- Marc Andreessen
Marc Andreessen (born July 9, 1971, in New Lisbon, Wisconsin) is the chair of Opsware, a software company, and cofounder of Ning, a consumer Internet company. He is best known as a cofounder of Netscape Communications Corporation and co-author of Mosaic, the first widely-used web browser. In 2005, it was revealed that he is one of the people behind Ning, which recently launched a free "playground" for social software. - Wen-Mei Hwu
Wen-mei W. Hwu is the Walter J. ("Jerry") Sanders - Advanced Micro Devices Endowed Chair in Electrical and Computer Engineering in the Coordinated Science Laboratory of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. From 1997 to 1999, Dr. Hwu served as the chairman of the Computer Engineering Program at the University of Illinois. His research interest is in the area of architecture, implementation, and software for high-performance computer systems. - Walt Harris
Walt Harris (born November 9, 1946 in South San Francisco, California) is a football coach. Most recently, Harris was the head coach of the football team at Stanford University. In his first season as head coach there he posted a record of 5-6. In his second season as head coach he posted a 1-11 record, the school's worst since going 0-10 in 1960. He was fired on December 4, 2006, two days after Stanford's regular season ended. - Walt Harris
Walt Harris (born November 9, 1946 in South San Francisco, California) is a football coach. Most recently, Harris was the head coach of the football team at Stanford University. In his first season as head coach there he posted a record of 5-6. In his second season as head coach he posted a 1-11 record, the school's worst since going 0-10 in 1960. He was fired on December 4, 2006, two days after Stanford's regular season ended. - Michael Gorman
Michael Gorman (b. 1941), grew up in London, England and gained an interest in libraries in part through his experiences at the Hendon library run by Eileen Colwell. He attended Ealing Technical College (now Thames Valley University) in London from 1964-1966. - Arrelious Benn
Arrelious Benn (born September 8,1988) is a wide receiver who used to play for Dunbar High School's football team. According to his profile on Scout.com, Benn is a 5-star recruit and is ranked number 2 amongst all high school wide receivers in the United States. Benn is widely known as the greatest player in Dunbar's history. On November 9, 2006, Benn verbally committed to the University of Illinois. - Daniel Goleman
Daniel Goleman , PhD: Dr. Goleman was a co-founder of the Collaborative for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning at the Yale University Child Studies Center (now at the University of Illinois at Chicago), with the mission to help schools introduce emotional literacy courses. One mark of the Collaborative—and book’s—impact is that thousands of schools around the world have begun to implement such programs. - Mike White
Mike White is an American football coach. He has 16 years experience as a head coach, including stints at the University of California (1972-1977), the University of Illinois (1980-1987) and the Oakland Raiders (1995-1996). During his successful college coaching career, White was twice named National Coach of the Year, first in 1975 where he coached a team led by Joe Roth, Chuck Muncie and Wesley Walker to the Pac-8 co-championship. - Max Levchin
Max Levchin (b. 1975) is a Russian-born American computer scientist and entrepreneur widely known as co-founder (with Peter Thiel) and former Chief technology officer of PayPal. Originally from Kiev, Ukraine (then part of the Soviet Union), he moved to Chicago, Illinois in 1991. He received his bachelor's degree in computer science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1997 and co-founded two companies that made Internet-tools, … - Robin Wilson
Robin Scott Wilson (born September 19, 1928 in Columbus, Ohio) is an American science fiction author and editor, and former President of California State University, Chico. Wilson earned a BA degree from Ohio State University in 1949, before spending a year in the Merchant Marine. He then went back to school, obtaining an MA at the University of Illinois. He served in military intelligence in the United States Navy for several years, … - Hassan Aref
Dr. Hassan Aref (b. 1950) is the Reynolds Metals Professor in the Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics at Virginia Tech, and the Niels Bohr Visiting Professor at the Technical University of Denmark. Prior to joining Virginia Tech as Dean of Engineering in 2003-2005 Aref was Head of the Department of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for a decade from 1992-2003. - Sasaki Associates
Sasaki Associates is an architecture, landscape architecture, and urban planning firm founded in 1953 by Hideo Sasaki (1919-2000). Sasaki was educated at the University of California, Berkeley, the University of Illinois, and Harvard University. He served as chair of the Department of Landscape Architecture at Harvard from 1958 to 1968. Sasaki Associates has created a wide range of buildings, landscapes, and urban infrastructure. - Bernard Rands
Bernard Rands (b. Sheffield, England, 2 March 1934) is a composer of contemporary classical music. Born in England in 1934, he studied music and English literature at the University of Wales, Bangor. He studied composition and conducting with Pierre Boulez and Bruno Maderna in Darmstadt, Germany, and with Luigi Dallapiccola and Luciano Berio in Milan, Italy. He held residencies at Princeton University, the University of Illinois, … - Jon Burgstone
Mr. Burgstone is Managing Director of Symbol Capital, a San Francisco-based hedge fund, where he leads the firm's activities in portfolio management and research. Mr. Burgstone also served as Founding Faculty Chair and is currently Adjunct Professor of the Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology at the University of California, Berkeley. Earlier in his career he was co-founder and CEO of SupplierMarket, a leading internet supply chain software provider. - Ralph Cicerone
Ralph J. Cicerone became president of The National Academy of Sciences in 2005. His research in atmospheric chemistry and climate science has involved him in shaping science and environmental policy at the highest levels, nationally and internationally. - J. D. Jackson
John David Jackson (born 1925) is a Canadian-American physics professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley and a senior staff physicist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and is well-known for his publication of the most widely used graduate textbook on electrodynamics. Jackson attended the University of Western Ontario, receiving a B.Sc. in physics in 1946. He went on to graduate study at MIT, … - Glen Mason
Glen O. Mason (born April 9, 1950 in Colonia, New Jersey) is the former college football head coach of the University of Minnesota. He was officially fired on December 31, 2006. Prior to coaching the Gophers, Mason was head coach for Kent State University 1986-87 and the University of Kansas from 1988 to 1996, with previous assistant stints at the University of Illinois, Ohio State, Ball State, Iowa State, and Allegheny College. - Hannah Higgins
Hannah Higgins (born 1964) is an American writer and academic living in Chicago, Illinois. She is the daughter of the Fluxus artists, Dick Higgins and Alison Knowles. She is the author of one of the most important histories of the Fluxus movement, "Fluxus Experience", published in 2002 by the University of California Press. Higgins is the associate dean for facilities for the College of Architecture and the Arts, … - Alfred Caldwell
Alfred Caldwell (1903-1998) was an American architect best known for his landscape architecture in and around Chicago, Illinois. - Mac van Valkenburg
Mac Van Valkenburg (b. 1921, Utah - d. Orem, Utah, March 19 1997) was an electrical engineer ("EE"). He graduated from the University of Utah in 1943 with a Bachelors degree in "EE", received an Masters degree in "EE" from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1946, and a PhD in "EE" from Stanford University in 1952. Van Valkenburg was a professor at the University of Illinois from 1955-1966, … - Allan Sandage
Allan Rex Sandage (born June 18 1926 in Iowa City, Iowa) is an American astronomer. - Lee Cronbach
Lee J. Cronbach (1916 - 2001) was an American educational psychologist who made significant contributions to psychological testing and measurement. Born in Fresno, California, Cronbach received a bachelor's degree from Fresno State College and a master's degree from the University of California, Berkeley. In 1940, he received a doctorate in educational psychology from the University of Chicago. After teaching mathematics and chemistry at Fresno High School, … - Christine Korsgaard
Christine M. Korsgaard (born in 1952 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American philosopher whose main academic interests are in moral philosophy and its history; the relation of issues in moral philosophy to issues in metaphysics, the philosophy of mind, and the theory of personal identity; in the theory of personal relationships; and in normativity in general. She taught at Yale, the University of California at Santa Barbara, … - Phillip A. Sharp
Phillip A. Sharp received the 1993 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Much of Sharp's scientific work has been conducted at MIT's Center for Cancer Research, which he joined in 1974 and directed from 1985 to 1991. He subsequently led the Department of Biology from 1991 to 1999. Sharp is co-founder of Biogen, Inc and also co-founder of Alnylam Pharmaceuticals. - Stuart Dempster
Stuart Dempster , born in Berkeley, California in 1936, studied performance and composition at San Francisco State College. From 1962-66 he was principal trombone in the Oakland Symphony under Gerhard Samuel and, since 1968, he has been on the faculty of University of Washington. - Robert M. Hayes
Robert M. Hayes (b. 1926) is Professor Emeritus and former dean of the School of Library Service (1974-1989), now the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies at UCLA. He jointly taught mathematics and information science. Hayes was twice president of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, formerly known as the American Documentation Institute (1962-1963 and 1967-1968). - James Brown Scott
James Brown Scott, J.U.D. was an American authority on international law. Scott was born at Kincardine, Ontario, Canada. He was educated at Harvard University (A.B., 1890; A.M., 1891). As Parker fellow of Harvard he traveled in Europe and studied in Berlin, Heidelberg (J.U.D.), and Paris. Following his return to the United States, he practiced law at Los Angeles, Cal. from 1894 to 1899. He founded the law school at the University of Southern California, and was its dean, … - Reynold C. Fuson
Reynold Clayton Fuson was born in Wakefield, Illinois, on June 1, 1895. He died August 4, 1979. Fuson attended Central Normal College in Danville, Indiana, where after one year in 1914 he was certified as a teacher. He received a Bachelors Degree in chemistry from the University of Montana, a Masters Degree from the University of California at Berkeley, and a PhD from the University of Minnesota. - Robert Mehrabian
Robert Mehrabian , is chairman of the board, president and CEO of Teledyne Technologies Inc. He has been a PPG director since 1992. Officers-Directors Compensation Committee; Technology and Environment Committee Robert Ripp , is chairman of Lightpath Technologies and former chairman and CEO of AMP Inc. He has been a PPG director since 2003. Audit Committee; Officers-Directors Compensation Committee - Larry N. Vanderhoef
Larry N. Vanderhoef (born 1941) is currently the chancellor of UC Davis. He received his B.A. and M.S. in biology from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and a Ph.D. in plant biochemistry from Purdue University. - Wendell Meredith Stanley
Wendell Meredith Stanley (August 16, 1904 - June 15, 1971) was an American biochemist, virologist and Nobel prize laureate. He was born in Ridgeville, Indiana, and earned a BS in Chemistry at Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana. He then studied at the University of Illinois, gaining a MS in science in 1927 followed by a Ph.D. in chemistry two years later. - Marvin Lipofsky
Marvin Lipofsky (b. September 1, 1938) is an American glass artist. He was a central figure in the spread of the American studio glass movement, introducing it to California. Lipofsky was born in Barrington, Illinois. In 1962, he earned a BFA in Industrial Design from the University of Illinois, and he went on to earn both an MS and an MFA in Sculpture from the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 1964. - Joel Stebbins
Joel Stebbins (July 30 1878 - March 16 1966) was an American astronomer who pioneered photoelectric photometry in astronomy. He earned his Ph.D at the University of California. He was director of University of Illinois observatory from 1903 to 1922 and the Washburn Observatory at the University of Wisconsin-Madison from 1922 to 1948. After 1948, Stebbins continued his research at Lick Observatory until his final retirement in 1958. - John C. Lilly
John Cunningham Lilly (January 6, 1915 - September 30, 2001) was an American physician, psychoanalyst and writer. He was a pioneer researcher into the nature of consciousness using as his principal tools the isolation tank, dolphin communication and psychedelic drugs, sometimes in combination. He was a prominent member of the Californian counterculture of scientists, mystics and thinkers that arose in the late 1960s and early 70s. - Gene Bartow
Gene Bartow (born August 18, 1930) is a former college men's basketball coach. The Browning, Missouri native coached 34 years at six universities. He coached at Central Missouri State University from 1961-64, Valparaiso University from 1964-1970, Memphis State University from 1970 until '74, and he led the Tigers to the '73 NCAA national championship game and consecutive Missouri Valley Conference titles in the '71-'72 and '72-'73 seasons. - Frank Baron
Frank Martin Baron (July 7, 1914, Chicago, Illinois - October 17, 1994) served as professor of civil engineering at University of California, Berkeley and held an international reputation as an expert in the fields of bridge and roof-structure design, and seismic and wind analysis. He was twice the recipient of the prized Leon S. Moisseiff Award issued annually by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), and among his manifold professional affiliations, … - Alex Fraser
Alex Fraser (1923-2002) was a major innovator in the development of the computer modeling of population genetics and his work has stimulated many advances in genetic research over the past decades. His efforts in the 1950s and 1960s had a profound impact on the development of computational models of evolutionary systems. His seminal work, "Simulation of genetic systems by automatic digital computers" (1958), is quoted in the literature to this day. - John Carbon
John A. Carbon, Ph.D. is a Professor Emeritus of molecular and cellular biology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He got his B.S. degree in chemistry in 1952 at the University of Illinois, and his Ph.D. degree in Biochemistry in 1955 from Northwestern University. He did basic research in taking new drugs at Abbott Laboratories (North Chicago, IL) for 12 years (1956-1968). He joined the faculty of the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1968, … - Jameson Marvin
Jameson Neil Marvin (b. 1941, Glendale CA) is an American choral conductor, arranger, and editor who since 1978 has directed the Harvard Glee Club, the Radcliffe Choral Society, and the Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum (collectively the Holden Choirs) and taught choral conducting at Harvard University. He studied at the University of California, Santa Barbara, Stanford, and the University of Illinois, working primarily with Howard Swann and Robert Shaw, … - M. Anthony Lewis
M. Anthony Lewis, Ph.D., is a robotics researcher and CEO of Iguana Robotics, a company specialising in the development of biomorphic robotics technologies. Lewis received his Ph.D. at the University of Southern California under the guidance of Michael Arbib and George Bekey. He has served on the faculty of the University of California, Los Angeles and the University of Illinois. He is known for his work in evolutionary and biomorphic robotics, …
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