Jef Raskin (March 9, 1943-February 26, 2005) was an American human-computer interface expert best-known for starting the Macintosh project for Apple Computer in the late 1970s.

Joseph Michael (Joe) Nathan (born November 22, 1974 in Houston, Texas) is a relief pitcher in Major League Baseball who plays for the Minnesota Twins (since 2004). He bats and throws right handed. Nathan stands 6-4 and weights in at 220 lbs. He wears a size 14 shoe. Nathan was drafted as a shortstop by the San Francisco Giants in 1995 out of State University of New York at Stony Brook. After an unsuccessful year at the plate in rookie ball, …

Laura Catherine Schlessinger (born January 16, 1947) is an American cultural and conservative commentator, most known as host of the popular "Dr. Laura" radio advice call-in show. The show is nationally syndicated and runs three hours a day on weekdays. Schlessinger is an outspoken critic of practices that she feels have become too prevalent in contemporary American culture.

Joy Behar (christened Josephina Victoria Occhiuto) was born on October 07, 1943 in Brooklyn, New York. She is an Italian-American comedian, writer, actress and co-host of the talk show "The View". Behar was married to Joe Behar in January 1965 and divorced him in 1981; they had one daughter, Eve. Behar holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in sociology from Queens College, …

John LeRoy Hennessy, the founder of MIPS Computer Systems Inc., is currently serving as the 10th President of Stanford University. He earned his Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Villanova University, and his Master's degree and Ph.D. in computer science from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Hennessy became a Stanford faculty member in 1977. In 1984, he used his sabbatical year to found MIPS Computer Systems Inc.

Michael Stebbins is an American geneticist and science writer. He received his B.S. in biology from the State University of New York at Stony Brook, and his Ph.D. in genetics while working at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, where he constructed genetic systems to artificially control gene expression in the brain. Since August 2005, Dr. Stebbins has served as the Director of Biology Policy for the Federation of American Scientists (FAS), …

Dr Julia R. Heiman is an American sexologist and psychologist, the fifth Director of The Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction at Indiana University from 2004 to present time. She received a Bachelor of Arts (Psychology) in 1970 from Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, then Ph.D in Clinical Psychology in 1975 from State University of New York at Stony Brook.

Sandy Pearlman is an American music producer, manager, poet, and songwriter. He is best known for his work with the band Blue Öyster Cult, though he also produced bands such as The Dictators, The Clash, Pavlov's Dog, Shakin' Street, Jenifer McKitrick, and Dream Syndicate (of the Los Angeles Paisley Underground scene).

Susan R. Wessler, Ph.D. (1953-) is an American plant molecular biologist and geneticist. She is on the faculty of the University of Georgia (UGA). Wessler was born in New York City. She graduated from the Bronx High School of Science. She received her bachelor's degree in 1974 in Biology from the State University of New York at Stony Brook and her Ph.D. in Biochemistry from Cornell University in 1980.

David Hillel Gelernter (b. 1955) is a professor of computer science at Yale University. In the 1980s, he made seminal contributions to the field of parallel computation, specifically the tuple space coordination model, as embodied by the Linda programming system. Bill Joy attributes Linda as the inspiration for many elements of JavaSpaces and Jini.

Horaţiu Năstase is a Romanian physicist and professor in the High energy physics group at Brown University in Providence, RI, USA. He was born in Bucharest, Romania and finished high school at Nicolae Bălcescu High School (now Saint Sava National College). He did his undergraduate studies in the Physics Department of the University of Bucharest, graduating in 1995. His last year there he studied at the Niels Bohr Institute (NBI), Copenhagen University, …

Kristina A. Curry Rogers is a graduate of the State University of New York at Stony Brook in New York, and currently Curator of Paleontology at the Science Museum of Minnesota and Visiting Assistant Pofessor in Geology at Macalester College. Her work focuses on questions of dinosaur biology, bone histology, growth, and evolution, especially the Titanosauria, on which she wrote her doctoral dissertion.

Diane Farr (born September 7, 1969 in New York City, New York) is an American actress. She started out as a model at the age of 12.

Robert L. Gallucci (born February 11, 1946) is Dean of the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University in the United States. Before his appointment in 1996 he was employed for 21 years by various governmental and international agencies, including the Department of State and the United Nations.

Alia Sabur (born February 22 1989) is an American child prodigy. She is best known for being accepted into graduate school at the age of 14. She left public school in 4th grade, was admitted to State University of New York at Stony Brook at the age of 10, graduating summa cum laude at 14. She also received a black belt in Tae Kwon Do at the age of 9. After Stony Brook, Sabur attended Drexel University where she received her M.S. in 2006.

Srinidhi Varadarajan is the director of Terascale computing facility and an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Virginia Tech. He is also the architect of System X, one of the world's fastest and least expensive supercomputers.

Perry Kivolowitz is an American computer scientist and business person. In 1985, he co-founded Advanced Systems Design Group which built hardware for the Commodore Amiga. In 1996 he received an Academy Award for Scientific and Technical Achievement for the invention of shape driven warping and morphing exemplified in the Elastic Reality package in widespread use.

James S. Olson, a Professor of History at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas, is the author or co-author of over thirty books, usually non-fiction, and usually in the field of History. His most recent book was "Bathsheba’s Breast: Women, Cancer, and History", which won the 2002 History of Science Category Award from the Association of American Publishers.

Geoffrey K. Martin is a mathematician currently advising in the field of mathematical physics. Geoffrey is also the Associate Professor and Chair of the mathematics department at the University of Toledo. His fields of study include differential geometry, relativity, and the foundations of physics. Martin earned his Ph.D. at the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1983.<br

Peter Wentworth Bucknell (b. 1977) is an Australian-born classical violist and filmmaker residing in Manhattan in the United States.

Michael Anastasio is the director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory and president of the Los Alamos National Security LLC, the company that operates the laboratory. He is the former director of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). The University of California Board of Regents appointed Michael R. Anastasio the Director LLNL on June 4, 2002. He started on July 1, 2002. In 2005 he became the president of the Los Alamos National Security LLC, …

Joseph E. LeDoux (b. 1949), a neuroscientist, is the Henry and Lucy Moses Professor of Science, and Professor of Neuroscience and Psychology at New York University. He is also the director of the Center for the Neuroscience of Fear and Anxiety, multi-university Center in NYC devoted to using animal research to understand pathological fear and anxiety in humans. He received his Ph.D. in 1977 at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.

Bonnie Schneider (b.1969) is a CNN meteorologist. She debuted on the network on June 11, 2005, just in time to cover the 2005 Hurricane Season. Schneider has also been the Weekend Meteorologist/Special Assignment Reporter for "The Ten O'Clock News" on WLVI-TV WB56 in Boston. While in Boston, she also provided entertainment and lifestyle reporting as a special assignment reporter three days a week. Prior to WB56, she was the weekend meteorologist at WFOR-TV in Miami.

Emanuel Neto (born 1984 in Luanda, Angola) is a 6'9" basketball center currently attending Stony Brook University after transferring from San Jacinto College. Neto has also been a member of the Angola national basketball team earned 10th place in the 2006 FIBA World Championship. During the 2006-2007 season for Stony Brook, Neto's first, he averaged 4.8 points per game and 5.6 rebounds. He had a career high in both points and rebounds on January 25, 2007.

Stuart "Stu" Goldstein is a squash player from the United States. He was one of the leading hardball squash players in North America from the mid-1970s through to the mid-1980s. Goldstein was formerly a squash All-American at Stony Brook University. A significant donation from Goldstein to the university enabled the construction of the Goldstein Family Student-Athlete Development Center, which opened in 2006.

Daniel Corbett (born in Dagenham, Essex) is a British meteorologist, working for the Met Office and the BBC. He regularly appears on BBC One, BBC News 24, BBC World, BBCi, BBC Four, BFBS TV, BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio 2 and BBC Radio Five Live. He is one of the main weather forecasters on the BBC Six O'Clock News. He first joined the Met Office and BBC Weather Centre in 1997, after beginning his career in the USA.

Abraham (Avi) Silberschatz is the Sidney J. Weinberg Professor and Chair of Computer Science at Yale University. He is a fellow of the ACM (since 1996) and of the IEEE. His primary research interests are database systems, operating systems, and distributed systems. His most recent research has focused on the areas of bioscience database systems, privacy and networking. Silberschatz obtained his Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Stony Brook.

Isabel M. M. Abranches de Soveral (born 1961, Oporto) is a Portuguese composer. She studied at the Portuguese National Conservatoire with the composers Jorge Peixinho and Joly Braga Santos with a scholarship from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. In 1988, she attended the State University of New York at Stony Brook, where she studied under Daria Semegen and Bulent Arel, with support from the Gulbenkian, …

Roja Heydarpour is a journalist who writes for "The New York Times". She has written for the daily metropolitan and cultural news pages. Heydarpour is a 2006 graduate of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism

Craig Allen (born January 25, 1957, in Brooklyn, New York) is a meteorologist whose weather reports can be heard weekdays on WCBS Newsradio 880 (880 AM radio) in New York City and internationally at WCBS880.com. He is currently signed with WCBS through 2010. He previously worked for WCBS-TV until September 2006 and CBS This Morning and CBS Morning News from 1996 to October 1999.

Eric Gordon Corley, also frequently referred to by his pen name of Emmanuel Goldstein, is a figure in the hacker community. He and his non-profit organization 2600 Enterprises, Inc., together publish a magazine called "2600: The Hacker Quarterly", which Corley founded in 1984. Corley's pseudonym, Emmanuel Goldstein, is taken from the book "1984". In the book, Emmanuel Goldstein is the mysterious, …

Joshua Philip Prager MD MS (December 4 1949 -) is an American physician. Dr. Prager specializes in pain medicine. He is the current president of the North American Neuromodulation Society. He is on the Board of Directors of the International Neuromodulation society and is Vice Chair of the Pain and the Sympathetic Nervous system (PSNS) Group of the International Association for the Study of Pain.

Christoph Carl H. Adami is a professor at the California Institute of Technology and the Keck Graduate Institute. He is best known for his work in Avida which showed that irreducibly complex systems can arise through a gradual evolutionary process. He received the NASA Exceptional Achievement Medal while serving at JPL.

Amelia 'Amie' Roosevelt (born June 8, 1966) is an American classical violinist who has performed widely in North America and Europe. The daughter of economist Franklin Delano Roosevelt, III and Grace R. Goodyear, she is the twin of brother Nicholas Martin Roosevelt. She is the great granddaughter of US president Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt. Amie Roosevelt graduated from the Manhattan Country School, …

Rachel J. Begley is a professional recorder virtuoso from England, now based in Long Island, New York, U.S.A. She has perfomed and interacted with many of the leading recorder players of this generation, including the Flanders Recorder Quartet. She is a founding member of the New Amsterdam Recorder Trio (NewART) and Sympatica. She has performed as a soloist at the Boston Early Music Festival and the Berkeley Early Music Festival

Mitchell B. Fox (born 1955) is the current Group President and Publishing Director of Conde Nast Publications. Mr. Fox joined the company in 1989 when he became Publisher of Details magazine. Under his five years of leadership there, the magazine's circulation quintupled. In 1993, Details was honored as AdAge's Magazine of the Year. In 1994, Mr. Fox became Publisher of Vanity Fair. While he was Publisher, Vanity Fair had five consecutive years of growth, …