- Steve Jobs
Steven Paul Jobs (born February 24 1955) is the co-founder and CEO of Apple and was the CEO of Pixar until its acquisition by Disney. He is currently the largest Disney shareholder and a member of Disney's Board of Directors. He is considered a leading figure in both the computer and entertainment industries. Jobs' history in business has contributed greatly to the mythos of the quirky, individualistic Silicon Valley entrepreneur, … - Robert Morris
Robert Morris is an American sculptor, conceptual artist and writer. He is regarded as one of the most prominent theorists of Minimalism along with Donald Judd but he has also made important contributions to the development of performance art, land art, the Process Art movement and installation art. Morris studied at the University of Kansas, Kansas City Art Institute, and Reed College. - Philip Whalen
Philip Whalen was a poet and a key figure in the San Francisco Renaissance and the Beat generation. Born in Portland, Oregon, Whalen served in the US Army Air Forces during World War II. He attended Reed College with Gary Snyder and Lew Welch and graduated with a BA in 1951. He read at the famous Six Gallery reading in 1955 that marked the launch of the West Coast Beats into the public eye. - Colin Diver
Colin Diver became the fourteenth President of Reed College in Portland, Oregon on October 5, 2002. He replaced acting president Peter Steinberger, dean of Faculty, and succeeded Steven Koblik, who departed Reed College to run the Huntington Library in San Marino, CA. His area of expertise includes administrative law and prior to Reed he was Dean of the University of Pennsylvania Law School. - Barbara Ehrenreich
Barbara Ehrenreich (born August 26 1941, in Butte, Montana) is a prominent American writer, columnist, feminist, socialist and political activist. - Dr. Demento
Dr. Demento (born April 2, 1941, in Minneapolis, Minnesota) is the stage name of Barret Eugene Hansen, a radio disc jockey specializing in novelty songs and pop music parodies. He created the persona in 1970 while working at Los Angeles station KPPC-FM. After Hansen played "Transfusion" by Nervous Norvus on the radio, DJ Steven Clean said that Hansen had to be "demented" to play that. Thereafter, the name stuck. - David Eddings
David Eddings (born July 7, 1931) is an American author who has written several best-selling series of epic fantasy novels. David Eddings' wife, Leigh Eddings, is uncredited as co-author on many of his early books, but he has lately acknowledged that she contributed to them all. Born in Spokane, Washington, Eddings grew up in Puget Sound before graduating with a BA from Reed College in 1954 and an MA from the University of Washington in 1961. - Peter Rock
Peter Rock is an American novelist born and raised in Salt Lake City, Utah. He is an associate professor of creative writing at Reed College. He attended Deep Springs College and received a BA in English from Yale University. He was a Wallace Stegner Fellow at the Stanford Writing Program from 1995-1997. The manuscript for his novel "This Is the Place" won the Henfield Award in 1996. - Richard Crandall
Richard E. Crandall is an American computer scientist who has made contributions to computational number theory, most notably the development of the irrational base discrete weighted transform, an important method of finding very large primes. He has, at various times, been Chief Scientist at NeXT Inc. and Apple's Chief Cryptographer. He is currently Vollum Adjunct Professor of Science and director of the Center for Advanced Computation at Reed College. - Norman Packard
Norman Packard (born 1954 in Silver City, New Mexico) is a chaos theory physicist and one of the founders of the Prediction Company and ProtoLife. He is an alumnus of Reed College and the University of California, Santa Cruz. Packard is known for his contributions to both chaos theory and cellular automata. He also coined the phrase "the edge of chaos". - James Russell
James Russell (born 1931 in Bremerton, Washington) is an American inventor. He earned a BA in physics from Reed College in Portland in 1953. He joined General Electric's nearby labs in Richland, Washington, where he initiated many types of experimental instrumentation. He designed and built the first electron beam welder. In 1965, Russell joined the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory of Battelle Memorial Institute in Richland, … - Howard Vollum
Howard Vollum, (1913-1986) an engineer, scientist, and philanthropist, was the co-founder of Tektronix Corporation, and endowed the Vollum Institute. - David Griffiths
David J. Griffiths (born 1942) is a U.S. physicist and educator. He has worked at Reed College since 1978, where he is currently the "Howard Vollum Professor of Science". He is easily confused with the late physicist David J. Griffiths of Oregon State University. Griffiths was trained at Harvard University (B.A., 1964; M.A., 1966; Ph.D., 1970). - Andrew Dickson
Andrew Dickson is a multi-disciplinary artist who makes work that combines comedy with social commentary. His performances include AC Dickson: eBay PowerSeller, An Evening with Bradlee and There’s a Humongous Fungus Among Us. His films include Hunter Dawson, Autographhss.com, and Good Grief. His work has appeared at the 2006 Arnolfini IBT festival, 2005 Notdance festival, Tramway, the 2004 and 2003 PICA TBA festivals, the New York City, … - Larry Sanger
Lawrence Mark "Larry" Sanger has been involved with various online encyclopedia projects. He is the former editor-in-chief of Nupedia, co-founder and chief organizer (2001-2002) of its successor, Wikipedia, and the founder of Citizendium. In the interim, he was also an early strategist for the expert-authored and edited Encyclopedia of Earth. He proposed Citizendium on September 15, 2006, originally designed as a fork of Wikipedia. It was launched on March 25, 2007. - Nancy Farmer
Nancy Farmer, in Phoenix, Arizona, is an acclaimed children's and young adult literature author from the United States. Farmer did not start writing until she was 40 years old. In 1963 she received her B.S. degree from Reed College, then enlisted in the Peace Corps from 1963–1965, and eventually became a lab technician in Zimbabwe from 1975–1978, where she met her future husband, Harold. After a week-long courtship the two were married. - Emilio Pucci
Emilio Pucci, Marchese di Barsento was an Italian fashion designer. - Vern Rutsala
Of Finnish descent, Vern Rutsala is a native of Idaho. He was educated at Reed College (B.A., 1956) and the University of Iowa (M.F.A., 1960). He lives in Oregon and taught Modern British literature, modern poetry, poetry and fiction writing at Lewis & Clark College before retiring. - Katherine Dunn
Katherine Dunn is a best-selling novelist, journalist, voice artist, radio personality, book reviewer, and poet from Portland, Oregon. Dunn was born in Kansas City, Kansas in 1945. She went to high school in Tigard, Oregon, and later attended Reed College in Portland. Following her time at Reed, Ms. Dunn spent several years in Europe traveling. While in Ireland, she had a child, and five years later she returned with her son to the United States. - Daniel Reisberg
Daniel Reisberg (pronounced with a long 'e') is a professor and chair of the Psychology Department at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. His specialties are in cognitive psychology, especially issues of memory (particularly its relationship to emotion), judgement, and imagery. Reisberg earned his B.A. in psychology and philosophy from Swarthmore College in 1975, before attending the University of Pennsylvania where he obtained an M.A. in 1976 and his Ph.D. in 1980. - John Sperling
John Sperling (born 1921) is a US billionaire who is credited with leading the contemporary for-profit education movement in the United States. His fortune is based on his founding of the for-profit University of Phoenix for working adults in 1976, which is now part of the publicly traded Apollo Group (NASDAQ:APOL). John Sperling received his undergraduate education at Reed College, Oregon, a master's from the University of California, Berkeley under the G.I. Bill, … - Janet Fitch
Janet Fitch is most famously known as the author of the Oprah's Book Club novel "White Oleander", which became a film in 2002. She is a graduate of Reed College, located in Portland, Oregon. Janet Fitch was born in Los Angeles, a third-generation native, and grew up in a family of voracious readers. As an undergraduate at Reed College, Fitch had decided to become an historian, attracted to its powerful narratives, the scope of events, the colossal personalities, … - Mike Davis
Mike Davis (born 1946) is an American social commentator, urban theorist, historian, and political activist. He is best known for his investigations of power and social class in his native Southern California. Born in Fontana, California and raised in El Cajon, California, Davis' education was punctuated by stints as a meat cutter, truck driver, and a Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) activist. - Peter Norton
Peter Norton (born November 14 1943) is an American software publisher, author, and philanthropist. - Howard Wolpe
Howard Wolpe , a former seven-term Member of Congress and former Presidential Special Envoy to Africa's Great Lakes Region, is also Director of the Center's Project on Leadership and Building State Capacity. For ten of his fourteen years in the Congress, Wolpe chaired the Subcommittee on Africa of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. - Amanda Reed
Amanda Reed (1832-1904) was the wife and widow of Simeon Gannett Reed, American entrepreneur from Oregon. In Simeon's will, he suggested that his wife could "devote some portion of (his) estate to benevolent objects, or to the cultivation, illustration, or development of the fine arts in the city of Portland, Oregon, or to some other suitable purpose, which shall be of permanent value and contribute to the beauty of the city and to the intelligence, prosperity, … - Lorne W. Craner
Lorne W. Craner, United States Assistant Secretary for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor The Newspaper Guild The North American Broadcasters Association Overseas Press Club - William Trufant Foster
William Trufant Foster (Jan. 18, 1879 - Oct. 8, 1950), was an American educator and economist, whose theories were especially influential in the 1920s. He was the first president of Reed College. Foster was born in Boston, Massachusetts on January 18, 1879. He graduated from Harvard University with an A.B. in 1901 and an A.M., 1904. Foster was an instructor of English at Bates College in Maine, … - David Ray
David Ray (born May 20, 1932), is an American poet and author of fiction, essays, and memoir. He is particularly noted for poems that, while being rooted in the personal, also show a strong social concern. Ray is the author of sixteen volumes of poetry and is the founding editor of "New Letters" magazine and "New Letters On The Air". - Steven Raichlen
Steven David Raichlen is an American barbecue chef, author and TV host. He is the author of twenty-five books, mainly centering around barbecue techniques and receipes. His first book, "Miami Spice: The New Florida Cuisine" was published in 1993. "The Barbecue Bible" (1998) was Raichlen's description of the fours years he spent on the road studying grilling around the world. In 2003 his show, "Barbecue University with Steven Raichlen", debuted on PBS. - Richard Danzig
Richard is currently the Nunn Prize Fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, DC, a senior fellow at the CNA Corporation, and a consultant to the Department of Defense. Richard served as the 71st Secretary of the Navy from 1998 to 2001. He was the Undersecretary of the Navy from 1993 to 1997. He is currently a director at National Semiconductor Corporation, Human Genome Sciences Corporation, and Saffron Hill Ventures. - Don Berry
Don Berry (1931-2001) was an American artist and author best known for his historical novels early settlers in the Oregon Country. He was born in Minnesota but moved to Oregon as a young man and came to think of himself as a native of that state. He attended Reed College in Portland, Oregon. During college his housemates included the poet Gary Snyder, who shared Berry's interest in Eastern metaphysics. - Simeon Gannett Reed
Simeon Gannett Reed (1830-1895) was an American entrepreneur from Oregon. Reed was born in East Abington, Massachusetts. In 1855, he became a clerk at the firm of William S. Ladd in Portland, Oregon; in 1859 he became a partner in the company, which was then known as Ladd, Reed, & Co. In May 1860, Reed, Jacob Kamm, and John C. Ainsworth founded the Oregon Steam Navigation Company, a conglomerate of several river shipping companies plying the Columbia and Willamette rivers. - Igor Vamos
Igor Vamos (also known as Mike Bonanno) is one of the leading members of The Yes Men, a culture jamming activist group. Their exploits in "identity correction" are documented in the film "The Yes Men". Known as Frank, he is a co-founder of RTmark. As Igor Vamos, he teaches Media Interventions and New Media at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. - Carl Morris
Carl Morris (1911-1993) was an American artist. Morris was born in Yorba Linda, California and he studied at the Chicago Art Institute and in Paris and Vienna. He opened the Spokane Art Center through the Federal Art Project during the Great Depression. He met his wife, sculptor Hilda Grossman (Deutsch) when he recruited her as a teacher for the center. Other notable teachers at the center include Guy Anderson and Clyfford Still. - Jessica Litman
Jessica Litman is a widely known expert on copyright law and author of "Digital Copyright" (2001), which traces the history of lobbying that led to the passage of the DMCA. She is currently Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School, after having been professor of law at Wayne State University Law School from 1990-2006. Litman has testified before Congress and served on multiple governmental and legal boards, including the Copyright Society of the USA, … - David Sarasohn
David Sarasohn (born August 17, 1950) is a columnist and managing editor for the Oregonian newspaper in Portland, Oregon. In his column he is a supporter of the Democrats. Prior to joining the "Oregonian", Sarasohn was a writer with Oregon magazine and a professor of history at Reed College. - Elizabeth Drew
Elizabeth Drew (born November 16, 1935, Cincinnati, Ohio) is an American political journalist and author. A graduate of Wellesley College, she was Washington correspondent for "The Atlantic Monthly" (1967-73) and "The New Yorker" (1973-92). She made several appearances on "Agronsky and Company," and hosted her own interview program for PBS between 1971 and 1973. Drew was a panelist for the first debate in the 1976 U.S. Presidential election, … - Dale W. Jorgenson
Dale W. Jorgenson (1933-) is the Samuel W. Morris University Professor at Harvard University (BA, economics Reed College in Portland, Oregon, in 1955 and a PhD in economics from Harvard in 1959). He served as Chairman of the Department of Economics from 1994 to 1997. He was a Founding Member of the Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy of the National Research Council in 1991 and has served as Chairman of the Board since 1998. - Dell Hymes
Dell Hathaway Hymes (born June 7, 1927 in Portland, Oregon) is a sociolinguist, anthropologist, and folklorist whose work has dealt primarily with languages of the Pacific Northwest.
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