Notable alumni List of Harvey Mudd College people

1 notable alumni

1.1 astronauts , aeronautics
1.2 entertainment
1.3 software , engineering
1.4 politics
1.5 business
1.6 miscellaneous

notable alumni
astronauts , aeronautics

stan love, 1987, astronaut, crew member space shuttle atlantis sts-122, capcom or communications officer international space station
george pinky nelson, 1972, astronaut, flew on 3 space shuttle program missions, first american walk in space without tether spacecraft

entertainment

sean plott, 2008, professional starcraft player , commentator represented united states in 2004 , 2005 world cyber games grand finals; won 2007 wcg pan american championship
scott stokdyk, 1991, visual effects supervisor @ sony pictures imageworks, co-recipient of 2004 academy award visual effects, spider-man 2
michael tapper, 2000, former member of band scientists
michael g. wilson, 1963, producer of james bond series of films

software , engineering

donald d. chamberlin, 1966, co-inventor of sql (database query language) , ibm representative working group developing xquery language
joseph costello, 1974, chairman , ceo of think3, former president , ceo of cadence design systems
ned freed, 1982, co-author of mime email standard (rfcs 2045-2049)
robert freitas, 1974, feynman prize in nanotechnology (2009)
nabeel gareeb, ceo of memc electronic materials, inc.; sixth highest paid ceo in 2007 (with salary of $79.6 million)
jonathan gay, 1989, creator of flash software
dominic mazzoni, 1999, creator of audacity sound editing program
bruce nelson, 1974, (deceased) inventor of remote procedure call computer communications
tom preston-werner (attended did not graduate), co-founder of github, creator of gravatar
sage weil, 2000, co-founder of webring, dreamhost, inktank, , ceph

politics

richard h. jones, 1972, former ambassador israel, kuwait, kazakhstan, lebanon, , chief policy officer , deputy administrator of coalition provisional authority in iraq
amanda simpson, 1983, executive director of army energy initiatives task force, department of defense

business

eric b. kim, 1976, chief marketing officer of intel, former cmo of samsung electronics
patri friedman, founded nonprofit seasteading institute, explores creation of sovereign ocean colonies.

miscellaneous

arthur t. benjamin, mathematician known mental math-based mathemagics performances featured on various ted talks , other media outlets.
patri friedman, 1998, son of david d. friedman, grandson of milton friedman, executive director of seasteading institute, transhumanist, anarchist advocate of competitive social systems
karl mahlburg, 2001, mathematician proved freeman dyson s crank conjecture congruences involving partition functions
joe pelton, 2000, professional poker player, winner of 2006 legends of poker tournament




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