- Andrew Carnegie
Andrew Carnegie was a Scottish-American industrialist, businessman, a major philanthropist, and the founder of Pittsburgh's Carnegie Steel Company which later became U.S. Steel. Carnegie ["pronounce" ] is known for having built one of the most powerful and influential corporations in United States history, and, later in his life, giving away most of his riches to fund the establishment of many libraries, schools, and universities in America, … - Raj Reddy
Dabbala Rajagopal "Raj" Reddy (born June 13, 1937 in Katoor, India, near Chennai) is a world-renowned researcher in Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, and Human-Computer Interaction. After his undergraduate studies at the College of Engineering, Guindy (now part of Anna University) in 1958, he did a master's degree in Civil Engineering at the University of New South Wales, and a PhD in Computer Science at Stanford University in 1966. - Luis von Ahn
Luis von Ahn Named One of Worldâs Top Young Innovators: Technology Review Magazine To Honor Carnegie Mellon Computer Scientist - Johnny Chung Lee
- Sebastian Thrun
Sebastian Thrun is a Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, where he also serves as the Director of the Stanford AI Lab. His research focuses on robotics and artificial intelligence. Thrun has delivered numerous invited plenary presentations at leading conferences and symposia (a list is available here ). He served as the inaugural general conference chair of Robotics Science and Systems (RSS) 2005 . - Katia Sycara
Katia Sycara is a Research Professor in the Robotics Institute, School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. She serves as the Sixth Century Chair (part time) in Computing Science at the University of Aberdeen. She directs the Laboratory for Agents Technology and Semantic Web Technologies at Carnegie Mellon University. Born in Greece, she went to U.S. to pursue advanced education through various scholarships, including a Fulbright. - Frank Pfenning
Frank Pfenning is a professor of computer science, and adjunct professor in the department of philosophy, at Carnegie Mellon University. He received his Ph.D. from the Carnegie Mellon University Department of Mathematics in 1987, for his dissertation entitled "Proof Transformations in Higher-Order Logic". He was a student of Peter Andrews. His research includes work in the area of programming languages, logic and type theory, logical frameworks, automated deduction, … - Allen Newell
Allen Newell was a researcher in computer science and cognitive psychology at the RAND corporation and at Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Computer Science. He contributed to the Information Processing Language (1956) and two of the earliest AI programs, the Logic Theory Machine (1956) and the General Problem Solver (1957) (with Herbert Simon). - Scott Fahlman
Scott Elliot Fahlman (born March 21, 1948, in Medina, Ohio, USA) is a computer scientist at Carnegie Mellon University. He is notable for early work on automated planning in a blocks world, on semantic networks, on neural networks (and, in particular, the cascade correlation algorithm) and on Common Lisp (in particular CMU Common Lisp). Recently, Fahlman has been engaged in constructing a Knowledge Base, Scone, based in part on his thesis work on the NETL Semantic Network. - George Loewenstein
George Loewenstein is Professor of Economics and Psychology in the Social and Decision Sciences Department at Carnegie Mellon University. He received his B.A. in economics "magna cum laude" from Brandeis University in 1977 and Ph.D. with distinction in economics from Yale University in 1985. He is a leading specialist in the field of behavioural economics and neuroeconomics. - Herbert Simon
Herbert Alexander Simon (June 15, 1916 - February 9, 2001) was an American political scientist whose research ranged across the fields of cognitive psychology, computer science, public administration, economics, management, and philosophy of science and a professor, most notably, at Carnegie Mellon University. With almost a thousand, often very highly cited publications, he is one of the most influential social scientists of the 20th century. - Robert Harper
Robert Harper is a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon University who works in programming language research. He made major contributions to the design of the Standard ML programming language and the LF logical framework. Harper was named an ACM Fellow in 2005. He was awarded this honor for his contributions to type systems for programming languages. - Andrew W. Mellon
Andrew William Mellon (March 24, 1855 - August 27, 1937) was an American banker, industrialist, philanthropist, art collector and Secretary of the Treasury from March 4, 1921 until February 12, 1932. He is the only Secretary of the Treasury to have served under three presidents (Harding, Coolidge and Hoover). - Hans Moravec
Hans Moravec (born November 30 1948 in Austria) is a research professor at the Robotics Institute (Carnegie Mellon) of Carnegie Mellon University. He is known for his work on robotics, artificial intelligence, and writings on the impact of technology. Moravec also is a futurist with many of his publications and predictions focusing on transhumanism. Moravec developed techniques in machine vision for determining the region of interest (ROI) in a scene. - Jared Cohon
Jared Leigh Cohon is the eighth president of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.. He holds a B.S. in Civil Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, earned in 1972 and 1973 respectively. - Watts Humphrey
Watts S. Humphrey is a key thinker in the discipline of the management of software development, often called the father of software quality. His contribution to the software engineering processes resides in the creation of the Software Process Program, which includes the Capability Maturity Model (CMM), the Personal Software Process (PSP) and the Team Software Process (TSP), … - Rodney Brooks
Rodney Allen Brooks (b. December 30, 1954 in Adelaide) is Panasonic Professor of Robotics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is Chief Technical Officer and sits on the Board of iRobot Corp. From July 1, 2003 until June 30, 2007, he was director of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory; prior to that, he was director of the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. - Jeannette Wing
Jeannette M. Wing is a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA. Wing has been a leading member of the formal methods community, especially in the area of Larch. She has led many research projects and has published widely. With Barbara Liskov, Jeannette Wing developed the Liskov substitution principle, published in 1993. She is on the editorial board of the following journals: Journal of the ACM, … - Randal E. Bryant
Randal E. Bryant (born October 27, 1952) is an American computer scientist and academic noted for his research on formally verifying digital hardware, and more recently some forms of software. He is also Dean of Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science, where he has taught since 1984. - David S. Touretzky
David S. Touretzky is a research professor in the Computer Science Department and the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition at Carnegie Mellon University. He received a BA in Computer Science at Rutgers University in 1978, and earned a Master's degree and a Ph.D. (1984) in Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. Touretzky has worked as an Internet activist in favor of freedom of speech, … - Richard King Mellon
Richard King Mellon, commonly known as R.K., was an American financier from Ligonier, Pennsylvania. The son of Richard B. Mellon, nephew of Andrew W. Mellon, and grandson of Thomas Mellon, he and his sister Sarah Mellon Scaife and cousins Paul Mellon and Ailsa Mellon-Bruce, were heirs to the Mellon fortune, which included major holdings in Mellon Bank, Gulf Oil, and Alcoa. In 1957, when "Fortune" prepared its first list of the wealthiest Americans, … - Edward C. Prescott
Edward C. Prescott (born 26 December, 1940) is an American economist. He received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics in 2004, sharing the award with Finn E. Kydland, "for their contributions to dynamic macroeconomics: the time consistency of economic policy and the driving forces behind business cycles". - John Langford
Dr. John Langford is the President of Aurora Flight Sciences. After managing the near record breaking Daedalus human powered aircraft project as a student at MIT, Langford founded Aurora Flight Sciences in order to design and manufacture high altitude UAVs that could be used for global climate change research. Dr. John Langford is a Senior Researcher at Yahoo! Research. His work includes research in machine learning, game theory, steganography, … - Metin Sitti
Metin Sitti is an assistant Professor in Department of Mechanical Engineering and Robotics Institute in Carnegie Mellon University. He is interested in Micro/Nanorobotics, nanomanufacturing, MEMS/NEMS, biomimetic micro/nanosystems, directed self-assembly, bionanotechnology, haptic interfaces, and tele-robotics. He conducted the Micromechanical Flying Insect Project. - Dana Scott
Dana Stewart Scott (born 1932) is the emeritus "Hillman University Professor of Computer Science, Philosophy, and Mathematical Logic" at Carnegie Mellon University; he is now retired and lives in Berkeley, California. His research career has spanned computer science, mathematics, and philosophy, and has been characterized by a marriage of a concern for elucidating fundamental concepts in the manner of informal rigor, … - Finn E. Kydland
Finn Erling Kydland (born 1943) is a Norwegian economist. He is currently a professor of Economics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He previously taught at the Tepper School of Business of Carnegie Mellon University. Kydland was a co-recipient of the 2004 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics (shared with Edward C. Prescott), "for their contributions to dynamic macroeconomics: the time consistency of economic policy and the driving forces behind business cycles". - Brian Macwhinney
Brian James MacWhinney (born August 22, 1945) is Professor of Psychology at Carnegie Mellon University, MacWhinney co-founded the CHILDES (Child Language Data Exchange System) Project in 1984 with Catherine Snow. He also directs the TalkBank System for the study of conversational interaction. From 1978 to present, MacWhinney has developed a stream of pioneering programs included the Child Language Data Exchange System (CHILDES), Talkbank, … - David J. Farber
David J. Farber is a professor of Computer Science, noted for his major contributions to programming languages and computer networking. He is currently Distinguished Career Professor of Computer Science and Public Policy at the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. - Scott Draves
Scott Draves is the inventor of Fractal Flames and the leader of the distributed computing project Electric Sheep. He is also a video artist and accomplished VJ. Known as "Spot," Draves currently resides in San Francisco and New York City. Draves did his Bachelor's in mathematics at Brown University before continuing on to do his PhD in computer science at Carnegie Mellon University. - Garth A. Gibson
Garth Gibson (born in Aurora, Ont, Canada) is a Computer Scientist from Carnegie Mellon University. He holds a Ph.D. and an MSc in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley and a B.Math in Computer Science from the University of Waterloo. Dr. Gibson's principal contribution to computing was the development of the RAID system for data storage, along with David A. Patterson and Randy Katz. - Daniel H. Wilson
Daniel H. Wilson (b. 1978) is an American writer and robotics engineer. Born March 6 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, he earned his B.S. in computer science at the University of Tulsa. He completed an M.S. in robotics, another M.S. in Machine Learning, and his Ph.D. in robotics in 2005 at Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He has worked as a research intern at Microsoft Research, the Xerox PARC, Northrop Grumman, and Intel Research Seattle. - H. T. Kung
H. T. Kung (Kung, Hsiang-Tsung), b. November 9, 1945 is a computer scientist. His current research is primarily in the area of communications networks and network security, but his interests have been broad-ranging, including complexity theory, database theory, VLSI design, and parallel computing. He received his bachelor degree from National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan and Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University, and first taught there, … - Zachary Quinto
Zachary J. Quinto (born June 2, 1977) is an American actor who is most famously known for his roles as Adam Kaufman on "24", Sasan on "So NoTORIous" and Gabriel "Sylar" Gray on NBC's "Heroes". - Henry Hornbostel
Henry Hornbostel (1867 - 1961) was an American architect. He designed more than 225 buildings, bridges, and monuments in the United States; currently 22 are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Born in Brooklyn, New York, he graduated in 1891 from Columbia University and also studied at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris, France. He was a partner, over his career, in the New York firms of Howell, Stokes & Hornbostel; Wood, … - Rodney A. Brooks
Dr. Rodney Brooks is Director (until June 30, 2007) of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, and is the Panasonic Professor of Robotics at MIT. He is also CTO of iRobot Corp (Nasdaq: IRBT). He received degrees in pure mathematics from the Flinders University of South Australia and the Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University in 1981. - Andy Bechtolsheim
Andy Bechtolsheim , co-founder of Sun Microsystems, Inc. and employee number one, is a product architect with the Systems Group. Andy works with the Systems Group to help drive next generation X64 and storage servers product architecture as well as HPC opportunities. Bechtolsheim has more than 25 years of Network Computing knowledge and expertise. - Axel Cleeremans
Axel Cleeremans is a Research Director with the National Fund for Scientific Research (Belgium) and a professor of cognitive science with the Department of Psychology of the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels. Following an undergraduate degree in Psychology at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, he obtained an MS degree in Cognitive Psychology at Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, PA). - Stephen Fienberg
Stephen Fienberg is Maurice Falk Professor of Statistics at Carnegie Mellon University. He earned a B.Sc. in Mathematics and Statistics from the University of Toronto in 1964, an A.M. in Statistics at Harvard University in 1965, and a Ph.D. in Statistics at Harvard in 1968. Fienberg has been on the Carnegie Mellon University faculty since 1980 and became a U.S. citizen in 1998. He is one of the top social statisticians in the world, … - Steven Rudich
Steven Rudich is a professor in the Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science. In 1994, He and Alexander Razborov proved that a large class of combinatorial arguments, dubbed natural proofs were unlikely to answer many of the important problems in computational complexity theory. For this work, they were awarded the Gödel prize in 2007. - John Warner
John Christian Warner (1897 - 1989), known best as Jake Warner, was an American chemist who served as the fourth President of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.
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