List of Harvey Mudd College people
This is a list of notable alumni and faculty of Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, California, United States.
Academia[edit]
- Robert L. Smith, 1966, engineer[1]
- Jerrold B. Tunnell, 1972, mathematician[2]
Astronauts and aeronautics[edit]
- Stan Love, 1987, astronaut, crew member for Space Shuttle Atlantis STS-122, "capcom" or communications officer with the International Space Station[3]
- George "Pinky" Nelson, 1972, astronaut, flew on three Space Shuttle program missions, second American to walk in space without a tether to a spacecraft[4]
Entertainment[edit]
- Sean "Day9" Plott, 2008, professional StarCraft player and commentator who represented the United States in the 2004 and 2005 World Cyber Games Grand Finals; won the 2007 WCG Pan American Championship[5]
- Scott Stokdyk, 1991, Academy Award winner for best visual effects for Spider-Man 2; Visual Effects Supervisor at Sony Pictures Imageworks[6]
- Michael Tapper, 2000, former member of the band We Are Scientists[7]
- Michael G. Wilson, 1963, producer of the James Bond series of films[8]
Software and engineering[edit]
- Donald D. Chamberlin, 1966, co-inventor of SQL (database query language) and IBM representative to the working group developing the XQuery language[9]
- Joseph Costello, 1974, chairman and CEO of think3, former president and CEO of Cadence Design Systems[10]
- Ned Freed, 1982, co-author of the MIME email standard (RFCs 2045-2049)[11]
- Robert Freitas, 1974, Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology (2009)[12]
- Nabeel Gareeb, CEO of MEMC Electronic Materials, Inc.[13]
- Jonathan Gay, 1989, creator of Adobe Flash software[14]
- Bruce Nelson, 1974, inventor of the remote procedure call for computer communications[15]
- Tom Preston-Werner (dropped out), co-founder of GitHub, creator of Gravatar[16]
- Sage Weil, 2000, co-founder of WebRing, DreamHost, Inktank, and Ceph[17]
Politics[edit]
- Richard H. Jones, 1972, former US Ambassador to Israel, Kuwait, Kazakhstan, Lebanon, and Chief Policy Officer and Deputy Administrator of the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq[18]
- Amanda Simpson, 1983, Executive Director of the Army Energy Initiatives Task Force, Department of Defense[19]
Business[edit]
- Eric B. Kim, 1976, chief marketing officer of Intel, former CMO of Samsung Electronics[20]
Miscellaneous[edit]
- Joe Pelton, 2000, professional poker player, winner of 2006 Legends of Poker tournament[21]
Notable faculty[edit]
- William B. Allen
- Arthur T. Benjamin
- Nathaniel Davis
- Weiqing Gu
- Maria Klawe
- Ran Libeskind-Hadas
- Lisette de Pillis
- Nick Pippenger
- Francis Su
- Talithia Williams
References[edit]
- ^ "Dr. Robert L. Smith". web.mit.edu. Retrieved 2024-05-12.
- ^ "Jerrold Bates Tunnell". Rio Grande SUN. 2022-04-15. Retrieved 2024-05-12.
- ^ "Stanley G. Love - NASA". Retrieved 2024-05-12.
- ^ "Biographical Data GEORGE D. (NICKNAME PINKY) NELSON (PH.D.), NASA ASTRONAUT (FORMER)" (PDF). Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
- ^ Farner, Shawn (2018-08-11). "The Untold Truth Of Sean 'Day9' Plott". SVG. Retrieved 2024-05-12.
- ^ Reardon, Mary (2002-07-21). "Spider-Man: behind the mask". SIGGRAPH 2002 Conference Abstracts and Applications: 285. doi:10.1145/1242073.1242297. ISBN 978-1-58113-525-1.
- ^ "We Are Scientists". Contactmusic.com. Retrieved 2024-05-12.
- ^ Barnes, Brooks (2015-11-06). "A Family Team Looks for James Bond's Next Assignment". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2024-05-12.
- ^ Chamberlin, Donald Dean (2001-10-03). "Oral history interview with Donald D. Chamberlin". Charles Babbage Institute.
- ^ Addison, Craig; Costello, Joseph; Herscher, Penny (2008-05-16). Costello, Joe (Joseph) oral history. Mountain View, California: Computer History Museum.
- ^ mickrhodes@claremont-courier.com (2023-12-07). "Obituary: Edwin Earl "Ned" Freed". Claremont COURIER. Retrieved 2024-05-12.
- ^ "Robert A. Freitas Jr". The Brain Preservation Foundation. 2015-09-16. Retrieved 2024-05-12.
- ^ Cooperman, Jeannette (2009-06-17). "The Most Powerful Person You Know Nothing About". www.stlmag.com. Retrieved 2024-05-12.
- ^ "Alumni Association to Honor Achievers, Friends | Harvey Mudd College News". Retrieved 2024-05-12.
- ^ "CMU Alumni Community". community.cmu.edu. Retrieved 2024-05-12.
- ^ Jr, Tom Huddleston (2018-06-04). "How this 33-year-old college dropout co-founded GitHub, which just sold to Microsoft for $7.5 billion". CNBC. Retrieved 2024-05-12.
- ^ Scott, Ben (2015-06-03). "Alum Sage Weil provides $3 million to UC Santa Cruz for open-source software research". Santa Cruz Sentinel. Retrieved 2024-05-12.
- ^ "Richard H. Jones named next IEA Deputy Executive Director - News". IEA. 2008-05-02. Retrieved 2024-05-12.
- ^ "LCWINS | Amanda Simpson". www.lcwins.org. Retrieved 2024-05-12.
- ^ "Intel Names Industry Veteran Eric B. Kim To Head Corporate Marketing". www.intel.com. Retrieved 2024-05-12.
- ^ Wilde, Matthew (September 1, 2006). "POKER: Pelton faced top players to win $1.5 million prize". The Courier. Waterloo, Iowa. p. 11.
