List of Harvey Mudd College people

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This is a list of notable alumni and faculty of Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, California, United States.

Academia

• James Enstrom, 1965, physicist, epidemiologist ^[1]
• Robert L. Smith, 1966, engineer ^[2]
• Jerrold B. Tunnell, 1972, mathematician ^[3]

Astronauts and aeronautics

• Stan Love, 1987, astronaut, crew member for Space Shuttle Atlantis STS-122, "capcom" or communications officer with the International Space Station ^[4]
• George "Pinky" Nelson, 1972, astronaut, flew on three Space Shuttle program missions, second American to walk in space without a tether to a spacecraft ^[5]

Entertainment

• 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 ^[6]
• Scott Stokdyk, 1991, Academy Award winner for best visual effects for Spider-Man 2 ; Visual Effects Supervisor at Sony Pictures Imageworks ^[7]
• Gregory Rae, 2000, Producer at Martian Entertainment LLC. Notable productions include Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2014 Tony Award ^[8] ), Kinky Boots (2013 Tony Award, ^[9] 2016 Olivier Award), and The Normal Heart (2011 Tony Award ^[10] ).
• Michael Tapper, 2000, former member of the band We Are Scientists ^[11]
• Michael G. Wilson, 1963, producer of the James Bond series of films ^[12]

Software and engineering

• Donald D. Chamberlin, 1966, co-inventor of SQL (database query language) and IBM representative to the working group developing the XQuery language ^[13]
• Joseph Costello, 1974, chairman and CEO of think3, former president and CEO of Cadence Design Systems ^[14]
• Ned Freed, 1982, co-author of the MIME email standard (RFCs 2045-2049) ^[15]
• Robert Freitas, 1974, Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology (2009) ^[16]
• Nabeel Gareeb, CEO of MEMC Electronic Materials, Inc. ^[17]
• Jonathan Gay, 1989, creator of Adobe Flash software ^[18]
• Bruce Nelson, 1974, inventor of the remote procedure call for computer communications ^[19]
• Tom Preston-Werner (dropped out), co-founder of GitHub, creator of Gravatar ^[20]
• Sage Weil, 2000, co-founder of WebRing, DreamHost, Inktank, and Ceph ^[21]

Politics

• 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 ^[22]
• Amanda Simpson, 1983, Executive Director of the Army Energy Initiatives Task Force, Department of Defense ^[23]

Business

• Eric B. Kim, 1976, chief marketing officer of Intel, former CMO of Samsung Electronics ^[24]

Miscellaneous

• Joe Pelton, 2000, professional poker player, winner of 2006 Legends of Poker tournament ^[25]

Notable faculty

• 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

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2. "Dr. Robert L. Smith". web.mit.edu. Retrieved May 12, 2024.
3. "Jerrold Bates Tunnell". Rio Grande SUN. April 15, 2022. Retrieved May 12, 2024.
4. "Stanley G. Love - NASA" . Retrieved May 12, 2024.
5. "Biographical Data GEORGE D. (NICKNAME PINKY) NELSON (PH.D.), NASA ASTRONAUT (FORMER)" (PDF). Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
6. Farner, Shawn (August 11, 2018). "The Untold Truth Of Sean 'Day9' Plott". SVG. Retrieved May 12, 2024.
7. Reardon, Mary (July 21, 2002). "Spider-Man: Behind the mask". ACM SIGGRAPH 2002 conference abstracts and applications. p. 285. doi:10.1145/1242073.1242297. ISBN   978-1-58113-525-1.
8. "Tony Awards Best Revival Musical".
9. "Tony Awards, Best Musical" . Retrieved December 7, 2022.
10. "Tony Awards Best Revival Play".
11. "We Are Scientists". Contactmusic.com. Retrieved May 12, 2024.
12. Barnes, Brooks (November 6, 2015). "A Family Team Looks for James Bond's Next Assignment". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved May 12, 2024.
13. Chamberlin, Donald Dean (October 3, 2001). "Oral history interview with Donald D. Chamberlin". Charles Babbage Institute. hdl:11299/107215.
14. Addison, Craig; Costello, Joseph; Herscher, Penny (May 16, 2008). Costello, Joe (Joseph) oral history. Mountain View, California: Computer History Museum.
15. [e-mail] (December 7, 2023). "Obituary: Edwin Earl "Ned" Freed". Claremont COURIER. Retrieved May 12, 2024.
16. "Robert A. Freitas Jr". The Brain Preservation Foundation. September 16, 2015. Retrieved May 12, 2024.
17. Cooperman, Jeannette (June 17, 2009). "The Most Powerful Person You Know Nothing About". www.stlmag.com. Retrieved May 12, 2024.
18. "Alumni Association to Honor Achievers, Friends | Harvey Mudd College News" . Retrieved May 12, 2024.
19. "CMU Alumni Community". community.cmu.edu. Retrieved May 12, 2024.
20. Jr, Tom Huddleston (June 4, 2018). "How this 33-year-old college dropout co-founded GitHub, which just sold to Microsoft for $7.5 billion". CNBC. Retrieved May 12, 2024.
21. Scott, Ben (June 3, 2015). "Alum Sage Weil provides $3 million to UC Santa Cruz for open-source software research". Santa Cruz Sentinel. Retrieved May 12, 2024.
22. "Richard H. Jones named next IEA Deputy Executive Director - News". IEA. May 2, 2008. Retrieved May 12, 2024.
23. "LCWINS | Amanda Simpson". www.lcwins.org. Retrieved May 12, 2024.
24. "Intel Names Industry Veteran Eric B. Kim To Head Corporate Marketing". www.intel.com. Retrieved May 12, 2024.
25. Wilde, Matthew (September 1, 2006). "POKER: Pelton faced top players to win $1.5 million prize". The Courier. Waterloo, Iowa. p. 11.