Name | Class year | Notability | References |
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James Truslow Adams | 1898 | Writer, historian | |
Benjamin Adler | | Helped develop commercial television | [7] |
Ali Akansu | 1983, 1987 | Turkish American scientist; known for his contributions to the theory and applications of sub-band and wavelet transforms; professor at NJIT | |
Fred Amoroso | | Former chairman of Yahoo!; former President, CEO, and director of Rovi Corporation | [8] |
Charles E. Anderson | 1948 | First African American to receive a Ph.D. in Meteorology | |
Bishnu S. Atal | 1968 | Researcher in linear predictive coding; joined Bell Laboratories in 1961; made major contributions in the field of speech analysis, synthesis, and coding, including low bit-rate speech coding and automatic speech recognition; retired in 2002 to become affiliate professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Washington | |
Franklin Bartlett | 1865 | U.S. Representative from New York | |
Jacob Bekenstein | 1966, 1969, 1971 | Namesake of Bekenstein bound in general relativity; member of Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities; Laureate of the Wolf Prize in Physics for work on black holes | |
David Bergstein | 1982 | Entrepreneur; film producer; chairman of THINKFilm and Capitol Films | |
Barouh Berkovits | 1956 | Invented the cardiac defibrillator and artificial cardiac pacemaker | [1] |
Denis Blackmore | 1965, 1969 | Physicist; contributed to the foundation of black hole thermodynamics; professor at New Jersey Institute of Technology | |
Israel Borovich | 1967, 1968, 1971, Hon 2005 | Chairman, El Al Israel Airlines | |
Ursula Burns | 1980 | CEO, Xerox Corporation | |
Charles Camarda | 1974 | NASA scientist and mission specialist on the Return to Flight voyage of the shuttle Discovery | |
Hugh John Casey | | Chairman of the New York City Transit Authority; chief engineer of the Army | |
K. Mani Chandy | 1968 | Simon Ramo Professor of Computer Science and Deputy chair of engineering at the California Institute of Technology | |
Francesco DeMaria | 1951 | Italian-American chemist; professor at University of Connecticut | |
Bern Dibner | 1921 | Inventor of the first solderless electrical connector; founder of the Burndy Corporation | |
John Dionisio | | Chairman and CEO of AECOM | |
Dot da Genius | 2008 | Hip-hop producer | |
Gertrude B. Elion | | Former doctoral student at Polytechnic; awarded 1988 Nobel Prize in medicine | [9] |
George Ellner | | Developed the use of ultraviolet light for sterilization | [2] |
Joel S. Engel | 1964 | Engineer, known for fundamental contributions to the development of cellular networks | |
Leopold B. Felsen | 1959, 1961, 1964 | Electrical engineer; member of the National Academy of Engineering; named a life fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers; Dean of Engineering 1974-1978 at Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn; professor at Boston University College of Engineering | |
Antonio Ferri | | Leader of a team that created the first practical hypersonic tunnel heater, used to heat air for discharge into a wind tunnel | [2] |
Paul Ferri | | Founder of Matrix Partners | |
Charles Ranlett Flint | 1868 | Businessman; founder of the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company, which later became IBM | |
Bruno A. Boley | | Dean of Engineering at Northwestern University | |
Fazlollah Reza | 1950 | Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology | |
Elmer L. Gaden | | Russ Prize winner | [10] |
Torunn Atteraas Garin | | Oversaw the development of the artificial sweetener aspartame and was a national spokesperson for it; developed nontoxic processes to create food colorings and remove caffeine from coffee | |
Carl Gatto | 1960 | Republican member of the Alaska House of Representatives | |
Norman Gaylord | 1949, 1950 | Industrial chemist and research scientist; played a key role in the development of the oxygen-permeable contact lens | |
Erol Gelenbe | 1968, 1972 | Electrical engineer; Electrical and Computer Engineering professor at University of Michigan; Electrical and Computer Engineering professor at Duke University; Electrical and Computer Engineering professor at Imperial College London | |
Bancroft Gherardi, Jr. | 1891, 1933H | Electrical engineer; pioneer in early telephone systems | |
John Gilbert | 1953 | Inventor of non-stick coating as an application of Teflon | [11] |
Tetsugen Bernard Glassman | 1960 | Jewish-American Zen Buddhist roshi | |
Samuel D. Goldberg | | Revolutionized dentistry by inventing local anesthetics and making Novocain commercially feasible | [2] |
Steven L. Goldman | 1962 | Andrew W. Mellon Distinguished Professor in the Humanities at Lehigh University | |
Martha Greenblatt | 1967 | Chemist, researcher, and faculty member at Rutgers University | |
Jay Greene | 1964 | Former Chief Engineer of NASA Johnson Space Center | |
Leonard Greene | | Inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame; inventor and aerodynamics engineer who held more than 200 patents, many aviation-related | |
Clayton Hamilton | 1900 | Drama critic; professor at Columbia University | |
Fredric J. Harris | 1961 | Expert on DSP and communication systems | |
Charles Waldo Haskins | | Founder of Haskins and Sells, which later merged with Deloitte | |
F. Augustus Heinze | | Colorful Montana entrepreneur | |
Nicholas Hoff | | Structural analyst whose calculations became the international guideposts in aircraft design | [2] |
Edward Everett Horton | 1908 | Character actor, appeared in The Front Page , Top Hat , Here Comes Mr. Jordan , Pocketful of Miracles | |
Ta-Lin Hsu | 1968 | Electrical engineer; Chairman of H&Q Asia Pacific; on the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Advisory Board at the University of California, Berkeley; Advisory Board Member of the Haas School of Business at U.C. Berkeley | |
Frances Hugle | | Scientist, engineer, inventor; contributed to the understanding of semiconductors, integrated circuitry, and the unique electrical principles of microscopic materials | |
Joseph J. Jacobs | 1937, 1939, 1942 | Founder of Jacobs Engineering Group | |
Tudor Jenks | 1874 | Author, poet, artist, editor, journalist, lawyer | |
Peter Grant Jordan | | President at Tarrant County College | [12] |
Leopold Just | | Designed virtually every major bridge and tunnel in New York City, as well as Washington’s Metro system and the Ohio and Connecticut Turnpikes | |
Ephraim Katzir | Post-doc | President of Israel; biophysicist | |
Thomas Kelly | 1958 | Scientist, father of lunar module | [13] |
Raymond E. Kirk | | Editor, with Othmer, of the industry-standard Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology | [2] |
Murray S. Klamkin | 1947 | Mathematician | |
Eugene Kleiner | 1948 | Honored by the U.S. Postal Service with a commemorative stamp for developing and manufacturing revolutionary computer chips | |
Edward R. Knowles | | Designed searchlights for the U.S. Navy; invented the storage battery | [2] |
William B. Kouwenhoven | 1906 | Inventor of closed-chest cardiac defibrillator; recipient of Edison Medal; professor and dean of engineering at Johns Hopkins University | |
Erich E. Kunhardt | 1976 | Professor at Stevens Institute of Technology, University of Texas, and NYU-Poly | |
Norman Lamm | | Chancellor and President of Yeshiva University | |
Eugene Lang | 1940-41 | Millionaire; industrialist; Chair Emeritus of Swarthmore College; founder and Chair Emeritus of the Conference of Board Chairs of Liberal Arts Colleges; board member of the Columbia University Business School; board member of New School University | |
Yehuda (Leo) Levi | 1964 | Rector of Jerusalem College of Technology | |
Robert H. Lieberman | 1962 | Novelist and film director; long-time member of the Physics faculty at Cornell University | |
Hung-Chang Lin | 1956 | Inventor | |
O. Winston Link | 1937 | Pioneering photographer | |
Charles Battell Loomis | | Author | |
William H. Maddren | | Physician; fourth head coach of the Johns Hopkins University lacrosse team, 1897-1901 | |
Nathan Marcuvitz | | Head of the experimental group of the Radiation Laboratory (MIT) | |
Christos V. Massalas | 1976 | Greek academic working in the fields of mathematics and materials science | |
George W. Melville | 1861 | Civil War-era engineer for the Navy; awarded Congressional Gold Medal; namesake of several ships | |
Ami Miron | | An American Israeli entrepreneur and technology developer; developed and patented the first picture-in-picture for Philips Electronics; led the development of the first high-definition television (HDTV) system in the U.S., for which he received two Technology and Engineering Emmy Awards; founded software networking company MoreCom; president and founder of AM Partners | |
Stephen Morse | 1963 | Architect of the Intel 8086 chip | |
Paolo A. Nespoli | 1988, 1989 | Italian astronaut, mission specialist of STS-120 Space Shuttle mission | |
A. Michael Noll | 1971 | Professor Emeritus and dean at the Annenberg School for Communication at University of Southern California | |
Joseph Owades | 1944, 1950 | Brewing pioneer, inventor of lite beer | [14] |
Frank Padavan | 1956 | Republican New York state senator | |
Judea Pearl | 1965, Ph.D | Professor of Computer Science and Statistics and Director of the Cognitive Systems Laboratory at UCLA; awarded Turing Prize in 2011 | |
Martin L. Perl | 1948, Hon 1996 | Awarded 1982 Wolf Prize in physics and 1995 Nobel Prize in physics; member of National Academy of Sciences | |
Peter Pershan | 1956 | Physicist; Frank B. Baird, Jr. Professor of Science, in both the Physics Department and Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University; recipient of 1988 Rothschild Prize, 2005 Israel Prize, and 2012 Wolf Prize in Physics | |
Martin Pope | 1950 | Physical chemist and professor emeritus at New York University | |
George Preti | | Analytical organic chemist, Monell Chemical Senses Center | |
Stav Prodromou | 1967, 1970 | Executive Advisor, Alien Technology | |
Buddy Ratner | 1972 | A founding father of modern bioengineering; Fellow of the American Association For the Advancement of Science | |
Peter P. Regna | | Helped discover Terramyscin, an antibiotic effective against more than 100 diseases | [2] |
Mark Ronald | 1968 | Former President and CEO, BAE Systems Inc. | |
Jack Ruina | 1957, 1961 | Professor Emeritus of Electrical Engineering at MIT; instrumental in establishing the MIT Security Studies Program and its first director; professor at Brown University and the University of Illinois | |
Richard Santulli | 1966 | CEO, NetJets | |
Martin Schechter | | Order of British Columbia recipient for HIV research | |
George Segal | | Sculptor of monochromatic, cast plaster figures | |
Hugh Seidman | 1961 | Taught writing at the University of Wisconsin, Yale University, Columbia University, the College of William and Mary, and The New School | |
Seymour Shapiro | 1956 PhD | Synthesized phenformin | |
Len Shustek | | Chairman of the board of trustees of the Computer History Museum | |
Ronald Silverman | 1979, 1990 | Professor of ophthalmology at Weill Cornell Medical College | |
Joel B. Snyder | | IEEE president | |
Robert J. Stevens | 1985 | Chairman, President and CEO of Lockheed Martin | |
Admiral Charles F. Stokes | 1880 | Member of the first Board of Regents of the American College of Surgeons; Surgeon General of the United States Navy; President Theodore Roosevelt's personal physician | [15] |
Jerome Swartz | 1968 | Co-founded Symbol Technologies; professor at Stony Brook University in the departments of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Applied Math & Statistics; professor at NYU-Poly; board member at Stony Brook University and NYU-Poly; trustee at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and at the University of California at San Diego | |
Mario Tchou | | Led a group of scientists from the University of Pisa to invent, in 1959, the ELEA 9003, Italy's first computer | |
David J. Thomson | 1967, 1971 | Electrical engineer; professor at Princeton University, Stanford University, MIT, University of Cambridge, and Queen’s University; Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada | |
Don Torrieri | 1966 | Research engineer; Fellow of the US Army Research Laboratory | |
William Tubby | 1875 | | |
Hermann Viets | 1965, 1966, 1970 | President of Milwaukee School of Engineering; Professor of Engineering at Wright State University; professor and Associate Dean for Research at West Virginia University; Dean of Engineering at University of Rhode Island | |
Pat Villani | 1976, 1982 | Computer programmer | |
Steve Wallach | 1966 | Adviser to Centerpoint Venture partners, Sevin-Rosen, and Interwest; consultant to the United States Department of Energy Advanced Scientific Computing program at Los Alamos | |
Sang Whang | 1956, 1966 | Korean American community leader and politician in Florida | |
Robert Anton Wilson | attended 1952–57 | Author of 35 influential books | |
Ronald R. Yager | 1958 | Professor at Pennsylvania State University; Visiting Researcher and scholar at University of California, Berkeley | |
Leonard M. Pomata | | Virginia's secretary of technology | [16] |