981, Ph.D. 1985), Chief Open Standards Strategist and Distinguished Engineer at IBM
  IBM
  International Business Machines Corporation or IBM is an American multinational technology and consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York, United States. IBM manufactures and sells computer hardware and software, and it offers infrastructure, hosting and consulting services in areas...
  
  , co-creator of MIME
  MIME
  Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions is an Internet standard that extends the format of email to support:* Text in character sets other than ASCII* Non-text attachments* Message bodies with multiple parts...
  
   for formatting multimedia email
• Mark Canepa
  Mark Canepa
  Mark Canepa resigned as Chief Executive Officer and as director of Extreme Networks on 22 October 2009. He joined Extreme Networks as CEO on August 30, 2006....
  
   (B.S. 1976, M.S. 1977), Executive Vice President, Network Storage Products Group and then Data Management for Sun Microsystems
  Sun Microsystems
  Sun Microsystems, Inc. was a company that sold :computers, computer components, :computer software, and :information technology services. Sun was founded on February 24, 1982...
  
  .
• Rick Cattell (Ph.D. 1978), former Distinguished Engineer and Chief Architect for Database Technology Group at Sun Microsystems
  Sun Microsystems
  Sun Microsystems, Inc. was a company that sold :computers, computer components, :computer software, and :information technology services. Sun was founded on February 24, 1982...
  
  , co-creator of Java Database Connectivity (JDBC)
  Java Database Connectivity
  Java DataBase Connectivity, commonly referred to as JDBC, is an API for the Java programming language that defines how a client may access a database. It provides methods for querying and updating data in a database. JDBC is oriented towards relational databases...
  
  
• Bob Colwell
  Bob Colwell
  Robert P. "Bob" Colwell is an electrical engineer who worked at Intel and is now Deputy Director of the Microsystems Technology Office at DARPA. He was the chief IA-32 architect on the Pentium Pro, Pentium II, Pentium III, and Pentium 4 microprocessors. Bob retired from Intel in 2000...
  
   (Ph.D.), Chief Architect of Intel Pentium Pro
  Pentium Pro
  The Pentium Pro is a sixth-generation x86 microprocessor developed and manufactured by Intel introduced in November 1, 1995 . It introduced the P6 microarchitecture and was originally intended to replace the original Pentium in a full range of applications...
  
  
• Robert Dennard
  Robert Dennard
  Robert Dennard is an American electrical engineer and inventor.Dennard was born in Terrell, Texas, U.S.. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Southern Methodist University, Dallas, in 1954 and 1956, respectively. He earned a Ph.D. from Carnegie Institute of...
  
   (Ph.D. 1958), inventor of dynamic random access memory
  Dynamic random access memory
  Dynamic random-access memory is a type of random-access memory that stores each bit of data in a separate capacitor within an integrated circuit. The capacitor can be either charged or discharged; these two states are taken to represent the two values of a bit, conventionally called 0 and 1...
  
   (DRAM), awarded the IBM Fellow
  IBM Fellow
  An IBM Fellow is an appointed position at IBM made by IBM’s CEO. Typically only 4 to 9 IBM Fellows are appointed each year, at the annual Corporate Technical Recognition Event in May or June. It is the highest honor a scientist, engineer, or programmer at IBM can achieve.The IBM Fellows program...
  
   and proved the theories leading to Moore's Law
  Moore's Law
  Moore's law describes a long-term trend in the history of computing hardware: the number of transistors that can be placed inexpensively on an integrated circuit doubles approximately every two years....
  
  .
• Edward H. Frank (Ph.D. 1985), Vice President R&D, Broadcom
  Broadcom
  Broadcom Corporation is a fabless semiconductor company in the wireless and broadband communication business. The company is headquartered in Irvine, California, USA. Broadcom was founded by a professor-student pair Henry Samueli and Henry T. Nicholas III from the University of California, Los...
  
  
• Gerald Gardner
  Gerald Gardner (mathematician)
  Gerald Henry Frazier Gardner was an American mathematician, geophysicist and social activist whose statistical analysis led to the banning of classified advertising segregated by gender in a 1973 ruling by the Supreme Court of the United States in the case Pittsburgh Press Co. v. Pittsburgh...
  
   (1922–2009), geophysicist
  Geophysics
  Geophysics is the physics of the Earth and its environment in space; also the study of the Earth using quantitative physical methods. The term geophysics sometimes refers only to the geological applications: Earth's shape; its gravitational and magnetic fields; its internal structure and...
  
   and social activist whose statistical analysis led to the banning of classified advertising
  Classified advertising
  Classified advertising is a form of advertising which is particularly common in newspapers, online and other periodicals which may be sold or distributed free of charge...
  
   segregated by gender in a 1973 ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court
  Supreme Court of the United States
  The Supreme Court of the United States is the highest court in the United States. It has ultimate appellate jurisdiction over all state and federal courts, and original jurisdiction over a small range of cases...
  
  .
• Charles Geschke
  Charles Geschke
  Charles Geschke, is best known as the 1982 co-founder with John Warnock of Adobe Systems Inc., the graphics and publishing software company.-Education:...
  
   (Ph.D. 1973), co-founder of Adobe Systems
  Adobe Systems
  Adobe Systems Incorporated is an American computer software company founded in 1982 and headquartered in San Jose, California, United States...
  
  
• James J. Gillogly (Ph.D. 1978), cryptographer who was the first to publicly solve parts 1-3 of Kryptos
  Kryptos
  Kryptos is an encrypted sculpture by American artist Jim Sanborn located on the grounds of the Central Intelligence Agency in Langley, Virginia. Since its dedication on November 3, 1990, there has been much speculation about the meaning of the encrypted messages it bears...
  
  
• James Gosling
  James Gosling
  James A. Gosling, OC is a computer scientist, best known as the father of the Java programming language.-Education and career:In 1977, Gosling received a B.Sc in Computer Science from the University of Calgary...
  
   (M.S. 1983, Ph.D. 1983), Vice President and Fellow of Sun Microsystems
  Sun Microsystems
  Sun Microsystems, Inc. was a company that sold :computers, computer components, :computer software, and :information technology services. Sun was founded on February 24, 1982...
  
  , creator of Java programming language
  Java (programming language)
  Java is a programming language originally developed by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems and released in 1995 as a core component of Sun Microsystems' Java platform. The language derives much of its syntax from C and C++ but has a simpler object model and fewer low-level facilities...
  
  
• Anoop Gupta (Ph.D. 1986), Corporate Vice President of Microsoft
  Microsoft
  Microsoft Corporation is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions...
  
  
• Scott Fahlman
  Scott Fahlman
  Scott Elliott Fahlman is a computer scientist at Carnegie Mellon University. He is notable for early work on automated planning in a blocks world, on semantic networks, on neural networks , on the Dylan programming language, and on Common Lisp...
  
    (M.S. 1973, Ph.D. 1977) Creator of the Emoticon
  Emoticon
  An emoticon is a facial expression pictorially represented by punctuation and letters, usually to express a writer’s mood. Emoticons are often used to alert a responder to the tenor or temper of a statement, and can change and improve interpretation of plain text. The word is a portmanteau word...
  
  
• Hsiao-Wuen HON (Ph.D. 1992), Managing Director of Microsoft Research Asia
  Microsoft Research Asia
  Microsoft Research Asia, Microsoft’s fundamental research arm in the Asia Pacific region, was founded on November 5, 1998. In 2004, Technology Review named Microsoft Research Asia “the hottest computer lab in the world”....
  
  
• Feng-hsiung Hsu
  Feng-hsiung Hsu
  Feng-hsiung Hsu is a computer scientist and the author of the book Behind Deep Blue: Building the Computer that Defeated the World Chess Champion...
  
   (Ph.D. 1990), co-creator of ChipTest
  ChipTest
  ChipTest was a 1985 chess playing computer built by Feng-hsiung Hsu, Thomas Anantharaman and Murray Campbell at Carnegie Mellon University. It is the predecessor of Deep Thought which in turn evolved into Deep Blue....
  
   (while at CMU), which was the predecessor of Deep Thought
  Deep Thought (chess computer)
  Deep Thought was a computer designed to play chess. Deep Thought was initially developed at Carnegie Mellon University and later at IBM. It was second in the line of chess computers developed by Feng-hsiung Hsu, starting with ChipTest and culminating in Deep Blue...
  
  , which in turn evolved into Deep Blue at IBM
• Barry C. Johnson (M.S., Ph.D. 1970), former SVP and CTO of Honeywell
  Honeywell
  Honeywell International, Inc. is a major conglomerate company that produces a variety of consumer products, engineering services, and aerospace systems for a wide variety of customers, from private consumers to major corporations and governments....
  
   (2000–2002), VP and CTO of Semiconductor Product Sector, Motorola
  Motorola
  Motorola, Inc. was an American multinational telecommunications company based in Schaumburg, Illinois, which was eventually divided into two independent public companies, Motorola Mobility and Motorola Solutions on January 4, 2011, after losing $4.3 billion from 2007 to 2009...
  
  
• Phil Karn
  Phil Karn
  Phil Karn is an engineer from Baltimore, Maryland. He earned a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Cornell University in 1978 and a master's degree in electrical engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in 1979. From 1979 until 1984, Phil Karn worked at Bell Labs in Naperville,...
  
   (M.S. 1979), engineer - His name is on at least 6 RFCs
  Request for Comments
  In computer network engineering, a Request for Comments is a memorandum published by the Internet Engineering Task Force describing methods, behaviors, research, or innovations applicable to the working of the Internet and Internet-connected systems.Through the Internet Society, engineers and...
  
   and is the inventor of Karn's Algorithm
  Karn's Algorithm
  Karn's Algorithm addresses the problem of getting accurate estimates of the round-trip time for messages when using TCP. The algorithm was proposed by Phil Karn in 1987....
  
  , a method for calculating the round trip time for IP packet retransmission
• Lalitesh Katragadda (M.S. 1996, Ph.D. 1998), Co-Head of Google
  Google
  Google Inc. is an American multinational public corporation invested in Internet search, cloud computing, and advertising technologies. Google hosts and develops a number of Internet-based services and products, and generates profit primarily from advertising through its AdWords program...
  
   Bangalore R&D Center
• James H. Kindelberger
  James H. Kindelberger
  James H. "Dutch" Kindelberger was an American pioneer of aviation. He was also a leader of North American Aviation for a number of years. The International Aerospace Hall of Fame inducted Kindelberger in 1977....
  
  (1920), American pioneer of aviation, Chairman of North American Aviation
  North American Aviation
  North American Aviation was a major US aerospace manufacturer, responsible for a number of historic aircraft, including the T-6 Texan trainer, the P-51 Mustang fighter, the B-25 Mitchell bomber, the F-86 Sabre jet fighter, the X-15 rocket plane, and the XB-70, as well as Apollo Command and Service...
  
   (1948–1960)
• Jay Kistler (Ph.D. 1993), Vice President of Engineering at Yahoo!
  Yahoo!
  Yahoo! Inc. is an American multinational internet corporation headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, United States. The company is perhaps best known for its web portal, search engine , Yahoo! Directory, Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Groups, Yahoo! Answers, advertising, online mapping ,...
  
  
• Robert J. Krieger(B.S. 1964, M.S. 1966, Ph.D. 1968), CTO of Boeing
  Boeing
  The Boeing Company is an American multinational aerospace and defense corporation, founded in 1916 by William E. Boeing in Seattle, Washington. Boeing has expanded over the years, merging with McDonnell Douglas in 1997. Boeing Corporate headquarters has been in Chicago, Illinois since 2001...
  
   and President of Boeing Phantom Works
  Boeing Phantom Works
  The Phantom Works division is the advanced prototyping arm of the Defense and Security side of The Boeing Company. Its primary focus is developing advanced military products and technologies, many of them highly classified, and has produced breakthroughs in defense, space and security.Founded by...
  
  
• Vinod Khosla
  Vinod Khosla
  Vinod Khosla is an Indian-born American venture capitalist and an influential personality in Silicon Valley....
  
   (M.S. 1978), co-founder of Sun Microsystems
  Sun Microsystems
  Sun Microsystems, Inc. was a company that sold :computers, computer components, :computer software, and :information technology services. Sun was founded on February 24, 1982...
  
  , venture capitalist at Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers
  Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers
  Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers ' is a world-leading venture capital firm located on Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park in Silicon Valley. The Wall Street Journal has called it one of the "largest and most established" venture capital firms in the world...
  
  
• Vittal Kini (M.S. 1975, Ph.D. 1981), Director of the Intel India Research Center
• Kai-Fu Lee (Ph.D. 1988, Assistant Professor), former President of Google
  Google
  Google Inc. is an American multinational public corporation invested in Internet search, cloud computing, and advertising technologies. Google hosts and develops a number of Internet-based services and products, and generates profit primarily from advertising through its AdWords program...
  
   China
• Roy Levin (Ph.D. 1977), Distinguished Engineer and Director of Microsoft Research Silicon Valley
  Microsoft Research
  Microsoft Research is the research division of Microsoft created in 1991 for developing various computer science ideas and integrating them into Microsoft products. It currently employs Turing Award winners C.A.R. Hoare, Butler Lampson, and Charles P...
  
  
• Qi Lu
  Qi Lu
  Lu Qi , more commonly known as Qi Lu in English , is currently an executive at Microsoft working on the Bing search engine. Lu formerly worked as technology developer and manager for Yahoo!'s technology search division....
  
   (Ph.D. 1996), President of Online Services Division, Microsoft
  Microsoft
  Microsoft Corporation is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions...
  
  , former Executive Vice President at Yahoo!
  Yahoo!
  Yahoo! Inc. is an American multinational internet corporation headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, United States. The company is perhaps best known for its web portal, search engine , Yahoo! Directory, Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Groups, Yahoo! Answers, advertising, online mapping ,...
  
  
• Mao Yisheng
  Mao Yisheng
  Dr. Mao Yisheng was a Chinese structural engineer, an expert on bridge construction, and a social activist in China.-Biography:Mao was born in Zhenjiang, Jiangsu Province. He entered Jiaotong University's Tangshan Engineering College and earned his bachelor's degree in civil engineering in 1916...
  
   (Ph.D. 1919), bridge engineering expert, first Ph.D. graduate of Carnegie Tech
• Mindi McDowell (M.A. 2001), author of the United States Department of Homeland Security
  United States Department of Homeland Security
  The United States Department of Homeland Security is a cabinet department of the United States federal government, created in response to the September 11 attacks, and with the primary responsibilities of protecting the territory of the United States and protectorates from and responding to...
  
  's computing tips (US-CERT
  United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team
  The United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team is part of the National Cyber Security Division of the United States' Department of Homeland Security....
  
  )
• Edgar Mitchell (B.S. 1952), astronaut
  Astronaut
  An astronaut or cosmonaut is a person trained by a human spaceflight program to command, pilot, or serve as a crew member of a spacecraft....
  
  , 6th man to walk on the moon
  Moon
  The Moon is Earth's only known natural satellite,There are a number of near-Earth asteroids including 3753 Cruithne that are co-orbital with Earth: their orbits bring them close to Earth for periods of time but then alter in the long term . These are quasi-satellites and not true moons. For more...
  
  
• James G. Mitchell
  James G. Mitchell
  James "Jim" Mitchell Ph.D. , is a Canadian computer scientist. He has worked on programming language design and implementation , interactive programming systems, dynamic interpretation and compilation, document preparation systems, user interface design, distributed transactional file systems, and...
  
   (Ph.D. 1970), computer scientist, Vice President and Fellow of Sun Microsystems
  Sun Microsystems
  Sun Microsystems, Inc. was a company that sold :computers, computer components, :computer software, and :information technology services. Sun was founded on February 24, 1982...
  
  , developer of WATFOR
  WATFIV programming language
  WATFIV, or WATerloo FORTRAN IV, developed at the University of Waterloo, Canada is an implementation of the Fortran computer programming language. It is the successor of WATFOR.WATFIV was used from the late 1960s into the mid 1970s...
  
   compiler
• Michael Montemerlo (B.S. and M.S. 1997, Ph.D. 2003), software lead for Stanley
  Stanley (vehicle)
  Stanley is an autonomous vehicle created by Stanford University's Stanford Racing Team in cooperation with the Volkswagen Electronics Research Laboratory...
  
  , the robotic car that won the DARPA Grand Challenge
  DARPA Grand Challenge
  The DARPA Grand Challenge is a prize competition for driverless vehicles, funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the most prominent research organization of the United States Department of Defense...
  
   in 2005
• Harvey C. Nathanson
  Harvey C. Nathanson
  Harvey C. Nathanson is an American electrical engineer who invented the first MEMS device of the type now found in consumer products ranging from cellular phones to digital projectors....
  
   (B.S., M.S., Ph.D.), inventor of first MEMS device, former Chief Scientist at Northrop Grumman
  Northrop Grumman
  Northrop Grumman Corporation is an American global aerospace and defense technology company formed by the 1994 purchase of Grumman by Northrop. The company was the fourth-largest defense contractor in the world as of 2010, and the largest builder of naval vessels. Northrop Grumman employs over...
  
  
• Bruce J. Nelson
  Bruce Jay Nelson
  Bruce Jay Nelson was an American computer scientist best known as the inventor of the remote procedure call concept for computer network communications....
  
   (Ph.D. 1981), inventor of the Remote procedure call
  Remote procedure call
  In computer science, a remote procedure call is an inter-process communication that allows a computer program to cause a subroutine or procedure to execute in another address space without the programmer explicitly coding the details for this remote interaction...
  
   for computer communications
• John Ousterhout
  John Ousterhout
  John Kenneth Ousterhout is the chairman of Electric Cloud, Inc. and a professor of computer science at Stanford University. He founded Electric Cloud with John Graham-Cumming. Ousterhout previously was a professor of computer science at University of California, Berkeley where he created the Tcl...
  
   (Ph.D. 1980), inventor of the Tcl
  Tcl
  Tcl is a scripting language created by John Ousterhout. Originally "born out of frustration", according to the author, with programmers devising their own languages intended to be embedded into applications, Tcl gained acceptance on its own...
  
   scripting language
• David Parnas
  David Parnas
  David Lorge Parnas is a Canadian early pioneer of software engineering, who developed the concept of information hiding in modular programming, which is an important element of object-oriented programming today. He is also noted for his advocacy of precise documentation.- Biography :Parnas earned...
  
   (M.S. 1964, Ph.D. 1965), early pioneer of software engineering
  Software engineering
  Software Engineering is the application of a systematic, disciplined, quantifiable approach to the development, operation, and maintenance of software, and the study of these approaches; that is, the application of engineering to software...
  
  
• Randy Pausch
  Randy Pausch
  Randolph Frederick "Randy" Pausch was an American professor of computer science and human-computer interaction and design at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania....
  
   (Ph.D. 1988, Professor), founder of Alice (software)
  Alice (software)
  Alice is a freeware object-oriented educational programming language with an integrated development environment . Later versions are implemented in Java. Alice uses a drag and drop environment to create computer animations using 3D models...
  
  , and man behind The Last Lecture
  Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams
  Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams was a lecture given by Carnegie Mellon University computer science professor Randy Pausch on September 18, 2007 that received a large amount of media coverage, and was the base for The Last Lecture, a New York Times best-selling book co-authored with Wall...
  
  
• Drew D. Perkins
  Drew D. Perkins
  Drew D. Perkins is a founder of Infinera and is one of the authors of the Point-to-Point Protocol .-See also:Carnegie Mellon University...
  
   (B.S. 1986), author of Point-to-Point Protocol
  Point-to-Point Protocol
  In networking, the Point-to-Point Protocol is a data link protocol commonly used in establishing a direct connection between two networking nodes...
  
   (PPP)
• Judith Resnik (B.S. 1970), astronaut who died in the Challenger
  Space Shuttle Challenger
  Space Shuttle Challenger was NASA's second Space Shuttle orbiter to be put into service, Columbia having been the first. The shuttle was built by Rockwell International's Space Transportation Systems Division in Downey, California...
  
  accident during the launch of the mission STS-51-L
  STS-51-L
  STS-51-L was the twenty-fifth flight of the American Space Shuttle program, which marked the first time an ordinary civilian, schoolteacher Christa McAuliffe, had flown aboard the Space Shuttle. The mission used Space Shuttle Challenger, which lifted off from the Launch Complex 39-B on 28 January...
  
  
• Mark Russinovich
  Mark Russinovich
  Mark E. Russinovich is a Technical Fellow in the Platform and Services Division at Microsoft. He was a cofounder of software producers Winternals before it was acquired by Microsoft in 2006.-Early life and education:...
  
   (B.S., Ph.D. 1994), Windows
  Microsoft Windows
  Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal...
  
   expert and Technical fellow of Microsoft
  Microsoft
  Microsoft Corporation is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions...
  
  
• Barb Samardzich (M.S. 1985), Vice President, Powertrain
  Powertrain
  In a motor vehicle, the term powertrain or powerplant refers to the group of components that generate power and deliver it to the road surface, water, or air. This includes the engine, transmission, drive shafts, differentials, and the final drive...
  
   Operations, Ford Motor Company
  Ford Motor Company
  Ford Motor Company is an American multinational automaker based in Dearborn, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit. The automaker was founded by Henry Ford and incorporated on June 16, 1903. In addition to the Ford and Lincoln brands, Ford also owns a small stake in Mazda in Japan and Aston Martin in the UK...
  
  
• Mahadev Satyanarayanan (Ph.D. 1983), principle computer architect of Coda
  Coda (file system)
  Coda is a distributed file system developed as a research project at Carnegie Mellon University since 1987 under the direction of Mahadev Satyanarayanan. It descended directly from an older version of AFS and offers many similar features. The InterMezzo file system was inspired by Coda...
  
   and Andrew File System(AFS)
  Andrew file system
  The Andrew File System is a distributed networked file system which uses a set of trusted servers to present a homogeneous, location-transparent file name space to all the client workstations. It was developed by Carnegie Mellon University as part of the Andrew Project. It is named after Andrew...
  
  
• Joshua Schachter
  Joshua Schachter
  Joshua Schachter is the creator of Delicious, creator of GeoURL, and co-creator of Memepool. He has a B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh....
  
   (B.S. 1996), founder of del.icio.us
  Del.icio.us
  Delicious is a social bookmarking web service for storing, sharing, and discovering web bookmarks. The site was founded by Joshua Schachter in 2003 and acquired by Yahoo! in 2005, and by the end of 2008, the service claimed more than 5.3 million users and 180 million unique bookmarked URLs...
  
  
• Jonathan I. Schwartz
  Jonathan I. Schwartz
  Jonathan Ian Schwartz is the co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Picture of Health. He was formerly the President and CEO of Sun Microsystems prior to its acquisition by Oracle, and previously the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Lighthouse Design, Ltd., a software company focused on...
  
   (transferred to Wesleyan University
  Wesleyan University
  Wesleyan University is a private liberal arts college founded in 1831 and located in Middletown, Connecticut. According to the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, Wesleyan is the only Baccalaureate College in the nation that emphasizes undergraduate instruction in the arts and...
  
  ) - CEO of Sun Microsystems
  Sun Microsystems
  Sun Microsystems, Inc. was a company that sold :computers, computer components, :computer software, and :information technology services. Sun was founded on February 24, 1982...
  
  
• Harry Shum
  Harry Shum
  Harry Shum is Corporate Vice President of Bing Development at Microsoft. He received a Ph.D. in robotics from the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University and is known for his work on computer vision and computer graphics...
  
   (Ph.D. 1996), Corporate Vice President, Microsoft
  Microsoft
  Microsoft Corporation is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions...
  
  
• Pradeep Sindhu
  Pradeep Sindhu
  Pradeep Sindhu is the Co-founder and Chief Technical Officer/ Vice Chairman of the Board of the Directors of Juniper Networks Inc. He was also the CEO of the company until 1996....
  
   (Ph.D. 1982), cofounder and CTO of Juniper Networks
  Juniper Networks
  Juniper Networks is an information technology and computer networking products multinational company, founded in 1996. It is head quartered in Sunnyvale, California, USA. The company designs and sells high-performance Internet Protocol network products and services...
  
  
• Ivan Sutherland
  Ivan Sutherland
  Ivan Edward Sutherland is an American computer scientist and Internet pioneer. He received the Turing Award from the Association for Computing Machinery in 1988 for the invention of Sketchpad, an early predecessor to the sort of graphical user interface that has become ubiquitous in personal...
  
   (B.S. 1959), Vice President and Fellow of Sun Microsystems
  Sun Microsystems
  Sun Microsystems, Inc. was a company that sold :computers, computer components, :computer software, and :information technology services. Sun was founded on February 24, 1982...
  
  
• Shanghua Teng
  Shanghua Teng
  Shang-Hua Teng is the chairman of the Computer Science Department at the Viterbi School of Engineering of the University of Southern California. In 2008 he was awarded the Gödel Prize for his joint work on smoothed analysis of algorithms with Daniel Spielman...
  
  , Professor of Computer Science at Boston University and winner of Gödel Prize
  Gödel Prize
  The Gödel Prize is a prize for outstanding papers in theoretical computer science, named after Kurt Gödel and awarded jointly by the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science and the Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Algorithms and Computation Theory .The...
  
  
• Avie Tevanian
  Avie Tevanian
  Avadis "Avie" Tevanian is a former Senior Vice President of Software Engineering at Apple Computer from 1997 to 2003, and a former Chief Software Technology Officer from 2003 to 2006. He is a member of the board of embedded software tools company Green Hills Software. Tevanian was responsible for...
  
   (M.S. 1985, Ph.D. 1988), former Apple
  Apple Computer
  Apple Inc. is an American multinational corporation that designs and markets consumer electronics, computer software, and personal computers. The company's best-known hardware products include the Macintosh line of computers, the iPod, the iPhone and the iPad...
  
   CTO
• Hau Thai-Tang (1988), former Director of Advanced Product Creation and Special Vehicle Team
  Special Vehicle Team
  Special Vehicle Team, also known as SVT, is an arm of Ford Motor Company responsible for the development of the company's highest-performance vehicles, much like Mercedes-AMG, BMW M, Chrysler's SRT division and GM's Performance Division. SVT is the successor to the SVO division.The current SVT...
  
   at Ford Motor Company
  Ford Motor Company
  Ford Motor Company is an American multinational automaker based in Dearborn, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit. The automaker was founded by Henry Ford and incorporated on June 16, 1903. In addition to the Ford and Lincoln brands, Ford also owns a small stake in Mazda in Japan and Aston Martin in the UK...
  
  , Chief Engineer of the 2005 Ford Mustang
  Ford Mustang
  The Ford Mustang is an automobile manufactured by the Ford Motor Company. It was initially based on the second generation North American Ford Falcon, a compact car. Introduced early on April 17, 1964, as a "1964½" model, the 1965 Mustang was the automaker's most successful launch since the Model A...
  
  
• Richard Wallace
  Richard Wallace (scientist)
  Richard Wallace is the author of AIML and Botmaster of ALICE . Dr. Wallace's work has appeared in the New York Times, WIRED, CNN, ZDTV and in numerous foreign language publications across Asia, Latin America and Europe.Richard Wallace was born in Portland, Maine in 1960. He earned his Ph.D...
  
   (Ph.D. 1989), Chairman and co-founder of the A.L.I.C.E. Artificial Intelligence Foundation. Author of Artificial Intelligence Markup Language
  AIML
  AIML, or Artificial Intelligence Markup Language, is an XML dialect for creating natural language software agents.- Background :The XML dialect called AIML was developed by Richard Wallace and a worldwide free software community between the years of 1995 and 2002...
  
   and Botmaster of the famous chat bot A.L.I.C.E.
  Artificial Linguistic Internet Computer Entity
  A.L.I.C.E. , also referred to as Alicebot, or simply Alice, is a natural language processing chatterbot—a program that engages in a conversation with a human by applying some heuristical pattern matching rules to the human's input, and in its online form it also relies on a hidden third person...
  
  
• U.A. Whitaker (1929), founder of AMP Inc. and Whitaker Foundation
  Whitaker Foundation
  The Whitaker Foundation was based in Arlington, Virginia and was an organization that primarily supported biomedical engineering education and research, but also supported other forms of medical research. It was founded and funded by U. A. Whitaker in 1975 upon his death with additional support...
  
  
• Red Whittaker (M.S. 1975, Ph.D. 1979), professor at CMU; led CMU teams that won second and third place in the DARPA Grand Challenge
  DARPA Grand Challenge
  The DARPA Grand Challenge is a prize competition for driverless vehicles, funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the most prominent research organization of the United States Department of Defense...
  
   in 2005 and first place in 2007

Performing arts, film, and television

• Sonni Abatta, news anchor at KDKA-TV
  KDKA-TV
  KDKA-TV, channel 2, is an owned and operated television station of the CBS Television Network, located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. KDKA-TV broadcasts from a transmitter located in the Perry North neighborhood of Pittsburgh, and its studios are located in downtown Pittsburgh at Gateway Center....
  
   in Pittsburgh, now the 6pm lead anchor at WOFL-TV in Orlando.
• René Auberjonois (1962), actor, best known for Benson
  Benson (TV series)
  Benson is an American television sitcom which aired from September 13, 1979, to April 19, 1986, on ABC. The series was a spin-off from the soap opera parody Soap ; however, Benson discarded the...
  
  , Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
  Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
  Star Trek: Deep Space Nine is a science fiction television series set in the Star Trek universe...
  
  , and Boston Legal
  Boston Legal
  Boston Legal is an American legal dramedy created by David E. Kelley, which was produced in association with 20th Century Fox Television for the ABC...
  
  
• Brent Barrett
  Brent Barrett
  Brent Barrett is an American actor and tenor who is mostly known for his work within American theatre. Barrett has performed in musicals and in concerts with theatres, symphony orchestras, opera houses, and concert halls internationally...
  
  , actor, singer, Broadway: Chicago (musical)
  Chicago (musical)
  Chicago is a musical set in Prohibition-era Chicago. The music is by John Kander with lyrics by Fred Ebb and a book by Ebb and Bob Fosse. The story is a satire on corruption in the administration of criminal justice and the concept of the "celebrity criminal"...
  
  , Phantom: The Las Vegas Spectacular, The Producers (2005 film)
  The Producers (2005 film)
  # "Overture" - Orchestra# "Opening Night" - Opening Nighters# "We Can Do It" - Max and Leo# "I Wanna Be a Producer" - Leo, Accountants, Mr. Marks and Dancing Chorus Girls# "Der Guten Tag Hop-Clop" - Franz, Max, and Leo...
  
  
• Shari Belafonte
  Shari Belafonte
  Shari Belafonte is an American actress, model, writer and singer. The daughter of singer Harry Belafonte, she is known for her role as Julie Gilette on the 1980s television series Hotel and as a spokesperson for the diet supplement Slim-Fast during the 1990s.-Personal life:Shari Lynn Belafonte was...
  
  , actress, singer, Cane River
• Natalie Venetia Belcon
  Natalie Venetia Belcon
  Natalie Venetia Belcon is a Trinidad-born American actress and singer. She is best known for originating the role of former child television star Gary Coleman in the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical Avenue Q...
  
  , actress, singer, originated the role of Gary Coleman
  Gary Coleman
  Gary Wayne Coleman was an American actor, known for his childhood role as Arnold Jackson in the American sitcom Diff'rent Strokes and for his small stature as an adult. He was described in the 1980s as "one of television's most promising stars". After a successful childhood acting career, Coleman...
  
   in the Broadway
  Broadway theatre
  Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 40 professional theatres with 500 or more seats located in the Theatre District centered along Broadway, and in Lincoln Center, in Manhattan in New York City...
  
   musical Avenue Q
  Avenue Q
  Avenue Q is a musical in two acts, conceived by Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx, who wrote the music and lyrics. The book was written by Jeff Whitty and the show was directed by Jason Moore and produced by Kevin McCollum, Robyn Goodman, and Jeffrey Seller...
  
  
• Benny Benack
  Benny Benack
  Benidict E. "Benny" Benack was at the forefront of the Pittsburgh jazz scene in the 1960s and '70s. A talented trumpet player, Benack was made famous by his song "Beat'em Bucs" and was a staple at Pittsburgh Pirates and Pittsburgh Steelers games. The Benny Benack Orchestra played the styles of...
  
  . orchestra leader, "King of Pittsburgh Dixieland"
• Paul Ben-Victor
  Paul Ben-Victor
  Paul Ben-Victor is an American actor.Ben-Victor was born Paul Friedman, in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Leah Kornfeld, a playwright, and Victor Friedman. Ben-Victor debuted on the small screen in 1987 in the made-for-TV movie Blood Vows: The Story of a Mafia Wife and on an episode of Cagney &...
  
  , actor who has appeared on many shows, such as The Wire
  The Wire (TV series)
  The Wire is an American television drama series set and produced in and around Baltimore, Maryland. Created and primarily written by author and former police reporter David Simon, the series was broadcast by the premium cable network HBO in the United States...
  
  , The Shield
  The Shield
  The Shield is an American television drama series starring Michael Chiklis which premiered on March 12, 2002 on FX in the United States and concluded on November 25, 2008 after seven seasons...
  
  and Entourage
  Entourage (TV series)
  Entourage is an American comedy-drama television series that premiered on HBO on July 18, 2004 and concluded on September 11, 2011, after eight seasons...
  
  .
• Lourdes Benedicto
  Lourdes Benedicto
  Lourdes Benedicto is an American actress of Filipino/Dominican descent. She is most well known for her starring role as Eva Rios on The Nine, and for her role as Alicia Lawson on the short-lived series Cashmere Mafia. She is primarily known as a television actress, but has been in a few...
  
  , actress, NYPD Blue
  NYPD Blue
  NYPD Blue is an American television police drama set in New York City, exploring the internal and external struggles of the fictional 15th precinct of Manhattan...
  
  , ER
  ER (TV series)
  ER is an American medical drama television series created by novelist Michael Crichton that aired on NBC from September 19, 1994 to April 2, 2009. It was produced by Constant c Productions and Amblin Entertainment, in association with Warner Bros. Television...
  
  , Dawson's Creek
  Dawson's Creek
  Dawson's Creek is an American teen drama television series which debuted on January 20, 1998, on The WB Television Network and was produced by Sony Pictures Television. The show is set in the fictional seaside town of Capeside, Massachusetts, and in Boston, Massachusetts, during the later seasons...
  
  , and 24
  24 (TV series)
  24 is an American television series produced for the Fox Network and syndicated worldwide, starring Kiefer Sutherland as Counter Terrorist Unit agent Jack Bauer. Each 24-episode season covers 24 hours in the life of Bauer, using the real time method of narration...
  
  
• Steven Bochco
  Steven Bochco
  Steven Ronald Bochco is a US television producer and writer. He has developed a number of popular television hits including Hill Street Blues, L.A. Law, and NYPD Blue, as well as some notable flops such as Cop Rock....
  
   (1966), writer, producer, Hill Street Blues
  Hill Street Blues
  Hill Street Blues is an American serial police drama that was first aired on NBC in 1981 and ran for 146 episodes on primetime into 1987. Chronicling the lives of the staff of a single police precinct in an unnamed American city, the show received critical acclaim and its production innovations ...
  
  , L.A. Law
  L.A. Law
  L.A. Law is a US television legal drama that ran on NBC from September 15, 1986 to May 19, 1994. L.A. Law reflected the social and cultural ideologies of the 1980s and early 1990s and many of the cases featured on the show dealt with hot topic issues such as abortion, racism, gay rights,...
  
  , NYPD Blue
  NYPD Blue
  NYPD Blue is an American television police drama set in New York City, exploring the internal and external struggles of the fictional 15th precinct of Manhattan...
  
  ; ten-time Emmy Award winner
• Matthew Bomer, actor, White Collar
  White Collar (TV series)
  White Collar is a USA Network television series created by Jeff Eastin, starring Matt Bomer as con-man Neal Caffrey and Tim DeKay as Special Agent Peter Burke. It premiered on October 23, 2009. In December 2009, White Collar was renewed for a second season that began on July 13, 2010...
  
   (TV series)
• Christian Borle
  Christian Borle
  Christian Borle is an American actor. Born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Borle has been primarily featured as an actor in Broadway productions....
  
  , Tony Award
  Tony Award
  The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as a Tony Award, recognizes achievement in live Broadway theatre. The awards are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at an annual ceremony in New York City. The awards are given for Broadway...
  
   nominated actor, "Legally Blonde (musical)
  Legally Blonde (musical)
  Legally Blonde is a musical with music and lyrics by Laurence O'Keefe and Nell Benjamin and book by Heather Hach. The story is based on the novel Legally Blonde by Amanda Brown and the 2001 film of the same name. It tells the story of Elle Woods, a sorority girl who enrolls at Harvard Law School to...
  
  ", briefly attended
• Barbara Bosson
  Barbara Bosson
  Barbara Bosson is an American actress who has starred on television and in film.-Biography:Bosson was born in Charleroi, Pennsylvania to a tennis coach father. During her childhood, she lived in an American Craftsman Style house on Price Avenue in the borough of North Belle Vernon...
  
  , actress, Hill Street Blues
  Hill Street Blues
  Hill Street Blues is an American serial police drama that was first aired on NBC in 1981 and ran for 146 episodes on primetime into 1987. Chronicling the lives of the staff of a single police precinct in an unnamed American city, the show received critical acclaim and its production innovations ...
  
  and Murder One
• Abby Brammell
  Abby Brammell
  Abby Brammell is an American television and stage actress.-Personal life:Brammell was born in Kentucky and raised in San Antonio, Texas, where she graduated from Churchill High School in 1997. She graduated from the Carnegie Mellon University drama school in 2001...
  
  , actress (The Unit
  The Unit
  The Unit is an American action-drama television series that focuses on a top-secret military unit modeled after the real-life U.S. Army special operations unit commonly known as Delta Force...
  
  )
• Albert Brooks
  Albert Brooks
  Albert Lawrence Brooks is an American actor, voice actor, writer, comedian and director. He received an Academy Award nomination in 1987 for his role in Broadcast News...
  
  , actor, attend for two years, Finding Nemo, Broadcast News
• Lori Cardille
  Lori Cardille
  Lori Cardille is an American actress, best known for her lead role in George A. Romero's Day of the Dead . Her father, Bill "Chilly Billy" Cardille, appeared as a reporter in the original Night of the Living Dead ....
  
  , actress
• Jean Carson
  Jean Carson
  Jean Carson was an American stage, film and television actress best known for her work on the classic 1960s sitcom The Andy Griffith Show as one of the "fun girls".-Biography:Born to Alexander W...
  
  , actress (The Andy Griffith Show
  The Andy Griffith Show
  The Andy Griffith Show is an American sitcom first televised by CBS between October 3, 1960, and April 1, 1968. Andy Griffith portrays a widowed sheriff in the fictional small community of Mayberry, North Carolina...
  
  )
• Gaius Charles
  Gaius Charles
  Gaius Charles is an American stage, television and film actor best known for playing Brian "Smash" Williams on NBC's Friday Night Lights.-Early life:...
  
   (2005), actor, Friday Night Lights
  Friday Night Lights (TV series)
  Friday Night Lights is an American sports drama television series adapted by Peter Berg, Brian Grazer and David Nevins from a book and film of the same name. The series details events surrounding a high school football team based in fictional Dillon, Texas, with particular focus given to team...
  
  
• Rhys Coiro
  Rhys Coiro
  Rhys Coiro is an American film, television and stage actor. Coiro may be best known for his role on the HBO original series Entourage as Billy Walsh.-Personal life:...
  
  , actor, best known for his role as Billy Walsh on the HBO program Entourage
  Entourage (TV series)
  Entourage is an American comedy-drama television series that premiered on HBO on July 18, 2004 and concluded on September 11, 2011, after eight seasons...
  
  
• Frank Converse
  Frank Converse
  Frank Converse is an American actor. In 1962, he received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in drama at Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania...
  
  , actor, The Rowdyman
• Ellen Crawford
  Ellen Crawford
  Ellen Crawford is an American actress. Most recently, she co-starred as Edith, in The Man from Earth. She also played Nurse Lydia Wright on ER from 1994–2003 and then again in 2009 for the series finale...
  
  , actress, Boston Legal
• James Cromwell
  James Cromwell
  James Oliver Cromwell is an American film and television actor. Some of his more notable roles are in Babe , for which he earned Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor, Star Trek: First Contact , L.A...
  
  , actor, best known for L.A. Confidential
  L.A. Confidential (film)
  L.A. Confidential is a 1997 American film based on James Ellroy's 1990 novel of the same title, the third book in his L.A. Quartet. Both the book and the film tell the story of a group of LAPD officers in the 1950s, and the intersection of police corruption and Hollywood celebrity...
  
  , The General's Daughter
  The General's Daughter
  The General's Daughter is a 1999 murder mystery film starring John Travolta. The plot concerns the mysterious death of the daughter of a prominent general. The movie is based on the novel by the same name written in 1992 by Nelson DeMille, and was directed by Simon West...
  
  , The Sum of All Fears
  The Sum of All Fears
  The Sum of All Fears is the best-selling thriller novel by Dan Fogelman and Tom Clancy, and part of the Jack Ryan series. It was the fourth book of the series to be turned into a film. An interesting historical note is that this book was released just days before the Moscow uprising in 1991, which...
  
   and Babe
  Babe (film)
  Babe is a 1995 Australian-American film directed by Chris Noonan. It is an adaptation of the 1983 novel The Sheep-Pig, also known as Babe: The Gallant Pig in the United States, by Dick King-Smith and tells the story of a pig who wants to be a sheepdog...
  
  
• Bob Cummings, actor, best known for Love That Bob
• Ted Danson
  Ted Danson
  Edward Bridge “Ted” Danson III is an American actor best known for his role as central character Sam Malone in the sitcom Cheers, and his role as Dr. John Becker on the series Becker. He also plays a recurring role on Larry David's HBO sitcom Curb Your Enthusiasm and starred alongside Glenn Close...
  
   (1972), actor, best known as "Sam", the bartender on Cheers
  Cheers
  Cheers is an American situation comedy television series that ran for 11 seasons from 1982 to 1993. It was produced by Charles/Burrows/Charles Productions, in association with Paramount Network Television for NBC, and was created by the team of James Burrows, Glen Charles, and Les Charles...
  
  ; two-time Emmy Award
  Emmy Award
  An Emmy Award, often referred to simply as the Emmy, is a television production award, similar in nature to the Peabody Awards but more focused on entertainment, and is considered the television equivalent to the Academy Awards and the Grammy Awards .A majority of Emmys are presented in various...
  
   winner; three-time Golden Globe Award
  Golden Globe Award
  The Golden Globe Award is an accolade bestowed by the 93 members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association recognizing excellence in film and television, both domestic and foreign...
  
   winner
• Nicole DeHuff
  Nicole DeHuff
  Nicole Renee DeHuff was an American actress.-Early life:DeHuff was born in Antlers, Oklahoma and raised in Rattan, Stringtown and Gillham, Arkansas. She began her acting career by earning a bachelor's degree in drama from Carnegie Mellon University...
  
  , actress, Meet The Parents
  Meet the Parents
  Meet the Parents is a 2000 American comedy film written by Jim Herzfeld and John Hamburg and directed by Jay Roach. Starring Robert De Niro and Ben Stiller, the film chronicles a series of unfortunate events that befall a good-hearted but hapless male nurse while visiting his girlfriend's parents...
  
  , Unbeatable Harold
  Unbeatable Harold
  Unbeatable Harold is a 2006 romantic comedy film directed by Ari Palitz. Its starring actors include Gordon Michaels, Nicole DeHuff, Henry Winkler, Gladys Knight, Charles Durning, Taryn Manning, Phyllis Diller, Lourdes Benedicto and Dylan McDermott...
  
  
• Cote de Pablo
  Cote de Pablo
  María José de Pablo Fernández, better known as Coté de Pablo , is a Chilean-American actress and recording artist. De Pablo has won an ALMA Award for her role as NCIS Special Agent Ziva David in the television series NCIS...
  
   (2000), actress, NCIS
  NCIS (TV series)
  NCIS, formerly known as NCIS: Naval Criminal Investigative Service, is an American police procedural drama television series revolving around a fictional team of special agents from the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, which conducts criminal investigations involving the U.S...
  
  
• Kim Director
  Kim Director
  -Biography:Director was born in Florida, graduated from Upper St. Clair High School, in Upper St. Clair Township, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, in 1993 and attended Carnegie Mellon University where she earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Acting...
  
  , actress
• Dagmara Dominczyk, actress, The Count of Monte Cristo
  The Count of Monte Cristo
  The Count of Monte Cristo is an adventure novel by Alexandre Dumas. It is often considered to be, along with The Three Musketeers, Dumas's most popular work. He completed the work in 1844...
  
  
• Peggy Eisenhauer
  Peggy Eisenhauer
  Peggy Eisenhauer is an American lighting designer for both theatre and films. She has designed more than twenty Broadway shows and frequently collaborates with Jules Fisher.-Career:...
  
   (1983), Tony Award-winning lighting designer
• Esteban
  Esteban
  Esteban is the stage name of guitarist Stephen Paul. Recognizable by his bolero hat and sunglasses, Esteban has gained commercial success by selling his CDs and guitars on QVC and HSN.-History:...
  
  , flamenco
  Flamenco
  Flamenco is a genre of music and dance which has its foundation in Andalusian music and dance and in whose evolution Andalusian Gypsies played an important part....
  
   guitarist
• Barbara Feldon, actress, Get Smart
  Get Smart
  Get Smart is an American comedy television series that satirizes the secret agent genre. Created by Mel Brooks with Buck Henry, the show starred Don Adams , Barbara Feldon , and Edward Platt...
  
  
• Dennis Ferry (1966), Principal Trumpet (1977 to present), Orchestre de la Suisse Romande (Geneva, Switzerland)
• Jules Fisher
  Jules Fisher
  Jules Fisher is a lighting designer and producer. He is credited with lighting designs for more than 200 productions over the course of his 45 year career in Broadway and off-Broadway shows, as well extensive work in film, ballet, opera, television, and rock and roll concert tours...
  
   (1960), Tony Award
  Tony Award
  The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as a Tony Award, recognizes achievement in live Broadway theatre. The awards are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at an annual ceremony in New York City. The awards are given for Broadway...
  
  -winning lighting designer
• Sutton Foster
  Sutton Foster
  Sutton Lenore Foster is an American actress, singer and dancer. Foster has received two Tony Awards, in 2002 for her role of Millie Dillmount in Thoroughly Modern Millie and in 2011 for her role of Reno Sweeney in Anything Goes...
  
  , Tony Award
  Tony Award
  The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as a Tony Award, recognizes achievement in live Broadway theatre. The awards are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at an annual ceremony in New York City. The awards are given for Broadway...
  
   winning actress, Thoroughly Modern Millie
  Thoroughly Modern Millie
  Thoroughly Modern Millie is a 1967 American musical film directed by George Roy Hill and starring Julie Andrews. The screenplay by Richard Morris focuses on a naive young woman who finds herself in the midst of a series of madcap adventures when she sets her sights on marrying her wealthy boss.The...
  
  , left after freshman year
• Renee Elise Goldsberry
  Renee Elise Goldsberry
  Renee Elise Goldsberry is an American actress, singer and songwriter.Goldsberry was born in San Jose, California and raised in both Houston, Texas and Detroit, Michigan. After graduating from Cranbrook Kingswood School in Bloomfield Hills she went to Carnegie Mellon University where she graduated...
  
  , actress
• Frank Gorshin
  Frank Gorshin
  Frank John Gorshin, Jr. was an American actor and comedian. He was perhaps best known as an impressionist, with many guest appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show and The Tonight Show...
  
  , actor, best known as "The Riddler" in the Batman
  Batman
  Batman is a fictional character created by the artist Bob Kane and writer Bill Finger. A comic book superhero, Batman first appeared in Detective Comics #27 , and since then has appeared primarily in publications by DC Comics...
  
  live action television series
  Batman (TV series)
  Batman is an American television series, based on the DC comic book character of the same name. It stars Adam West as Batman and Burt Ward as Robin — two crime-fighting heroes who defend Gotham City. It aired on the American Broadcasting Company network for three seasons from January 12, 1966 to...
  
  
• Javier Grillo-Marxuach
  Javier Grillo-Marxuach
  Javier "Javi" Grillo-Marxuach , born October 28, 1969 in San Juan, Puerto Rico, is a television screenwriter and producer, known for his work as writer and producer on the first two seasons of the ABC television series Lost, as well as other series including Charmed and Law and Order: Special...
  
  , television screenwriter, producer, best known for his work on the first two seasons of Lost
  Lost (TV series)
  Lost is an American television series that originally aired on ABC from September 22, 2004 to May 23, 2010, consisting of six seasons. Lost is a drama series that follows the survivors of the crash of a commercial passenger jet flying between Sydney and Los Angeles, on a mysterious tropical island...
  
  
• Josh Groban
  Josh Groban
  Joshua Winslow "Josh" Groban is an American singer-songwriter, musician, actor, and record producer. His four solo albums have been certified at least multi-platinum, and in 2007, he was charted as the number-one best selling artist in the United States with over 21 million records in that country...
  
  , singer, left after freshman year
• Charles Haid
  Charles Haid
  Charles Maurice Haid III is an American actor and director, with notable work in both movies and television. He is known for his portrayal of Officer Andy Renko in Hill Street Blues....
  
  , actor and director
• Van Hansis
  Van Hansis
  Van Hansis is an American actor. Hansis, who uses the name Van professionally, starred on the long-running CBS soap opera As the World Turns as Luke Snyder, the son of one of the show's signature supercouples, Holden and Lily Snyder ,...
  
  , actor, Luke Snyder
  Luke Snyder
  Luciano Eduardo "Luke" Snyder is a fictional character from the American daytime drama As the World Turns. He was most recently portrayed by actor Van Hansis....
  
   of As the World Turns
  As the World Turns
  As the World Turns is an American television soap opera that aired on CBS from April 2, 1956 to September 17, 2010. Irna Phillips created As the World Turns as a sister show to her other soap opera Guiding Light...
  
  , three-time Emmy Awards nominee
• Ian Harding
  Ian Harding
  Ian M. Harding is an American actor.Harding was born in Heidelberg, Germany to a military family. His family moved to Virginia a few years later, where he joined the drama club at his high school, Georgetown Preparatory School. He was elected by his class to give the commencement address...
  
  , actor from Pretty Little Liars
  Pretty Little Liars
  Pretty Little Liars is a series of more than 10 young adult novels by Sara Shepard, from 1981–present, which have been made into a television show . The series follows the lives of four girls — Spencer, Hanna, Aria, and Emily — whose clique falls apart after the disappearance of their leader,...
  
  
• Mariette Hartley
  Mariette Hartley
  Mary Loretta "Mariette" Hartley is an American character actress.-Personal life:Hartley was born in Weston, Connecticut, the daughter of Mary Ickes “Polly” , a manager and saleswoman, and Paul Hembree Hartley, an account executive. Her maternal grandfather was psychologist John B...
  
   (attended), actress
• Lisa Hartman-Black, actress Tabatha
• Ethan Hawke
  Ethan Hawke
  Ethan Green Hawke is an American actor, writer and director. He made his feature film debut in 1985 with the science fiction movie Explorers, before making a supporting appearance in the 1989 drama Dead Poets Society which is considered his breakthrough role...
  
  , actor, briefly attended
• Megan Hilty
  Megan Hilty
  Megan Kathleen Hilty is an American stage and television actress.- Early years :Hilty was born in Bellevue, Washington and is the daughter of Jack and Donna Hilty. She attended Sammamish High School in Bellevue and the Washington Academy of Performing Arts Conservatory High School in Redmond,...
  
  , Broadway Actress, played Glinda in Wicked
  Wicked (musical)
  Wicked is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and a book by Winnie Holzman. It is based on the Gregory Maguire novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West , a parallel novel of the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz and L. Frank Baum's classic story The Wonderful Wizard...
  
  
• Leonard "Hub" Hubbard
  Hub (bassist)
  Leonard "Hub" Hubbard is a former band member of The Roots and played bass for the Philadelphia outfit from 1992 to 2007. He played on all of their records until his departure from the group, including 1999's Things Fall Apart and 2004's The Tipping Point. He is known for always having a chew stick...
  
  , Bassist, The Roots
• Holly Hunter
  Holly Hunter
  Holly Hunter is an American actress. Hunter starred in The Piano for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress. She has also been nominated for Oscars for her roles in Broadcast News, The Firm, and Thirteen...
  
   (1980), Academy Award
  Academy Awards
  An Academy Award, also known as an Oscar, is an accolade bestowed by the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize excellence of professionals in the film industry, including directors, actors, and writers...
  
   winning actress who also won two Emmy Award
  Emmy Award
  An Emmy Award, often referred to simply as the Emmy, is a television production award, similar in nature to the Peabody Awards but more focused on entertainment, and is considered the television equivalent to the Academy Awards and the Grammy Awards .A majority of Emmys are presented in various...
  
  s and a Golden Globe Award
  Golden Globe Award
  The Golden Globe Award is an accolade bestowed by the 93 members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association recognizing excellence in film and television, both domestic and foreign...
  
  
• Cherry Jones
  Cherry Jones
  Cherry Jones is an American actress and recipient of the 2009 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress – Drama Series and the 2005 Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play.-Career:...
  
   (1978), film, Emmy Award
  Emmy Award
  An Emmy Award, often referred to simply as the Emmy, is a television production award, similar in nature to the Peabody Awards but more focused on entertainment, and is considered the television equivalent to the Academy Awards and the Grammy Awards .A majority of Emmys are presented in various...
  
  , and Tony Award
  Tony Award
  The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as a Tony Award, recognizes achievement in live Broadway theatre. The awards are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at an annual ceremony in New York City. The awards are given for Broadway...
  
   winning actress
• James Jacks
  James Jacks
  James Jacks is a film producer who has in recent years produced several high-budget films. His credits include:*The Mummy*Dazed and Confused*Tombstone*Down to Earth*The Hunted*The Scorpion King*The Mummy Returns...
  
  , producer, Raising Arizona, The Mummy, The Mummy Returns, Mallrats, Michael, Tombstone
• Caren Kaye
  Caren Kaye
  Caren Kaye is an American television and film actress who is best known for her roles in the 1983 film My Tutor and the short-lived NBC sitcom It's Your Move.- Career :...
  
  , lead actress, "My Tutor", M.S. Ph.D. Psychology
• Jack Klugman
  Jack Klugman
  Jacob Joachim "Jack" Klugman is an American stage, film and television actor known for his roles in sitcoms, movies, and television and on Broadway...
  
  , Emmy Award
  Emmy Award
  An Emmy Award, often referred to simply as the Emmy, is a television production award, similar in nature to the Peabody Awards but more focused on entertainment, and is considered the television equivalent to the Academy Awards and the Grammy Awards .A majority of Emmys are presented in various...
  
   winning actor, best known for The Odd Couple
  The Odd Couple (TV series)
  The Odd Couple is a television situation comedy broadcast from September 24, 1970 to July 4, 1975 on ABC. It starred Tony Randall as Felix Unger and Jack Klugman as Oscar Madison. It was based upon the play of the same name, which was written by Neil Simon.Felix and Oscar are two divorced men....
  
  , Quincy, M.E.
  Quincy, M.E.
  Quincy, M.E., also called Quincy, is a United States television series from Universal Studios that aired from October 3, 1976, to September 5, 1983, on NBC...
  
  
• Michael Kooman
  Michael Kooman
  Michael Kooman is a composer, pianist and arranger living in New York City. He is most known for his work on the musicals "Homemade Fusion", "Dani Girl" and "Golden Gate" with Christopher Dimond. He is half of the writing team of Kooman and Dimond.-Musicals:...
  
  , Musical Theater Composer, half of Kooman and dimond
  Kooman and Dimond
  Kooman and Dimond are a musical theater writing team currently living in New York City.They are most known for their musicals Dani Girl, Golden Gate, and Homemade Fusion....
  
  , whose works have been performed at The Kennedy Center, the Williamstown Theater Festival, and the American Conservatory Theater
  American Conservatory Theater
  American Conservatory Theater is a large non-profit theater company in San Francisco, California, that offers both classical and contemporary theater productions. A.C.T. was founded in 1965 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in conjunction with the Pittsburgh Playhouse and Carnegie Tech by theatre and...
  
  
• David Lander
  David Lander
  David L. Lander is an American actor, comedian, composer, musician, and baseball scout. David is also the Goodwill Ambassador for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society.- Biography :...
  
  , actor, best known for his portrayal of Squiggy on the sitcom Laverne and Shirley
• Eugene Lee
  Eugene Lee (designer)
  Eugene Lee was born in Beloit, Wisconsin, 1939. He attended Beloit Memorial High School. He has been resident designer at Trinity Rep since 1967. He has BFA degrees from the Art Institute of Chicago and Carnegie Mellon University, an MFA from Yale Drama School and three honorary Ph.Ds. Mr...
  
  , two-time Tony Award
  Tony Award
  The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as a Tony Award, recognizes achievement in live Broadway theatre. The awards are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at an annual ceremony in New York City. The awards are given for Broadway...
  
  -winning scenic designer
• Judith Light
  Judith Light
  Judith Ellen Light is an American actress. Her television roles include Karen Wolek on the soap opera One Life to Live, Angela Bower on the sitcom Who's the Boss?, Claire Meade on ABC's TV series Ugly Betty and Judge Elizabeth "Liz" Donnelly on Law & Order Special Victims Unit.-Early life:Light...
  
   (1970), Daytime Emmy Award
  Daytime Emmy Award
  The Daytime Emmy Awards are awards presented by the New York-based National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and the Los Angeles-based Academy of Television Arts & Sciences in recognition of excellence in American daytime television programming...
  
   winning actress, best known for One Life to Live
  One Life to Live
  One Life to Live is an American soap opera which debuted on July 15, 1968 and has been broadcast on the ABC television network. Created by Agnes Nixon, the series was the first daytime drama to primarily feature racially and socioeconomically diverse characters and consistently emphasize social...
  
  and Who's the Boss?
  Who's the Boss?
  Who's the Boss? is an American sitcom created by Martin Cohan and Blake Hunter, which aired on ABC from September 20, 1984 to April 25, 1992...
  
  
• Keith Lockhart
  Keith Lockhart
  For the baseball player, see Keith Lockhart Keith Lockhart , to Newton Frederick and Marilyn Jean Woodyard Lockhart, is an American orchestral conductor....
  
  , conductor of the Boston Pops Orchestra
  Boston Pops Orchestra
  The Boston Pops Orchestra is an American orchestra based in Boston, Massachusetts, that specializes in playing light classical and popular music....
  
  
• Arthur Lubin
  Arthur Lubin
  Arthur Lubin was an American film director and producer who directed several Abbott & Costello films and created the TV series Mr. Ed.Arthur Lubin was born Arthur William Lubovsky in Los Angeles, California in 1898...
  
  , film director and producer of the 1943 film Phantom of the Opera
  Phantom of the Opera (1943 film)
  Phantom of the Opera is a 1943 Universal horror film starring Nelson Eddy, Susanna Foster and Claude Rains, directed by Arthur Lubin, and filmed in Technicolor. The original music score was composed by Edward Ward....
  
  and the 1960s TV series Mister Ed
  Mister Ed
  Originally produced in late 1960, Mister Ed is an American television situation comedy produced by Filmways that first aired in syndication from January 5 to July 2, 1961, and then on CBS from October 1, 1961, to February 6, 1966....
  
  
• Gabriel Macht
  Gabriel Macht
  Gabriel S. Macht is an American actor. Macht is known for playing The Spirit in the film of the same name, and lately for his role as Harvey Specter on the USA Network series Suits.-Personal life:...
  
  , actor
• Mark Malmberg, artist, two Emmy awards for MTV's "Liquid Television" and MSNBC ID package. Also national People's Choice award for NBC "Particle Peacock" ID, New York Festivals Gold Award, Prix Ars Electronica Silver Award and others.
• Erin Mackey
  Erin Mackey
  Erin Mackey is a stage actress/singer, best known for playing the role of Glinda in the Chicago, Los Angeles and Broadway productions of Wicked.-Career:...
  
  , Broadway, television, and film actress, best known for playing Glinda in Wicked (musical)
  Wicked (musical)
  Wicked is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and a book by Winnie Holzman. It is based on the Gregory Maguire novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West , a parallel novel of the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz and L. Frank Baum's classic story The Wonderful Wizard...
  
  
• Henry Mancini
  Henry Mancini
  Henry Mancini was an American composer, conductor and arranger, best remembered for his film and television scores. He won a record number of Grammy Awards , plus a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award posthumously in 1995...
  
  , composer, nominated for an unprecedented 72 Grammys, winning 20. Additionally he was nominated for 18 Academy Awards, winning four Breakfast at Tiffany's, Days of Wine and Roses
• Sonia Manzano
  Sonia Manzano
  Sonia Manzano is an American actress and writer. She is best known for playing Maria on Sesame Street since 1971. She also licenses her image to promote items of baby clothes and plates in Hispanic America....
  
   (attended), actress, writer, Maria Rodriguez on Sesame Street
  Sesame Street
  Sesame Street has undergone significant changes in its history. According to writer Michael Davis, by the mid-1970s the show had become "an American institution". The cast and crew expanded during this time, including the hiring of women in the crew and additional minorities in the cast. The...
  
  
• Nancy Marchand
  Nancy Marchand
  Nancy Marchand was an American actress, whose career encompassed both stage and screen. She appeared in various theatre productions throughout the early 1950s, before being offered roles on film and television....
  
  , actress, played Livia Soprano
  Livia Soprano
  Livia Soprano , played by Nancy Marchand, is a fictional character on the HBO TV series The Sopranos. She is the mother of Tony Soprano. A young Livia, played by Laila Robins and later by Laurie J. Williams is sometimes seen in flashbacks...
  
   in HBO's The Sopranos
  The Sopranos
  The Sopranos is an American television drama series created by David Chase that revolves around the New Jersey-based Italian-American mobster Tony Soprano and the difficulties he faces as he tries to balance the often conflicting requirements of his home life and the criminal organization he heads...
  
  
• Rob Marshall
  Rob Marshall
  Rob Marshall is an American theater director, film director and choreographer. He is a six-time Tony Award nominee, Academy Award nominee, Golden Globe nominee and four-time Emmy winner whose most noted work is the 2002 Academy Award for Best Picture winner Chicago.-Life and career:Marshall was...
  
  , Academy Award
  Academy Awards
  An Academy Award, also known as an Oscar, is an accolade bestowed by the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize excellence of professionals in the film industry, including directors, actors, and writers...
  
   nominated director Chicago
  Chicago (2002 film)
  Chicago is a 2002 musical film adapted from the satirical stage musical of the same name, exploring the themes of celebrity, scandal, and corruption in Jazz-age Chicago....
  
  , Memoirs of a Geisha
  Memoirs of a Geisha (film)
  Memoirs of a Geisha is a 2005 film adaptation of the novel of the same name, produced by Steven Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment and Spyglass Entertainment and by Douglas Wick's Red Wagon Productions. It was directed by Rob Marshall. It was released in the United States on December 9, 2005 by...
  
  
• Michael McKean
  Michael McKean
  Michael John McKean is an American actor, comedian, writer, composer and musician, perhaps best known for his portrayal of Squiggy's friend, Leonard 'Lenny' Kosnowski, on the sitcom Laverne and Shirley; and for his work in the Christopher Guest ensemble films, particularly as David St...
  
  , actor & ensemble comedian (Best in Show
  Best in Show (film)
  Best in Show is a 2000 independent film that follows five entrants in a prestigious dog show. The film focuses on the slightly surreal interactions among the various owners and handlers as they travel to the show and compete. Much of the dialogue was improvised.Christopher Guest directed; he also...
  
  , Waiting for Guffman
  Waiting for Guffman
  Waiting for Guffman is a mockumentary starring, co-written and directed by Christopher Guest that was released in 1997. Its cast included Catherine O'Hara, Eugene Levy, Fred Willard, Parker Posey and others who would appear in several of the subsequent mockumentaries directed by Guest.The title of...
  
  , This Is Spinal Tap
  This Is Spinal Tap
  This Is Spinal Tap is an American 1984 rock musical mockumentary directed by Rob Reiner about the fictional heavy metal band Spinal Tap...
  
  ); played Lenny on Laverne and Shirley
• John McDaniel
  John McDaniel (musician)
  John William McDaniel is an American theatre producer, composer, conductor, and pianist. He is known as the lead composer and producer of the 1996 television talk show The Rosie O'Donnell Show, for which he received six Daytime Emmy Award nominations, winning two.McDaniel is also known for his...
  
  , producer, composer, conductor, known for leading the band on the The Rosie O'Donnell Show
  The Rosie O'Donnell Show
  The Rosie O'Donnell Show is an Emmy Award-winning American daytime television talk show hosted and produced by actress and comedian Rosie O'Donnell. It aired for six seasons from 1996 to 2002...
  
  
• Patina Miller
  Patina Miller
  Patina Miller is an American actress and singer.Miller is best known for originating the role of disco diva wannabe Deloris Van Cartier in the 2009 West End and 2011 Broadway productions of Sister Act the Musical.-Early life:...
  
  , theatre (Sister Act the Musical
  Sister Act the Musical
  Sister Act is a musical written by Cheri and Bill Steinkellner with additional book material by Douglas Carter Beane, with lyrics by Glenn Slater and music by Alan Menken. It is based on the hit 1992 film comedy of the same name...
  
  ) and television (All My Children
  All My Children
  All My Children is an American television soap opera that aired on ABC from January 5, 1970 to September 23, 2011. Created by Agnes Nixon, All My Children is set in Pine Valley, Pennsylvania, a fictitious suburb of Philadelphia. The show features Susan Lucci as Erica Kane, one of daytime's most...
  
  ) actress
• Ming-Na
  Ming-Na
  Ming-Na is a Macanese-born American actress. She has been credited with and without her family name, but most credits since the late 1990s have been without it...
  
  , actress, ER
  ER (TV series)
  ER is an American medical drama television series created by novelist Michael Crichton that aired on NBC from September 19, 1994 to April 2, 2009. It was produced by Constant c Productions and Amblin Entertainment, in association with Warner Bros. Television...
  
  , The Joy Luck Club
  The Joy Luck Club
  The Joy Luck Club is a best-selling novel written by Amy Tan. It focuses on four Chinese American immigrant families in San Francisco, California who start a club known as "the Joy Luck Club," playing the Chinese game of mahjong for money while feasting on a variety of foods...
  
  , Annie Award
  Annie Award
  The Annie Awards have been presented by the Los Angeles, California branch of the International Animated Film Association, ASIFA-Hollywood since 1972...
  
   winner for the voice of "Mulan" in Mulan
  Mulan
  Mulan is a 1998 American animated film directed by Tony Bancroft and Barry Cook, with story by Robert D. San Souci and screenplay by Rita Hsiao, Philip LaZebnik, Chris Sanders, Eugenia Bostwick-Singer, and Raymond Singer. It was produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney...
  
  , voice of Aki Ross
  Aki Ross
  is a fictional character in the movie Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, voiced by Chinese American actress Ming-Na. She was expected to be the first photorealistic computer-generated "actress" to appear in multiple movies in different roles....
  
   in Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
  Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
  Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within is a 2001 Japanese-American computer animated science fiction film directed by Hironobu Sakaguchi, creator of the Final Fantasy series of role-playing video games. It was the first photorealistic computer animated feature film and also holds the record for the most...
  
  
• Greg Mottola
  Greg Mottola
  Gregory J. "Greg" Mottola is an American filmmaker, screenwriter and television director. Mottola wrote and directed the 1996 independent film The Daytrippers, then concentrated for several years on directing in television for series such as Undeclared and Arrested Development...
  
   (BFA, Art) - director Superbad, The Daytrippers
  The Daytrippers
  The Daytrippers is a 1996 independent drama film written and directed by Greg Mottola. It stars Hope Davis, Stanley Tucci, Parker Posey and Liev Schreiber.-Plot:...
  
  , and several episodes of Undeclared
  Undeclared
  Undeclared is an American sitcom that aired on Fox during the 2001–02 season.- Premise :The half-hour comedy was Judd Apatow's follow-up to his earlier television series Freaks and Geeks, which also lasted for one season...
  
  and Arrested Development
• Vince O'Brien
  Vince O'Brien
  Vince O'Brien was an American character actor, who appeared as a doctor in Woody Allen's film Annie Hall and appeared on television and in print ads as the Shell Answer Man....
  
   (1949) - Broadway, television and film actor
• Rory O'Malley
  Rory O'Malley
  Rory O'Malley is an Irish-American film, television, and musical theater actor, best known for his Tony Award-nominated performance as Elder McKinley in The Book of Mormon. He is a co-founder of the gay rights activism group Broadway Impact.-Film and television:O'Malley made a small cameo...
  
  , American actor
• John Pasquin
  John Pasquin
  John Pasquin is a American director of film, television and theatre.-Career:An alum of Beloit College and Carnegie Mellon University, Pasquin began directing Broadway theatre plays in the early 1980s. He moved on to television directing episodes of the series Family Ties, Growing Pains, Alice,...
  
  , Emmy-winning director
• George Peppard
  George Peppard
  George Peppard, Jr. was an American film and television actor.Peppard secured a major role when he starred alongside Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany's , portrayed a character based on Howard Hughes in The Carpetbaggers , and played the title role of the millionaire sleuth Thomas Banacek in...
  
  , actor, best known for Breakfast at Tiffany's and as John "Hannibal" Smith on The A-Team
  The A-Team
  The A-Team is an American action adventure television series about a fictional group of ex-United States Army Special Forces personnel who work as soldiers of fortune, while on the run from the Army after being branded as war criminals for a "crime they didn't commit". The A-Team was created by...
  
  
• Billy Price
  Billy Price
  Billy Price is the stage name of soul singer William Pollak. Born in Fair Lawn, New Jersey in 1949, he has lived in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA since the mid 1970s.-Career:...
  
   (M.A.), blues singer
• Derek Stephen Prince
  Derek Stephen Prince
  Derek Stephen Prince is an American voice actor who is most memorable for his various roles in the Digimon series, as well as the voice of Elgar in the live-action Power Rangers Turbo and Power Rangers in Space.While a talented actor, with vocal skills capable of anything from High School girls to...
  
  , voice actor, Bleach
  Bleach (manga)
  is a Japanese shōnen manga series written and illustrated by Noriaki "Tite" Kubo. Bleach follows the adventures of Ichigo Kurosaki after he obtains the powers of a —a death personification similar to the Grim Reaper—from another Soul Reaper, Rukia Kuchiki...
  
  , Naruto
  Naruto
  is an ongoing Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Masashi Kishimoto. The plot tells the story of Naruto Uzumaki, an adolescent ninja who constantly searches for recognition and aspires to become the Hokage, the ninja in his village who is acknowledged as the leader and the strongest of...
  
  , Love Hina
  Love Hina
  is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Ken Akamatsu. It was originally serialized in Weekly Shōnen Magazine by Kodansha from October 21, 1998 to October 31, 2001 and was published in 14 tankōbon volumes by Kodansha. The series tells the story of Keitaro Urashima and his attempts to...
  
  , Cowboy Bebop
  Cowboy Bebop
  is a critically acclaimed and award-winning 1998 Japanese anime series directed by Shinichirō Watanabe, written by Keiko Nobumoto, and produced by Sunrise. Its 26 episodes comprise a complete storyline: set in 2071, the series follows the adventures, misadventures and tragedies of five bounty...
  
  and Digimon
  Digimon
  , short for , is a Japanese media franchise encompassing digital toys, anime, manga and video games. The franchise's eponymous creatures are monsters of various forms living in a "Digital World", a parallel universe that originated from Earth's various communication networks.-Conception and...
  
  
• Zachary Quinto
  Zachary Quinto
  Zachary John Quinto is an American actor and producer. Quinto grew up in Pennsylvania and was active in high school musical theater. In the early 2000s he guest starred in television series and appeared in a recurring role in the serial drama 24 from 2003 to 2004...
  
  , actor, best known for his character Sylar
  Sylar
  Gabriel Gray, more commonly known by his assumed name of Sylar , is one of the primary antagonists and antiheroes in the NBC drama Heroes. Portrayed by Zachary Quinto, he is a superpowered serial killer who targets other superhumans in order to steal their powers...
  
  on TV show Heroes
  Heroes (TV series)
  Heroes is an American science fiction television drama series created by Tim Kring that appeared on NBC for four seasons from September 25, 2006 through February 8, 2010. The series tells the stories of ordinary people who discover superhuman abilities, and how these abilities take effect in the...
  
  
• Sally Jessy Raphaël
  Sally Jessy Raphaël
  Sally Lowenthal , better known as Sally Jessy Raphael, is an American talk show host, known for the eponymous Sally talk show she hosted for two decades.-Early years:...
  
   (briefly attended), talk show host
• Norman René
  Norman René
  Norman René was an American theatre and film director and film producer who frequently collaborated with playwright Craig Lucas.-Biography:...
  
  , theatre and film director; Obie Award
  Obie Award
  The Obie Awards or Off-Broadway Theater Awards are annual awards given by The Village Voice newspaper to theatre artists and groups in New York City...
  
  -winner
• Kali Rocha
  Kali Rocha
  -Early life:Rocha was born in Memphis, Tennessee and grew up in Providence, Rhode Island, graduating from Carnegie Mellon School of Drama in 1993.-Career:...
  
  , actress
• Lori Rom
  Lori Rom
  Lori Rom is an American actress.Rom attended Carnegie Mellon University's drama conservatory, where she also worked through school...
  
  , actress
• George A. Romero
  George A. Romero
  George Andrew Romero is a Canadian-American film director, screenwriter and editor, best known for his gruesome and satirical horror films about a hypothetical zombie apocalypse. He is nicknamed "Godfather of all Zombies." -Life and career:...
  
  , film director
  Film director
  A film director is a person who directs the actors and film crew in filmmaking. They control a film's artistic and dramatic nathan roach, while guiding the technical crew and actors.-Responsibilities:...
  
  , best known for Night of the Living Dead
  Night of the Living Dead
  Night of the Living Dead is a 1968 American independent black-and-white zombie film and cult film directed by George A. Romero, starring Duane Jones, Judith O'Dea and Karl Hardman. It premiered on October 1, 1968, and was completed on a USD$114,000 budget. After decades of cinematic re-releases, it...
  
  and Dawn of the Dead
• Ann Roth
  Ann Roth
  Ann Roth is an American costume designer for films and Broadway theatre.Born in Hanover, Pennsylvania, Roth was a Carnegie Mellon graduate who began her career as a scenery painter for the Pittsburgh Opera. She intended to remain in the field of production design until she met Irene Sharaff at the...
  
  , Academy Award
  Academy Awards
  An Academy Award, also known as an Oscar, is an accolade bestowed by the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize excellence of professionals in the film industry, including directors, actors, and writers...
  
   winning costumer designer
• Laura San Giacomo
  Laura San Giacomo
  Laura San Giacomo is an American actress known for playing the role of Maya Gallo on the NBC sitcom Just Shoot Me! and Kit De Luca in the film Pretty Woman, and Cynthia in sex, lies, and videotape as well as other work on television and in films...
  
   (1984), actress, Just Shoot Me!
  Just Shoot Me!
  Just Shoot Me! is an American television sitcom that aired for seven seasons on NBC from March 4, 1997 to August 16, 2003, with 148 episodes produced. The show was created by Steven Levitan, the show's executive producer.-Description:...
  
  
• Mary Kate Schellhardt
  Mary Kate Schellhardt
  Mary Kate Schellhardt is an American actress. She is known for her role as Ellen in What's Eating Gilbert Grape, Nadine in Free Willy 2, and Jim and Marilyn Lovell's eldest daughter Barbara in Apollo 13. Other films in which she has appeared include Mr. Blue Sky, The Great Mom Swap and 9-9-09...
  
  , (BFA 2001), actress, What's Eating Gilbert Grape
  What's Eating Gilbert Grape
  What's Eating Gilbert Grape is a 1993 film directed by Lasse Hallström and starring Johnny Depp, Juliette Lewis and Leonardo DiCaprio. Peter Hedges wrote the screenplay adapted from his 1991 novel of the same name...
  
  , Free Willy 2, Apollo 13
  Apollo 13 (film)
  Apollo 13 is a 1995 American drama film directed by Ron Howard. The film stars Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon, Bill Paxton, Gary Sinise, Kathleen Quinlan and Ed Harris. The screenplay by William Broyles, Jr...
  
  and many TV shows.
• Pablo Schreiber
  Pablo Schreiber
  Pablo Tell Schreiber is an American actor known for his dramatic stage work and for his portrayal of the Polish-American character Nick Sobotka on HBO's Baltimore drug-related crime drama The Wire. He was nominated for a Tony Award for his performance in Awake and Sing! on Broadway...
  
  , actor
• Stephen Schwartz
  Stephen Schwartz (composer)
  Stephen Lawrence Schwartz is an American musical theatre lyricist and composer. In a career spanning over four decades, Schwartz has written such hit musicals as Godspell , Pippin and Wicked...
  
  , composer of shows including Wicked
  Wicked (musical)
  Wicked is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and a book by Winnie Holzman. It is based on the Gregory Maguire novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West , a parallel novel of the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz and L. Frank Baum's classic story The Wonderful Wizard...
  
  , Godspell
  Godspell
  Godspell is a musical by Stephen Schwartz and John-Michael Tebelak. It opened off Broadway on May 17, 1971, and has played in various touring companies and revivals many times since, including a 2011 revival now playing on Broadway...
  
  and Pippin
  Pippin (musical)
  Pippin is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and a book by Roger O. Hirson. Bob Fosse, who directed the original Broadway production, also contributed to the libretto...
  
  . Pippin was originally a Carnegie Mellon production, presented by the Scotch'n'Soda theatrical club
  Scotch'n'Soda
  Scotch'n'Soda is a student run theatre organization that resides on the campus of Carnegie Mellon University. Its initial dedication was the creation and production of original musicals, but due to declining student interest in writing musicals over the past decade, it has taken to performing both...
  
   on campus under the title Pippin Pippin
• Emily Skinner
  Emily Skinner
  Emily Skinner is an American musical theatre actress and singer. She has performed in such Broadway shows as Side Show, James Joyce's The Dead, The Full Monty, Dinner at Eight and, currently, in Billy Elliot...
  
  , Tony Award
  Tony Award
  The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as a Tony Award, recognizes achievement in live Broadway theatre. The awards are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at an annual ceremony in New York City. The awards are given for Broadway...
  
  -nominated musical theater actress
• Jack Smith, Emmy Award
  Emmy Award
  An Emmy Award, often referred to simply as the Emmy, is a television production award, similar in nature to the Peabody Awards but more focused on entertainment, and is considered the television equivalent to the Academy Awards and the Grammy Awards .A majority of Emmys are presented in various...
  
  -winning correspondent with ABC News
  ABC News
  ABC News is the news gathering and broadcasting division of American broadcast television network ABC, a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company...
  
  
• Patricia Tallman
  Patricia Tallman
  Patricia J. Tallman is an American actress and stunt performer, sometimes credited as Pat Tallman.-Early life:Patricia is the daughter of Jerry Tallman, a radio entertainer...
  
   (1979), actress and stunt woman, played Lyta Alexander
  Lyta Alexander
  Lyta Alexander is a character from the fictional universe of the science-fiction television series Babylon 5, played by Patricia Tallman.Lyta was introduced in the pilot episode "The Gathering" as a telepath assigned to the Babylon 5 space station by the Psi Corps, a fictional organization...
  
   on "Babylon 5
  Babylon 5
  Babylon 5 is an American science fiction television series created, produced and largely written by J. Michael Straczynski. The show centers on a space station named Babylon 5: a focal point for politics, diplomacy, and conflict during the years 2257–2262...
  
  ", Barbara in the 1990 remake of Night of the Living Dead
  Night of the Living Dead (1990 film)
  Night of the Living Dead is a 1990 American remake of George A. Romero's 1968 horror film of the same name and was directed by Tom Savini. Romero rewrote the original 1968 screenplay co-authored by John A...
  
  
• John-Michael Tebelak
  John-Michael Tebelak
  John-Michael Tebelak was an American playwright and director. He was most famous for creating the musical Godspell based on the Gospel of Saint Matthew. The music was by Stephen Schwartz...
  
   (MFA), playwright
  Playwright
  A playwright, also called a dramatist, is a person who writes plays.The term is not a variant spelling of "playwrite", but something quite distinct: the word wright is an archaic English term for a craftsman or builder...
  
   and director (Godspell
  Godspell
  Godspell is a musical by Stephen Schwartz and John-Michael Tebelak. It opened off Broadway on May 17, 1971, and has played in various touring companies and revivals many times since, including a 2011 revival now playing on Broadway...
  
  ). Godspell was originally a Carnegie Mellon production
• Jim Tetlow
  Jim Tetlow
  William James Tetlow is a theatre consultant, television and theatrical lighting designer based in San Diego, California. He has been the recipient of an Emmy Award, won in 1990 for Sesame Street, and two other nominations...
  
  , Lighting designer
  Lighting designer
  The role of the lighting designer within theatre is to work with the director, choreographer, set designer, costume designer, and sound designer to create an overall 'look' for the show in response to the text, while keeping in mind issues of visibility, safety and cost...
  
   and Theatre consultant
  Theatre consultant
  A theatre consultant is a consultant who specializes in the design of facilities for the performing arts, equipment for those facilities and the operation of theatre....
  
  , Emmy Award
  Emmy Award
  An Emmy Award, often referred to simply as the Emmy, is a television production award, similar in nature to the Peabody Awards but more focused on entertainment, and is considered the television equivalent to the Academy Awards and the Grammy Awards .A majority of Emmys are presented in various...
  
   for lighting design
• Thom Thomas
  Thom Thomas
  Thom Thomas is an American actor, screenplay writer and playwright.-Biography:Thomas Neil Thomas was born in Lawrence, Pennsylvania. He went to the Pittsburgh Playhouse School of Theatre from 1958 to 1960 before attending Carnegie Mellon University...
  
  , playwright
• Sada Thompson
  Sada Thompson
  Sada Carolyn Thompson was an American stage, film, and television actress.-Life and career:Born in Des Moines, Iowa in 1927 to Hugh Woodruff Thompson and his wife Corlyss , and raised in New Jersey, Thompson earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theatre at the Carnegie Institute of Technology, after...
  
  , actress Family
• Michael Tucker
  Michael Tucker (actor)
  Michael Tucker is an American actor and author, most widely known for his role in L.A. Law, a portrayal for which he received Emmy nominations three years in a row....
  
  , actor, L.A. Law
  L.A. Law
  L.A. Law is a US television legal drama that ran on NBC from September 15, 1986 to May 19, 1994. L.A. Law reflected the social and cultural ideologies of the 1980s and early 1990s and many of the cases featured on the show dealt with hot topic issues such as abortion, racism, gay rights,...
  
  
• Tamara Tunie
  Tamara Tunie
  Tamara Renee Tunie is an American actress. She is best known for her portrayal of attorney Jessica Griffin on the CBS soap opera As the World Turns, and medical examiner Melinda Warner on the NBC police drama Law & Order: Special Victims Unit...
  
  , actress
• William J. G. Turner
  William J. G. Turner
  William John Gascoyne Turner worked extensively as a composer, director, dramatist, producer and actor. He wrote for nearly 30 productions, including three operas and numerous musicals....
  
  , composer, director, dramatist, producer and actor
• Blair Underwood
  Blair Underwood
  Blair Underwood is an American television and film actor. He is perhaps best known as headstrong attorney Jonathan Rollins from the NBC legal drama L.A. Law, a role he portrayed for seven years. He has gained critical acclaim throughout his career, receiving numerous Golden Globe Award...
  
  , actor, L.A. Law
  L.A. Law
  L.A. Law is a US television legal drama that ran on NBC from September 15, 1986 to May 19, 1994. L.A. Law reflected the social and cultural ideologies of the 1980s and early 1990s and many of the cases featured on the show dealt with hot topic issues such as abortion, racism, gay rights,...
  
  , LAX
  LAX (TV series)
  LAX is a television drama set at the Los Angeles International Airport and draws its name from the airport's IATA airport code, "LAX".-Synopsis:...
  
  , Gattaca
  Gattaca
  Gattaca is a 1997 science fiction film written and directed by Andrew Niccol. It stars Ethan Hawke, Uma Thurman and Jude Law with supporting roles played by Loren Dean, Ernest Borgnine, Gore Vidal and Alan Arkin....
  
  , Sex and the City
  Sex and the City
  Sex and the City is an American television comedy-drama series created by Darren Star and produced by HBO. Broadcast from 1998 until 2004, the original run of the show had a total of ninety-four episodes...
  
  
• Paula Wagner
  Paula Wagner
  Paula Wagner is an American film producer and film executive.-Early career:Wagner began her career at Creative Artists Agency. In 1993 she launched Cruise/Wagner Productions with her former CAA client Tom Cruise. C/W's first film, Mission: Impossible, was an international hit that brought the...
  
  , film producer and executive
• Loudon Wainwright III
  Loudon Wainwright III
  Loudon Snowden Wainwright III is a Grammy Award-winning American songwriter, folk singer, humorist, and actor. He is the father of musicians Rufus Wainwright, Martha Wainwright and Lucy Wainwright Roche, brother of Sloan Wainwright, and the former husband of the late folk singer Kate McGarrigle.To...
  
   (withdrew in 1967), musician
• John Wells
  John Wells (TV producer)
  John Marcum Wells is an American theater and television producer, writer and director. He is best known for his role as executive producer and show runner of the television series ER, Third Watch, and The West Wing. His company, John Wells Productions, is currently based at Warner Bros. studios in...
  
  , Emmy Award
  Emmy Award
  An Emmy Award, often referred to simply as the Emmy, is a television production award, similar in nature to the Peabody Awards but more focused on entertainment, and is considered the television equivalent to the Academy Awards and the Grammy Awards .A majority of Emmys are presented in various...
  
  -winning writer/producer, China Beach
  China Beach
  China Beach is an American dramatic television series set at an evacuation hospital during the Vietnam War. The title refers to My Khe beach in the city of Da Nang, Vietnam, which was nicknamed "China Beach" by unknown foreigners, most likely Americans...
  
  , ER
  ER (TV series)
  ER is an American medical drama television series created by novelist Michael Crichton that aired on NBC from September 19, 1994 to April 2, 2009. It was produced by Constant c Productions and Amblin Entertainment, in association with Warner Bros. Television...
  
  , The West Wing, Third Watch
  Third Watch
  Third Watch is an American television drama series which first aired on NBC from 1999 to 2005 for a total of 132 episodes, broadcast in 6 seasons of 22 episodes each....
  
  
• Patrick Wilson
  Patrick Wilson (actor)
  Patrick Joseph Wilson is an American actor and singer. Wilson has spent years singing lead roles in major Broadway musicals, beginning in 1996. In 2003, he appeared in the HBO mini-series Angels in America...
  
  , Tony Award
  Tony Award
  The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as a Tony Award, recognizes achievement in live Broadway theatre. The awards are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at an annual ceremony in New York City. The awards are given for Broadway...
  
  , Emmy Award
  Emmy Award
  An Emmy Award, often referred to simply as the Emmy, is a television production award, similar in nature to the Peabody Awards but more focused on entertainment, and is considered the television equivalent to the Academy Awards and the Grammy Awards .A majority of Emmys are presented in various...
  
  , Golden Globe Award
  Golden Globe Award
  The Golden Globe Award is an accolade bestowed by the 93 members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association recognizing excellence in film and television, both domestic and foreign...
  
   nominated actor
• Bud Yorkin
  Bud Yorkin
  Bud Yorkin is an American film and television producer, director, writer and actor.Yorkin was born Alan David Yorkin in Washington, Pennsylvania. He earned a degree in engineering from Carnegie Tech, now Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsbugh, Pennsylvania...
  
  , producer, director, writer and actor All in the Family, Maude, Good Times, Sanford and Son, One Day at a Time, and Diff'rent Strokes

Visual arts

• Mel Bochner
  Mel Bochner
  Mel Bochner is an American conceptual artist. Mr. Bochner received his BFA in 1962 and honorary Doctor of Fine Arts in 2005 from the School of Art at Carnegie Mellon University...
  
   (1962), a pioneer of postminimal arts
  Postminimalism
  Postminimalism is an art term coined by Robert Pincus-Witten in 1971 used in various artistic fields for work which is influenced by, or attempts to develop and go beyond, the aesthetic of minimalism...
  
   and conceptual art
  Conceptual art
  Conceptual art is art in which the concept or idea involved in the work take precedence over traditional aesthetic and material concerns. Many of the works, sometimes called installations, of the artist Sol LeWitt may be constructed by anyone simply by following a set of written instructions...
  
  
• Jonathan Borofsky
  Jonathan Borofsky
  Jonathan Borofsky is an American sculptor and printmaker who lives and works in Maine.Borofsky was born in Boston, Massachusetts. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts at Carnegie Mellon University in 1964, after which he continued his studies at France's Ecole de Fontainebleau and received his...
  
   (1964), 20th-Century Conceptual artist and sculptor
• Elizabeth Carpenter
  Elizabeth Carpenter
  Elizabeth Carpenter is an award-winning American writer, designer and game developer. She lives in New York City where she operates her own business, Mazeology LLP.-Background and education:...
  
  , (1976) author, clothing designer, creator of educational children's puzzles
• Virgil Cantini
  Virgil Cantini
  Virgil David Cantini was an enamelist,sculptor and educator. He was well known for innovation with enamel and steel and received both local and national recognition for his work, including honorary awards, competitive prizes and commissions, along with a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1957...
  
   (1946), Pittsburgh-area artist and professor at the University of Pittsburgh
  University of Pittsburgh
  The University of Pittsburgh, commonly referred to as Pitt, is a state-related research university located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. Founded as Pittsburgh Academy in 1787 on what was then the American frontier, Pitt is one of the oldest continuously chartered institutions of...
  
  
• John Currin
  John Currin
  John Currin is an American painter. He is best known for satirical figurative paintings which deal with provocative sexual and social themes in a technically skillful manner. His work shows a wide range of influences, including sources as diverse as the Renaissance, popular culture magazines, and...
  
   (1984), contemporary figure and portrait painter
• Raymond Kaskey
  Raymond Kaskey
  Raymond Kaskey is an American sculptor.He was born in Pittsburgh. He studied architecture at Carnegie Mellon University and Yale University...
  
   (1967), sculptor
• Richard Rappaport
  Richard Rappaport
  Richard Rappaport, born 1944 in Pittsburgh, is a classically trained painter of portraits and large-scale figurative works whose pictorial evolution has spiraled towards and away from the Renaissance ideal for half a century....
  
   (1966) painter
• Burton Morris
  Burton Morris
  Burton Morris is an American pop artist in the tradition of Andy Warhol.Like Warhol, Morris was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania....
  
   (1986), pop artist
• Philip Pearlstein
  Philip Pearlstein
  Philip Pearlstein is an American painter, and part of the contemporary Realist school.-Biography:Pearlstein was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He studied at the Carnegie Institute of Technology and received his Masters in art history at New York University. He was a friend of Andy Warhol from...
  
   (1949), American figure painter
• Andy Warhol
  Andy Warhol
  Andrew Warhola , known as Andy Warhol, was an American painter, printmaker, and filmmaker who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art...
  
   (1949), American painter and major figure in the pop art
  Pop art
  Pop art is an art movement that emerged in the mid 1950s in Britain and in the late 1950s in the United States. Pop art challenged tradition by asserting that an artist's use of the mass-produced visual commodities of popular culture is contiguous with the perspective of fine art...
  
   movement
• Bill Blenko, glassmaker
• Laurie Lipton, (1975), artist and first person to graduate with a Fine Arts Degree in Drawing (with honors)

Architecture and design

• Sylvester Damianos (B.S. 1957), Fellow
  FAIA
  Fellow of the American Institute of Architects is a postnomial, designating an individual who has been named a fellow of the American Institute of Architects...
  
   and Former National President of American Institute of Architects
  American Institute of Architects
  The American Institute of Architects is a professional organization for architects in the United States. Headquartered in Washington, D.C., the AIA offers education, government advocacy, community redevelopment, and public outreach to support the architecture profession and improve its public image...
  
  (1990)
• Roger Duffy
  Roger Duffy
  Roger Duffy is an American architect, known for rigorous and unconventional approach to design. He currently works as a partner at the firm Skidmore, Owings and Merrill...
  
  , architect
• Dahlen Ritchey (1932), architect (Three Rivers Stadium, Wean Hall, Doherty Hall, the Alan I W Frank House among others)
• David M. Kelley
  David M. Kelley
  David M. Kelley is an American businessman, entrepreneur, designer, engineer, and teacher. He is founder, chairman, and managing partner of the design firm IDEO and a professor at Stanford University. He has received several honors for his contributions to design and design education.-Personal...
  
   (B.S. 1973), co-founder of IDEO
  IDEO
  IDEO is an international design and innovation consultancy founded in Palo Alto, California, United States with other locations in San Francisco, Chicago, New York, Boston, London, Munich, Shanghai, and Singapore, as well as Mumbai, Seoul, and Tokyo. The company helps design products, services,...
  
  
• Gela Nash-Taylor, fashion designer, co-founder Juicy Couture
  Juicy Couture
  Juicy Couture is a contemporary line of both casual and dressy apparel based in Arleta, Los Angeles, California founded by Pamela Skaist-Levy and Gela Nash-Taylor in 1996...
  
  
• Steven Song
  Steven Song
  Steven Phillip Song is a Korean-American architect and writer on architecture. Song, a founding partner of the think tank team , first came to recognition through collaborations with his mentors, the architects and theoreticians Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown.-Writings:In 2007, Song wrote ,...
  
  , architect and theoretician

Government and politics

• Gust Avrakotos
  Gust Avrakotos
  Gustav Lascaris "Gust" Avrakotos was an American case officer and Afghan Task Force Chief for the United States Central Intelligence Agency....
  
   (attended for two years), Directorate of Operations, Central Intelligence Agency
  Central Intelligence Agency
  The Central Intelligence Agency is a civilian intelligence agency of the United States government. It is an executive agency and reports directly to the Director of National Intelligence, responsible for providing national security intelligence assessment to senior United States policymakers...
  
  
• Nilofar Bakhtiar
  Nilofar Bakhtiar
  Nilofar Bakhtiar is a public official in Pakistan. She was Federal Minister for Tourism in Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz's cabinet until a scandal forced her to resign. She remains a senator. Bakhtiar has worked toward improving women's social status, as well as working in areas of health and...
  
   (M.S.), Senator and Federal Minister for Tourism in Pakistan
  Pakistan
  Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...
  
  
• Peter Corroon
  Peter Corroon
  Peter Maitland Corroon is the current mayor of Salt Lake County, Utah, and a member of the Democratic Party. He was the Democratic candidate for governor in the Utah gubernatorial election, 2010, losing to Gary Herbert by a 33 point margin...
  
   (B.S.) Mayor of Salt Lake County, Utah
  Salt Lake County, Utah
  Salt Lake County is a county located in the U.S. state of Utah. It had a population of 1,029,655 at the 2010 census. Its county seat and largest city is Salt Lake City, the state capital. It occupies Salt Lake Valley, as well as parts of the surrounding mountains, the Oquirrh Mountains to the west...
  
  
• Glenn Cannon (MPM 1988), City of Pittsburgh
• Mary Ann Chiulli (MBA 1975), chief of systems support for the United Nations
  United Nations
  The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and achievement of world peace...
  
  
• Peter J. De Muth
  Peter J. De Muth
  right|300px|thumb|Group of legislators leaves [[White House]] after asking [[Franklin Roosevelt]] for $80,000,000 for flood control in [[Ohio Valley]], March 7, 1938. front: l-r [[Joseph A. Dixon]], [[James G. Polk]], [[Eugene B. Crowe]], [[George William Johnson |G W Johnson]], [[Lawrence E....
  
  , (BS 1914), U.S. Congressman from Pennsylvania
  Pennsylvania
  The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is a U.S. state that is located in the Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. The state borders Delaware and Maryland to the south, West Virginia to the southwest, Ohio to the west, New York and Ontario, Canada, to the north, and New Jersey to...
  
  
• A.J. Eggenberger (1961, Ph.D. 1967), chairman of the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board
• Charles L. Evans
  Charles L. Evans
  Charles L. Evans is the ninth president and chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. In that capacity, he serves on the Federal Open Market Committee , the Federal Reserve System's monetary policy-making body.Before becoming president in September 2007, Evans served as...
  
   (M.S., Ph.D. in Economics), President and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
  Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
  The Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago is one of twelve regional Reserve Banks that, along with the Board of Governors in Washington, D.C., make up the nation's central bank....
  
  , 2007–present
• Larry Giammo
  Larry Giammo
  Larry Giammo is the former mayor of Rockville, Maryland. He was first elected on November 6, 2001, and was reelected in 2003 and 2005. On March 2, 2007, he announced that he would not be seeking a fourth term as mayor in the November 2007 election...
  
   (MBA 1992), mayor of Rockville, Maryland
  Rockville, Maryland
  Rockville is the county seat of Montgomery County, Maryland, United States. It is a major incorporated city in the central part of Montgomery County and forms part of the Baltimore-Washington Metropolitan Area. The 2010 U.S...
  
   (2001–2007)
• Kao Wen Mao (Ph.D. 1970), minister of the Ministry of Education in Republic of China
  Republic of China
  The Republic of China , commonly known as Taiwan , is a unitary sovereign state located in East Asia. Originally based in mainland China, the Republic of China currently governs the island of Taiwan , which forms over 99% of its current territory, as well as Penghu, Kinmen, Matsu and other minor...
  
   (1987–1993)
• Keith B. McCutcheon
  Keith B. McCutcheon
  General Keith Barr McCutcheon was a highly decorated Marine Corps aviator, seeing combat in World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War. He earned the Distinguished Flying Cross and ten Air Medals.-Early years:...
  
   (B.S. 1937), four-star general
  General (United States)
  In the United States Army, United States Air Force, and United States Marine Corps, general is a four-star general officer rank, with the pay grade of O-10. General ranks above lieutenant general and below General of the Army or General of the Air Force; the Marine Corps does not have an...
  
   and Assistant Commandant of the Marine Corps
  United States Marine Corps
  The United States Marine Corps is a branch of the United States Armed Forces responsible for providing power projection from the sea, using the mobility of the United States Navy to deliver combined-arms task forces rapidly. It is one of seven uniformed services of the United States...
  
   (1970)
• Dennis B. Sullivan
  Dennis B. Sullivan
  Dennis B. Sullivan was a Brigadier General in the United States Air Force.-Biography:Sullivan was born in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin in 1927. He attended George Washington University and Carnegie Mellon University.-Career:...
  
  , U.S. Air Force general
• Charles Erwin Wilson
  Charles Erwin Wilson
  Charles Erwin Wilson , American businessman and politician, was United States Secretary of Defense from 1953 to 1957 under President Eisenhower. Known as "Engine Charlie", he previously worked as CEO for General Motors. In the wake of the Korean War, he cut the defense budget significantly.-Early...
  
   (1909), United States Secretary of Defense
  United States Secretary of Defense
  The Secretary of Defense is the head and chief executive officer of the Department of Defense of the United States of America. This position corresponds to what is generally known as a Defense Minister in other countries...
  
   (1953–1957) under President Dwight D. Eisenhower
  Dwight D. Eisenhower
  Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower was the 34th President of the United States, from 1953 until 1961. He was a five-star general in the United States Army...
  
  
• Yarone Zober
  Yarone Zober
  Yarone Zober, a Democrat, currently serves as chief of staff to Mayor Luke Ravenstahl of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania....
  
   (MPM 2000), Chief of Staff, Mayor's Office, City of Pittsburgh (September 2006–present); formerly Deputy Mayor of the City of Pittsburgh (August to September 2006)
• Rich Fitzgerald (BSME 1981), President, Allegheny County Council, Pennsylvania (January 2001–present).

Educators

• Padmanabhan Balaram
  Padmanabhan Balaram
  Padmanabhan Balaram is an Indian biochemist and the director of the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore, India.-Education:Balaram received his Bachelors degree in Chemistry from Fergusson College, Pune followed by a Master's degree from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur and his PhD...
  
   (Ph.D.1973), Director of Indian Institute of Science
  Indian Institute of Science
  Indian Institute of Science is a research institution of higher learning located in Bangalore, India. It was established in 1909.-History:After a chance meeting between Jamsetji N...
  
  , India
• Stacy G. Birmingham (B.S., M.S., Ph.D.), Dean for the Albert A. Hopeman, Jr., School of Science and Engineering, Grove City College
  Grove City College
  Grove City College is a Christian liberal arts college in Grove City, Pennsylvania, about north of Pittsburgh. According to the College Bulletin, its stated three-fold mission is to provide an excellent education at an affordable price in a thoroughly Christian environment...
  
  
• John P. Crecine
  John Patrick Crecine
  John Patrick "Pat" Crecine was an American educator. After receiving his early education in Lansing, Michigan, Michigan public schools, he earned a bachelor's degree in industrial management, and master's and doctoral degrees in industrial administration from the Graduate School of Industrial...
  
   (B.S. 1961, M.S. 1963, Ph.D. 1966), former President of Georgia Institute of Technology
  Georgia Institute of Technology
  The Georgia Institute of Technology is a public research university in Atlanta, Georgia, in the United States...
  
   (1987–1994)
• Erroll Davis (B.S. 1965), Chancellor of the University System of Georgia
  University System of Georgia
  The University System of Georgia is the organizational body that includes 35 public institutions of higher learning in the U.S. state of Georgia. The System is governed by the Georgia Board of Regents. It sets goals and dictates general policy to educational institutions as well as administering...
  
   (2006–present) (See also: Business section)
• William Dill (M.S. 1953, Ph.D. 1956, Professor), former President of Babson College
  Babson College
  Babson College is a private business school located in Wellesley, Massachusetts near Boston.- History :Babson College was founded by Roger Babson on September 3, 1919, as the Babson Institute. It was renamed "Babson College" in 1969...
  
   (1981–1989), Anna Maria College
  Anna Maria College
  Anna Maria College is a coeducational Catholic liberal arts college in Paxton, Massachusetts.-History:Anna Maria College is a private, coeducational Catholic College founded in 1946 by the Sisters of Saint Anne. The school's original campus was in Marlboro, MA...
  
   (1995–1996), Maine College of Art
  Maine College of Art
  The Maine College of Art is a fully accredited, degree-granting art college in the city of Portland, Maine. It should not be confused with the Art Institute of Portland which is located in Portland, Oregon. Founded in 1882, the Maine College of Art is the oldest arts educational institution in Maine...
  
   (2005–2006)
• Peter A. Freeman (Ph.D. 1970), former Dean of College of Computing
  Georgia Institute of Technology College of Computing
  The College of Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology has roots stretching back to an Information Science degree established in 1964. In 1988, Georgia Tech president John Patrick Crecine elevated the School of Information and Computer Science to become the College of Computing, making...
  
  , Georgia Institute of Technology
  Georgia Institute of Technology
  The Georgia Institute of Technology is a public research university in Atlanta, Georgia, in the United States...
  
   (1990–2002)
• Stanley J. Garstka (MSIA 1968, Ph.D. 1970), Deputy Dean, Yale School of Management
  Yale School of Management
  The Yale School of Management is the graduate business school of Yale University and is located on Hillhouse Avenue in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. The School offers Master of Business Administration and Ph.D. degree programs. As of January 2011, 454 students were enrolled in its MBA...
  
  , Yale University
  Yale University
  Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...
  
  
• Marvin L. Goldberger (B.S. 1943), former President of the California Institute of Technology
  California Institute of Technology
  The California Institute of Technology is a private research university located in Pasadena, California, United States. Caltech has six academic divisions with strong emphases on science and engineering...
  
   (1978–1987), former director of Institute for Advanced Study
  Institute for Advanced Study
  The Institute for Advanced Study, located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States, is an independent postgraduate center for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. It was founded in 1930 by Abraham Flexner...
  
   (1987–1991), former dean of the natural science at University of California, San Diego
  University of California, San Diego
  The University of California, San Diego, commonly known as UCSD or UC San Diego, is a public research university located in the La Jolla neighborhood of San Diego, California, United States...
  
   (1994–1999)
• John Graham
  John Graham (policy analyst)
  John D. Graham is dean of the Indiana University School of Public and Environmental Affairs . John D. Graham began his tenure at SPEA this year. He is the fourth dean in the school’s 36-year history....
  
   (Ph.D. 1983), former Dean of the Frederick S. Pardee RAND Graduate School
  Frederick S. Pardee RAND Graduate School
  The Frederick S. Pardee RAND Graduate School is a private, higher-education institution that offers doctoral studies in policy analysis and practical experience working on RAND research projects to solve current public policy problems. Its campus is co-located with the RAND Corporation, a...
  
   and current Dean of the Indiana University School of Public and Environmental Affairs
  Indiana University School of Public and Environmental Affairs
  The Indiana University School of Public and Environmental Affairs is one of the undergraduate and graduate schools of Indiana University, and is the largest public policy and environmental studies school of its kind in the United States...
  
  
• Suzanne J. Kessler (B.S. 1968), Dean of the School of Natural and Social Sciences, Purchase College, 2004–present
• Pradeep Khosla
  Pradeep khosla
  Pradeep K. Khosla is an Indian American computer scientist and Dean of the College of Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University's College of Engineering. He is also the Philip and Marsha Dowd University Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Robotics at Carnegie Mellon.-Work:Khosla...
  
   (M.S. 1984, Ph.D. 1986, Professor), Dean, Carnegie Institute of Technology
  Carnegie Institute of Technology
  The Carnegie Institute of Technology , is the name for Carnegie Mellon University’s College of Engineering. It was first called the Carnegie Technical Schools, or Carnegie Tech, when it was founded in 1900 by Andrew Carnegie who intended to build a “first class technical school” in Pittsburgh,...
  
   (College of Engineering), Carnegie Mellon University
  Carnegie Mellon University
  Carnegie Mellon University is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States....
  
  
• Stephen Landowne (Ph.D.), Associate Dean for Academic Research, United States Military Academy
  United States Military Academy
  The United States Military Academy at West Point is a four-year coeducational federal service academy located at West Point, New York. The academy sits on scenic high ground overlooking the Hudson River, north of New York City...
  
  
• Michael C. McFarland
  Michael C. McFarland
  Rev. Michael C. McFarland, S.J. is the 31st president of the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts. He succeeded Acting President Frank Vellaccio on July 1, 2000.-Childhood:McFarland was born in Boston in 1948...
  
   (M.S. 1979, Ph.D. 1981), President of College of the Holy Cross
  College of the Holy Cross
  The College of the Holy Cross is an undergraduate Roman Catholic liberal arts college located in Worcester, Massachusetts, USA...
  
  , former Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Gonzaga University
  Gonzaga University
  Gonzaga University is a private Roman Catholic university located in Spokane, Washington, United States. Founded in 1887 by the Society of Jesus, it is one of 28 member institutions of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities and is named after the young Jesuit saint, Aloysius Gonzaga...
  
   (1996–2000)
• Steve Miller (Ph.D. 1983), Dean of School of Information Systems at Singapore Management University
  Singapore Management University
  The Singapore Management University was officially incorporated on January 12, 2000, and was Singapore's first private university funded by the government...
  
  , Singapore
• Jeanne Neff (Ph.D. 1976), President of The Sage Colleges
  The Sage Colleges
  The Sage Colleges is a private educational institution comprising three colleges in New York:Russell Sage College, a women's college in Troy, New York, Sage College of Albany, a co-educational college in Albany, New York, and the Sage Graduate School, which operates both in Troy and in...
  
  
• William F. Pounds
  William F. Pounds
  William F. Pounds was Dean and is currently a professor emeritus at the MIT Sloan School of Management.He is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Carnegie Mellon University.-References:...
  
  (B.S. 1950, M.S. 1959, Ph.D. 1964), Dean of MIT Sloan School of Management
  MIT Sloan School of Management
  The MIT Sloan School of Management is the business school of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in Cambridge, Massachusetts....
  
   (1966–1980)
• Suh Nam Pyo (Ph.D. 1964), President of KAIST
  KAIST
  KAIST , is located in Daedeok Innopolis, Daejeon, South Korea. KAIST was established by the Korean government in 1971 as the nation's first research oriented science and engineering institution. The QS-The Times World University Rankings in the year of 2009 placed KAIST 69th overall and 21st in...
  
  , South Korea
• Mendu Rammohan Rao
  Mendu Rammohan Rao
  -Biography:He has a PhD in Industrial Administration from Carnegie Mellon University. He also has a Master in Engineering and Master of Science in Industrial Engineering and Industrial Management....
  
   (M.S. 1968, Ph.D. 1969), Dean Emeritus of Indian School of Business
  Indian School of Business
  The Indian School of Business is a business school in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India and is widely recognized as one of the top business schools in the world. It offers a Post Graduate Programme in Management , a Fellow Program in Management, and a Post Graduate Programme in Management for Senior...
  
  , India
• Arthur C. Sanderson (M.S. 1970, Ph.D. 1972, Professor), Vice President of Research at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
  Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
  Stephen Van Rensselaer established the Rensselaer School on November 5, 1824 with a letter to the Rev. Dr. Samuel Blatchford, in which van Rensselaer asked Blatchford to serve as the first president. Within the letter he set down several orders of business. He appointed Amos Eaton as the school's...
  
  
• Allen L. Soyster (Ph.D. 1973), Dean of College of Engineering at Northeastern University
• Jon Strauss
  Jon Strauss
  As of July 18, 2011 Jon C. Strauss is the Interim President of Manhattanville College in Purchase, NY. He replaced Molly Easo Smith, who sat as the eleventh president of the College. Previously, Dr...
  
   (Ph.D. 1964), Dean of Engineering, Whitacre College of Engineering, Texas Tech University
  Texas Tech University
  Texas Tech University, often referred to as Texas Tech or TTU, is a public research university in Lubbock, Texas, United States. Established on February 10, 1923, and originally known as Texas Technological College, it is the leading institution of the Texas Tech University System and has the...
  
  , former President of Bainbridge Graduate Institute
  Bainbridge Graduate Institute
  The Bainbridge Graduate Institute is based in Bainbridge Island, Washington and Seattle, Washington. BGI offers an MBA in Sustainable Business, an MBA in Sustainable Systems and a Certificate in Sustainable Business. BGI's unique and pioneering curriculum infuses social- and...
  
   (2008–2009), Harvey Mudd College
  Harvey Mudd College
  Harvey Mudd College is a private residential liberal arts college of science, engineering, and mathematics, located in Claremont, California. It is one of the institutions of the contiguous Claremont Colleges, which share adjoining campus grounds....
  
   (1997–2006) and Worcester Polytechnic Institute (1985–1994),
• Richard L. Van Horn
  Richard L. Van Horn
  Richard L. Van Horn was the seventh president of the University of Houston and the 12th president of the University of Oklahoma.Van Horn was born in Chicago, Illinois but raised in Fort Wayne, Indiana...
  
   (Ph.D. 1976), former President of the University of Houston
  University of Houston
  The University of Houston is a state research university, and is the flagship institution of the University of Houston System. Founded in 1927, it is Texas's third-largest university with nearly 40,000 students. Its campus spans 667 acres in southeast Houston, and was known as University of...
  
   and the University of Oklahoma
  University of Oklahoma
  The University of Oklahoma is a coeducational public research university located in Norman, Oklahoma. Founded in 1890, it existed in Oklahoma Territory near Indian Territory for 17 years before the two became the state of Oklahoma. the university had 29,931 students enrolled, most located at its...
  
  
• Carl A. Zimring
  Carl A. Zimring
  Carl Abraham Zimring is an American environmental historian. He currently serves as an assistant professor at Roosevelt University, where he and Professors Michael A. Bryson and D. Bradford Hunt founded the Sustainability Studies program in 2010...
  
   (Ph.D. 2002), co-founder of the Sustainability Studies program at Roosevelt University
  Roosevelt University
  Roosevelt University is a coeducational, private university with campuses in Chicago, Illinois and Schaumburg, Illinois. Founded in 1945, the university is named in honor of both former President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. The university's curriculum is based on...
  
  

Members of National Academy of Sciences

United States National Academy of Sciences

The National Academy of Sciences is a corporation in the United States whose members serve pro bono as "advisers to the nation on science, engineering, and medicine." As a national academy, new members of the organization are elected annually by current members, based on their distinguished and...

• Frederick Rossini
  Frederick Rossini
  Frederick Dominic Rossini was an American thermodynamicist noted for his work in chemical thermodynamics.In 1920, at the age of twenty-one, Rossini entered Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh, and soon was awarded a full-time teaching scholarship. He graduated with a B.S. in chemical...
  
   (B.S. 1925, M.S. 1926, DSc (hon.) 1948), Chemistry, 1951
• Marvin L. Goldberger (B.S. 1943), Physics, 1963
• Raoul Bott
  Raoul Bott
  Raoul Bott, FRS was a Hungarian mathematician known for numerous basic contributions to geometry in its broad sense...
  
   (Ph.D. 1949), Mathematics, 1964
• Philip Morrison
  Philip Morrison
  Philip Morrison, was Institute Professor Emeritus and Professor of Physics Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology .-Early life and education:...
  
   (B.S. 1936), Physics, 1971
• Allen Newell
  Allen Newell
  Allen Newell was a researcher in computer science and cognitive psychology at the RAND corporation and at Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Computer Science, Tepper School of Business, and Department of Psychology...
  
   (Ph.D 1957, Professor), Computer and Information Sciences, 1972
• Frederick Mosteller (B.S. 1938, M.S. 1939), Mathematics, 1974
• Clifford Shull
  Clifford Shull
  Clifford Glenwood Shull was a Nobel Prize-winning American physicist.-Biography:...
  
   (B.S. 1937), Physics, 1975
• Ivan Sutherland
  Ivan Sutherland
  Ivan Edward Sutherland is an American computer scientist and Internet pioneer. He received the Turing Award from the Association for Computing Machinery in 1988 for the invention of Sketchpad, an early predecessor to the sort of graphical user interface that has become ubiquitous in personal...
  
   (B.S. 1959), Computer and Information Sciences, 1978
• John L. Hall
  John L. Hall
  John Lewis "Jan" Hall is an American physicist, and Nobel laureate in physics. He shared one half of the 2005 Nobel Prize in Physics with Theodor W. Hänsch for his work in precision spectroscopy.-Biography:...
  
   (B.S. 1956, M.S. 1958, Ph.D. 1961), Physics, 1984
• Leonard Lerman
  Leonard Lerman
  Leonard Lerman is an American scientist most noted for his work on DNA.As a graduate student with Linus Pauling at the California Institute of Technology, Lerman discovered that antibodies have two binding sites. Later, perhaps his most important discovery was that certain molecules bind to DNA by...
  
   (B.S. 1945), Genetics, 1986
• John Hirth (Ph.D. 1958), Applied Physical Sciences, 1994
• Oliver Williamson (Ph.D. 1963), Economic Sciences, 1994
• Shafrira Goldwasser
  Shafi Goldwasser
  Shafrira Goldwasser is the RSA Professor of electrical engineering and computer science at MIT, and a professor of mathematical sciences at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel.-Biography:...
  
   (B.S. 1979), Computer and Information Sciences, 2004

Members of National Academy of Engineering

National Academy of Engineering

The National Academy of Engineering is a government-created non-profit institution in the United States, that was founded in 1964 under the same congressional act that led to the founding of the National Academy of Sciences...

• Robert McMaster (B.S. 1936), Industrial, Manufacturing & Operational Systems Engineering, 1970
• Ivan Sutherland
  Ivan Sutherland
  Ivan Edward Sutherland is an American computer scientist and Internet pioneer. He received the Turing Award from the Association for Computing Machinery in 1988 for the invention of Sketchpad, an early predecessor to the sort of graphical user interface that has become ubiquitous in personal...
  
   (B.S. 1959), Computer Science & Engineering, 1973
• John Hirth (Ph.D. 1958), Materials Engineering, 1974
• Robert Charpie (B.S. 1948, M.S. 1949, Ph.D. 1950), Industrial, Manufacturing & Operational Systems Engineering, 1975
• Norman F. Parker (1948), Aerospace Engineering, 1976
• Harold A. Thomas, Jr. (B.S. 1935), Civil Engineering, 1976
• John B. Wachtman (B.S. 1948, M.S. 1949), Materials Engineering, 1976
• Johannes Weertman (B.S. 1948, Ph.D. 1951), Materials Engineering, 1976
• Frederick F. Ling (M.S. 1951, Ph.D. 1954), Mechanical Engineering, 1977
• Alan Perlis
  Alan Perlis
  Alan Jay Perlis was an American computer scientist known for his pioneering work in programming languages and the first recipient of the Turing Award.-Biography:...
  
   (B.S. 1943, Professor), Computer Science & Engineering, 1977
• Rex A. Elder (B.S. 1940), Civil Engineering, 1978
• James D. Meindl
  James D. Meindl
  James D. Meindl is director of the Joseph M. Pettit Microelectronics Research Center, director of the Marcus Nanotechnology Research Center, and Pettit Chair Professor of Microelectronics at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia...
  
   (B.S. 1955, M.S. 1956, Ph.D. 1958), Electronics Engineering, 1978
• George A. Roberts (B.S. 1939, M.S. 1941, Ph.D. 1942), Materials Engineering, 1978
• Paul Shewmon (M.S. 1954, Ph.D. 1955), Materials Engineering, 1979
• Nicholas J. Grant (B.S. 1938), Materials Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, 1980
• Allen Newell
  Allen Newell
  Allen Newell was a researcher in computer science and cognitive psychology at the RAND corporation and at Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Computer Science, Tepper School of Business, and Department of Psychology...
  
   (Ph.D. 1957, Professor), Computer Science & Engineering, 1980
• Mao Yisheng
  Mao Yisheng
  Dr. Mao Yisheng was a Chinese structural engineer, an expert on bridge construction, and a social activist in China.-Biography:Mao was born in Zhenjiang, Jiangsu Province. He entered Jiaotong University's Tangshan Engineering College and earned his bachelor's degree in civil engineering in 1916...
  
   (Ph.D. 1919), Civil Engineering, Materials Engineering, 1982
• Maurice E. Shank (B.S. 1942), Aerospace Engineering, 1983
• Robert Dennard
  Robert Dennard
  Robert Dennard is an American electrical engineer and inventor.Dennard was born in Terrell, Texas, U.S.. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Southern Methodist University, Dallas, in 1954 and 1956, respectively. He earned a Ph.D. from Carnegie Institute of...
  
   (Ph.D. 1958), Electronics Engineering, 1984
• Angel Jordan (M.S. 1959, Ph.D. 1959, Professor), Electronics Engineering, 1986
• William G. Oldham (B.S. 1960, M.S. 1961, Ph.D. 1963), Electronics Engineering, 1986
• William D. Strecker (B.S., M.S., Ph.D.), Computer Science & Engineering, 1987
• Robert A. Rapp (M.S. 1959, Ph.D. 1960), Materials Engineering, 1988
• David A. Thompson (B.S. 1962, M.S. 1963, Ph.D. 1966), Electronics Engineering, 1988
• Julia R. Weertman (B.S. 1946, M.S. 1947, Ph.D. 1951), Materials Engineering, 1988
• David H. Archer (B.S. 1948, Professor), Electric Power/Energy Systems Engineering, 1989
• Rodney Clifton (M.S. 1961, Ph.D. 1964), Mechanical Engineering, 1989
• Edward J. Kramer (Ph.D. 1967), Materials Engineering, 1989
• Frederick H. Dill (B.S. 1954, M.S. 1956, Ph.D. 1958), Electronics Engineering, 1990
• Norman A. Gjostein (Ph.D. 1958), Materials Engineering, 1990
• Dale Critchlow (Ph.D. 1956), Electronics Engineering, 1991
• George Dieter (Ph.D. 1958, Professor 1973-1977), Materials Engineering, 1993
• H. T. Kung
  H. T. Kung
  H. T. Kung is a computer scientist. His current research is primarily in the area of communications networks and network security, but his interests have been broad-ranging, including computational complexity theory, database theory, VLSI design, and parallel computing.Kung received his bachelor...
  
   (Ph.D. 1973), Computer Science & Engineering, 1993
• Anita K. Jones (Ph.D. 1973), Computer Science & Engineering, 1994
• Charles Geschke
  Charles Geschke
  Charles Geschke, is best known as the 1982 co-founder with John Warnock of Adobe Systems Inc., the graphics and publishing software company.-Education:...
  
   (Ph.D.
  Doctor of Philosophy
  Doctor of Philosophy, abbreviated as Ph.D., PhD, D.Phil., or DPhil , in English-speaking countries, is a postgraduate academic degree awarded by universities...
  
   1973), Computer Science & Engineering, 1995
• Paul Allaire (MSIA 1966), Industrial, Manufacturing & Operational Systems Engineering, 1996
• Hubert Aaronson (B.S. 1948, Ph.D. 1954, Professor), Materials Engineering, 1997
• Christopher L. Magee (B.S. 1963, M.S., Ph.D. 1966), Special Fields & Interdisciplinary Engineering, 1997
• Richard J. Lipton
  Richard J. Lipton
  Richard Jay "Dick" Lipton is an American computer scientist who has worked in computer science theory, cryptography, and DNA computing. Lipton is presently Associate Dean of Research, Professor, and the Frederick G...
  
   (Ph.D. 1973), Computer Science & Engineering, 1999
• Andy Bechtolsheim
  Andy Bechtolsheim
  Andreas von Bechtolsheim is an electrical engineer who co-founded Sun Microsystems in 1982 and was its chief hardware designer....
  
   (M.S.
  Master of Science
  A Master of Science is a postgraduate academic master's degree awarded by universities in many countries. The degree is typically studied for in the sciences including the social sciences.-Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay:...
  
   1976), Electronics Engineering, 2000
• Barry C. Johnson (M.S., Ph.D. 1970), Electronics Engineering, 2000
• David Kelley (B.S. 1973), Mechanical Engineering, 2000
• Stephanie Kwolek
  Stephanie Kwolek
  Stephanie Louise Kwolek is a Polish-American chemist who invented poly-paraphenylene terephtalamide—better known as Kevlar. She was born in the Pittsburgh suburb of New Kensington, Pennsylvania. Kwolek has won numerous awards for her work in polymer chemistry.- Early life and education :Kwolek was...
  
   (B.S. 1946), Chemical Engineering, 2001
• John Ousterhout
  John Ousterhout
  John Kenneth Ousterhout is the chairman of Electric Cloud, Inc. and a professor of computer science at Stanford University. He founded Electric Cloud with John Graham-Cumming. Ousterhout previously was a professor of computer science at University of California, Berkeley where he created the Tcl...
  
   (Ph.D. 1980), Computer Science & Engineering, 2001
• Fred Glover (Ph.D. 1965), Computer Science & Engineering, 2002
• Bernard Cohen (Ph.D. 1950), Electric Power/Energy Systems Engineering, 2003
• Nicholas Garber (M.S. 1969, Ph.D. 1971), Civil Engineering, 2004
• James Gosling
  James Gosling
  James A. Gosling, OC is a computer scientist, best known as the father of the Java programming language.-Education and career:In 1977, Gosling received a B.Sc in Computer Science from the University of Calgary...
  
   (Ph.D. 1983), Computer Science & Engineering, 2004
• Jonathan Rothberg (B.S. 1985), Bioengineering, 2004
• John H. Perepezko (Ph.D. 1973), Materials Engineering, 2004
• Shafrira Goldwasser (B.S. 1979), Computer Science & Engineering, 2005
• Bob Colwell
  Bob Colwell
  Robert P. "Bob" Colwell is an electrical engineer who worked at Intel and is now Deputy Director of the Microsystems Technology Office at DARPA. He was the chief IA-32 architect on the Pentium Pro, Pentium II, Pentium III, and Pentium 4 microprocessors. Bob retired from Intel in 2000...
  
   (Ph.D.), Computer Science & Engineering, 2006
• Stuart Card
  Stuart Card
  Stuart K. Card is an American researcher and Senior Research Fellow at Xerox PARC. He is considered to be one of the pioneers of applying human factors in human–computer interaction.- Biography :...
  
   (M.S. 1970, Ph.D. 1978), Computer Science & Engineering, 2007
• Ray Baughman (B.S. 1964), Materials Engineering, 2008
• David Dzombak (B.S. 1980, M.S. 1981, Professor), Civil Engineering, 2008
• Shree Nayar (Ph.D. 1990), Computer Science & Engineering, 2008
• Red Whittaker (M.S. 1975, Ph.D. 1979), Computer Science & Engineering, 2009

Other prominent faculty

• Bob Altemeyer (PhD 1965) Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Manitoba
  University of Manitoba
  The University of Manitoba , in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, is the largest university in the province of Manitoba. It is Manitoba's most comprehensive and only research-intensive post-secondary educational institution. It was founded in 1877, making it Western Canada’s first university. It placed...
  
  
• Costas Azariadis
  Costas Azariadis
  Constantine Christos "Costas" Azariadis, is a macroeconomist who was born February 17, 1943 in Athens, Greece. He has worked on diverse topics, such as labor markets, business cycles, and economic growth and development...
  
   (MBA 1971, Ph.D. 1975), Edward Mallinckrodt Distinguished University Professor in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis
  Washington University in St. Louis
  Washington University in St. Louis is a private research university located in suburban St. Louis, Missouri. Founded in 1853, and named for George Washington, the university has students and faculty from all fifty U.S. states and more than 110 nations...
  
  
• Bala V. Balachandran (M.S. 1972, Ph.D. 1973), J.L.Kellogg Distinguished Professor in Accounting, Information and Management at Kellogg School of Management
  Kellogg School of Management
  The Kellogg School of Management is the business school of Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, downtown Chicago, Illinois and Miami, Florida. Kellogg offers full-time, part-time, and executive programs, as well as partnering programs with schools in China, India, Hong Kong, Israel,...
  
  , Northwestern University
  Northwestern University
  Northwestern University is a private research university in Evanston and Chicago, Illinois, USA. Northwestern has eleven undergraduate, graduate, and professional schools offering 124 undergraduate degrees and 145 graduate and professional degrees....
  
  
• William A. Barnett
  William A. Barnett
  William Arnold Barnett is an American economist whose current work is in the field of chaos, bifurcation, and nonlinearity in socioeconomic contexts, as well as the study of the aggregation problem....
  
   (M.A. 1970, Ph.D. 1974), Oswald Distinguished Professor of Macroeconomics at the University of Kansas
  University of Kansas
  The University of Kansas is a public research university and the largest university in the state of Kansas. KU campuses are located in Lawrence, Wichita, Overland Park, and Kansas City, Kansas with the main campus being located in Lawrence on Mount Oread, the highest point in Lawrence. The...
  
  
• Christodoulos A. Floudas (Ph.D. 1986), Stephen C. Macaleer ’63 Professor in Engineering and Applied Science at Princeton University
  Princeton University
  Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution....
  
  
• Max H. Bazerman (M.S. 1978, Ph.D. 1979), Jesse Isidor Straus Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School
  Harvard Business School
  Harvard Business School is the graduate business school of Harvard University in Boston, Massachusetts, United States and is widely recognized as one of the top business schools in the world. The school offers the world's largest full-time MBA program, doctoral programs, and many executive...
  
  
• Dan Bernhardt (M.S. 1983, Ph.D. 1986), IBE Distinguished Professor of Economics at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  The University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign is a large public research-intensive university in the state of Illinois, United States. It is the flagship campus of the University of Illinois system...
  
  
• Robert C. Blattberg (M.S. 1966, Ph.D. 1971), Polk Bros Professor of Retailing Marketing at Kellogg School of Management
  Kellogg School of Management
  The Kellogg School of Management is the business school of Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, downtown Chicago, Illinois and Miami, Florida. Kellogg offers full-time, part-time, and executive programs, as well as partnering programs with schools in China, India, Hong Kong, Israel,...
  
  , Northwestern University
  Northwestern University
  Northwestern University is a private research university in Evanston and Chicago, Illinois, USA. Northwestern has eleven undergraduate, graduate, and professional schools offering 124 undergraduate degrees and 145 graduate and professional degrees....
  
  
• Ruth N. Bolton (M.S. 1980, Ph.D. 1983), W. P. Carey
  William P. Carey
  William Polk Carey born in Baltimore, Maryland is an American businessman and founder of W. P. Carey & Co. LLC, a corporate real estate financing firm headquartered in New York City. The world’s largest publicly traded limited liability company, W. P...
  
   Professor of Marketing at W. P. Carey School of Business
  W. P. Carey School of Business
  The W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University is one of the largest business schools in the United States, with over 250 faculty, and more than 1,500 graduate and 8,300 undergraduate students...
  
  , Arizona State University
  Arizona State University
  Arizona State University is a public research university located in the Phoenix Metropolitan Area of the State of Arizona...
  
  
• Marcel Boyer
  Marcel Boyer
  Marcel Boyer is the Bell Canada Professor of industrial economics at the Université de Montréal, CIRANO research Fellow and also vice-president and chief economist at the Montreal Economic Institute. He holds a Ph.D...
  
   (M.S., Ph.D. 1973), Bell Canada Professor of Industrial Economics of the Université de Montréal
  Université de Montréal
  The Université de Montréal is a public francophone research university in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It comprises thirteen faculties, more than sixty departments and two affiliated schools: the École Polytechnique and HEC Montréal...
  
  , member of Royal Society of Canada
  Royal Society of Canada
  The Royal Society of Canada , may also operate under the more descriptive name RSC: The Academies of Arts, Humanities and Sciences of Canada , is the oldest association of scientists and scholars in Canada...
  
  , former President of Canadian Economics Association
  Canadian Economics Association
  The Canadian Economics Association is an academic association of Canadian economists. Formerly part of the Canadian Political Science Association, CEA was formed as a separate scientific society in 1967. It currently has over 1,500 members, two thirds of which reside in Canada...
  
  
• John Bryant (M.S. 1973, Ph.D. 1975), Henry S. Fox, Sr. Professor of Economics and Professor of Management at Rice University
  Rice University
  William Marsh Rice University, commonly referred to as Rice University or Rice, is a private research university located on a heavily wooded campus in Houston, Texas, United States...
  
  
• Chia-Ling Chien (M.S. 1968, Ph.D. 1972), Jacob L. Hain Professor of Physics at Johns Hopkins University
  Johns Hopkins University
  The Johns Hopkins University, commonly referred to as Johns Hopkins, JHU, or simply Hopkins, is a private research university based in Baltimore, Maryland, United States...
  
  
• Edward J. Conlon (M.S. 1975, Ph.D. 1978), Edward Frederick Sorin Professor of Management and associate dean for Graduate Studies of the Mendoza College of Business
  Mendoza College of Business
  The Mendoza College of Business is one of the colleges at the University of Notre Dame, which is located in Notre Dame, Indiana, United States.- History :...
  
  , University of Notre Dame
  University of Notre Dame
  The University of Notre Dame du Lac is a Catholic research university located in Notre Dame, an unincorporated community north of the city of South Bend, in St. Joseph County, Indiana, United States...
  
  
• Qiang Du (Ph.D. 1988), Verne M. Willaman Professor of Mathematics at Pennsylvania State University
  Pennsylvania State University
  The Pennsylvania State University, commonly referred to as Penn State or PSU, is a public research university with campuses and facilities throughout the state of Pennsylvania, United States. Founded in 1855, the university has a threefold mission of teaching, research, and public service...
  
  
• Jane Fedorowicz (M.S. 1978, Ph.D. 1981), Rae D. Anderson Professor of Accounting and Information Systems at Bentley University
• Nicholas J. Garber (M.S. 1969, Ph.D. 1971), Henry L. Kinnier Professor of Civil Engineering at University of Virginia
  University of Virginia
  The University of Virginia is a public research university located in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States, founded by Thomas Jefferson...
  
  
• Jerome E. Hass (Ph.D. 1969), James B. Rubin Professor of Finance at Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management
  Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management
  The Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management is the graduate business school of Cornell University, a private Ivy League university located in Ithaca, New York. It was founded in 1946 and renamed in 1984 after Samuel Curtis Johnson, founder of S.C...
  
   at Cornell University
  Cornell University
  Cornell University is an Ivy League university located in Ithaca, New York, United States. It is a private land-grant university, receiving annual funding from the State of New York for certain educational missions...
  
  
• Pamela R. Haunschild (M.S. 1990, Ph.D. 1992), Jack R. Crosby Regents Professor and Chair of Management at McCombs School of Business
  McCombs School of Business
  The McCombs School of Business, also referred to as the McCombs School or simply McCombs, is a business school at The University of Texas at Austin. In addition to the main Austin campus, McCombs offers classes outside Central Texas in Dallas, Houston and internationally in Mexico City...
  
  , University of Texas at Austin
  University of Texas at Austin
  The University of Texas at Austin is a state research university located in Austin, Texas, USA, and is the flagship institution of the The University of Texas System. Founded in 1883, its campus is located approximately from the Texas State Capitol in Austin...
  
  
• Jack Hershey (B.S. 1965), Daniel H. Silberberg Professor at Wharton School
  Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
  The Wharton School is the business school of the University of Pennsylvania, an Ivy League university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Wharton was the world’s first collegiate business school and the first business school in the United States...
  
   of the University of Pennsylvania
  University of Pennsylvania
  The University of Pennsylvania is a private, Ivy League university located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Penn is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States,Penn is the fourth-oldest using the founding dates claimed by each institution...
  
  
• Charles Holt (M.S. 1974, Ph.D. 1977), A. Willis Robertson Professor of Political Economy at University of Virginia
  University of Virginia
  The University of Virginia is a public research university located in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States, founded by Thomas Jefferson...
  
  
• George Hsiao (M.S. 1963, Ph.D. 1969), Carl Rees Professor of Mathematics at University of Delaware
  University of Delaware
  The university is organized into seven colleges:* College of Agriculture and Natural Resources* College of Arts and Sciences* Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics* College of Earth, Ocean and Environment* College of Education and Human Development...
  
  
• Yuji Ijiri (Ph.D. 1963), R.M. Trueblood University Professor of Accounting and Economics at Carnegie Mellon University
  Carnegie Mellon University
  Carnegie Mellon University is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States....
  
  , former President of American Accounting Association
  American Accounting Association
  The American Accounting Association is an "organization of persons interested in accounting education and research". It was formed in 1916. Its main publication, The Accounting Review, was first published in 1926. It is the principal professional association of accounting academics in the United...
  
   (1982–1983)
• Ravi Jagannathan
  Ravi Jagannathan
  Ravi Jagannathan is an American economist. He is currently a chaired professor at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. With the exception of the period 1989-1997 when he was a professor at the University of Minnesota, Jagannathan has been at Kellogg since graduate...
  
   (M.S. 1981, Ph.D. 1983), Chicago Mercantile Exchange/John F. Sandner Professor of Finance at Kellogg School of Management
  Kellogg School of Management
  The Kellogg School of Management is the business school of Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, downtown Chicago, Illinois and Miami, Florida. Kellogg offers full-time, part-time, and executive programs, as well as partnering programs with schools in China, India, Hong Kong, Israel,...
  
  , Northwestern University
  Northwestern University
  Northwestern University is a private research university in Evanston and Chicago, Illinois, USA. Northwestern has eleven undergraduate, graduate, and professional schools offering 124 undergraduate degrees and 145 graduate and professional degrees....
  
  , former director of American Finance Association
  American Finance Association
  The American Finance Association is an academic organization whose focus is the study and promotion of knowledge of financial economics. It was formed in 1939...
  
   (2002–2005)
• Eric J. Johnson (M.S. 1978, Ph.D. 1980), Norman Eig Professor of Business at Columbia Business School
  Columbia Business School
  Columbia Business School is the business school of Columbia University in Manhattan, New York City. It was established in 1916 to provide business training and professional preparation for undergraduate and graduate Columbia University students...
  
  , Columbia University
  Columbia University
  Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...
  
  
• Kevin Lane Keller
  Kevin Lane Keller
  Kevin Lane Keller is the E. B. Osborn Professor of Marketing at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. He is most notable for having authored Strategic Brand Management , a widely-used text on brand management...
  
   (MSIA 1980), E.B. Osborn Professor of Marketing at Tuck School of Business
  Tuck School of Business
  The Amos Tuck School of Business Administration is the graduate business school of Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, in the United States...
  
  , Dartmouth College
  Dartmouth College
  Dartmouth College is a private, Ivy League university in Hanover, New Hampshire, United States. The institution comprises a liberal arts college, Dartmouth Medical School, Thayer School of Engineering, and the Tuck School of Business, as well as 19 graduate programs in the arts and sciences...
  
  
• David A. Kofke (B.S. 1983), UB Distinguished Professor and Department Chair of Chemical and Biological Engineering at SUNY, Buffalo
  University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
  University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, also commonly known as the University at Buffalo or UB, is a public research university and a "University Center" in the State University of New York system. The university was founded by Millard Fillmore in 1846. UB has multiple campuses...
  
  
• John E. Laird
  John E. Laird
  John E. Laird is a computer scientist who, with Paul Rosenbloom and Allen Newell, created the Soar cognitive architecture at Carnegie Mellon University. Laird is a Professor of the Computer Science and Engineering Division of the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department of the...
  
   (Ph.D. 1983), John L. Tishman Professor of Engineering at University of Michigan
  University of Michigan
  The University of Michigan is a public research university located in Ann Arbor, Michigan in the United States. It is the state's oldest university and the flagship campus of the University of Michigan...
  
  , co-creator of Soar cognitive architecture
  Soar (cognitive architecture)
  Soar is a symbolic cognitive architecture, created by John Laird, Allen Newell, and Paul Rosenbloom at Carnegie Mellon University, now maintained by John Laird's research group at the University of Michigan. It is both a view of what cognition is and an implementation of that view through a...
  
  
• Charles E. Leiserson
  Charles E. Leiserson
  Charles Eric Leiserson is a computer scientist, specializing in the theory of parallel computing and distributed computing, and particularly practical applications thereof; as part of this effort, he developed the Cilk multithreaded language...
  
   (Ph.D. 1981), Professor of Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT has five schools and one college, containing a total of 32 academic departments, with a strong emphasis on scientific and technological education and research.Founded in 1861 in...
  
  , co-author of the Introduction to Algorithms
• Paul R. Kleindorfer (Ph.D. 1970), Anheuser-Busch Professor Emeritus of Management Science at Wharton School
  Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
  The Wharton School is the business school of the University of Pennsylvania, an Ivy League university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Wharton was the world’s first collegiate business school and the first business school in the United States...
  
   of the University of Pennsylvania
  University of Pennsylvania
  The University of Pennsylvania is a private, Ivy League university located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Penn is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States,Penn is the fourth-oldest using the founding dates claimed by each institution...
  
  
• Ronald D. Macfarlane
  Ronald D. Macfarlane
  - Early life and education :* 1954 University of Buffalo, New York - B.A. Chemistry* 1957 Carnegie-Mellon University, Pennsylvania - M.S. Chemistry* 1959 Carnegie-Mellon University, Pennsylvania - Ph.D...
  
   (M.S. 1957, Ph.D. 1959), Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at Texas A&M University
  Texas A&M University
  Texas A&M University is a coeducational public research university located in College Station, Texas . It is the flagship institution of the Texas A&M University System. The sixth-largest university in the United States, A&M's enrollment for Fall 2011 was over 50,000 for the first time in school...
  
  
• Robert P. Merges (B.S. 1981), Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati Professor of Law and Technology at Berkeley Law School
• Greg Morrisett
  Greg Morrisett
  John Gregory Morrisett is the Allen B. Cutting Professor of Computer Science and Associate Dean for Computer Science and Engineering in the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences....
  
   (M.S. 1991, Ph.D. 1995), Allen B. Cutting Professor of Computer Science and Associate Dean for Computer Science and Engineering, Harvard University
  Harvard University
  Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...
  
  
• Michael S. Scott Morton (B.S. 1961), Jay W. Forrester Professor of Management (Emeritus) at MIT Sloan School of Management
  MIT Sloan School of Management
  The MIT Sloan School of Management is the business school of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in Cambridge, Massachusetts....
  
  
• Jan Mossin
  Jan Mossin
  Jan Mossin was a Norwegian economist. Born in Oslo, he graduated with a siv.øk. degree from the Norwegian School of Economics in 1959...
  
   (Ph.D.), made significant contribution to Capital Asset Pricing Model
  Capital asset pricing model
  In finance, the capital asset pricing model is used to determine a theoretically appropriate required rate of return of an asset, if that asset is to be added to an already well-diversified portfolio, given that asset's non-diversifiable risk...
  
  
• John Muth
  John Muth
  -Legacy:It has hard to point to one substantial area of economic research into dynamic problems which has not changed as a result of the publication of Muth's works at GSIA. Almost paradoxically, the only viable alternative to Muth's hypothesis is the research agenda put forward by Herb Simon and...
  
   (Ph.D., Professor 1956-1964), father of the rational expectations
  Rational expectations
  Rational expectations is a hypothesis in economics which states that agents' predictions of the future value of economically relevant variables are not systematically wrong in that all errors are random. An alternative formulation is that rational expectations are model-consistent expectations, in...
  
   revolution in economics
• Jay Nunamaker
  Jay Nunamaker
  Jay F. Nunamaker Jr. is Regents and Soldwedel Professor at the University of Arizona. Regents Professor is the highest faculty rank bestowed at the university, an honor reserved for the top 3% of scholars....
  
   (B.S. 1964), Regents Professor of Management Information Systems, Computer Science, and Communication at University of Arizona
  University of Arizona
  The University of Arizona is a land-grant and space-grant public institution of higher education and research located in Tucson, Arizona, United States. The University of Arizona was the first university in the state of Arizona, founded in 1885...
  
  
• Jeffrey Pfeffer
  Jeffrey Pfeffer
  Jeffrey Pfeffer, Ph.D., is the Thomas D. Dee II Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, and is considered one of today's most influential management thinkers...
  
   (B.S. 1968, MSIA 1968), Thomas D. Dee II Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Stanford Graduate School of Business
  Stanford Graduate School of Business
  The Stanford Graduate School of Business is one of the professional schools of Stanford University, in Stanford, California and is broadly regarded as one of the best business schools in the world.The Stanford GSB offers a general management Master of Business Administration degree, the Sloan...
  
  
• Demetri Psaltis
  Demetri Psaltis
  Demetri Psaltis is the Dean of the School of Engineering at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne since 2007. He is also a Professor in Bioengineering and Director of the Optics Laboratory of the EPFL. He is one of the founders of the term and the field of optofluidics...
  
   (B.S. 1974, M.S. 1975, Ph.D. 1977), Thomas G. Myers Professor of Electrical Engineering at California Institute of Technology
  California Institute of Technology
  The California Institute of Technology is a private research university located in Pasadena, California, United States. Caltech has six academic divisions with strong emphases on science and engineering...
  
  
• Timothy W. Ruefli (M.S. 1967, Ph.D. 1969), Daniel B. Stuart Centennial Professor in Applications of Computers to Business at McCombs School of Business
  McCombs School of Business
  The McCombs School of Business, also referred to as the McCombs School or simply McCombs, is a business school at The University of Texas at Austin. In addition to the main Austin campus, McCombs offers classes outside Central Texas in Dallas, Houston and internationally in Mexico City...
  
  , University of Texas at Austin
  University of Texas at Austin
  The University of Texas at Austin is a state research university located in Austin, Texas, USA, and is the flagship institution of the The University of Texas System. Founded in 1883, its campus is located approximately from the Texas State Capitol in Austin...
  
  
• David A. Schkade (M.S. 1982, Ph.D. 1985), Jerome S. Katzin Professor of Management at Rady School of Management
  Rady School of Management
  The Rady School of Management at the University of California, San Diego is a graduate-level business school offering full-time and part-time Master of Business Administration degree programs in addition to non-degree executive development programs, Ph.D.s and undergraduate courses including a...
  
  , University of California, San Diego
  University of California, San Diego
  The University of California, San Diego, commonly known as UCSD or UC San Diego, is a public research university located in the La Jolla neighborhood of San Diego, California, United States...
  
  
• Subrata K. Sen (M.S. 1966, Ph.D. 1974), Joseph F. Cullman 3rd Professor of Organization, Management, and Marketing at Yale School of Management
  Yale School of Management
  The Yale School of Management is the graduate business school of Yale University and is located on Hillhouse Avenue in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. The School offers Master of Business Administration and Ph.D. degree programs. As of January 2011, 454 students were enrolled in its MBA...
  
  , Yale University
  Yale University
  Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...
  
  
• Lui Sha (Ph.D. 1985), Donald B. Gillies Professor of Computer Science at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  The University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign is a large public research-intensive university in the state of Illinois, United States. It is the flagship campus of the University of Illinois system...
  
  
• Costas J. Spanos (M.S. 1981, Ph.D. 1985), Professor and Associate Dean in the College of Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
  University of California, Berkeley
  The University of California, Berkeley , is a teaching and research university established in 1868 and located in Berkeley, California, USA...
  
  
• V. Srinivasan (M.S. 1970, Ph.D. 1971), Adams Distinguished Professor of Management at Stanford Graduate School of Business
  Stanford Graduate School of Business
  The Stanford Graduate School of Business is one of the professional schools of Stanford University, in Stanford, California and is broadly regarded as one of the best business schools in the world.The Stanford GSB offers a general management Master of Business Administration degree, the Sloan...
  
  
• Lawrence R. Sulak (B.S. 1966), David M. Myers Distinguished Professor of Physics at Boston University
  Boston University
  Boston University is a private research university located in Boston, Massachusetts. With more than 4,000 faculty members and more than 31,000 students, Boston University is one of the largest private universities in the United States and one of Boston's largest employers...
  
  
• M. Suresh Sundaresan (M.S. 1978, Ph.D. 1980), Chase Manhattan Bank Foundation Professor of Finance and Economics at Columbia Business School
  Columbia Business School
  Columbia Business School is the business school of Columbia University in Manhattan, New York City. It was established in 1916 to provide business training and professional preparation for undergraduate and graduate Columbia University students...
  
  , Columbia University
  Columbia University
  Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...
  
  
• Shyam Sunder (M.S. 1972, Ph.D. 1974), James L. Frank Professor of Accounting, Economics, and Finance at Yale School of Management
  Yale School of Management
  The Yale School of Management is the graduate business school of Yale University and is located on Hillhouse Avenue in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. The School offers Master of Business Administration and Ph.D. degree programs. As of January 2011, 454 students were enrolled in its MBA...
  
  , Yale University
  Yale University
  Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...
  
  
• Jayashankar M. Swaminathan (M.S., Ph.D.) Kay and Van Weatherspoon Distinguished Professor of Operations, Technology and Innovation Management and Senior Associate Dean of Academic Affairs at Kenan-Flagler Business School
  Kenan-Flagler Business School
  The Kenan-Flagler Business School is the undergraduate and graduate business school at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The school offers a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, Master of Business Administration , MBA for Executives, Master of Accounting, Ph.D., a business...
  
  , University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is a public research university located in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States...
  
  
• Jerry D. Thompson
  Jerry D. Thompson
  Jerry Don Thompson is Regents Professor of History at Texas A&M International University in Laredo, Texas. He is a prolific author of books on a variety of related topics, specializing in the American Civil War, the history of the Southwestern United States, and Texas History...
  
   (Doctor of Arts
  Doctor of Arts
  The Doctor of Arts is a discipline-based terminal doctoral degree that was originally conceived and designed to be an alternative to the traditional research-based Doctor of Philosophy and the education-based Doctor of Education . Like other doctorates, the D.A. is an academic degree of the...
  
   in history
  History
  History is the discovery, collection, organization, and presentation of information about past events. History can also mean the period of time after writing was invented. Scholars who write about history are called historians...
  
  ), Regents Professor of History, Texas A&M International University
  Texas A&M International University
  Texas A&M International University, often referred to as TAMIU, is a public, co-educational, state-supported university located in Laredo, Texas...
  
  , Laredo
  Laredo, Texas
  Laredo is the county seat of Webb County, Texas, United States, located on the north bank of the Rio Grande in South Texas, across from Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, Mexico. According to the 2010 census, the city population was 236,091 making it the 3rd largest on the United States-Mexican border,...
  
  , Texas
  Texas
  Texas is the second largest U.S. state by both area and population, and the largest state by area in the contiguous United States.The name, based on the Caddo word "Tejas" meaning "friends" or "allies", was applied by the Spanish to the Caddo themselves and to the region of their settlement in...
  
  ; specialist on American Southwest
• Sheridan Titman
  Sheridan Titman
  Sheridan Titman is a professor of finance at The University of Texas at Austin, where he holds the McAllister Centennial Chair in Financial Services at the McCombs School of Business, and is a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. He holds a B.S. degree from the University...
  
   (M.S. 1978, Ph.D. 1981), Walter W. McAllister Centennial Professor of Finance at McCombs School of Business
  McCombs School of Business
  The McCombs School of Business, also referred to as the McCombs School or simply McCombs, is a business school at The University of Texas at Austin. In addition to the main Austin campus, McCombs offers classes outside Central Texas in Dallas, Houston and internationally in Mexico City...
  
  , University of Texas at Austin
  University of Texas at Austin
  The University of Texas at Austin is a state research university located in Austin, Texas, USA, and is the flagship institution of the The University of Texas System. Founded in 1883, its campus is located approximately from the Texas State Capitol in Austin...
  
  , President of Western Finance Association
• Rohit K. Trivedi (M.S. 1964, Ph.D. 1966), Distinguished Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at Iowa State University
  Iowa State University
  Iowa State University of Science and Technology, more commonly known as Iowa State University , is a public land-grant and space-grant research university located in Ames, Iowa, United States. Iowa State has produced astronauts, scientists, and Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winners, along with a host of...
  
  
• Brian Uzzi (M.S. 1989), Richard L. Thomas Distinguished Professor of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences at Kellogg School of Management
  Kellogg School of Management
  The Kellogg School of Management is the business school of Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, downtown Chicago, Illinois and Miami, Florida. Kellogg offers full-time, part-time, and executive programs, as well as partnering programs with schools in China, India, Hong Kong, Israel,...
  
  , Northwestern University
  Northwestern University
  Northwestern University is a private research university in Evanston and Chicago, Illinois, USA. Northwestern has eleven undergraduate, graduate, and professional schools offering 124 undergraduate degrees and 145 graduate and professional degrees....
  
  
• Andrew B. Whinston
  Andrew B. Whinston
  Andrew B. Whinston is an American economist and computer scientist. He is the Hugh Roy Cullen Centennial Chair in Business Administration, Professor of Information Systems, Computer Science and Economics, and Director of the Center for Research in Electronic Commerce in the McCombs School of...
  
   (M.S. 1960, Ph.D. 1962), Hugh Roy Cullen
  Hugh Roy Cullen
  Hugh Roy Cullen was an American industrialist and philanthropist. Cullen was heavily involved in the petroleum industry, was a large supporter of the University of Houston, and longtime chairman of the board of regents for the university...
  
   Centennial Professor in Business Administration at McCombs School of Business
  McCombs School of Business
  The McCombs School of Business, also referred to as the McCombs School or simply McCombs, is a business school at The University of Texas at Austin. In addition to the main Austin campus, McCombs offers classes outside Central Texas in Dallas, Houston and internationally in Mexico City...
  
  , University of Texas at Austin
  University of Texas at Austin
  The University of Texas at Austin is a state research university located in Austin, Texas, USA, and is the flagship institution of the The University of Texas System. Founded in 1883, its campus is located approximately from the Texas State Capitol in Austin...
  
  
• Russell S. Winer (MSIA 1975, Ph.D. 1977), William Joyce Professor of Marketing and Chair of Marketing Department at Stern School of Business
  New York University Stern School of Business
  The Leonard N. Stern School of Business is New York University's business school. It was established in 1900 as the NYU School of Commerce, Accounts and Finance. In 1988 it was named after Leonard N. Stern, an alumnus and benefactor of the school...
  
  , New York University
  New York University
  New York University is a private, nonsectarian research university based in New York City. NYU's main campus is situated in the Greenwich Village section of Manhattan...
  
  
• Jinhong Xie (M.S., Ph.D. 1991), J.C. Penny Professor of Marketing, Warrington College of Business at University of Florida
  University of Florida
  The University of Florida is an American public land-grant, sea-grant, and space-grant research university located on a campus in Gainesville, Florida. The university traces its historical origins to 1853, and has operated continuously on its present Gainesville campus since September 1906...
  
  
• Stanley Zionts (B.S., M.S., Ph.D.), UB Distinguished Professor and Alumni Professor of Decision Support Systems at SUNY, Buffalo
  University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
  University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, also commonly known as the University at Buffalo or UB, is a public research university and a "University Center" in the State University of New York system. The university was founded by Millard Fillmore in 1846. UB has multiple campuses...
  
  
• Steven W. Zucker (B.S. 1969), David
  David Packard
  David Packard was a co-founder of Hewlett-Packard , serving as president , CEO , and Chairman of the Board . He served as U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense from 1969–1971 during the Nixon administration...
  
   and Lucile Packard Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Yale University
  Yale University
  Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...
  
  

Literature

• Iris Rainer Dart
  Iris Rainer Dart
  Iris Rainer Dart is an American author and playwright for television and the stage. Her most notable novel is Beaches, which was made into a 1988 film of the same name...
  
   (1966), author of Beaches
  Beaches (film)
  Beaches , is a 1988 American comedy-drama film adapted by Mary Agnes Donoghue from the Iris Rainer Dart novel of the same name...
  
  
• E. L. Konigsburg
  E. L. Konigsburg
  Elaine Lobl Konigsburg is an American author and illustrator of children's books and young adult fiction. She is one of five authors to win two Newbery Medals, awarded annually for one contribution to American children's literature.Her first two manuscripts were submitted to editor Jean E...
  
   (1952), author of children's books
• Jewell Parker Rhodes
  Jewell Parker Rhodes
  Jewell Parker Rhodes is an American novelist.Rhodes is professor of Creative Writing and American Literature and former Director of the Master of Fine Arts Program in Creative Writing at Arizona State University. Rhodes is the Artistic Director for Global Engagement and the Piper Endowed Chair of...
  
   (B.A. 1975, M.A. 1976, D.A. 1979), African-American novelist
• Manil Suri
  Manil Suri
  Manil Suri is an Indian-American mathematician and writer, most notable for his first novel, The Death of Vishnu, which was long-listed for the 2001 Booker Prize, short-listed for the 2002 PEN/Faulkner Award and won the Barnes & Noble Discover Prize that year...
  
   (Ph.D. 1983), mathematician and writer
• Astro Teller
  Astro Teller
  Dr. Astro Teller is an entrepreneur, scientist and author, with expertise in the field of intelligent technology.-Career:Astro Teller was born Eric Z. Teller in Cambridge, England. He is the grandson of both Gérard Debreu and Edward Teller. Dr...
  
   (Ph.D. 1998), author of Exegesis
• Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (briefly attended), author of several fictional works including Slaughterhouse Five.
• Elizabeth Currid (B.A. 2000, M.A. 2002), author of The Warhol Economy.
• Michael Chabon
  Michael Chabon
  Michael Chabon born May 24, 1963) is an American author and "one of the most celebrated writers of his generation", according to The Virginia Quarterly Review....
  
   (attended), Pulitzer Prize
  Pulitzer Prize
  The Pulitzer Prize is a U.S. award for achievements in newspaper and online journalism, literature and musical composition. It was established by American publisher Joseph Pulitzer and is administered by Columbia University in New York City...
  
   winning author
• Jeffrey Zaslow
  Jeffrey Zaslow
  Jeffrey Zaslow is an American journalist and a columnist for The Wall Street Journal. He is also the author or coauthor of several bestselling books: The Last Lecture with Randy Pausch, Highest Duty: My Search for What Really Matters with Capt...
  
  , columnist for the Wall Street Journal and co-author of The Last Lecture
  The Last Lecture
  The Last Lecture is a New York Times best-selling book co-authored by Randy Pausch, a professor of computer science, human-computer interaction, and design at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Jeffrey Zaslow of the Wall Street Journal...
  
  
• Christina Crawford
  Christina Crawford
  Christina Crawford is an American writer and actress, best known as the author of Mommie Dearest, an exposé of alleged child abuse by her mother, actress Joan Crawford.-Early life and education:...
  
   (attended), author of Mommie Dearest
  Mommie Dearest
  Mommie Dearest is a memoir and exposé written by Christina Crawford, the adopted daughter of actress Joan Crawford. The book, which depicts Christina's childhood and her relationship with her mother, was published in 1978.-Christina Crawford's claims:...
  
  

Sports

• Dwight "Dike" Beede, college football
  American football
  American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...
  
   coach who created and introduced the penalty flag
• Rich Lackner
  Rich Lackner
  Rich Lackner is an American football coach and former player. He is currently the head football coach at the Carnegie Mellon University, a position he has held since 1986.-Playing career:...
  
   (1979), current Carnegie Mellon head football coach
• Hans Lobert
  Hans Lobert
  John Bernard "Hans" Lobert was an American infielder, coach, manager and scout in Major League Baseball.Lobert was born in Wilmington, Delaware...
  
  , Major League Baseball player, manager
• John McGraw
  John McGraw (pitcher)
  John McGraw was a Federal League pitcher. McGraw played for the Brooklyn Tip-Tops in the 1914 season...
  
   (born Roy Elmer Hoar), Major League Baseball player, not to be confused with hall-of-famer John McGraw
  John McGraw
  John McGraw may refer to:* John McGraw , , New York lumber tycoon, and one of the founding trustees of Cornell University* John McGraw , , Governor of Washington state from 1893–1897...
  
  
• Aron Ralston
  Aron Ralston
  Aron Lee Ralston is an American mountain climber and inspirational public speaker. He is widely known for having survived a 2003 canyoneering accident in Utah in which he was forced to amputate his own right arm with a dull pocketknife in order to free himself from a dislodged boulder.The incident...
  
   (1997), mountain climber, subject of the film 127 Hours
  127 Hours
  127 Hours is a 2010 biographical adventure drama film co-written, produced and directed by Danny Boyle. The film stars James Franco as mountain climber Aron Ralston, who became trapped by a boulder in Robbers Roost, Utah in April 2003....
  
  
• Herb Sendek
  Herb Sendek
  Herbert J. Sendek is an American college basketball coach and the current men's basketball coach at Arizona State University.-Background:Sendek was formally introduced as the ASU head coach on April 3, 2006....
  
   (1985), head men's basketball coach at Arizona State University
  Arizona State University
  Arizona State University is a public research university located in the Phoenix Metropolitan Area of the State of Arizona...
  
  , and former head coach at North Carolina State University
  North Carolina State University
  North Carolina State University at Raleigh is a public, coeducational, extensive research university located in Raleigh, North Carolina, United States. Commonly known as NC State, the university is part of the University of North Carolina system and is a land, sea, and space grant institution...
  
  

NFL

• Don Campbell, Tackle, Pittsburgh Steelers
  Pittsburgh Steelers
  The Pittsburgh Steelers are a professional football team based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The team currently belongs to the North Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League . Founded in , the Steelers are the oldest franchise in the AFC...
  
   (1939–1940)
• Merl Condit
  Merl Condit
  Merlyn Edwin Condit , nicknamed "Merlyn the Magician," was an American football H-back in the National Football League for the Pittsburgh Steelers, the Washington Redskins, and the Brooklyn Dodgers...
  
  , End, Brooklyn Dodgers (NFL)
  Brooklyn Dodgers (NFL)
  The Brooklyn Dodgers were an American football team that played in the National Football League from 1930 to 1943, and in 1944 as the Brooklyn Tigers. The team played its home games at Ebbets Field. In 1945, because of financial difficulties, the team was merged with the Boston Yanks...
  
  , Pittsburgh Steelers
  Pittsburgh Steelers
  The Pittsburgh Steelers are a professional football team based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The team currently belongs to the North Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League . Founded in , the Steelers are the oldest franchise in the AFC...
  
   (1940–1946)
• Bull Karcis
  John Karcis
  John "Bull" Karcis was an American football running back in the National Football League for the Brooklyn Dodgers, Pittsburgh Pirates, and New York Giants. Karcis was also the head coach for the Detroit Lions. He played college football at Carnegie Tech.Karcis was inducted into the Beaver County...
  
  , Fullback, Brooklyn Dodgers (NFL)
  Brooklyn Dodgers (NFL)
  The Brooklyn Dodgers were an American football team that played in the National Football League from 1930 to 1943, and in 1944 as the Brooklyn Tigers. The team played its home games at Ebbets Field. In 1945, because of financial difficulties, the team was merged with the Boston Yanks...
  
  , New York Giants
  New York Giants
  The New York Giants are a professional American football team based in East Rutherford, New Jersey, representing the New York City metropolitan area. The Giants are currently members of the Eastern Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League...
  
   (1932–1943)
• Saul Mielziner, Center Brooklyn Dodgers (NFL)
  Brooklyn Dodgers (NFL)
  The Brooklyn Dodgers were an American football team that played in the National Football League from 1930 to 1943, and in 1944 as the Brooklyn Tigers. The team played its home games at Ebbets Field. In 1945, because of financial difficulties, the team was merged with the Boston Yanks...
  
  , New York Giants
  New York Giants
  The New York Giants are a professional American football team based in East Rutherford, New Jersey, representing the New York City metropolitan area. The Giants are currently members of the Eastern Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League...
  
   (1929–1934)
• Joe Mills
  Joe Mills
  Joe Mills was an American football and basketball coach. He served as the head football coach at the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1918 and 1919, compiling a career college football record of 4–6–1. Evans was also the head basketball coach at Colorado from 1918 to 1924,...
  
  , Center Akron Pros
  Akron Pros
  The Akron Pros were a professional football team located played in Akron, Ohio from 1908–1926. The team originated in 1908 as a semi-pro team named the Akron Indians, however name was changed to the Pros in 1920 as the team set out to become a charter member of the American Professional...
  
   (1922–1926)
• Hap Moran
  Hap Moran
  Francis Dale "Hap" Moran was a collegiate and professional American football player. He played mainly at halfback for Carnegie Tech , Grinnell College , the Frankford Yellow Jackets , the Chicago Cardinals , the Pottsville Maroons , and the New York Giants...
  
  , End, Frankford Yellow Jackets
  Frankford Yellow Jackets
  The Frankford Yellow Jackets were a professional American football team, part of the National Football League from 1924 to 1931, though its origin dates back to as early as 1899 with the Frankford Athletic Association. The Yellow Jackets won the NFL championship in 1926...
  
  , New York Giants
  New York Giants
  The New York Giants are a professional American football team based in East Rutherford, New Jersey, representing the New York City metropolitan area. The Giants are currently members of the Eastern Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League...
  
   (1926–1933)
• Maury Patt, Cleveland Rams
  Cleveland Rams
  The Cleveland Rams were a professional American football team based in Cleveland, Ohio.The Rams began playing in 1936 in Cleveland, Ohio. The NFL considers the franchise as a second incarnation of the previous Cleveland Rams team that was a charter member of the second American Football League...
  
   (1938–1942)
• Bill Rieth, Center, Cleveland Rams
  Cleveland Rams
  The Cleveland Rams were a professional American football team based in Cleveland, Ohio.The Rams began playing in 1936 in Cleveland, Ohio. The NFL considers the franchise as a second incarnation of the previous Cleveland Rams team that was a charter member of the second American Football League...
  
    (1941–1945)
• Jimmy Robertson
  Jimmy Robertson (American football)
  James A. "Jimmy" Robertson was an American football player, coach, and sports figure in the United States.-Carnegie Mellon University:...
  
  , Fullback, Halfback Akron Pros
  Akron Pros
  The Akron Pros were a professional football team located played in Akron, Ohio from 1908–1926. The team originated in 1908 as a semi-pro team named the Akron Indians, however name was changed to the Pros in 1920 as the team set out to become a charter member of the American Professional...
  
   (1924–1925)
• Joe Rudolph
  Joe Rudolph
  Joe Rudolph is the Tight Ends Coach of the Wisconsin Badgers football team and former guard in the National Football League.-Biography:Rudolph was born on July 21, 1972 in Charleroi, Pennsylvania. and is married to Dawn DeCaria Rudolph of Weirton West Virginia. Together they have two sons...
  
  , Guard, Philadelphia Eagles
  Philadelphia Eagles
  The Philadelphia Eagles are a professional American football team based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. They are members of the East Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League...
  
  , San Francisco 49ers
  San Francisco 49ers
  The San Francisco 49ers are a professional American football team based in San Francisco, California, playing in the West Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League . The team was founded in 1946 as a charter member of the All-America Football Conference and...
  
   (1995, 1997)
• Hugh Sprinkle, Tackle, Akron Pros
  Akron Pros
  The Akron Pros were a professional football team located played in Akron, Ohio from 1908–1926. The team originated in 1908 as a semi-pro team named the Akron Indians, however name was changed to the Pros in 1920 as the team set out to become a charter member of the American Professional...
  
   (1923–1925)

Nobel

Nobel Prize

The Nobel Prizes are annual international awards bestowed by Scandinavian committees in recognition of cultural and scientific advances. The will of the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, established the prizes in 1895...

 laureates

• Clinton Davisson
  Clinton Davisson
  Clinton Joseph Davisson , was an American physicist who won the 1937 Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of electron diffraction. Davisson shared the Nobel Prize with George Paget Thomson, who independently discovered electron diffraction at about the same time as Davisson.-Early...
  
   (Professor), Nobel Prize in Physics
  Nobel Prize in Physics
  The Nobel Prize in Physics is awarded once a year by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895 and awarded since 1901; the others are the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Peace Prize, and...
  
  , 1937
• Otto Stern
  Otto Stern
  Otto Stern was a German physicist and Nobel laureate in physics.-Biography:Stern was born in Sohrau, now Żory in the German Empire's Kingdom of Prussia and studied at Breslau, now Wrocław in Lower Silesia....
  
   (Professor), Nobel Prize in Physics
  Nobel Prize in Physics
  The Nobel Prize in Physics is awarded once a year by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895 and awarded since 1901; the others are the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Peace Prize, and...
  
  , 1943
• Paul Flory
  Paul Flory
  Paul John Flory was an American chemist and Nobel laureate who was known for his prodigious volume of work in the field of polymers, or macromolecules...
  
   (Research Associate, Mellon Institute), Nobel Prize in Chemistry
  Nobel Prize in Chemistry
  The Nobel Prize in Chemistry is awarded annually by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to scientists in the various fields of chemistry. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895, awarded for outstanding contributions in chemistry, physics, literature,...
  
  , 1974
• Herbert Simon
  Herbert Simon
  Herbert Alexander Simon was an American political scientist, economist, sociologist, and psychologist, and professor—most notably at Carnegie Mellon University—whose research ranged across the fields of cognitive psychology, cognitive science, computer science, public administration, economics,...
  
   (Professor, 1949–2001), Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences, 1978
• Franco Modigliani
  Franco Modigliani
  Franco Modigliani was an Italian economist at the MIT Sloan School of Management and MIT Department of Economics, and winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics in 1985.-Life and career:...
  
   (Professor), Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences, 1985
• Merton Miller
  Merton Miller
  Merton Howard Miller was the co-author of the Modigliani-Miller theorem which proposed the irrelevance of debt-equity structure. He shared the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1990, along with Harry Markowitz and William Sharpe...
  
   (Professor), Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences, 1990
• Robert Lucas Jr (Professor), Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences, 1995
• John Pople
  John Pople
  Sir John Anthony Pople, KBE, FRS, was a Nobel-Prize winning theoretical chemist. Born in Burnham-on-Sea, Somerset, England, he attended Bristol Grammar School. He won a scholarship to Trinity College, Cambridge in 1943. He received his B. A. in 1946. Between 1945 and 1947 he worked at the Bristol...
  
   (Professor 1964–1993), Nobel Prize in Chemistry
  Nobel Prize in Chemistry
  The Nobel Prize in Chemistry is awarded annually by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to scientists in the various fields of chemistry. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895, awarded for outstanding contributions in chemistry, physics, literature,...
  
  , 1998
• Walter Kohn
  Walter Kohn
  Walter Kohn is an Austrian-born American theoretical physicist.He was awarded, with John Pople, the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1998. The award recognized their contributions to the understandings of the electronic properties of materials...
  
   (Professor), Nobel Prize in Chemistry
  Nobel Prize in Chemistry
  The Nobel Prize in Chemistry is awarded annually by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to scientists in the various fields of chemistry. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895, awarded for outstanding contributions in chemistry, physics, literature,...
  
  , 1998
• Paul Lauterbur
  Paul Lauterbur
  Paul Christian Lauterbur was an American chemist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2003 with Peter Mansfield for his work which made the development of magnetic resonance imaging possible.Dr...
  
   (Research Associate, Mellon Institute, 1951–1953), Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
  Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
  The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine administered by the Nobel Foundation, is awarded once a year for outstanding discoveries in the field of life science and medicine. It is one of five Nobel Prizes established in 1895 by Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, in his will...
  
  , 2003
• Finn E. Kydland
  Finn E. Kydland
  Finn Erling Kydland is a Norwegian economist. He is currently the Henley Professor of Economics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He also holds the Richard P...
  
   (Ph.D. 1973, Professor), Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences, 2004
• Edward C. Prescott
  Edward C. Prescott
  Edward Christian Prescott is an American economist. He received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics in 2004, sharing the award with Finn E. Kydland, "for their contributions to dynamic macroeconomics: the time consistency of economic policy and the driving forces behind business cycles"...
  
   (Ph.D. 1967, Professor 1971–1980), Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences, 2004
• Ada Yonath
  Ada Yonath
  Ada E. Yonath is an Israeli crystallographer best known for her pioneering work on the structure of the ribosome. She is the current director of the Helen and Milton A. Kimmelman Center for Biomolecular Structure and Assembly of the Weizmann Institute of Science. In 2009, she received the Nobel...
  
   (Postdoctoral researcher, 1969), Nobel Prize in Chemistry
  Nobel Prize in Chemistry
  The Nobel Prize in Chemistry is awarded annually by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to scientists in the various fields of chemistry. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895, awarded for outstanding contributions in chemistry, physics, literature,...
  
  , 2009

Turing Award

Turing Award

The Turing Award, in full The ACM A.M. Turing Award, is an annual award given by the Association for Computing Machinery to "an individual selected for contributions of a technical nature made to the computing community. The contributions should be of lasting and major technical importance to the...

 recipients

• Alan Perlis
  Alan Perlis
  Alan Jay Perlis was an American computer scientist known for his pioneering work in programming languages and the first recipient of the Turing Award.-Biography:...
  
   (B.S. 1943, Professor 1956-1971), compiler
  Compiler
  A compiler is a computer program that transforms source code written in a programming language into another computer language...
  
   construction, 1966 - first Turing Award
  Turing Award
  The Turing Award, in full The ACM A.M. Turing Award, is an annual award given by the Association for Computing Machinery to "an individual selected for contributions of a technical nature made to the computing community. The contributions should be of lasting and major technical importance to the...
  
   winner
• Allen Newell
  Allen Newell
  Allen Newell was a researcher in computer science and cognitive psychology at the RAND corporation and at Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Computer Science, Tepper School of Business, and Department of Psychology...
  
   (Ph.D 1957, Professor 1961-1992) and Herbert Simon
  Herbert Simon
  Herbert Alexander Simon was an American political scientist, economist, sociologist, and psychologist, and professor—most notably at Carnegie Mellon University—whose research ranged across the fields of cognitive psychology, cognitive science, computer science, public administration, economics,...
  
   (Professor), artificial intelligence
  Artificial intelligence
  Artificial intelligence is the intelligence of machines and the branch of computer science that aims to create it. AI textbooks define the field as "the study and design of intelligent agents" where an intelligent agent is a system that perceives its environment and takes actions that maximize its...
  
  , 1975
• Dana S. Scott (Professor 1981-2003), nondeterministic machines, 1976
• Robert Floyd
  Robert Floyd
  Robert W Floyd was an eminent computer scientist.His contributions include the design of the Floyd–Warshall algorithm , which efficiently finds all shortest paths in a graph, Floyd's cycle-finding algorithm for detecting cycles in a sequence, and his work on parsing...
  
   (Professor 1963-1968), methodologies for the creation of efficient and reliable software, 1978
• Raj Reddy
  Raj Reddy
  Dabbala Rajagopal "Raj" Reddy , a Turing Award winner, is one of the early pioneers in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence and has served on the faculty of Stanford and Carnegie Mellon University for over 40 years. He was the founding Director of the Robotics Institute at CMU...
  
   (Professor 1969–present), artificial intelligence
  Artificial intelligence
  Artificial intelligence is the intelligence of machines and the branch of computer science that aims to create it. AI textbooks define the field as "the study and design of intelligent agents" where an intelligent agent is a system that perceives its environment and takes actions that maximize its...
  
  , 1994
• Manuel Blum
  Manuel Blum
  Manuel Blum is a computer scientist who received the Turing Award in 1995 "In recognition of his contributions to the foundations of computational complexity theory and its application to cryptography and program checking".-Biography:Blum attended MIT, where he received his bachelor's degree and...
  
   (Professor 1999–present), computational complexity theory
  Computational complexity theory
  Computational complexity theory is a branch of the theory of computation in theoretical computer science and mathematics that focuses on classifying computational problems according to their inherent difficulty, and relating those classes to each other...
  
  , 1995
• Edmund M. Clarke
  Edmund M. Clarke
  Edmund Melson Clarke, Jr. is a computer scientist and academic noted for developingmodel checking, a method for formally verifying hardware and software designs....
  
   (Professor 1982–present), model checking
  Model checking
  In computer science, model checking refers to the following problem:Given a model of a system, test automatically whether this model meets a given specification....
  
  , 2007
• Leslie Valiant
  Leslie Valiant
  Leslie Gabriel Valiant is a British computer scientist and computational theorist.He was educated at King's College, Cambridge, Imperial College London, and University of Warwick where he received his Ph.D. in computer science in 1974. He started teaching at Harvard University in 1982 and is...
  
   (Professor 1973-1974), machine learning
  Machine learning
  Machine learning, a branch of artificial intelligence, is a scientific discipline concerned with the design and development of algorithms that allow computers to evolve behaviors based on empirical data, such as from sensor data or databases...
  
  , 2010

Wolf Prize recipients

• John Pople
  John Pople
  Sir John Anthony Pople, KBE, FRS, was a Nobel-Prize winning theoretical chemist. Born in Burnham-on-Sea, Somerset, England, he attended Bristol Grammar School. He won a scholarship to Trinity College, Cambridge in 1943. He received his B. A. in 1946. Between 1945 and 1947 he worked at the Bristol...
  
   (Professor 1964–1993), Wolf Prize in Chemistry
  Wolf Prize in Chemistry
  The Wolf Prize in Chemistry is awarded once a year by the Wolf Foundation in Israel. It is one of the six Wolf Prizes established by the Foundation and awarded since 1978; the others are in Agriculture, Mathematics, Medicine, Physics and Arts.-Laureates:...
  
  , 1992
• Krzysztof Matyjaszewski
  Krzysztof Matyjaszewski
  Krzysztof Matyjaszewski is a Polish-American chemist. He is the J.C. Warner Professor of the Natural Sciences at the Carnegie Mellon University Matyjaszewski is best known for the discovery of atom transfer radical polymerization , a novel method of polymer synthesis that has revolutionized the...
  
   (Professor), Wolf Prize in Chemistry
  Wolf Prize in Chemistry
  The Wolf Prize in Chemistry is awarded once a year by the Wolf Foundation in Israel. It is one of the six Wolf Prizes established by the Foundation and awarded since 1978; the others are in Agriculture, Mathematics, Medicine, Physics and Arts.-Laureates:...
  
  , 2011

National Medal of Science

National Medal of Science

The National Medal of Science is an honor bestowed by the President of the United States to individuals in science and engineering who have made important contributions to the advancement of knowledge in the fields of behavioral and social sciences, biology, chemistry, engineering, mathematics and...

 recipients

• Herbert Simon
  Herbert Simon
  Herbert Alexander Simon was an American political scientist, economist, sociologist, and psychologist, and professor—most notably at Carnegie Mellon University—whose research ranged across the fields of cognitive psychology, cognitive science, computer science, public administration, economics,...
  
   (Professor), Behavior and Social Sciences, 1986
• Paul Lauterbur
  Paul Lauterbur
  Paul Christian Lauterbur was an American chemist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2003 with Peter Mansfield for his work which made the development of magnetic resonance imaging possible.Dr...
  
   (Research Associate, Mellon Institute, 1951–1953), Physical Sciences, 1987
• Allen Newell
  Allen Newell
  Allen Newell was a researcher in computer science and cognitive psychology at the RAND corporation and at Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Computer Science, Tepper School of Business, and Department of Psychology...
  
   (Ph.D 1957, Professor), Mathematical, Statistical, and Computer Sciences, 1992

National Medal of Technology

National Medal of Technology

The National Medal of Technology and Innovation is an honor granted by the President of the United States to American inventors and innovators who have made significant contributions to the development of new and important technology...

 recipients

• Paul Lauterbur
  Paul Lauterbur
  Paul Christian Lauterbur was an American chemist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2003 with Peter Mansfield for his work which made the development of magnetic resonance imaging possible.Dr...
  
   (Research Associate, Mellon Institute, 1951–1953), magnetic resonance technology, 1988
• Watts Humphrey
  Watts Humphrey
  Watts S. Humphrey was an American software engineer, key thinker in the discipline of software engineering, and was often called the "Father of Software quality".- Biography :...
  
   (Professor) software engineering, 2003

MacArthur Fellows

MacArthur Fellows Program

The MacArthur Fellows Program or MacArthur Fellowship is an award given by the John D. and Catherine T...

• Luis von Ahn
  Luis von Ahn
  Luis von Ahn is an entrepreneur and an associate professor in the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University. He is known as one of the pioneers of the idea of crowdsourcing. He is the founder of the company reCAPTCHA, which was sold to Google in 2009...
  
   assistant professor of computer science, 2006
• Anna Deavere Smith
  Anna Deavere Smith
  Anna Deavere Smith is an American actress, playwright, and professor. She is currently the artist in residence at the Center for American Progress.-Early life:...
  
   acting instructor (1970–1971), 1996
• Dawn Song
  Dawn Song
  Dawn Song is an associate professor at the University of California, Berkeley, in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department.She received a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship in 2010.-Life and work:...
  
   professor of computer science (2002-2007), 2010

Members of National Academy of Sciences

United States National Academy of Sciences

The National Academy of Sciences is a corporation in the United States whose members serve pro bono as "advisers to the nation on science, engineering, and medicine." As a national academy, new members of the organization are elected annually by current members, based on their distinguished and...

• Otto Stern
  Otto Stern
  Otto Stern was a German physicist and Nobel laureate in physics.-Biography:Stern was born in Sohrau, now Żory in the German Empire's Kingdom of Prussia and studied at Breslau, now Wrocław in Lower Silesia....
  
   (Professor 1933-1945), Physics, 1945
• Herbert Simon
  Herbert Simon
  Herbert Alexander Simon was an American political scientist, economist, sociologist, and psychologist, and professor—most notably at Carnegie Mellon University—whose research ranged across the fields of cognitive psychology, cognitive science, computer science, public administration, economics,...
  
   (Professor), Computer and Information Sciences, 1967
• Walter Kohn
  Walter Kohn
  Walter Kohn is an Austrian-born American theoretical physicist.He was awarded, with John Pople, the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1998. The award recognized their contributions to the understandings of the electronic properties of materials...
  
   (Professor 1950-1960), Physics, 1969
• Richard Duffin
  Richard Duffin
  Richard James Duffin was an American physicist, known for his contributions to electrical transmission theory and to the development of geometric programming and other areas within operations research.He obtained a B.Sc. and Ph.D...
  
   (Professor 1946-1988), Applied Mathematical Sciences, 1972
• Allen Newell
  Allen Newell
  Allen Newell was a researcher in computer science and cognitive psychology at the RAND corporation and at Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Computer Science, Tepper School of Business, and Department of Psychology...
  
   (Ph.D 1957, Professor), Computer and Information Sciences, 1972
• James G. March
  James G. March
  James Gardner March is Jack Steele Parker professor emeritus at Stanford University and the Stanford University School of Education, best known for his research on organizations and organizational decision making.- Biography :...
  
   (Professor 1953-1964), Social and Political Sciences, 1973
• Franco Modigliani
  Franco Modigliani
  Franco Modigliani was an Italian economist at the MIT Sloan School of Management and MIT Department of Economics, and winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics in 1985.-Life and career:...
  
   (Professor 1952-1960), Economic Sciences, 1973
• Brian Berry
  Brian Berry
  Brian Joe Lobley Berry is a British-American human geographer. He is Lloyd Viel Berkner Regental Professor at the University of Texas at Dallas...
  
   (Professor 1981-1986), Human Environmental Sciences, 1975
• Harrison White
  Harrison White
  Harrison Colyar White is the emeritus Giddings Professor of Sociology at Columbia University. White is an influential scholar in the domain of social networks. He is credited with the development of a number of mathematical models of social structure including vacancy chains and blockmodels...
  
   (Professor 1957-1959), Social and Political Sciences, 1975
• Lincoln Wolfenstein
  Lincoln Wolfenstein
  Lincoln Wolfenstein is an American particle physicist who studies the weak interaction. Wolfenstein was born in 1923 and obtained his PhD in 1949 from the University of Chicago. He retired from Carnegie Mellon University in 2000 after being a faculty member for 52 years, but still lectures there...
  
   (Professor), Physics, 1978
• Robert Lucas Jr (Professor 1963-1974), Economic Sciences, 1981
• Paul Lauterbur
  Paul Lauterbur
  Paul Christian Lauterbur was an American chemist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2003 with Peter Mansfield for his work which made the development of magnetic resonance imaging possible.Dr...
  
   (Research Associate, Mellon Institute, 1951–1953), Physics, 1985
• Robert Griffiths
  Robert Griffiths (physicist)
  Robert B. Griffiths is an American physicist at Carnegie Mellon University. He is the originator of the consistent histories approach to quantum mechanics, which has since been developed by himself, Roland Omnès, Murray Gell-Mann, and James Hartle.Throughout his career, Dr. Robert B...
  
   (Professor), Computer and Information Sciences, 1987
• Dana Scott
  Dana Scott
  Dana Stewart Scott is the emeritus Hillman University Professor of Computer Science, Philosophy, and Mathematical Logic at Carnegie Mellon University; he is now retired and lives in Berkeley, California...
  
   (Professor), Computer and Information Sciences, 1988
• John Anderson (Professor), Psychology, 1999
• Stephen Fienberg
  Stephen Fienberg
  Stephen Elliott Fienberg is the Maurice Falk University Professor of Statistics and Social Science in the Department of Statistics, the Machine Learning Department and Cylab at Carnegie Mellon University....
  
   (Professor), Applied Mathematical Sciences, 1999
• James McClelland (Professor 1984-2006), Psychology, 2001
• Manuel Blum
  Manuel Blum
  Manuel Blum is a computer scientist who received the Turing Award in 1995 "In recognition of his contributions to the foundations of computational complexity theory and its application to cryptography and program checking".-Biography:Blum attended MIT, where he received his bachelor's degree and...
  
   (Professor), Computer and Information Sciences, 2002
• Robert Parr
  Robert Parr
  Robert Ghormley Parr is a theoretical chemist. He is a chemistry professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.-Career:...
  
   (Professor 1948-1962), Chemical Sciences, 2004
• Gordon Bell
  Gordon Bell
  C. Gordon Bell is an American computer engineer and manager. An early employee of Digital Equipment Corporation 1960–1966, Bell designed several of their PDP machines and later became Vice President of Engineering 1972-1983, overseeing the development of the VAX...
  
   (Professor 1966-1972), Computer and Information Sciences, 2007
• M. Granger Morgan (Professor), Human Environmental Sciences, 2007

Members of National Academy of Engineering

National Academy of Engineering

The National Academy of Engineering is a government-created non-profit institution in the United States, that was founded in 1964 under the same congressional act that led to the founding of the National Academy of Sciences...

• Milton Shaw (Professor 1961-1978), Mechanical Engineering, Materials Engineering, 1968
• Daniel Berg
  Daniel Berg
  Daniel Berg is a scientist, educator and was the fifteenth president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.He was born on June 1, 1929 in New York City. In 1950, he graduated from City College of New York with a B.S. in physics and chemistry. He earned M.S. and P.h. D. degrees in physical chemistry...
  
   (Professor 1977-1983), Special Fields & Interdisciplinary Engineering, 1976
• Steven Fenves (Professor), Civil Engineering, 1976
• Gordon Bell
  Gordon Bell
  C. Gordon Bell is an American computer engineer and manager. An early employee of Digital Equipment Corporation 1960–1966, Bell designed several of their PDP machines and later became Vice President of Engineering 1972-1983, overseeing the development of the VAX...
  
   (Professor 1966-1972), Computer Science & Engineering, 1977
• Alan Perlis
  Alan Perlis
  Alan Jay Perlis was an American computer scientist known for his pioneering work in programming languages and the first recipient of the Turing Award.-Biography:...
  
   (B.S. 1943, Professor), Computer Science & Engineering, 1977
• Harold Paxton (Professor), Materials Engineering, 1978
• Allen Newell
  Allen Newell
  Allen Newell was a researcher in computer science and cognitive psychology at the RAND corporation and at Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Computer Science, Tepper School of Business, and Department of Psychology...
  
   (Ph.D 1957, Professor), Computer Science & Engineering, 1980
• James Dally (B.S. 1951, M.S. 1953), Mechanical Engineering, 1984
• Raj Reddy
  Raj Reddy
  Dabbala Rajagopal "Raj" Reddy , a Turing Award winner, is one of the early pioneers in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence and has served on the faculty of Stanford and Carnegie Mellon University for over 40 years. He was the founding Director of the Robotics Institute at CMU...
  
   (Professor), Computer Science & Engineering, 1984
• Joseph F Traub
  Joseph F Traub
  Joseph Frederick Traub , is a computer scientist. He is the Edwin Howard Armstrong Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University and External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute...
  
   (Professor 1971-1979), Computer Science & Engineering, 1985
• Angel Jordan (M.S. 1959, Ph.D. 1959, Professor), Electronics Engineering, 1986
• George Bugliarello (Professor 1959-1969), Civil Engineering, 1987
• Arthur Westerberg (Professor), Chemical Engineering, 1987
• James Williams (Professor 1975-1988), Materials Engineering, 1987
• C. D. Mote, Jr. (Professor 1965-1967), Mechanical Engineering, 1988
• David H. Archer (B.S. 1948, Professor), Electric Power/Energy Systems Engineering, 1989
• Stephen W. Director (Professor 1980-1996), Electronics Engineering, 1989
• Ronald Rohrer (Professor), Electronics Engineering, 1989
• Robert White (Professor), Materials Engineering, 1989
• Herbert Toor (Professor), Chemical Engineering, 1990
• John L. Anderson
  John L. Anderson
  John Leonard Anderson . is an American professor of chemical engineering currently serving as the eighth president of Illinois Institute of Technology...
  
   (Professor), Chemical Engineering, 1992
• George Dieter (Ph.D. 1958, Professor 1973-1977), Materials Engineering, 1993
• Wm. A. Wulf (Professor 1968-1981), Computer Science & Engineering, 1993
• Mark Kryder
  Mark Kryder
  Mark Kryder was Seagate Corp.'s senior vice president of research and chief technology officer.Kryder holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and a Ph.D...
  
   (Professor), Electronics Engineering, 1994
• Hubert Aaronson (B.S. 1948, Ph.D. 1954, Professor), Materials Engineering, 1997
• Takeo Kanade (Professor), Computer Science & Engineering, 1997
• Alfred Blumstein
  Alfred Blumstein
  Alfred Blumstein is an American scientist and the J. Erik Jonsson University Professor of Urban Systems and Operations Research at the Heinz College and Department of Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University...
  
   (Professor), Industrial, Manufacturing & Operational Systems Engineering, 1998
• Richard Fruehan (Professor), Materials Engineering, 1999
• Richard Luthy (Professor 1975-1999), Civil Engineering, 1999
• Ignacio Grossman (Professor), Chemical Engineering, 2000
• Daniel Siewiorek (Professor), Computer Science & Engineering, 2000
• Robert Davis (Professor), Materials Engineering, 2001
• Guy L. Steele Jr. (Professor 1980-1994), Computer Science & Engineering, 2001
• Randal Bryant
  Randal Bryant
  Randal E. Bryant is an American computer scientist and academic noted for his research on formally verifying digital hardware, and more recently some forms of software...
  
   (Professor), Computer Science & Engineering, 2003
• Richard Rashid
  Richard Rashid
  Richard F. Rashid oversees Microsoft Research's worldwide operations. Previously, he was the director of Microsoft Research. He joined Microsoft Research in 1991, and was promoted to vice president in 1994. In 2000, he became senior vice president...
  
   (Professor, 1979–1991), Computer Science & Engineering, 2003
• Alfred Spector
  Alfred Spector
  Alfred Z. Spector has been Vice President of Research and Special Initiatives at Google since November 2007. Prior to that he was a researcher and software executive at IBM...
  
   (Professor, 1981–1992), Computer Science & Engineering, 2004
• Edmund M. Clarke
  Edmund M. Clarke
  Edmund Melson Clarke, Jr. is a computer scientist and academic noted for developingmodel checking, a method for formally verifying hardware and software designs....
  
   (Professor), Computer Science & Engineering, 2005
• Tresa Pollock (Professor 1991-1999), Materials Engineering, 2005
• Cristina H. Amon (Professor), Mechanical Engineering, 2006
• Egon Balas (Professor), Industrial, Manufacturing & Operational Systems Engineering, 2006
• Manuel Blum
  Manuel Blum
  Manuel Blum is a computer scientist who received the Turing Award in 1995 "In recognition of his contributions to the foundations of computational complexity theory and its application to cryptography and program checking".-Biography:Blum attended MIT, where he received his bachelor's degree and...
  
   (Professor), Computer Science & Engineering, 2006
• Pradeep Khosla (M.S. 1984, Ph.D. 1986, Professor), Electronics Engineering, 2006
• Krzysztof Matyjaszewski
  Krzysztof Matyjaszewski
  Krzysztof Matyjaszewski is a Polish-American chemist. He is the J.C. Warner Professor of the Natural Sciences at the Carnegie Mellon University Matyjaszewski is best known for the discovery of atom transfer radical polymerization , a novel method of polymer synthesis that has revolutionized the...
  
   (Professor), Materials Engineering, 2006
• Paul Wright (Professor 1979-1987), Industrial, Manufacturing & Operational Systems Engineering, 2007
• Sebastian Thrun
  Sebastian Thrun
  Sebastian Thrun is a Research Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University and former director of the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory . He led the development of the robotic vehicle Stanley which won the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge, and which is exhibited in the Smithsonian...
  
   (Professor 1998-2003), Computer Science & Engineering, 2007
• David Dzombak (B.S. 1980, M.S. 1981, Professor), Civil Engineering, 2008
• Red Whittaker (M.S. 1975, Ph.D. 1979), Computer Science & Engineering, 2009
• Jacobo Bielak (Professor), Civil Engineering, 2010
• Tom Mitchell (Professor), Computer Science & Engineering, 2010
• Paul D. Nielsen (Professor), Computer Science & Engineering, 2010
• Nadine N. Aubry (Raymond J. Lane Distinguished Professor), Mechanical Engineering, 2011
• Chris T. Hendrickson (Duquesne Light Professor), Civil Engineering, 2011

Other prominent faculty

• Jerome Apt
  Jerome Apt
  Jerome III "Jay" Apt, Ph.D. is an American astronaut and professor at Carnegie Mellon University. Before he became an astronaut, Apt was a physicist who worked on the Venus space probe project, and used visible light and infrared techniques to study the planets and moons of the solar system from...
  
   (Professor), former NASA astronaut and now professor in the Department of Engineering and Public Policy
• Elizabeth Bailey
  Elizabeth Bailey
  Elizabeth Ellery Bailey is an American economist. She is John C. Hower Professor of Business and Public Policy, at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and has been Director of Altria since 1989.-Biography:...
  
   (Professor 1983-1991), former Dean and Professor of Economics, Industrial Administration and Public Policy, Graduate School of Industrial Administration
  Tepper School of Business
  The Tepper School of Business is a private business school located on Carnegie Mellon University’s campus in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.The school consistently ranks highly among the top business schools in the U.S., as well as in a wide range of specializations, such as finance,...
  
  , now John C. Hower Professor of Business and Public Policy at Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
  Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
  The Wharton School is the business school of the University of Pennsylvania, an Ivy League university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Wharton was the world’s first collegiate business school and the first business school in the United States...
  
  
• Lenore Blum
  Lenore Blum
  Lenore Blum is a distinguished professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon. She received her Ph.D. in mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1968. Her dissertation was on Generalized Algebraic Structures and her advisor was Gerald Sacks...
  
   (Professor), wife of Manuel Blum
  Manuel Blum
  Manuel Blum is a computer scientist who received the Turing Award in 1995 "In recognition of his contributions to the foundations of computational complexity theory and its application to cryptography and program checking".-Biography:Blum attended MIT, where he received his bachelor's degree and...
  
  , renowned for being a National Science Foundation
  National Science Foundation
  The National Science Foundation is a United States government agency that supports fundamental research and education in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering. Its medical counterpart is the National Institutes of Health...
  
   Career Advancement Award winner and for her contributions to Computer Science
  Computer science
  Computer science or computing science is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and of practical techniques for their implementation and application in computer systems...
  
  
• Alfred Blumstein
  Alfred Blumstein
  Alfred Blumstein is an American scientist and the J. Erik Jonsson University Professor of Urban Systems and Operations Research at the Heinz College and Department of Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University...
  
   (Professor), One of the nation's top criminologists and winner of the 2007 Stockholm Prize in Criminology. Former Dean of the Heinz College
• Kathleen Carley
  Kathleen Carley
  Kathleen M. Carley is an American social scientist specializing in dynamic network analysis. She is a professor in the School of Computer Science in the Institute for Software Research International at Carnegie Mellon University and also holds appointments in the Tepper School of Business, the...
  
   (Professor), Computational sociologist and pioneer of dynamic network analysis
  Dynamic Network Analysis
  Dynamic network analysis is an emergent scientific field that brings together traditional social network analysis , link analysis and multi-agent systems within network science and network theory. There are two aspects of this field. The first is the statistical analysis of DNA data. The second...
  
  
• Anthony Daniels
  Anthony Daniels
  Anthony Daniels is an English actor. He is best known for his role as the droid C-3PO in the Star Wars series of films made between 1977 and 2005.-Early life:...
  
   (Adjunct Professor), Actor famous for portraying C-3PO
  C-3PO
  C-3PO is a robot character from the Star Wars universe who appears in both the original Star Wars films and the prequel trilogy. He is also a major character in the television show Droids, and appears frequently in the series' "Expanded Universe" of novels, comic books, and video games...
  
   in the Star Wars
  Star Wars
  Star Wars is an American epic space opera film series created by George Lucas. The first film in the series was originally released on May 25, 1977, under the title Star Wars, by 20th Century Fox, and became a worldwide pop culture phenomenon, followed by two sequels, released at three-year...
  
   films
• Robyn Dawes
  Robyn Dawes
  Robyn Mason Dawes was an American psychologist who specialized in the field of human judgment. His research interests included human irrationality, human cooperation, intuitive expertise, and the United States AIDS policy...
  
   (Professor), pioneer in the field of mathematical psychology
  Mathematical psychology
  Mathematical psychology is an approach to psychological research that is based on mathematical modeling of perceptual, cognitive and motor processes, and on the establishment of law-like rules that relate quantifiable stimulus characteristics with quantifiable behavior...
  
  
• Kenneth B. Dunn (Professor 1979-1987, 2002–Present), Dean of Tepper School of Business
  Tepper School of Business
  The Tepper School of Business is a private business school located on Carnegie Mellon University’s campus in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.The school consistently ranks highly among the top business schools in the U.S., as well as in a wide range of specializations, such as finance,...
  
  , former Managing Director of Morgan Stanley
  Morgan Stanley
  Morgan Stanley is a global financial services firm headquartered in New York City serving a diversified group of corporations, governments, financial institutions, and individuals. Morgan Stanley also operates in 36 countries around the world, with over 600 offices and a workforce of over 60,000....
  
  
• David Farber (Professor, 2003–Present), co-creator of ARPANET
  ARPANET
  The Advanced Research Projects Agency Network , was the world's first operational packet switching network and the core network of a set that came to compose the global Internet...
  
   and former Chief Technologist for the FCC
  Federal Communications Commission
  The Federal Communications Commission is an independent agency of the United States government, created, Congressional statute , and with the majority of its commissioners appointed by the current President. The FCC works towards six goals in the areas of broadband, competition, the spectrum, the...
  
  
• Richard Florida
  Richard Florida
  Richard Florida is an American urban studies theorist.Richard Florida's focus is on social and economic theory. He is currently a professor and head of the Martin Prosperity Institute at the Rotman School of Management, at the University of Toronto. He also heads a private consulting firm, the...
  
   (Professor, 1987–2005), economist and author of Rise of the Creative Class
• James Goodby
  James Goodby
  James Eugene Goodby is an author and former US diplomat.Goodby was born in Providence, Rhode Island. He graduated from Harvard University in 1951 and served as a 2nd Lieutenant in the US Air Force during the Korean War....
  
   (Professor, 1989–Present), Distinguished Service Professor of Engineering and Public Policy, former U.S. Foreign Service Officer including US Ambassador to Finland (1980–1981)
• Terrence Hayes
  Terrence Hayes
  Terrance Hayes is a prize-winning American poet. His recent poetry collection Lighthead won the National Book Award for Poetry...
  
  , National Book Award winner in 2010 for his book of poetry "Lighthead"
• John Heinz III
  H. John Heinz III
  Henry John Heinz III was an American politician from Pennsylvania, a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate .-Early life:...
  
   (Faculty member, 1970–1971), Senator
  United States Senate
  The United States Senate is the upper house of the bicameral legislature of the United States, and together with the United States House of Representatives comprises the United States Congress. The composition and powers of the Senate are established in Article One of the U.S. Constitution. Each...
  
   from Pennsylvania
  Pennsylvania
  The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is a U.S. state that is located in the Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. The state borders Delaware and Maryland to the south, West Virginia to the southwest, Ohio to the west, New York and Ontario, Canada, to the north, and New Jersey to...
  
  
• Israel Hicks
  Israel Hicks
  Israel Theo Hicks was an American theatre director who produced works at regional theaters around the country and Off Broadway, and was best known for his stagings of the entire series of plays by August Wilson about the African American experience in the U.S...
  
   (1943-2010), stage director who presented August Wilson
  August Wilson
  August Wilson was an American playwright whose work included a series of ten plays, The Pittsburgh Cycle, for which he received two Pulitzer Prizes for Drama...
  
  's entire 10-play Pittsburgh Cycle.
• Henry Hornbostel
  Henry Hornbostel
  Henry Hornbostel was an American architect.He designed more than 225 buildings, bridges, and monuments in the United States; currently 22 are listed on the National Register of Historic Places....
  
   (Professor), helped found the Carnegie Mellon School of Architecture
  Carnegie Mellon School of Architecture
  The Carnegie Mellon School of Architecture in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania is a degree-granting institution founded in 1906 as one of five divisions of Carnegie Mellon University's College of Fine Arts. It is widely regarded as one of the best schools of architecture, and one of a shrinking number...
  
   as well as designed the original buildings on campus
• Watts Humphrey
  Watts Humphrey
  Watts S. Humphrey was an American software engineer, key thinker in the discipline of software engineering, and was often called the "Father of Software quality".- Biography :...
  
   (Professor), former Vice President of IBM
  IBM
  International Business Machines Corporation or IBM is an American multinational technology and consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York, United States. IBM manufactures and sells computer hardware and software, and it offers infrastructure, hosting and consulting services in areas...
  
  , Fellow of Software Engineering Institute
  Software Engineering Institute
  The Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute is a federally funded research and development center headquartered on the campus of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. SEI also has offices in Arlington, Virginia, and Frankfurt, Germany. The SEI operates...
  
  
• Jeffrey Hunker
  Jeffrey Hunker
  Jeffrey Hunker received his bachelor's degree from Harvard College and Ph.D. from Harvard Business School. He joined the Boston Consulting Group before becoming an advisor in the Department of Commerce and the founding director of the Critical Infrastructure Assurance Office...
  
   (Professor), Senior Director for Critical Infrastructure for the United States National Security Council
  United States National Security Council
  The White House National Security Council in the United States is the principal forum used by the President of the United States for considering national security and foreign policy matters with his senior national security advisors and Cabinet officials and is part of the Executive Office of the...
  
   (1999–2001), Deputy Assistant to the Secretary of Commerce (1996–1998), senior Department of Commerce
  United States Department of Commerce
  The United States Department of Commerce is the Cabinet department of the United States government concerned with promoting economic growth. It was originally created as the United States Department of Commerce and Labor on February 14, 1903...
  
   official for environmental policy
  Environmental policy
  Environmental policy is any [course of] action deliberately taken [or not taken] to manage human activities with a view to prevent, reduce, or mitigate harmful effects on nature and natural resources, and ensuring that man-made changes to the environment do not have harmful effects on...
  
   (1996–1998), former Senior Policy Advisor to the Secretary of Commerce (1993–1996), former Dean of the Heinz College
• Roberta Klatzky
  Roberta Klatzky
  Roberta Klatzky is a Professor of Psychology at Carnegie Mellon University. She specializes in human perception and cognition, particularly relating to perception and representation of space and perception in nonvisual modalities. She has done extensive research on human haptic and visual object...
  
   (Professor), renowned cognitive scientist and leading researcher in haptics
• Golan Levin
  Golan Levin
  Golan Levin is an American new media artist, composer, performer and engineer interested in developing artifacts and events which explore supple new modes of reactive expression.-Biography:...
  
  , internationally renowned new media artist and current faculty member of the School of Art
• Jennifer Lerner
  Jennifer Lerner
  Jennifer Lerner is an experimental social psychologist known for her research in emotion, effects on judgment and decision making. She is currently a professor of Public Policy and Management at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government as well as the Faculty Director of the Harvard Decision Science...
  
  , decision scientist and psychologist in the Department of Social and Decision Sciences
  Social and Decision Sciences
  Social and Decision Sciences, informally known as SDS, is an interdisciplinary academic department within the Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences at Carnegie Mellon University headquartered in Porter Hall in Pittsburgh, PA and led by Department Head John H...
  
  
• George Loewenstein
  George Loewenstein
  George Loewenstein is the Herbert A. Simon Professor of Economics and Psychology in the Social and Decision Sciences Department at Carnegie Mellon University and director of the Center for Behavioral Decision Research. He is a leader in the fields of behavioural economics and...
  
   (Professor), pioneer in the field of Behavioural Economics and faculty in the Department of Social and Decision Sciences
  Social and Decision Sciences
  Social and Decision Sciences, informally known as SDS, is an interdisciplinary academic department within the Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences at Carnegie Mellon University headquartered in Porter Hall in Pittsburgh, PA and led by Department Head John H...
  
  
• Brian MacWhinney
  Brian MacWhinney
  Brian James MacWhinney is a Professor of Psychology and Modern Languages at Carnegie Mellon University. He specializes in first and second language acquisition, psycholinguistics, and the neurological bases of language, and he has written and edited several books and over 100 peer-reviewed...
  
   (Professor), leading language acquisition
  Language acquisition
  Language acquisition is the process by which humans acquire the capacity to perceive, produce and use words to understand and communicate. This capacity involves the picking up of diverse capacities including syntax, phonetics, and an extensive vocabulary. This language might be vocal as with...
  
   researcher and creator of CHILDES
  Childes
  Childes may refer to:*Childe's Tomb , Dartmoor, England*CHILDES, or Child Language Data Exchange System, a database of child language...
  
   database
• Allan Meltzer
  Allan Meltzer
  Allan H. Meltzer is an American economist and professor of Political Economy at Carnegie Mellon University's Tepper School of Business in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He was born February 6, 1928, in Boston, Massachusetts...
  
   (Professor), chairperson of a special U.S. congressional commission that studied how the World Bank
  World Bank
  The World Bank is an international financial institution that provides loans to developing countries for capital programmes.The World Bank's official goal is the reduction of poverty...
  
   and the International Monetary Fund
  International Monetary Fund
  The International Monetary Fund is an organization of 187 countries, working to foster global monetary cooperation, secure financial stability, facilitate international trade, promote high employment and sustainable economic growth, and reduce poverty around the world...
  
   operated; it made its recommendations for changes in March 2000 in its report to the U.S. Congress
• Jon Peha (Professor), Chief Technologist for the FCC
  Federal Communications Commission
  The Federal Communications Commission is an independent agency of the United States government, created, Congressional statute , and with the majority of its commissioners appointed by the current President. The FCC works towards six goals in the areas of broadband, competition, the spectrum, the...
  
  
• Richard Rashid
  Richard Rashid
  Richard F. Rashid oversees Microsoft Research's worldwide operations. Previously, he was the director of Microsoft Research. He joined Microsoft Research in 1991, and was promoted to vice president in 1994. In 2000, he became senior vice president...
  
   (Professor, 1979–1991), computer scientist, Microsoft Research
  Microsoft Research
  Microsoft Research is the research division of Microsoft created in 1991 for developing various computer science ideas and integrating them into Microsoft products. It currently employs Turing Award winners C.A.R. Hoare, Butler Lampson, and Charles P...
  
   SVP
• Mel Shapiro
  Mel Shapiro
  Mel Shapiro is an American theatre director and writer, college professor, and author.Trained at Carnegie-Mellon University, Shapiro began his professional directing career at the Pittsburgh Playhouse and then as resident director at Arena Stage in Washington, D.C....
  
   (Head of Drama Department), Tony Award
  Tony Award
  The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as a Tony Award, recognizes achievement in live Broadway theatre. The awards are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at an annual ceremony in New York City. The awards are given for Broadway...
  
  -winning writer and director
• Kathryn Shaw (Professor 1981–2003), member of the Council of Economic Advisors, Executive Office of the President (1999–2001)
• Alfred Spector
  Alfred Spector
  Alfred Z. Spector has been Vice President of Research and Special Initiatives at Google since November 2007. Prior to that he was a researcher and software executive at IBM...
  
   (Professor), Vice President of Research and Special Initiatives at Google
  Google
  Google Inc. is an American multinational public corporation invested in Internet search, cloud computing, and advertising technologies. Google hosts and develops a number of Internet-based services and products, and generates profit primarily from advertising through its AdWords program...
  
  
• Honus Wagner
  Honus Wagner
  -Louisville Colonels:Recognizing his talent, Barrow recommended Wagner to the Louisville Colonels. After some hesitation about his awkward figure, Wagner was signed by the Colonels, where he hit .338 in 61 games....
  
  , baseball and basketball coach, one of the first five members of the Baseball Hall of Fame
  National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum
  The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum is an American history museum and hall of fame, located at 25 Main Street in Cooperstown, New York, operated by private interests serving as the central point for the study of the history of baseball in the United States and beyond, the display of...
  
  
• Arnold R. Weber
  Arnold R. Weber
  Arnold Robert Weber was the president of Northwestern University from 1985–1994. His tenure at Northwestern was remarkable for stabilizing the university's finances and enhancing the Evanston campus environment.-Biography:...
  
   (Professor and Provost), professor in economics and public policy at Carnegie Mellon and President of the University of Colorado
  University of Colorado at Boulder
  The University of Colorado Boulder is a public research university located in Boulder, Colorado...
  
   and Northwestern University
  Northwestern University
  Northwestern University is a private research university in Evanston and Chicago, Illinois, USA. Northwestern has eleven undergraduate, graduate, and professional schools offering 124 undergraduate degrees and 145 graduate and professional degrees....
  
  
• Jerome Wolken
  Jerome Wolken
  Jerome Jay Wolken was an American biophysicist who used his research in vision in deep sea creatures to develop a kind of eyeglasses that used specially designed lenses to gather more light, which provided vision to some people who were legally blind.Jerome Jay Wolken was born in Pittsburgh on...
  
   (1917-1999), biophysicist and head of biology department.
• Clarence Zener
  Clarence Zener
  Clarence Melvin Zener was the American physicist who first described the property concerning the breakdown of electrical insulators. These findings were later exploited by Bell Labs in the development of the Zener diode, which was duly named after him...
  
   (Professor, 1968–1993), theoretical physicist, namesake of the Zener diode
  Zener diode
  A Zener diode is a special kind of diode which allows current to flow in the forward direction in the same manner as an ideal diode, but will also permit it to flow in the reverse direction when the voltage is above a certain value known as the breakdown voltage, "Zener knee voltage" or "Zener...
  
  , Zener voltage, and Zener pinning
  Zener pinning
  Zener pinning is the influence of a dispersion of fine particles on the movement of low- and high angle grain boundaries through a polycrystalline material. Small particles act to prevent the motion of such boundaries by exerting a pinning pressure which counteracts the driving force pushing the...
  
  

Presidents of Carnegie Mellon University

• Arthur Hamerschlag
  Arthur Hamerschlag
  Arthur Arton Hamerschlag was an American electrical and mechanical engineer who served as the first President of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.-Early life:...
  
  , 1903–1922
• Thomas Baker
  Thomas Baker (college president)
  Thomas Stockham Baker was an American scholar and educator who served as the second President of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.-Early life:...
  
  , 1922–1935
• Robert Doherty
  Robert Doherty (college president)
  Robert E. Doherty was an American electrical engineer who served as the third President of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.-Early life:...
  
  , 1936–1950
• John Warner
  John Warner (college president)
  John Christian Warner , known best as Jake Warner, was an American chemist who served as the fourth President of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.-Early life:...
  
  , 1950–1965
• Guyford Stever
  Guyford Stever
  Horton Guyford Stever was an American administrator, physicist, educator, and engineer.-Biography:Stever was raised in Corning, New York, principally by his maternal grandmother. He played football in high school...
  
  , 1965–1972
• Richard Cyert
  Richard Cyert
  Richard Michael Cyert was an American economist and statistician who served as the sixth President of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.-Early life:...
  
  , 1972–1990
• Robert Mehrabian
  Robert Mehrabian
  Robert Mehrabian is an Armenian-American materials scientist and the Chair, President, and Chief Executive Officer of Teledyne Technologies Incorporated...
  
  , 1990–1997
• Jared Cohon
  Jared Cohon
  Jared Leigh Cohon is the eighth President of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.He holds a B.S. in Civil Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology,...
  
  , 1997–present

Founders of Carnegie Mellon University

• Andrew Carnegie
  Andrew Carnegie
  Andrew Carnegie was a Scottish-American industrialist, businessman, and entrepreneur who led the enormous expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century...
  
  , industrialist and philanthropist that founded and endowed the university as the Carnegie Technical Schools in 1900

• Andrew W. Mellon
  Andrew W. Mellon
  Andrew William Mellon was an American banker, industrialist, philanthropist, art collector and Secretary of the Treasury from March 4, 1921 until February 12, 1932.-Early life:...
  
  , United States Secretary of the Treasury
  United States Secretary of the Treasury
  The Secretary of the Treasury of the United States is the head of the United States Department of the Treasury, which is concerned with financial and monetary matters, and, until 2003, also with some issues of national security and defense. This position in the Federal Government of the United...
  
   from 1921 to 1932; co-founded the Mellon Institute of Research in 1913
• Richard B. Mellon
  Richard B. Mellon
  Richard Beatty Mellon , sometimes R.B., was a banker, industrialist, and philanthropist from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania....
  
  , president of Mellon Bank who co-founded the Mellon Institute of Research in 1913
• William Larimer Mellon, Sr., founder of Gulf Oil
  Gulf Oil
  Gulf Oil was a major global oil company from the 1900s to the 1980s. The eighth-largest American manufacturing company in 1941 and the ninth-largest in 1979, Gulf Oil was one of the so-called Seven Sisters oil companies...
  
   and the Tepper School of Business
  Tepper School of Business
  The Tepper School of Business is a private business school located on Carnegie Mellon University’s campus in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.The school consistently ranks highly among the top business schools in the U.S., as well as in a wide range of specializations, such as finance,...
  
  , then known as the Graduate School of Industrial Administration
• Richard King Mellon
  Richard King Mellon
  Richard King Mellon , commonly known as R.K., was an American financier from Ligonier, Pennsylvania.-Biography:The son of Richard B. Mellon, nephew of Andrew W...
  
  , known for his urban renewal
  Urban renewal
  Urban renewal is a program of land redevelopment in areas of moderate to high density urban land use. Renewal has had both successes and failures. Its modern incarnation began in the late 19th century in developed nations and experienced an intense phase in the late 1940s – under the rubric of...
  
   program in Pittsburgh and the founder of the Heinz College, then known as the School of Urban and Public Affairs

Fictional alumni

• Will Bailey
  Will Bailey
  William "Will" Bailey, is a fictional character played by Joshua Malina on the television serial drama The West Wing, holding various posts in the White House Office of Communications, Office of the Vice President and a backbencher Congressman .-Character biography:Will grew up in Belgium, as his...
  
  , White House Communications Director in The West Wing
  The West Wing (TV series)
  The West Wing is an American television serial drama created by Aaron Sorkin that was originally broadcast on NBC from September 22, 1999 to May 14, 2006...
  
  
• Harry Q. Bovik, legendary computer scientist.
• Dr. Abe Butterfield, from "Doctor Doctor (1989 TV series)", who gets teased by his colleagues about his days playing college basketball at Carnegie Mellon
• Taz "Rat" Finch, computer hacker from The Core
  The Core
  The Core is a 2003 American disaster film loosely based on the novel Core by Paul Preuss. It concerns a team that has to drill to the center of the Earth and set off a series of nuclear explosions in order to restart the rotation of Earth's core...
  
  (2003)
• Doctor Colette Green, research associate from the PC game Half-Life: Decay
  Half-Life: Decay
  Half-Life: Decay is an expansion pack for Valve Software's science fiction, first-person shooter video game Half-Life. Developed by Gearbox Software and published by Sierra Entertainment, Decay was released as part of the PlayStation 2 version of Half-Life released on November 14, 2001...
  
  
• Dr. Bunsen Honeydew, scientist from The Muppet Show
  The Muppet Show
  The Muppet Show is a British television programme produced by American puppeteer Jim Henson and featuring Muppets. After two pilot episodes were produced in 1974 and 1975, the show premiered on 5 September 1976 and five series were produced until 15 March 1981, lasting 120 episodes...
  
  who graduated from "Carnegie-Melonhead University"
• Janet Hartigan, doctor from Smart People
  Smart People
  Smart People is a 2008 American comedy-drama film starring Dennis Quaid, Sarah Jessica Parker, Ellen Page and Thomas Haden Church. The film was directed by Noam Murro, written by Mark Poirier and produced by Michael London, with Omar Amanat serving as executive producer.Smart People was filmed on...
  
  
• Dr. Gus Partenza, medical officer from Deep Impact
  Deep Impact (film)
  Deep Impact is a 1998 science-fiction disaster-drama film released by Paramount Pictures and DreamWorks in the United States on May 8, 1998. The film was directed by Mimi Leder and stars Robert Duvall, Elijah Wood, Téa Leoni, and Morgan Freeman...
  
  (1998)
• Sebastian Shaw
  Sebastian Shaw (comics)
  Sebastian Hiram Shaw is a fictional comic book supervillain in the Marvel Comics universe, and an adversary of the X-Men.A mutant, Shaw possesses the ability to absorb energy and transform it into raw strength...
  
  , the Black King of the Hellfire Club
  Hellfire Club
  The Hellfire Club was a name for several exclusive clubs for high society rakes established in Britain and Ireland in the 18th century, and was more formally or cautiously known as the "Order of the Friars of St. Francis of Wycombe"...
  
   of the Marvel Universe
  Marvel Universe
  The Marvel Universe is the shared fictional universe where most comic book titles and other media published by Marvel Entertainment take place, including those featuring Marvel's most familiar characters, such as Spider-Man, the Hulk, the X-Men, and the Avengers.The Marvel Universe is further...
  
   (Earth-616
  Earth-616
  In the fictional Marvel Comics multiverse, Earth-616 or Earth 616 is the name used to identify the primary continuity in which most Marvel Comics titles take place.-Origin of Earth-616:...
  
  )
• Jaime Sommers, title character of The Bionic Woman
  The Bionic Woman
  The Bionic Woman is an American television series starring Lindsay Wagner that aired for three seasons between 1976 and 1978 as a spin off from The Six Million Dollar Man. Wagner stars as tennis pro Jaime Sommers who is nearly killed in a skydiving accident. Sommers' life is saved by Oscar Goldman ...
  
  
• Keepon
  Keepon
  Keepon is a small yellow robot designed to study social development by interacting with children. Keepon was developed by while at the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology in Kyoto, Japan...
  
  , dancing robot and YouTube star
• Brian Kinney
  Brian Kinney
  Brian Kinney is a fictional character from the American/Canadian Showtime television series Queer as Folk, a drama about the lives of a group of gay men and women living in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The character was portrayed by American actor Gale Harold during the show's five year run...
  
   and Ben Bruckner, main characters in Queer As Folk
• Eleanor Bartlet
  Eleanor Bartlet
  Eleanor "Ellie" Emily Bartlet Faison, M.D. is a fictional character played by Nina Siemaszko on the television serial drama The West Wing. Ellie is the middle daughter of President Josiah Bartlet and Abbey Bartlet....
  
  , Character in The West Wing
  The West Wing (TV series)
  The West Wing is an American television serial drama created by Aaron Sorkin that was originally broadcast on NBC from September 22, 1999 to May 14, 2006...
  
  
• Dr. Vaseegaran, Character in Enthiran

See also

• :Category:Carnegie Mellon University faculty