- Imette St. Guillen
Imette Carmella St. Guillen (March 2, 1981 - February 25, 2006) was a Venezuelan American Boston graduate student and murder victim. She studied criminology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City.
- David Kaplan
David Benjamin Kaplan (born 1933) is an American philosopher and logician teaching at UCLA. His philosophical work focuses on logic, philosophical logic, modality, philosophy of language, metaphysics, and epistemology. He is best known for his work on demonstratives, on propositions, and on reference in intensional contexts. Kaplan received his Ph.D. in philosophy from UCLA in 1964, where he was the last graduate student mentored by Rudolf Carnap.
- Sami Omar Al-Hussayen
Sami Omar Al-Hussayen, a native of Saudi Arabia and graduate student in Computer Science at the University of Idaho, is a webmaster whose actions placed him at the center of a Patriot Act lawsuit. Allegedly a major force within the Islamic Assembly of North America, Al-Hussayen ran websites that allegedly recruited, funded, and otherwise supported Islamic terrorists within the United States.
- Tom Truscott
Tom Truscott is a computer scientist best known for creating Usenet with Jim Ellis, when both were graduate students at Duke University.
- Jill Tarter
Jill Cornell Tarter (born 1944) is an American astronomer and the current director of the Center for SETI Research. She holds the Bernard M. Oliver Chair for SETI at the SETI Institute. Tarter received her undergraduate education at Cornell University and her PhD from the University of California. Tarter has worked on a number of major scientific projects, most relating to the search for extraterrestrial life.
- Chris Burden
Chris Burden (born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1946) is an American artist. He studied visual arts, physics and architecture at Pomona College and the University of California, Irvine from 1969 to 1971. In 1978 he became a Professor at University of California, Los Angeles, …
- Paul Horowitz
Paul Horowitz (born 1942) is a U.S. physicist and electrical engineer, known primarily for his work in electronics design, as well as for his role in the search for extra-terrestrial intelligence (see SETI). At age 8, Horowitz achieved distinction as the world's youngest amateur radio operator (or "ham"). He went on to study physics at Harvard University (B.A., 1965; M.A., 1967; Ph.D., 1970), where he has also spent all of his subsequent career.
- Autherine Lucy
Autherine Juanita Lucy was the first black student to attend the University of Alabama in 1956. She was born on October 5 1929 in Shiloh, Alabama and graduated from the high school of Linden Academy in 1947. She went on to attend the Selma University in Selma, and the all-black Miles College in Fairfield - where she graduated with a BA in English in 1952. Later in 1952, she decided to attend the University of Alabama as a graduate student but, …
- James Kakalios
James Kakalios is a physics professor at the University of Minnesota. Known within the scientific community for his work with amorphous semiconductors, granular materials, and 1/f noise, he is known to the general public as the author of the book "The Physics of Superheroes", which considers comic book superheroes from the standpoint of fundamental physics. Kakalios, who earned PhD from the University of Chicago in 1985, …
- Ardeth Wood
Ardeth Wood (October 28, 1975 - August 6, 2003) was a graduate student at the University of Waterloo who was killed in a forcible drowning in the city of Ottawa. The initial search for Ms. Wood was one of the largest search efforts in the city's history, and the two-year search for her killer was one of the largest manhunts in Canada.
- Theodore Streleski
Theodore Streleski was a graduate student in mathematics at Stanford University who murdered his former faculty adviser, the professor Karel de Leeuw, with a ball peen hammer in August 1978. Shortly after the murder, Streleski turned himself in to the authorities, claiming he felt the murder was justifiable homicide because de Leeuw had withheld departmental awards from him and demeaned Streleski in front of his peers.
- Fountain Avenue
Fountain Avenue, located in Brooklyn, New York is a site off of the Belt Parkway, specifically Exit 15, which exit is Erskine Street, and which is composed of mostly landfill and has areas of forest growth. There are various nature groups, city groups, etc. concerned with the development of this area. Fountain Avenue has also been know infamously as a dumping ground for bodies of the Mob.
- Anna Chlumsky
Anna Chlumsky (born December 3, 1980 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American actress. She entered show business at an early age modeling with her mother in an advertising campaign. She is best known for playing Vada Sultenfuss in the 1991 movie "My Girl". She was in Gold Diggers: The Secret of Bear Mountain with Christina Ricci, in which they "clown around" on a "haunted" mountain.
- Drew Massey
Drew Massey is a puppeteer for The Jim Henson Company for the Muppets and has performed in many TV shows, movies, TV commercials. He also lends his voice for commercials and video games. His film credits include The Muppets' Wizard of Oz, The Producers (2005 film), Dr. Dolittle, Cats & Dogs, Team America, and Men In Black I and Men in Black II. Drew has also performed on TV in Greg the Bunny, Angel, Malcolm in the Middle, Muppets Tonight, Cousin Skeeter, …
- Robert Kennicutt
Robert C. Kennicutt, Jr. is an American astronomer. He is the Plumian Professor of Astronomy at the University of Cambridge and formerly had been the Editor-in-Chief of the Astrophysical Journal (1999-2006). His research interests include the structure and evolution of galaxies and star formation in galaxies. He received his bachelor's degree in physics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1973. He was a graduate student in astronomy at the University of Washington, …
- Michael Minovitch
Michael Minovitch is an American mathematician who showed that spacecraft trajectories could be designed such that they could gain velocity by travelling close to a planet orbiting the sun. This gravity assist technique was developed in the early 1960s when he was a UCLA graduate student working summers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
- Bernard Morin
Bernard Morin is a French mathematician, especially a topologist, born in 1931, who is now retired. He has been blind since age 6, but his blindness did not prevent him from having a successful career in mathematics. Morin was a member of the group that first exhibited an eversion of the sphere, i.e. a homotopy (topological metamorphosis) which starts with a sphere and ends with the same sphere but turned inside-out.
- Allen Britton
Allen Perdue Britton was an American music educator. Through his many passions in life he contributed to the field of music education by bringing the doctoral program up to the same stature as the field of musicology. He was the one who actually developed the doctorate program at the University of Michigan and eventually directed 51 dissertations there. He contributed heavily to the field of understanding of music practices in early America, …
- Anjan Dutta
Anjan Dutta is a popular artist of the 1990s Bengali music scene defined by "anyodharar gaan" (alternative songs). He passed his childhood in St Pauls School,Darjeeling, a Himalayan township of West Bengal. He holds an MA degree in English literature from the University of Calcutta, in India. Anjan started his career as an actor in Bengali cinema. His first film was "Chalachitro" directed by Mrinal Sen, where he won the prize for the best newcomer actor, …
- Amos Griswold Warner
Amos Griswold Warner, (1861 - 1900) was an influential American social worker. While a graduate student of economics at Johns Hopkins University, he became a general agent of the Charity Society of Baltimore in 1887. Among his many influential acts during this time, Warner developed a system for the statistical analysis of social cases. Going against the majority view of his day, …
- Michael Petracca
Michael Petracca (born 1947) is an American novelist. He teaches general composition and creative nonfiction in the writing program at the University of California, Santa Barbara. "Gaviota Buzzard Club troubadour" (2006) His two novels, "Doctor Syntax" and "Captain Zzyzx", both feature Harmon Nails III as a protagonist. In "Doctor Syntax" (set in the Los Angeles area), Nails is a graduate student struggling to finish his dissertation.
- Lauro Moscardini
Lauro Moscardini is an Italian astrophysicist and cosmologist. He was a graduate student in astronomy at the University of Bologna, where he received both his laurea and his Ph.D.. He is currently holding the position of professor of cosmology at the University of Bologna.
- Ruth Harkin
Ruth R. Harkin Ruth R. Harkin , 62, senior vice president, international affairs and government relations, for United Technologies Corporation (UTC) and chair of United Technologies International, UTC’s international representation arm, from 1997 to 2005. CEO and president of Overseas Private Investment Corporation from 1993 to 1997. Also a member of the board of regents, the state of Iowa, and a director of Bowater Incorporated. Lives in Alexandria, Va.
- Julie Dash
Dash began her study of film in 1969 at the Studio Museum of Harlem. As an undergraduate, she studied psychology until she was accepted into the film school at the Leonard Davis Center for the Performing Arts. Before she graduated, she wrote and produced a promotional documentary for the New York Urban Coalition called Working Models of Success.
- Brian A. Britt
Brian A. Britt is Assistant Director of the School of Music, Assistant Professor of Music, and Director of The Pride of Oklahoma Marching Band at the University of Oklahoma. Britt is only the fifth person to hold the position since the first full-time director of The Pride was hired in 1929. As Assistant Director and Coordinator of Undergraduate Studies, Britt oversees the entire undergraduate program for the OU School of Music. He is Conductor of the OU Symphony Band, …
- Walter Mauderli
Walter Mauderli, DSc, (March 8, 1924 - March 27, 2005). Mauderli was a pioneer in the development of the field of medical physics. He earned his doctorate from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology under the instruction of notable physicists as Nobel Laureate physicist Wolfgang Pauli. Mauderli trained in the dosimetry of low- and high-energy radiations at the University of Zurich Medical Center with Professor Rolf Wideroe, the developer of particle accelerators.
- Alan Turing
This short on-line biography of Alan Turing is based on the entry I wrote for the British Dictionary of National Biography in 1995. The eight parts correspond roughly to the eight sections of my full biography Alan Turing : the enigma. There are no hyperlinks in the text. For links and for more images, go to the corresponding page of the Alan Turing Internet Scrapbook. Part 8 - Alan Turing 's Crisis
- Madeleine Korbel Albright
Madeleine Albright (1937 - ) was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia. As the Nazis invaded that country before World War II, Albright and her family fled and eventually settled in the U.S. She graduated from Wellesley College in Massachusetts, and she later received master's and doctorate degrees from Columbia University in New York. By the late 1970s, she was working in the White House for President Jimmy Carter 's national security team.
- John Mearsheimer
John J. Mearsheimer is the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science and the co-director of the Program on International Security Policy at the University of Chicago, where he has taught since 1982. He graduated from West Point in 1970 and then served five years as an officer in the U.S. Air Force. He then started graduate school in political science at Cornell University in 1975. He received his Ph.D. in 1980.
- Thorstein Veblen
Thorstein Bunde Veblen (born Tosten Bunde Veblen July 30, 1857 - August 3, 1929) was a Norwegian-American sociologist and economist and a founder, along with John R. Commons, of the Institutional economics movement. He was an impassioned critic of the performance of the American economy, and is most famous for his book "The Theory of the Leisure Class" (1899).
- Leonard Kleinrock
Kleinrock, Leonard Based on his Ph.D. work at MIT on computer networking, Kleinrock was asked to join ARPA to work on a unified network in response to Sputnik. Kleinrock's work with ARPA led directly to the creation of the ARPANET (the precursor to the Internet), and UCLA, where Kleinrock had been a professor since 1963, was the first node to join the ARPANET. Kleinrock is currently a professor of computer science at UCLA and is chairman and founder of Nomadix.
- Andrea Ghez
A world-class observational astrophysicist and professor of astronomy at UCLA, Andrea Ghez 's discoveries have won her awards and fellowships, helped get her elected into the highly prestigious National Academy of Sciences, and earned her acclaim in Discover magazine as one of the top 20 young American scientists who "will likely change our fundamental understanding of the world and our place in it."
- Liza Dalby
Liza Dalby is an anthropologist and a novelist. She is the only westerner to have become a geisha, which she did in the course of researching her book, Geisha . She has also written Kimono A Fashioning Culture, a view of Japanese culture through dress. Her first novel, The Tale of Murasaki , was published in Spring 2000.
- Edward Felten
Edward Felten, a Princeton University computer scientist, hid and disabled the browser with a removal program he wrote while serving as a government witness during the antitrust trial in 1998. But in court, Microsoft adroitly demonstrated that, the way its software is written, Internet Explorer shows up unexpectedly now and then -- no matter how well the program is hidden -- backing its contention that the browser is integral to the operating system.
- Jane Fernandes
UNC Asheville as Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs in July 2008. As an academic leader and educator of national prominence, her life's work-creating inclusive academic excellence in education at all levels-has taken her from Hawaii to the Atlantic seaboard. She earned a Master's degree and a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of Iowa. Her undergraduate degree is in French and Comparative Literature from Trinity College in Hartford, Conn.
- Errol Morris
Since the premiere of his groundbreaking 1978 film, "Gates of Heaven," Errol Morris has indelibly altered our perception of the non-fiction film, presenting to audiences the mundane, bizarre and history-making with his own distinctive elan. ... Recently, Morris was highly praised for his short film that ran at the front of the 2002 Academy Awards, where he asked an admixture of anonymous and well-known people outside the movie business to talk about what they love about movies.
- Jared Van Snellenberg
Jared Van Snellenberg was born and raised in Vancouver, BC, Canada. He developed a strong interest in acting from a young age, and had started training in various local film and theatre courses by the age of 11. At the age of 14 he made his film debut as Adam Sandler's caddy in Happy Gilmore (1996), who was the first of three "Saturday Night Live" (1975) cast members with whom Jared has had the opportunity to work alongside in feature films (also Jon Lovitz in Rat Race (2001) and...
- Rachel Penrod
neuroscience is my life, and yours but you didn't really realize it until now.
- Kyle Gracey
Kyle Gracey is a joint graduate student in public policy and environmental science at the University of Chicago. He graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 2006 with degrees in Ecological Economics, Values & Policy and Biochemistry/Biophysics. At RPI, he was the Treasurer and later President of EcoLogic, the school's environmental organization, as well as a founding member and Vice President of Finance for RPI's chapter of Engineers for a Sustainable World.
- Chen Yang
To work in a information service company with challenging environment as a Java/C/C++ Developer. Looking for vertical search, social-networking, Web 2.0, or semantic web related company but also not limited to work for other companies in information technology industry.