- Eric Schmidt
Eric Emerson Schmidt, Ph.D (b. 1955 in Washington, D.C.) is Chairman and CEO of Google Inc and a member of the Board of Directors of Apple Inc. He also sits on the Princeton University Board of Trustees. He lives in Atherton, California with his wife Wendy. - Michael Lewis
Michael Lewis (born 1960, New Orleans, Louisiana) is an American contemporary non-fiction author. His bestselling books include "Liar's Poker", "The New New Thing," "Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game" and "The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game". After graduating from the Isidore Newman School in New Orleans, he received an art history degree from Princeton University and a masters degree in economics from the London School of Economics. - Stephen Chou
Stephen Y. Chou, Joseph C. Elgin Professor of Engineering and the head of the NanoStructure Laboratory at Princeton University, is a world leader, pioneer, and inventor in a broad range of nanotechnologies. Dr. Chou received his PhD from MIT in 1986. He was a Research Associate and Acting Assistant Professor at Stanford University (1986--1989), and a faculty member at the University of Minnesota (1989-1991, Assistant Prof, 1991-1994, Associate Prof, … - Walter Lord
Walter Lord was an American author, best known for his documentary-style non-fiction account "A Night to Remember", about the sinking of the RMS "Titanic". Lord was born in Baltimore, Maryland to John Walterhouse and Henrietta Hoffman. His father was a lawyer who died when Walter was just three years old. Following high school at Baltimore's Gilman School, he studied history at Princeton University, graduating in 1939. - Perry R. Cook
Perry R. Cook attended the University of Missouri at Kansas City Conservatory of Music from 1973 to 1977, studying voice and electronic music. He worked as a sound engineer and designer from 1976 - 1981. He received the BA in music 1985, and the BS in Electrical Engineering in 1986 from UMKC. He received a Masters and PhD in Electrical Engineering from Stanford in 1990. - Hal Abelson
Harold (Hal) Abelson is Class of 1922 Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT and a Fellow of the IEEE. He holds an A.B. degree from Princeton University and a Ph.D. degree in mathematics from MIT. He joined the MIT faculty in 1973. In 1992, Abelson was designated as one of MIT's six inaugural MacVicar Faculty Fellows, in recognition of his significant and sustained contributions to teaching and undergraduate education. - Robert Calderbank
A. Robert Calderbank is a professor of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Applied and Computational Mathematics at Princeton University. He received a BSc degree from Warwick University in 1975, an MSc degree from Oxford University in 1976, England, and a PhD degree from the California Institute of Technology, all in mathematics. He became a member of the technical staff at Bell Labs in 1980. - Bob Kahn
Robert E. Kahn, (born December 23 1938) invented the TCP protocol, and along with Vinton G. Cerf created the IP protocol, the technologies used to transmit information on the Internet. After receiving a B.E.E. from the City College of New York in 1960, Dr. Kahn earned M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Princeton University in 1962 and 1964 respectively. In 1972 he moved to DARPA (back then known as just ARPA), and in October of that year, … - Stuart Feldman
Stuart Feldman received an A.B. in Astrophysical Sciences from Princeton University and a Ph.D in Applied Mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is best known as the creator of the make computer software for Unix systems. He was also an author of the first Fortran 77 compiler, and he was part of the original group at Bell Labs that created the Unix operating system. Until recently, he was the Vice President of Computer Science at IBM Research. - George B. McClellan
George Brinton McClellan (December 3 1826 - October 29 1885) was a major general during the American Civil War. He organized the famous Army of the Potomac and served briefly (November 1861 to March 1862) as the general-in-chief of the Union Army. Early in the war, McClellan played an important role in raising a well-trained and organized army for the Union. However, although McClellan was meticulous in his planning and preparations, … - Richard Maxfield
Richard Maxfield was a composer of instrumental, electro-acoustic, and electronic music. Born in Seattle, he most likely taught the first University-level course in electronic music in America at the New School for Social Research. As a student at Berkeley and in Europe in the 1950's, he composed instrumental scores in a Neo-Classical style and then adopting 12-tone techniques, eventually studying at Princeton University with Milton Babbitt. - Andrew Goodpaster
Andrew Jackson Goodpaster (12 February 1915 in Granite City, Illinois - 16 May 2005) was a notable American general. He served as NATO's Supreme Allied Commander, Europe from 1 July, 1969 and Commander in Chief, United States European Command from 5 May 1969 until his retirement 17 December 1974. He returned to service in June 1977 as the 51st Superintendent of the United States Military Academy at West Point until he retired again in July 1981. - Claire F. Gmachl
Dr. Claire F. Gmachl is an associate professor of Electrical Engineering at Princeton University. She is best known for her work in the development of quantum cascade lasers. - 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, … - Arnold Reisman
Arnold Reisman (born August 2, 1934) is an American engineer, historian and author living in Shaker Heights, Ohio. Arnold Reisman was born in Lodz, Poland, in 1934. He came to the United States after World War II and graduated from New York's Stuyvesant Height School of Math and Science in 1951. He received his BS, MS, and PhD degrees in engineering from University of California, Los Angeles. He is a registered Professional Engineer in California, Wisconsin, and Ohio, … - John Bach McMaster
John Bach McMaster was an American historian. He was born in Brooklyn, New York. He graduated from the college of the City of New York in 1872, worked as a civil engineer in 1873-1877, was instructor in civil engineering at Princeton University in 1877-1883, and in 1883 became professor of American history in the University of Pennsylvania. - Gwilym Jenkins
Gwilym Meirion Jenkins was a British statistician and systems engineer. His most notable contribution was pioneering work with George Box on autoregressive moving average models, also called Box-Jenkins models, in time-series analysis. He earned a first class honors degree in Mathematics in 1953 followed by a Ph.D. at University College London in 1956. After graduating, he married the former Margaret Bellingham and raised three children. - Gerard J. Foschini
Gerard J. Foschini, born in Jersey City, New Jersey is a telecommunications engineer who has worked for Bell Laboratories since 1961. His research has covered many kinds of data communications, particularly wireless communications and optical communications. Foschini has also worked on point-to-point systems and networks. Foschini received the B.S.E.E. degree from the New Jersey Institute of Technology, … - Hewitt Crane
Hewitt D. Crane is an American engineer best known for his pioneering work at SRI International on ERMA (Electronic Recording Machine, Accounting), for Bank of America; magnetic digital logic; neuristor logic; the development of an eye-movement tracking device; and a pen-input device for computers. After a stint in the U.S. Navy as a radar technician, he worked as a computer maintenance technician for IBM (1949-1952), … - Harlan James Smith
Harlan James Smith (August 25, 1924-October 17, 1991) was an American astronomer. He was born in Wheeling, West Virginia, the son of Paul and Anna McGregor Smith. While attending Wheeling High School he was named first runner up in the "Westinghouse National Science Talent Search". From 1943 until the end of World War II he served in the U.S. Army Air Corps, performing weather observation. Following the war he attended Harvard University, earning a B.A. in 1949. - Thomas M. Connelly
Thomas M. Connelly, Jr. was born in Toledo, Ohio in 1952. In 1974, he graduated with highest honors from Princeton University with degrees in both Chemical Engineering and Economics. As a Winston Churchill Scholar, he received his Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the University of Cambridge. Thomas M. Connelly, Jr. is currently Executive Vice President, Chief Innovation Officer and a member of the Office of the Chief Executive of E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company in Wilmington, … - Ernest Lester Jones
Colonel Ernest Lester Jones (April 14, 1876 - April 9, 1929) was born in East Orange, New Jersey and was commissioned a hydrographic and geodetic engineer. In addition to extended study abroad, he held an A. B. degree and an honorary A. M. degree conferred by Princeton University. - Thomas Brzustowski
Thomas Anthony Brzustowski (born 1937) is a Canadian engineer, academic, and civil servant. Born in Warsaw, he came to Canada with his family when he was 11. He received a B.A.Sc. in engineering physics from the University of Toronto in 1958. He received an A.M. from Princeton University in 1960 and a Ph.D. in aeronautical engineering in 1963. He then joined the University of Waterloo teaching in the department of mechanical engineering. - James R. Thompson Jr.
James R. Thompson, Jr. was the fifth Director of the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center. He served as Director from September 29, 1986 to July 6, 1989. - James Smith McDonnell
James Smith McDonnell (April 9, 1899 - August 22, 1980) was an aviation pioneer and founder of McDonnell Aircraft Corporation, later McDonnell Douglas. McDonnell (or "Mac" as he was often referred) was a graduate of Princeton University and earned a Master's of Science in Aeronautical Engineering from MIT. After graduating from MIT, he worked for the Huff Daland Airplane Company and Glenn L. Martin Company. - Robert Cornog
Robert Alden Cornog (1912-1998), was a physicist and engineer who helped develop the atomic bomb and missile systems from the Snark to the Minuteman. A native of Portland, Oregon, who grew up in Iowa City, Cornog earned a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering at the University of Iowa. After working for the United States Bureau of Reclamation on the Boulder Dam design, he studied at UC Berkeley for his doctorate in physics. - Louis Witten
Louis Witten is an American theoretical physicist and the father of Edward Witten. Witten's research has centered around classical gravitation, including the discovery of certain exact electrovacuum solutions to the Einstein field equation. He edited an important review (see citation below) which contains papers by leading contributors such as ADM (Arnowitt, Deser, and Misner), Choquet-Bruhat, Ehlers and Kundt, Goldberg, … - Richard R. Hough
Richard Ralston Hough (1917 in Trenton, New Jersey - July 9, 1992 in Concord, New Hampshire) was a Bell Labs engineer and AT&T executive. Hough received his B.S. in 1939 and a graduate degree in 1940 in electrical engineering from Princeton University. In 1980 Hough received the IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal for his role in the introduction of electronic telephone switching. - Raymond A. Price
Raymond Alexander Price P.Eng, PhD, OC, FRSC (b. March 25, 1933) is an award winning Canadian geologist. He has used his research on the structure and tectonics of North America’s lithosphere to produce extensive geological maps. He has also provided guidance for nuclear fuel waste disposal and reports on the human contribution to Global warming. Price was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. He obtained his BSc in Geology from the University of Manitoba in 1955. - James Hart Wyld
James Hart Wyld (1913-1953) was an American engineer and rocketry scientist. In 1931 he joined the American Interplanetary Society, later renamed the American Rocket Society. He worked on many of the early tests of liquid-propellant rockets by the society. Meanwhile he completed his B.S. in mechanical engineering at Princeton University in 1935. In 1936 he developed the concept of a regeneratively cooled liquid rocket motor. - Richard Feynman
Richard Phillips Feynman was an American physicist known for expanding the theory of quantum electrodynamics, the physics of the superfluidity of supercooled liquid helium, and particle theory. For his work on quantum electrodynamics, Feynman was a joint recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965, … - Gregory P. Tschebotarioff
Gregory P. Tschebotarioff, (February 28, 1899 - 1985), was a Russian-born civil engineer and prolific author. His memoir "Russia, My Native Land" recounted his experiences as a boy and young man in Russia, where he served in the military during World War I. His mother, Valentina Ivanovna Chebotareva, served as a Red Cross nurse at a hospital in Tsarskoye Selo, Russia with Tsarina Alexandra. Tschebotarioff published his mother's wartime journal in "Russia, … - L.D. Ricketts
Louis Davidson Ricketts (December 19, 1859 - March 4, 1940) was an American economic geologist, mining engineer and banker who pioneered development of copper mines in Arizona and Sonora, Mexico. Ricketts was educated at Princeton University, earning both a B.Sc and D.Sc. (1883) in economic geology. He then went to work in the mines of Leadville and Silverton, Colorado. In 1887 he was appointed Geologist for Wyoming Territory, … - John Bardeen
John Bardeen was an American physicist and electrical engineer. He is the only person to have won two Nobel prizes in physics: in 1956 for the transistor, along with William Bradford Shockley and Walter Brattain, and in 1972 for a fundamental theory of conventional superconductivity together with Leon Neil Cooper and John Robert Schrieffer, now called BCS theory. - Philip Drinker
Philip Drinker (December 12, 1894 in Haverford, Pennsylvania –October 19, 1972 in Fitzwilliam, New Hampshire) was an industrial hygienist who invented the first widely used iron lung in 1928 with Louis Agassiz Shaw. Drinker's father was railroad-man and Lehigh University president Henry Sturgis Drinker; his siblings included lawyer and musicologist Henry Sandwith Drinker, Jr., pathologist Cecil Kent Drinker,, businessman James Drinker, … - Norman R. Augustine
Norman R. Augustine Former Chairman and CEO, Lockheed Martin Norman R. Augustine is retired chairman and CEO of Lockheed Martin Corporation. After spending nearly 20 years as an engineer at aerospace companies and serving as Undersecretary of the Army, he joined the Martin Marietta Corporation in 1977. Mr. Augustine became its chairman and CEO in 1988 and 1987, respectively, and then initially served as president of the Lockheed Martin Corporation upon its formation in 1995. - Eden Medina
- Kartik Subbarao
Kartik Subbarao is the global lead for HP's Open Source and Linux Profession, a community of practice for open source technologists throughout HP. He is also a senior IT architect in HP's IT organization, where he is responsible for architecting/engineering Core Infrastructure services. Subbarao has long been an advocate for open source as a way of accomplishing breakthrough goals and transforming IT. - Aaron Patzer
Currently, I am the Founder and CEO of Mint Software Inc. Mint makes effortless personal finance software implemented as an online web application. Contact/connect with me directly at apatzer@myMint.com with subject "LinkedIn". Mint is presently looking for: - Director of Marketing (http://www.linkedin.com/jobs?viewJob=&jobId=124499&trk=); - Java web-services developers (J2EE, database design); - Experts in system security, fault-tolerance, and scalability - Maria
I'll probably write some better later, but in short, graduated from Princeton University in 2001 and am currently looking for work in either architecture or structural engineering (my major was both). I am also a musician, I play the alto sax and sing solo (opera being my favorite) or in a choir...also just joined a ren faire band! I also LOVE karaoke! Am now a huge fan of renfaires (yeah for garb), as evidenced by my just joining a band that plays that kind of music :)
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