Carnegie Mellon University Science & Technology
by Sylviastel | created - 15 Feb 2015 | updated - 15 Feb 2015 | PublicAditya Agarwal; BS, MS 2004; Vice Presidnet of Engineering at Dropbox, previously Director of Engineering at Facebook.
Allen Barnett; 1966; Principal Investigator of the DARPA funded Consortium for Very High Efficiency Solar Cells.
Joshua Bloch; Ph.D. 1990; Chief Java Architect of Google, author of the book, "Effective Java."
Nathaniel Borenstein; MS 1981, Ph.D. 1985; Chief Open Standards Strategist & Distinguished Engineer at IBM, co-creator of MIME for formating multimedia email.
Mark Canepa; BS 1976, MS 1977; Executive Vice President, Network Storage Products Group & then Data Management for Sun Microsystems.
Rick Cattell; Ph.D. 1978; former Distinguished Engineer & Chief Architect for Database Technology Group at Sun Microsystems, co-creator of Java Database Connectivity (JDBC).
Bob Colwell; Ph.D.; Chief Architect of Intel Pentium Pro.
Robert Dennard; Ph.D. 1958; inventor of dynamic random access memory (DRAM)l awarded the IBM Fellow and proved the theories leading to Moore's Law.
Scott Fahlman; MS 1973, Ph.D. 1977; Creator of the Emoticon.
Edward H. Frank; Ph.D. 1985; Vice President R&D, Broadcom.
James J. Gillogly; Ph.D. 1978l cryptographer who was the first to publicly solve parts 1-3 of Kryptos.
James Gosling; MS 1983, Ph.D. 1983; Vice President & Fellow of Sun Microsystems, creator of Java programming language.
Anoop Gupta; Ph.D. 1986; Coporate Vice President of Microsoft.
Hsiao Wuen Hon; Ph.D. 1992; Managing Director of the Microsoft Research Asia.
Feng Hsiung Hsu; Ph.D. 1990; co-creator of the ChipTest while was the predecessor of Deep Thought which in turn evolved into Deep Blue at IBM.
Barry C. Johnson; MS, Ph.D. 1970, former SVP & CTO of Honeywell 2000-2002; VP & CTO of Semiconductor Product Sector, Motorola.
Phil Karn; MS 1979; engineer, his name is on at least 6 RFC's and is the inventor of the Karn's Algorithim.
Lalitesh Katragadda; MS 1996, Ph.D. 1998; Co-head of Google Bangalore R&D Center.
James H. Kindelberger; 1920; American pioneer of aviation, Chairman of North American Aviation 1948-1960.
Vittal Kini; MS 1975, Ph.D. 1981; Director of Intel India Research Center.
Jay Kistler; Ph.D. 1993; Vice President of Engineering at Yahoo.
Robert J. Krieger; BS 1964, MS 1966, Ph.D. 1968; CTO of Boeing & President of Boeing Phantom Works.
Kai-Fu Lee; Ph.D 1988; Assistant Professor, former President of Google China.
Roy Levin; Ph.D. 1977; Distinguished Engineer & Director of Microsoft Research Silicon Valley.
Qi Lu; Ph.D. 1996; President of Online Services Division, Microsoft, former Executive Vice President at Yahoo!.
Mindi McDowell; MA 2001; author of the US Department of Homeland Security's computing tips (US-Cert).
James G. Mitchell; Ph.D. 1970; computer scientist, Vice President & Fellow of Sun Microsystems developer for WATFOR compiler.
Michael Montemerlo; BS, MS 1997; Ph.D. 2003; software lead for Stanley, won the DARPA Grand Challenge in 2005.
Harvey C. Nathanson; BS, MS, Ph.D.; inventor of the first MEMS device, former Chief Scientist at Northrop Grumman.
Bruce J. Nelson; Ph.D. 1981; inventor of the Remote procedure call for computer communication.
John Ousterhout; Ph.D. 1980; inventor of the Tel scripting language.
Drew D. Perkins; BS 1986; author of the Point to Point Protocol (PPP).
Mark Russinovich; BS, Ph.D. 1994; Windows expert & Technical Fellow of Microsoft.
Barb Samardzich; MS 1985; Vice President, Powertrain Operations, Ford Motor Company.
Mahadev Satyanarayanan; Ph.D. 1983; principal computer architect of Coda & Andrew File Systems (AFS).
Joshua Schachter; BS 1996; founder of del.icio.us.
Jonathan I. Schwartz; transferred to Wesleyan University, CEO of Sun Microsystems.
Harry Shum; Ph.D. 1990; Corporate Vice President, Microsoft.
Pradeep Sindhu; Ph.D. 1982; cofounder and CTO of Juniper Networks.
Javier Soltero; BS 1997; former founder and CEO of Hyperic Inc. former CTO of SaaS of VMware, currently founder and CEO of Acompli Inc.
Shanghua Teng; Professor of Computer Science at Boston University & Winner of Godel Prize.
Keith M. Walker; MS 2010; one of three software engineers on first place DARPA Shredder Challenge 2011 team.
Richard Wallace; Ph.D. 1989; Chairman and co-founder of ALICE Artificial Intelligence Foundation, author of Artificial Intelligence Markup Language and Botmaster of the famous chat bot A.L.I.C.E.
U.A. Whitaker; 1929; founder of AMP Inc. and Whitaker Foundation.
Yishan Wong; BS 2001; chief executive officer of Reddit Inc.
Mao Yisheng; Ph.D. 1919; bridge engineering expert, first Ph.D..
1. Andy Bechtolsheim
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MS 1976; co-founder of Sun Microsystems, Managing Director of Cisco 1996-2002, Chief Architect of Sun Microsystems 2003-2005; one of the original investors in Google. The first person being able to document the company name.
2. Gerald Gardner
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1922-2009; geophysicist and social activist whose statistical analysis led to the banning of classified advertising segregated by gender in 1973 ruling by the US Supreme Court.
3. Charles Geschke
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Charles Geschke was born on September 11, 1939 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. He was married to Nancy McDonough and Nancy "Nan" McDonough. He died on April 16, 2021 in Los Altos, California, USA.
Ph.D. 1973; co-founder of the Adobe Systems.
4. Vinod Khosla
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MS 1978; co-founder of Sun Microsystems, venture capitalist at Kleiner, Perkins, Caulfield, & Byers.
5. Edgar D. Mitchell
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Edgar Dean Mitchell (September 17, 1930 - February 4, 2016) was a United States Navy officer and aviator, test pilot, aeronautical engineer, ufologist and NASA astronaut. As the Lunar Module Pilot of Apollo 14, he spent nine hours working on the lunar surface in the Fra Mauro Highlands region, ...
BS 1952; astronaut, 6th man to walk on the moon.
7. Randy Pausch
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Randolph Frederick Pausch was born in Baltimore, Maryland, and raised in Columbia, Maryland. He graduated in 1978 from Oakland Mills High School in Columbia and, in May 1982, received his bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. In August 1988 he ...
Ph.D. 1988; professor; founder of Alice software; man behind "the Last Lecture.
8. Judith A. Resnik
Judith A. Resnik was born on April 5, 1949 in Akron, Ohio, USA. She was married to Michael Oldak. She died on January 28, 1986 in over Atlantic Ocean.
BS 1970; astronaut who died in the Challenger accident during the launch of the mission STS 51-L.
9. Ivan Sutherland
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Ivan Sutherland was born on May 16, 1938 in Hastings, Nebraska, USA. He has been married to Marly Roncken since May 28, 2006.
BS 1959; Vice President and Fellow of Sun Microsystems.
1988; former Director of Advanced Product Creation and Special Vehicle Team at Ford Motor Company, Chief Engineer of the 2005 Ford Mustang, currently Group Vice President of Global Purchasing at Ford Motor Company.
12. Red Whittaker
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MS 1975, Ph.D 1979; professor at CMU; led CMU teams that won second and third place in the DARPA Grand Challenge in 2005 and first in 2007.
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