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Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a Private university, private Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a key role in the development of modern t ...

alumni includes students who studied as undergraduates or graduate students at MIT's School of Engineering;

School of Science The Medway School of Science is one of the schools of the University of Greenwich in South East England. The School of Science is based on the university's Medway campus in Chatham Maritime in the county of Kent. The School of Science has acti ...

;

MIT Sloan School of Management The MIT Sloan School of Management (MIT Sloan or Sloan) is the business school of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT Sloan offers bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degree programs, a ...

; School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences; School of Architecture and Planning; or Whitaker College of Health Sciences. Since there are more than 120,000 alumni (living and deceased), this listing cannot be comprehensive. Instead, this article summarizes some of the more notable MIT alumni, with some indication of the reasons they are notable in the world at large. All MIT degrees are earned through academic achievement, in that MIT has never awarded

honorary degree An honorary degree is an academic degree for which a university (or other degree-awarding institution) has waived all of the usual requirements. It is also known by the Latin phrases ''honoris causa'' ("for the sake of the honour") or '' ad ho ...

s in any form. The MIT Alumni Association defines eligibility for membership as follows:

The following persons are Alumni/ae Members of the Association: All persons who have received a degree from the Institute; and All persons who have been registered as students in a degree-granting program at the Institute for (i) at least one full term in any undergraduate class which has already graduated; or (ii) for at least two full terms as graduate students.

As a celebration of the new MIT building dedicated to

nanotechnology Nanotechnology, also shortened to nanotech, is the use of matter on an atomic, molecular, and supramolecular scale for industrial purposes. The earliest, widespread description of nanotechnology referred to the particular technological goal o ...

laboratories in 2018, a special

silicon wafer In electronics, a wafer (also called a slice or substrate) is a thin slice of semiconductor, such as a crystalline silicon (c-Si), used for the fabrication of integrated circuits and, in photovoltaics, to manufacture solar cells. The wafer ser ...

was designed and fabricated with an image of the Great Dome. This ''One.MIT'' image is composed of more than 270,000 individual names, comprising all the students, faculty, and staff at MIT during the years 1861–2018. A special website was set up to document the creation of a large wall display in the building, and to facilitate the location of individual names in the image.

Politics and public service

United States

International

Architecture and design

* Christopher Charles Benninger (MCP 1971) – award-winning architect and urban planner in India, Sri Lanka, prepared capital plan of Bhutan * Walter Danforth Bliss – architect from California, with many buildings on the National Register of Historic Places * Gordon Bunshaft (BArch 1933, MArch 1935) – architect of

Lever House Lever House is a office building at 390 Park Avenue in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City. The building was designed in the International Style by Gordon Bunshaft and Natalie de Blois of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) as ...

(New York City),

Beinecke Library The Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library () is the rare book library and literary archive of the Yale University Library in New Haven, Connecticut. It is one of the largest buildings in the world dedicated to rare books and manuscripts. ...

(

Yale Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and among the most prestigious in the wo ...

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden is an art museum beside the National Mall, in Washington, D.C., the United States. The museum was initially endowed during the 1960s with the permanent art collection of Joseph H. Hirshhorn. It was desi ...

(Washington DC); Pritzker Prize (1988) * Ogden Codman, Jr. (1884) – Beaux-Arts domestic architect, interior designer * Vishaan Chakrabarti (MCP 1993)— architect and dean of UC Berkeley's College of Environmental Design *

John Desmond John Jacob Desmond (April 5, 1922 Denver, Colorado - March 27, 2008 Zachary, Louisiana) was an architect from Hammond and Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Early life John Desmond was the third child of Timothy Joseph Desmond (Cork City, Ireland) and Ros ...

(MArch) – designed numerous public buildings in

Baton Rouge Baton Rouge ( ; ) is a city in and the capital of the U.S. state of Louisiana. Located the eastern bank of the Mississippi River, it is the parish seat of East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana's most populous parish—the equivalent of countie ...

, including the River Center *

Daniel Chester French Daniel Chester French (April 20, 1850 – October 7, 1931) was an American sculptor of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, best known for his 1874 sculpture '' The Minute Man'' in Concord, Massachusetts, and his 1920 monu ...

(1871, one year) – sculptor of ''

Abraham Lincoln Abraham Lincoln ( ; February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was an American lawyer, politician, and statesman who served as the 16th president of the United States from 1861 until his assassination in 1865. Lincoln led the nation thro ...

'' (

Lincoln Memorial The Lincoln Memorial is a U.S. national memorial built to honor the 16th president of the United States, Abraham Lincoln. It is on the western end of the National Mall in Washington, D.C., across from the Washington Monument, and is in ...

), '' John Harvard'' (

Harvard Yard Harvard Yard, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is the oldest part of the Harvard University campus, its historic center and modern crossroads. It contains most of the freshman dormitories, Harvard's most important libraries, Memorial Church, sever ...

), '' Minute Man'' (

Concord, Massachusetts Concord () is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, in the United States. At the 2020 census, the town population was 18,491. The United States Census Bureau considers Concord part of Greater Boston. The town center is near where the confl ...

) *

Cass Gilbert Cass Gilbert (November 24, 1859 – May 17, 1934) was an American architect. An early proponent of skyscrapers, his works include the Woolworth Building, the United States Supreme Court building, the state capitols of Minnesota, Arkansas and W ...

(1880) – architect of the

US Supreme Court The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) is the highest court in the federal judiciary of the United States. It has ultimate appellate jurisdiction over all U.S. federal court cases, and over state court cases that involve a point of ...

Building,

Woolworth Building The Woolworth Building is an early skyscraper, early American skyscraper designed by architect Cass Gilbert located at 233 Broadway (Manhattan), Broadway in the Tribeca neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. It was the tallest building in ...

(New York City) *

Charles Sumner Greene Greene and Greene was an architectural firm established by brothers Charles Sumner Greene (1868–1957) and Henry Mather Greene (January 23, 1870 – October 2, 1954), influential early 20th Century American architects. Active primarily in Cali ...

(1891) – partner in

Greene and Greene Greene and Greene was an architectural firm established by brothers Charles Sumner Greene (1868–1957) and Henry Mather Greene (January 23, 1870 – October 2, 1954), influential early 20th Century American architects. Active primarily in Cali ...

, domestic architects of Arts & Crafts style, Gamble House (Pasadena) * Henry Mather Greene (1891) – partner in Greene and Greene, domestic architects of Arts & Crafts style, Gamble House (Pasadena) *

Marion Mahony Griffin Marion Mahony Griffin (; February 14, 1871 – August 10, 1961) was an American architect and artist. She was one of the first licensed female architects in the world, and is considered an original member of the Prairie School. Her work in ...

(1894) – co-designer of the master plan for

Canberra, Australia Canberra ( ) is the capital city of Australia. Founded following the federation of the colonies of Australia as the seat of government for the new nation, it is Australia's largest inland city and the eighth-largest city overall. The c ...

Nathanael Herreshoff Nathanael Greene Herreshoff (March 18, 1848 – June 2, 1938) was an American naval architect, mechanical engineer, and yacht design innovator. He produced a succession of undefeated America's Cup defenders between 1893 and 1920. Biography H ...

(B.S. 1870) – naval architect-engineer, yacht designer * Raymond Hood (1903) – architect of

Rockefeller Center Rockefeller Center is a large complex consisting of 19 commerce, commercial buildings covering between 48th Street (Manhattan), 48th Street and 51st Street (Manhattan), 51st Street in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. The 14 original Art Deco ...

(New York City),

Tribune Tower The Tribune Tower is a , 36-floor neo-Gothic skyscraper located at 435 North Michigan Avenue in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Built between 1923 and 1925, the international design competition for the tower became a historic event in 20th-ce ...

(Chicago) * Lois Lilley Howe (B.S. 1890) – second woman in the US to found an architecture firm *

Jarvis Hunt Jarvis Hunt (August 6, 1863 - June 15, 1941) was a Chicago architect who designed a wide array of buildings, including railroad stations, suburban estates, industrial buildings, clubhouses and other structures. Biography Hunt was born in Weathe ...

– Chicago architect *

Myron Hunt Myron Hubbard Hunt (February 27, 1868 – May 26, 1952) was an American architect whose numerous projects include many noted landmarks in Southern California and Evanston, Illinois. Hunt was elected a Fellow in the American Institute of Archi ...

(B.S. 1893) – architect of Huntington Art Gallery, Rose Bowl (Pasadena) *

Piotr Kowalski Piotr Kowalski (2 March 1927 – 7 January 2004) was a Polish artist, sculptor, and architect. Kowalski worked in non-traditional materials including electronic and mechanical devices, neon art, large earth works, explosions and other natural phe ...

(B.S. 1952) – artist, sculptor, architect, professor *

Roger K. Lewis Roger K. Lewis, FAIA (born 1941 in Houston, Texas) is an architect and urban planner, and a Professor Emeritus of architecture at the University of Maryland, College Park, where he taught architectural design and other courses for 37 years, retirin ...

(BArch 1964; MArch 1967) – architect, urban planner, professor, author * Austin W. Lord (1888) – architect of the administration buildings,

Isthmian Canal Commission The Isthmian Canal Commission (often known as the ICC) was an American administration commission set up to oversee the construction of the Panama Canal in the early years of American involvement. Established on February 26, 1904, it was given cont ...

Panama Panama ( , ; es, link=no, Panamá ), officially the Republic of Panama ( es, República de Panamá), is a transcontinental country spanning the southern part of North America and the northern part of South America. It is bordered by Co ...

; director of the School of Architecture at Columbia University * Kevin A. Lynch (B.S. 1947) – urban planner, author of the seminal book '' The Image of the City'' * John O. Merrill (B.S. 1921) –

structural engineer Structural engineers analyze, design, plan, and research structural components and structural systems to achieve design goals and ensure the safety and comfort of users or occupants. Their work takes account mainly of safety, technical, economi ...

, architect, leader of

Skidmore, Owings and Merrill Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) is an American architectural, urban planning and engineering firm. It was founded in 1936 by Louis Skidmore and Nathaniel Owings in Chicago, Illinois. In 1939, they were joined by engineer John Merrill. The firm ...

* Eleanor Manning O'Connor (B.S. 1906) – architect, educator, public housing advocate * I. M. Pei (BArch 1940) – architect,

Louvre Pyramid The Louvre Pyramid (Pyramide du Louvre) is a large glass and metal structure designed by the Chinese-American architect I. M. Pei. The pyramid is in the main courtyard ( Cour Napoléon) of the Louvre Palace in Paris, surrounded by three small ...

(Paris),

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (RRHOF), sometimes simply referred to as the Rock Hall, is a museum and hall of fame located in downtown Cleveland, Ohio, United States, on the shore of Lake Erie. The museum documents the history of rock music an ...

(Cleveland),

Bank of China The Bank of China (BOC; ) is a Chinese majority state-owned commercial bank headquartered in Beijing and the fourth largest bank in the world. The Bank of China was founded in 1912 by the Republican government as China's central bank, repl ...

(Hong Kong), MIT Buildings 18, 54, 66, E15;

AIA Gold Medal The AIA Gold Medal is awarded by the American Institute of Architects conferred "by the national AIA Board of Directors in recognition of a significant body of work of lasting influence on the theory and practice of architecture." It is the Ins ...

(1979), Pritzker Prize (1983) *

Donald W. Southgate Donald W. Southgate (1887–1953) was an American architect. He designed many buildings in Davidson County, Tennessee, especially Nashville and Belle Meade, some of which are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Early life Do ...

(1887–1953) – architect in

Nashville, Tennessee Nashville is the capital city of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the seat of Davidson County. With a population of 689,447 at the 2020 U.S. census, Nashville is the most populous city in the state, 21st most-populous city in the U.S., and t ...

* Sumner Spaulding (1892–1952) – architect, graduated in 1916, designed many buildings in California *

Louis Sullivan Louis Henry Sullivan (September 3, 1856 – April 14, 1924) was an American architect, and has been called a "father of skyscrapers" and "father of modernism". He was an influential architect of the Chicago School, a mentor to Frank Lloy ...

(one year) – influential founder of the Chicago School; "father of skyscrapers"; "father of modernism";

(1944) *

James Knox Taylor James Knox Taylor (October 11, 1857 – August 27, 1929) was Supervising Architect of the United States Department of the Treasury from 1897 to 1912. His name is listed '' ex officio'' as supervising architect of hundreds of federal buildings ...

(1880) – Supervisory Architect of Denver Mint,

Philadelphia Mint The Philadelphia Mint in Philadelphia was created from the need to establish a national identity and the needs of commerce in the United States. This led the Founding Fathers of the United States to make an establishment of a continental national ...

, many post offices, court houses, other federal buildings * Robert Taylor (1892) – MIT's first black graduate, architect of the

Tuskegee Institute Tuskegee University (Tuskegee or TU), formerly known as the Tuskegee Institute, is a private, historically black land-grant university in Tuskegee, Alabama. It was founded on Independence Day in 1881 by the state legislature. The campus was d ...

Harry Mohr Weese Harry Mohr Weese (June 30, 1915 – October 29, 1998) was an American architect who had an important role in 20th century modernism and historic preservation. His brother, Ben Weese, is also a renowned architect. Early life and education Harry ...

(BArch 1938) – architect, historic preservation advocate, designed first group of stations for

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Business and entrepreneurship

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List of companies founded by Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni This is a list of companies founded by Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni, including attendees who enrolled in degree-programs at MIT but did not eventually graduate. This list is not exhaustive, as it only includes notable companies o ...

Computers and Internet

* Brandon Wade (B.S. 1993) – founder of Seeking Arrangement * Joseph Alsop (B.S. 1967) – co-founder of Progress Software *

Efi Arazi Efraim R. "Efi" Arazi ( he, אפי ארזי) (14 April 1937 – 14 April 2013) was an Israeli technology pioneer and businessman. Education Arazi enrolled as a cadet to study electronics in the Israel Defense Forces at the Air Force Technol ...

– Israeli industrialist and businessman, founder of Scitex Corporation * Shiva Ayyadurai (B.S. 1987, M.S. 1989, M.S. 1990, PhD 2007) – scientist and inventor *

Sanju Bansal Sanju K. Bansal is an Indian-American businessman, the co-founder of MicroStrategy, a worldwide provider of enterprise software platforms for business intelligence (BI), mobile software, big data and cloud-based services. He served as the co ...

– co-founder of MicroStrategy * Hugo Barra – VP Global for

Xiaomi Corporation (; ), commonly known as Xiaomi and registered as Xiaomi Inc., is a Chinese designer and manufacturer of consumer electronics and related software, home appliances, and household items. Behind Samsung, it is the second largest m ...

, former VP and product spokesman for Google Android *

Katie Bouman Katherine Louise Bouman (; born 1989) is an American engineer and computer scientist working in the field of Computer-generated imagery, computer imagery. She led the development of an algorithm for imaging black holes, known as CHIRP (algorith ...

(PhD 2017) – developer of the algorithm used in filtering the first images of a

black hole A black hole is a region of spacetime where gravity is so strong that nothing, including light or other electromagnetic waves, has enough energy to escape it. The theory of general relativity predicts that a sufficiently compact mass can defo ...

taken by the

Event Horizon Telescope The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) is a large telescope array consisting of a global network of radio telescopes. The EHT project combines data from several very-long-baseline interferometry (VLBI) stations around Earth, which form a combined ...

Anant Bhardwaj Instabase is a technology company headquartered in San Francisco. The company provides an application platform that can be used to understand unstructured data and automate business processes. History Instabase was founded by Anant Bhardwaj, ...

(Ph.D. dropout) – founder of Instabase * Larry DeMar (B.S. 1979) – programmer for Williams, co-creator of '' Defender'' and ''

Robotron: 2084 ''Robotron: 2084'' (also referred to as ''Robotron'') is a multidirectional shooter developed by Eugene Jarvis and Larry DeMar of Vid Kidz and released in arcades by Williams Electronics in 1982. The game is set in the year 2084 in a fictional wo ...

'', and founder of Leading Edge Design *Matt Denesuk (B.S. 1987) – SVP, Data Analytics & AI at Royal Caribbean Group; founder of Noodle.ai, Chief Data Science Officer of GE. *

John J. Donovan John J. Donovan (born February 12, 1942) is a former management professor at MIT, and the former president and chief executive of the Cambridge Technology Group, an executive training company. On May 3, 2022, Donovan Sr. was convicted of a doz ...

(Postdoc 1969) – founder of Cambridge Technology Partners, and Open Environment Corporation * Eran Egozy – co-founder, CTO, and VP of Harmonix Systems; now clarinetist and professor of music at MIT * Arash Ferdowsi (dropped out) – co-founder and CTO at

Dropbox Dropbox is a file hosting service operated by the American company Dropbox, Inc., headquartered in San Francisco, California, U.S. that offers cloud storage, file synchronization, personal cloud, and client software. Dropbox was founded in 2 ...

Carly Fiorina Cara Carleton "Carly" Fiorina ('' née'' Sneed; born September 6, 1954) is an American businesswoman and politician, known primarily for her tenure as CEO of Hewlett-Packard (HP). As chief executive officer of HP from 1999 to 2005, Fiorina wa ...

(M.S. 1989) – former CEO of Hewlett-Packard *

Philip Gale Philip Chandler Gale (November 15, 1978 – March 13, 1998) was an American pioneering Internet software developer, computer prodigy, and sophomore student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He was notable for having written Tot ...

(1978–1998) – writer of TotalAccess, computer prodigy, and

Internet The Internet (or internet) is the global system of interconnected computer networks that uses the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to communicate between networks and devices. It is a ''internetworking, network of networks'' that consists ...

software developer * Andy Gavin – co-founder of

Naughty Dog Naughty Dog, LLC (formerly JAM Software, Inc.) is an American First-party developer, first-party video game developer based in Santa Monica, California, Santa Monica, California. Founded by Andy Gavin and Jason Rubin in 1984, the studio was acqu ...

and creator of the first video game with a full 3D environment, '' Crash Bandicoot'' *

Shuman Ghosemajumder Shuman Ghosemajumder (born 1974) is a Canadian technologist, entrepreneur, and author. He is the former click fraud czar at Google, the author of works on technology and business including the Open Music Model, and co-founder of TeachAids. He w ...

– author of Open Music Model,

click fraud Click, Klick and Klik may refer to: Airlines * Click Airways, a UAE airline * Clickair, a Spanish airline * MexicanaClick, a Mexican airline Art, entertainment, and media Fictional characters * Klick (fictional species), an alien race in th ...

czar at

Google Google LLC () is an American Multinational corporation, multinational technology company focusing on Search Engine, search engine technology, online advertising, cloud computing, software, computer software, quantum computing, e-commerce, ar ...

* Cecil H. Green (B.S. 1924, M.S. 1924) – co-founder of

Texas Instruments Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) is an American technology company headquartered in Dallas, Texas, that designs and manufactures semiconductors and various integrated circuits, which it sells to electronics designers and manufacturers globa ...

Andrew He Andrew He (born 1997) is an American competitive programmer and the winner of the 2021 Facebook Hacker Cup. Background He was born in 1997. Starting from sixth grade, he participated in various mathematics competitions such as the Americ ...

(B.S. 2019) – competitive programmer *

William R. Hewlett William Redington Hewlett ( ; May 20, 1913 – January 12, 2001) was an American engineer and the co-founder, with David Packard, of the Hewlett-Packard Company (HP). Early life and education Hewlett was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where his ...

(M.S. 1936) – co-founder of Hewlett-Packard * Danny Hillis (B.S. 1978, M.S. 1981, PhD 1988) – co-founder of Thinking Machines and former

Disney The Walt Disney Company, commonly known as Disney (), is an American multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate headquartered at the Walt Disney Studios complex in Burbank, California. Disney was originally founded on October ...

Fellow * Mark Horowitz (B.S. 1978, M.S. 1978) – founder of Rambus * Drew Houston (B.S. 2006) – co-founder and CEO of Dropbox *

Irwin M. Jacobs Irwin Mark Jacobs (born October 18, 1933) is an American electrical engineer and businessman. He is a co-founder and former chairman of Qualcomm, and chair of the board of trustees of the Salk Institute. As of 2019, Jacobs has an estimated net ...

(M.S. 1957, ScD 1959) – co-founder of Qualcomm with Andrew Viterbi, current chairman and former CEO; former MIT professor (1959–1966) *

Brewster Kahle Brewster Lurton Kahle ( ; born October 21, 1960)Alexa Internet profile
, via juggle.com. accessed Novemb ...

(B.S. 1982) – internet archivist, founder of

Alexa Alexa may refer to: Technology *Amazon Alexa, a virtual assistant developed by Amazon * Alexa Internet, a defunct website ranking and traffic analysis service * Arri Alexa, a digital motion picture camera People *Alexa (name), a given name and ...

Mitch Kapor Mitchell David Kapor ( ; born November 1, 1950) is an American entrepreneur best known for his work as an application developer in the early days of the personal computer software industry, later founding Lotus, where he was instrumental in devel ...

– software entrepreneur, founder of Lotus Corporation *

Earl Killian Earl Willard Killian (August 3, 1920 – September 21, 2022) was an American college sports head coach and athletic director. He coached Towson University's men's soccer, men's basketball, and baseball teams. He was the first head coach of all t ...

– software architect with 26 patents, MIPS *

Steve Kirsch Steven Todd Kirsch is an American entrepreneur. He has started several companies and was one of two people who independently invented the optical mouse. Kirsch has been both a philanthropic supporter of medical research, and a promoter of misinf ...

(B.S. 1980, M.S. 1980) – inventor of the

optical mouse An optical mouse is a computer mouse which uses a light source, typically a light-emitting diode (LED), and a light detector, such as an array of photodiodes, to detect movement relative to a surface. Variations of the optical mouse have largely ...

, co-founder of Frame Technology Corporation and founder of Infoseek Corporation *

Alan Kotok Alan Kotok (November 9, 1941 – May 26, 2006) was an American computer scientist known for his work at Digital Equipment Corporation (Digital, or DEC) and at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). Steven Levy, in his book '' Hackers: Heroes of ...

(B.S. 1962, M.S. 1962) – chief architect

PDP-10 Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)'s PDP-10, later marketed as the DECsystem-10, is a mainframe computer family manufactured beginning in 1966 and discontinued in 1983. 1970s models and beyond were marketed under the DECsystem-10 name, especi ...

, associate chairman

World Wide Web Consortium The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is the main international standards organization for the World Wide Web. Founded in 1994 and led by Tim Berners-Lee, the consortium is made up of member organizations that maintain full-time staff working t ...

* Pavel Krapivin (B.S. 2002) – co-founder of Doostang *

Susan Landau Susan Landau is an American mathematician, engineer, cybersecurity policy expert, and Bridge Professor in Cybersecurity and Policy at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. and She previously worked as a Senior Staff Priv ...

(PhD 1983) –

Guggenheim Fellow Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the ar ...

and cybersecurity expert * Daniel Lewin (M.S. 1998) – founder of Akamai * Jack Little (B.S. 1978) – co-founder of MathWorks, which created and sells

MATLAB MATLAB (an abbreviation of "MATrix LABoratory") is a proprietary multi-paradigm programming language and numeric computing environment developed by MathWorks. MATLAB allows matrix manipulations, plotting of functions and data, implementa ...

*Sonita Lontoh (M.Eng 2004) – green technology executive * Steve Mann – co-creator of the SixthSense device * Patrick McGovern (B.S. 1960) – founder of IDG/

Computerworld ''Computerworld'' (abbreviated as CW) is an ongoing decades old professional publication which in 2014 "went digital." Its audience is information technology (IT) and business technology professionals, and is available via a publication website ...

Steve Meretzky Steven Eric Meretzky (born May 1, 1957)
''Infocom''. Retrieved July 11, 2011. is an American

Robert Metcalfe Robert Melancton Metcalfe (born April 7, 1946) is an engineer and entrepreneur from the United States who helped pioneer the Internet starting in 1970. He co-invented Ethernet, co-founded 3Com and formulated Metcalfe's law, which describes the ...

(B.S. 1969) – entrepreneur, founder of

3Com 3Com Corporation was an American digital electronics manufacturer best known for its computer network products. The company was co-founded in 1979 by Robert Metcalfe, Howard Charney and others. Bill Krause joined as President in 1981. Metcalfe e ...

; inventor of

Ethernet Ethernet () is a family of wired computer networking technologies commonly used in local area networks (LAN), metropolitan area networks (MAN) and wide area networks (WAN). It was commercially introduced in 1980 and first standardized in ...

* Pranav Mistry (PhD) – co-creator of the SixthSense device *

Nicholas Negroponte Nicholas Negroponte (born December 1, 1943) is a Greek American architect. He is the founder and chairman Emeritus of Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab, and also founded the One Laptop per Child Association (OLPC). Negroponte ...

(B.Arch, M.Arch 1966) – founder,

MIT Media Lab The MIT Media Lab is a research laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, growing out of MIT's Architecture Machine Group in the School of Architecture. Its research does not restrict to fixed academic disciplines, but draws from ...

, One Laptop per Child Association *Kathy Nelson (B.S. – Electrical Engineering 1993) – creator of world's first holographic video game * Robert Noyce (PhD 1953) – integrated circuit pioneer, co-founder of

Intel Intel Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California, Santa Clara, California. It is the world's largest semiconductor chip manufacturer by revenue, and is one of the devel ...

, Draper Prize (1969) *

Ken Olsen Kenneth Harry "Ken" Olsen (February 20, 1926 – February 6, 2011) was an American engineer who co-founded Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) in 1957 with colleague Harlan Anderson and his brother Stan Olsen. Background Kenneth Harry Olsen wa ...

(B.S. 1950, M.S. 1952) – founder of

Digital Equipment Corporation Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC ), using the trademark Digital, was a major American company in the computer industry from the 1960s to the 1990s. The company was co-founded by Ken Olsen and Harlan Anderson in 1957. Olsen was president unti ...

William Poduska John William Poduska Sr. is an American engineer and entrepreneur. He was a founder of Prime Computer, Apollo Computer, and Stellar Computer. Prior to that he headed the Electronics Research Lab at NASA's Cambridge, Massachusetts, facility and al ...

(B.S. 1960, M.S. 1960, ScD 1962) – computer engineer and entrepreneur, founder of

Prime Computer Prime Computer, Inc. was a Natick, Massachusetts-based producer of minicomputers from 1972 until 1992. With the advent of PCs and the decline of the minicomputer industry, Prime was forced out of the market in the early 1990s, and by the end of ...

and Apollo Computer * William A. Porter (MBA 1967) – founder of

E*TRADE E-Trade Financial Corporation (stylized as E*TRADE) is a financial services subsidiary of Morgan Stanley, which offers an electronic trading platform to trade financial assets. The company receives revenue from interest income on margin ...

* Allen Razdow (B.S. 1976) – founder of Mathsoft Inc.; inventor of

Mathcad Mathcad is computer software for the verification, validation, documentation and re-use of mathematical calculations in engineering and science, notably mechanical, chemical, electrical, and civil engineering. Released in 1986 on DOS, it introduce ...

* Alex Rigopulos (B.S. 1994, M.S. 1994) – founder of Harmonix Music Systems, developer of

Guitar Hero ''Guitar Hero'' is a series of Music video game, music rhythm game video games first released in November 2005, in which players use a guitar-shaped game controller to simulate playing primarily lead guitar, lead, bass guitar, and rhythm guita ...

and

Rock Band A rock band or pop band is a small musical ensemble that performs rock music, pop music, or a related genre. A four-piece band is the most common configuration in rock and pop music. In the early years, the configuration was typically two gui ...

* Larry Roberts (B.S. 1961, M.S. 1961, PhD 1963) – member of design group for original

ARPANET The Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET) was the first wide-area packet-switched network with distributed control and one of the first networks to implement the TCP/IP protocol suite. Both technologies became the technical foun ...

, co-founder of Caspian Networks and Packetcom, former CEO of DHL *

Sheldon Roberts C. Sheldon Roberts (October 27, 1926 – June 6, 2014) was an American semiconductor pioneer, and member of the " traitorous eight" who founded Silicon Valley. Biography Roberts earned a Bachelor's degree in metallurgical engineering from Rens ...

(M.S. 1949, ScD 1952) – one of the " traitorous eight" who founded

Fairchild Semiconductor Fairchild Semiconductor International, Inc. was an American semiconductor company based in San Jose, California. Founded in 1957 as a division of Fairchild Camera and Instrument, it became a pioneer in the manufacturing of transistors and of int ...

; co-founder of Amelco which later became Teledyne * Douglas T. Ross (M.S. 1954) – founder of SofTech, Inc. *

Michael J. Saylor Michael J. Saylor (born February 4, 1965) is an American entrepreneur and business executive. He is the executive chairman and a co-founder of MicroStrategy, a company that provides business intelligence, mobile software, and cloud-based service ...

(B.S. Astronautics 1987, B.S. Science, Engineering, Technology 1987) – co-founder of MicroStrategy * Megan Smith (B.S. 1986, M.S. 1988) – Google executive; former CEO of PlanetOut, early smartphones at

General Magic General Magic was an American software and electronics company co-founded by Bill Atkinson, Andy Hertzfeld, and Marc Porat. Based in Mountain View, California, the company developed precursors to " USB, software modems, small touchscreens, touchs ...

, 3rd United States Chief Technology Officer (2014–17) *

Robert Spinrad Robert J. Spinrad (March 20, 1932 – September 2, 2009) was an American computer designer, who was on the staff of Brookhaven National Laboratory and who created many of the key technologies used in modern personal computers while director of ...

(PhD) – computer pioneer; director of the

Xerox Xerox Holdings Corporation (; also known simply as Xerox) is an American corporation that sells print and digital document products and services in more than 160 countries. Xerox is headquartered in Norwalk, Connecticut (having moved from St ...

Palo Alto Research Center * Ray Stata (B.S. 1958, M.S. 1958) – founder of

Analog Devices Analog Devices, Inc. (ADI), also known simply as Analog, is an American multinational semiconductor company specializing in data conversion, signal processing and power management technology, headquartered in Wilmington, Massachusetts. The c ...

* Lisa Su (B.S. 1990, M.S. 1991, PhD 1994) – CEO of

Advanced Micro Devices Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD) is an American multinational semiconductor company based in Santa Clara, California, that develops computer processors and related technologies for business and consumer markets. While it initially manufa ...

* Eric Swanson – co-founder of

Sycamore Networks Gururaj Deshpande ("Desh" Deshpande) is an Indian American venture capitalist and entrepreneur, who is best known for co-founding the Chelmsford, MA-based internet equipment manufacturer Sycamore Networks,Theodore Tso Theodore (Ted) Yue Tak Ts'o (曹子德) (born 1968) is an American software engineer mainly known for his contributions to the Linux kernel, in particular his contributions to file systems. He is the Secondary developer and maintainer of e2fspro ...

– Google software engineer, maintainer of the

ext4 ext4 (fourth extended filesystem) is a journaling file system for Linux, developed as the successor to ext3. ext4 was initially a series of backward-compatible extensions to ext3, many of them originally developed by Cluster File Systems fo ...

filesystem * Philippe Villers (M.S. 1960) – founder of Computervision, which is now part of PTC * Andrew Viterbi (B.S. 1957, M.S. 1957) – electrical engineer; inventor of the

Viterbi algorithm The Viterbi algorithm is a dynamic programming algorithm for obtaining the maximum a posteriori probability estimate of the most likely sequence of hidden states—called the Viterbi path—that results in a sequence of observed events, especially ...

; co-founder of Qualcomm; former

UCLA The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California. UCLA's academic roots were established in 1881 as a Normal school, teachers colle ...

and

UCSD The University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego or colloquially, UCSD) is a public land-grant research university in San Diego, California. Established in 1960 near the pre-existing Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego is th ...

professor *

Christopher Weaver Christopher S. Weaver is an American entrepreneur, software developer, scientist, author, and educator. He is known for founding Bethesda Softworks, where he was one of the creators of '' The Elder Scrolls'' role-playing series. Weaver and Be ...

(M.S. 1985) – founder of Bethesda Softworks and co-founder of ZeniMax Media

Engineering

* Colin Angle – co-founder of iRobot *

Satya N. Atluri Satya Atluri is an American engineer, educator, researcher and scientist in aerospace engineering, mechanical engineering and computational sciences, who is currently the Presidential Chair & University Distinguished Professor at Texas Tech U ...

(Sc.D Aeronautics & Astronautics, 1969) – engineer; recipient of 2013 Padma Bhushan 2013, 2015 Crichlow Trust Prize from AIAA * Karel Bossart (M.S. 1927) – designer of the

SM-65 Atlas The SM-65 Atlas was the first operational intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) developed by the United States and the first member of the Atlas (rocket family), Atlas rocket family. It was built for the U.S. Air Force by the Convair Di ...

missile * Vanu Bose – electrical engineer, founder of Vanu Inc, and son of

Amar Bose Amar Gopal Bose (November 2, 1929 – July 12, 2013) was an American entrepreneur and academic. An electrical engineer and sound engineer, he was a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for over 45 years. He was also the fo ...

* William David Coolidge (B.S. 1896) – physicist who made major contributions to X-ray machines, director of the General Electric Research Laboratory * Henry M. Crane (B.S. 1895 and 1896) – automotive engineer associated with Crane Motor Car Company, Crane-Simplex,

Pontiac Six The Pontiac Six was a more affordable version of its predecessor Oakland Six that was introduced in 1926, sold through Oakland Dealerships. Pontiac was the first of General Motors companion make program where brands were introduced to fill in pri ...

, and Wright-Martin *

Charles Stark Draper Charles Stark "Doc" Draper (October 2, 1901 – July 25, 1987) was an American scientist and engineer, known as the "father of inertial navigation". He was the founder and director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Instrumen ...

(B.S. 1926, M.S. 1928, SD 1938) – engineer and inventor; the "father of inertial navigation"; inducted into the

National Inventors Hall of Fame The National Inventors Hall of Fame (NIHF) is an American not-for-profit organization, founded in 1973, which recognizes individual engineers and inventors who hold a U.S. patent of significant technology. Besides the Hall of Fame, it also oper ...

in 1981 *

Helen Greiner Helen Greiner (born December 6, 1967) is a co-founder of iRobot and former CEO of CyPhy Work, Inc., a start-up company specializing in small multi-rotor drones for the consumer, commercial and military markets. Ms Greiner is currently the CEO o ...

– co-founder of iRobot *

Charles Townsend Ludington Charles Townsend Ludington (Charles T. Ludington, C. T. Ludington), (January 16, 1896 – January 19, 1968), was a businessman of Philadelphia. He was an aviation pioneer who helped establish an every-hour-on-the-hour air service between New Y ...

– aviation pioneer * Francis "Des" Lynch (ScD Mechanical Engineering 1968) - Patented several inventions including the ideal dimple patterns for Titleist golf balls * Ernest Boyd MacNaughton (B.S. 1902) – bank president; president of ''

The Oregonian ''The Oregonian'' is a daily newspaper based in Portland, Oregon, United States, owned by Advance Publications. It is the oldest continuously published newspaper on the U.S. west coast, founded as a weekly by Thomas J. Dryer on December 4, 18 ...

''; president of

Reed College Reed College is a private university, private liberal arts college in Portland, Oregon. Founded in 1908, Reed is a residential college with a campus in the Eastmoreland, Portland, Oregon, Eastmoreland neighborhood, with Tudor style architecture ...

* Fred Mannering (PhD 1983) – professor

University of South Florida The University of South Florida (USF) is a public research university with its main campus located in Tampa, Florida, and other campuses in St. Petersburg and Sarasota. It is one of 12 members of the State University System of Florida. USF i ...

;

Clarivate Clarivate Plc is a British-American publicly traded analytics company that operates a collection of subscription-based services, in the areas of bibliometrics and scientometrics; business / market intelligence, and competitive profiling for pha ...

Highly Cited Researcher * Jim Marggraff (B.S. Electrical Engineering, M.S. Computer Science) – inventor of the LeapPad Learning System, Fly pentop computer, and Livescribe smartpen *

Lissa Martinez Lissa Ann Martinez is an American ocean engineer and consultant from San Antonio, Texas. During her career, she has worked on policy-based solutions for environmental challenges. Following her graduation from the Massachusetts Institute of Technol ...

(M.S. 1980) – ocean engineer * Mohammad Modarres – Eminent Professor of the

University of Maryland The University of Maryland, College Park (University of Maryland, UMD, or simply Maryland) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in College Park, Maryland. Founded in 1856, UMD is the Flagship un ...

; founder of world's first graduate curriculum in

reliability engineering Reliability engineering is a sub-discipline of systems engineering that emphasizes the ability of equipment to function without failure. Reliability describes the ability of a system or component to function under stated conditions for a specifi ...

* Henry M. Paynter (B.S. civil engineering 1944, M.S. mathematics and science 1949, ScD hydroelectric engineering 1951, all MIT) – inventor of

bond graph A bond graph is a graphical representation of a physical dynamic system. It allows the conversion of the system into a state-space representation. It is similar to a block diagram or signal-flow graph, with the major difference that the arcs i ...

s * Nicholas A. Peppas – professor of engineering,

University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin, UT, or Texas) is a public research university in Austin, Texas. It was founded in 1883 and is the oldest institution in the University of Texas System. With 40,916 undergraduate students, 11,075 ...

, pioneer in drug delivery,

biomaterials A biomaterial is a substance that has been engineered to interact with biological systems for a medical purpose, either a therapeutic (treat, augment, repair, or replace a tissue function of the body) or a diagnostic one. As a science, biomateria ...

, hydrogels and

nanobiotechnology Nanobiotechnology, bionanotechnology, and nanobiology are terms that refer to the intersection of nanotechnology and biology. Given that the subject is one that has only emerged very recently, bionanotechnology and nanobiotechnology serve as blan ...

* Thuan Pham (B.S. Computer Science & Engineering 1990, M.S. 1991) – CTO of

Uber Uber Technologies, Inc. (Uber), based in San Francisco, provides mobility as a service, ride-hailing (allowing users to book a car and driver to transport them in a way similar to a taxi), food delivery ( Uber Eats and Postmates), pack ...

* RJ Scaringe (M.S., PhD) – CEO of

Rivian Rivian Automotive, Inc. is an American electric vehicle manufacturer and automotive technology company founded in 2009. Rivian is building an electric sport utility vehicle (SUV) and pickup truck on a "skateboard" platform that can support fut ...

, Plymouth, Michigan, United States *

Tom Scholz Donald Thomas Scholz (born March 10, 1947) is an American musician. He is the founder, main songwriter, primary guitarist and only remaining original member of the rock band Boston. He has appeared on every Boston album. Scholz is an MIT-trai ...

– founder of the rock group

Boston Boston (), officially the City of Boston, is the capital city, state capital and List of municipalities in Massachusetts, most populous city of the Commonwealth (U.S. state), Commonwealth of Massachusetts, as well as the cultural and financ ...

and Scholz Research & Development, Inc., manufacturers of Rockman sound equipment * Dorian Shainin (B.S. 1936) – quality paradigm pioneer and guru; considered one of the world's foremost experts in the fields of industrial problem solving, product reliability and quality engineering; known for the creation and development of the "Red X" concept * Mareena Robinson Snowden – first Black woman to earn a Ph.D. in nuclear engineering *

Suhas Pandurang Sukhatme Suhas Pandurang Sukhatme is an Indian scientist, teacher, author and a former Chairman of the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board of the Government of India, known for his expertise in heat transfer and energy technologies. He was honoured by the Gov ...

– former Chairman of Atomic Energy Regulatory Board of India *

Suchatvee Suwansawat Suchatvee Suwansawat ( th, สุชัชวีร์ สุวรรณสวัสดิ์, born 20 April 1972) is a professor of Civil Engineering at King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang (KMITL), where he served as the Presid ...

, (M.S. Policy and Technology, Sc.D Geotechnical Engineering 2002)Thai Politicians, Professor of Engineering, former President of

King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang (KMITL or KMIT Ladkrabang for short) is a research and educational institution in Thailand. It is situated in Lat Krabang District, Bangkok approximately 30 km east of the city center. The u ...

(KMITL), former of President of the Thai Council of Engineers *

Christine Taylor-Butler Christine Taylor-Butler (born in the 1960s) is a children's book author in the United States. She has written more than 80 books including ''The Lost Tribe'' series. She has been an advocate for diversity in character representations and led by e ...

(civil engineering 1981) – children's author

Manufacturing and defense

* Vaughn Beals – CEO of

Harley-Davidson Harley-Davidson, Inc. (H-D, or simply Harley) is an American motorcycle manufacturer headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States. Founded in 1903, it is one of two major American motorcycle manufacturers to survive the Great Depressi ...

– founder and chairman of

Bose Corporation Bose Corporation () is an American manufacturing company that predominantly sells audio equipment. The company was established by Amar Bose in 1964 and is based in Framingham, Massachusetts. It is best known for its home audio systems and speak ...

Wesley G. Bush Wesley G. Bush is an American systems engineer and business executive. He is the former CEO and chairman of Northrop Grumman, and he is currently a director of General Motors and Cisco. Bush was raised in Morgantown, West Virginia. He has both B ...

– chairman, CEO and President of

Northrop Grumman Northrop Grumman Corporation is an American multinational aerospace and defense technology company. With 90,000 employees and an annual revenue in excess of $30 billion, it is one of the world's largest weapons manufacturers and military tec ...

Morris Chang Morris Chang (; born 10 July 1931), is a Taiwanese-American businessman who built his career in the United States and subsequently in Taiwan. He is the founder, as well as former chairman and CEO, of TSMC, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Comp ...

– chairman of the

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited (TSMC; also called Taiwan Semiconductor) is a Taiwanese multinational semiconductor contract manufacturing and design company. It is the world's most valuable semiconductor company, the world' ...

(TSMC), the largest semiconductor foundry in the world * Nick DeWolf – co-founder of

Teradyne Teradyne, Inc. is an American automatic test equipment (ATE) designer and manufacturer based in North Reading, Massachusetts. Teradyne's high-profile customers include Samsung, Qualcomm, Intel, Analog Devices, Texas Instruments and IBM. Histor ...

* John Dorrance – founder of

Campbell Soup Company Campbell Soup Company, doing business as Campbell's, is an American processed food and snack company. The company is most closely associated with its flagship canned soup products; however, through mergers and acquisitions, it has grown to become ...

* Donald Douglas – founder of

Douglas Aircraft Company The Douglas Aircraft Company was an American aerospace manufacturer based in Southern California. It was founded in 1921 by Donald Wills Douglas Sr. and later merged with McDonnell Aircraft in 1967 to form McDonnell Douglas; it then operated a ...

* Pierre S. du Pont – Du Pont Company and General Motors executive *

T. Coleman du Pont Thomas Coleman du Pont (December 11, 1863 – November 11, 1930) was an American engineer and politician, from Greenville, Delaware. He was President of E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company, and a member of the Republican Party who served part ...

– Du Pont Company president; US Senator *

Armand V. Feigenbaum Armand Vallin Feigenbaum (April 6, 1920 – November 13, 2014) was an American quality control expert and businessman. He devised the concept of Total Quality Control which inspired Total Quality Management. Biography Feigenbaum, known as � ...

– quality expert * William Clay Ford, Jr. – chairman of

Ford Motor Company Ford Motor Company (commonly known as Ford) is an American multinational automobile manufacturer headquartered in Dearborn, Michigan, United States. It was founded by Henry Ford and incorporated on June 16, 1903. The company sells automobiles ...

Bernardo Garza Sada Bernardo Garza Sada (1930 – 7 November 2009) was a Mexican businessman who founded the Grupo ALFA conglomerate in 1974. He also served as ALFA's former president. Additionally, Garza Sada was a member of the company's board of directors for two ...

– founder and president of the ALFA

conglomerate Conglomerate or conglomeration may refer to: * Conglomerate (company) * Conglomerate (geology) * Conglomerate (mathematics) In popular culture: * The Conglomerate (American group), a production crew and musical group founded by Busta Rhymes ** Co ...

of Mexico * Kenneth Germeshausen – co-founder, and the first "G", of the defense contractor

EG&G EG&G, formally known as Edgerton, Germeshausen, and Grier, Inc., was a United States national defense contractor and provider of management and technical services. The company was involved in contracting services to the United States governmen ...

Bernard Marshall Gordon Bernard Marshall Gordon (born 1927 in Springfield, Massachusetts) is an American engineer, inventor, entrepreneur, and philanthropist. He is considered "the father of high-speed analog-to-digital conversion". Early life, education, and career ...

(B.S. 1949, M.S. 1949) – electrical engineer, inventor, philanthropist, co-founded Analogic Corporation,

National Medal of Technology The National Medal of Technology and Innovation (formerly the National Medal of Technology) is an honor granted by the President of the United States to American inventors and innovators who have made significant contributions to the development ...

(1986) * George Hatsopoulos – founder of Thermo Electron Corporation *

Charles Koch Charles de Ganahl Koch ( ; born November 1, 1935) is an American billionaire businessman. As of November 2022, he was ranked as the 13th richest person in the world on '' Bloomberg Billionaires Index'', with an estimated net worth of $66 billi ...

– co-owner, Chairman and CEO of

Koch Industries Koch Industries, Inc. ( ) is an American privately held multinational conglomerate corporation based in Wichita, Kansas and is the second-largest privately held company in the United States, after Cargill. Its subsidiaries are involved in th ...

, the second largest private company in the US * David H. Koch – co-owner of

; Vice-Presidential candidate for the Libertarian Party *

Jay Last Jay Taylor Last (October 18, 1929 – November 11, 2021) was an American physicist, silicon pioneer, and member of the so-called "traitorous eight" that founded Silicon Valley. Early life and education Last was born in Butler, Pennsylvania, o ...

– one of the " traitorous eight" who founded

; co-founder of Amelco, which became Teledyne * James McDonnell – co-founder of

McDonnell Douglas McDonnell Douglas was a major American aerospace manufacturing corporation and defense contractor, formed by the merger of McDonnell Aircraft and the Douglas Aircraft Company in 1967. Between then and its own merger with Boeing in 1997, it ...

* Alan Mulally – president and CEO of

William Emery Nickerson William Emery Nickerson (November 5, 1853 – June 5, 1930) was an American engineer and inventor. He worked with King C. Gillette at the onset of the The Gillette Company and was later elected to Gillette's board of directors. Nickerson has been ...

– co-founder of

Gillette Gillette is an American brand of safety razors and other personal care products including shaving supplies, owned by the multi-national corporation Procter & Gamble (P&G). Based in Boston, Massachusetts, United States, it was owned by The ...

, now part of

Procter & Gamble The Procter & Gamble Company (P&G) is an American multinational consumer goods corporation headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio, founded in 1837 by William Procter and James Gamble. It specializes in a wide range of personal health/consumer he ...

* Willard Rockwell – founder of

Rockwell International Rockwell International was a major American manufacturing conglomerate involved in aircraft, the space industry, defense and commercial electronics, components in the automotive industry, printing presses, avionics and industrial products. Ro ...

* Henry Singleton – founder of Teledyne *

Alfred P. Sloan, Jr. Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr. ( ; May 23, 1875February 17, 1966) was an American business executive in the automotive industry. He was a long-time president, chairman and CEO of General Motors Corporation. Sloan, first as a senior executive and ...

– automobile entrepreneur, former CEO of General Motors * Wong Tsu – first engineer of the

Boeing Company The Boeing Company () is an American multinational corporation that designs, manufactures, and sells airplanes, rotorcraft, rockets, satellites, telecommunications equipment, and missiles worldwide. The company also provides leasing and product ...

* Uncas Whitaker – founder of

AMP Incorporated TE Connectivity is an American Swiss-domiciled technology company that designs and manufactures connectors and sensors for several industries, such as automotive, industrial equipment, data communication systems, aerospace, defense, medical, o ...

(now a division of

Tyco International Tyco International plc was a security systems company incorporated in the Republic of Ireland, with operational headquarters in Princeton, New Jersey, United States (Tyco International (US) Inc.). Tyco International was composed of two major b ...

) *

Rick Woodward Allan Harvey "Rick" Woodward (1876–1950) was an American businessman and baseball team owner. Woodward began serving as the general superintendent of the Woodward Iron Company in 1899. Following his father's death, he became the company's presi ...

– president of Woodward Iron Company, owner of

Birmingham Barons The Birmingham Barons are a Minor League Baseball team based in Birmingham, Alabama. The team, which plays in the Southern League, is the Double-A affiliate of the Chicago White Sox and plays at Regions Field in downtown Birmingham. The current ...

Finance and consulting

* Roger Ward Babson – entrepreneur, founder of Babson Institute (now Babson College), 1940 presidential nominee on the Prohibition Party ticket * Michael Brennan – pioneering finance academic, former president of the American Finance Association * Sam Bankman-Fried (B.S. 2014) - Founder and former CEO of the insolvent cryptocurrency exchange

FTX FTX Trading Ltd., commonly known as FTX (short for "Futures Exchange") is a bankrupt company that formerly operated a cryptocurrency exchange and crypto hedge fund. The exchange was founded in 2019 and, at its peak in July 2021, had over one mi ...

and quantitative

cryptocurrency A cryptocurrency, crypto-currency, or crypto is a digital currency designed to work as a medium of exchange through a computer network that is not reliant on any central authority, such as a government or bank, to uphold or maintain it. It ...

trading firm Alameda Research * Richard Carrión – CEO of

Banco Popular de Puerto Rico Popular, Inc., doing business as Banco Popular in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands and as Popular Bank in the mainland United States, is a financial services conglomerate that has operated in Puerto Rico for over 125 years and in the mainlan ...

, and of Popular, Inc. * Wesley Chan – investment partner at

Google Ventures GV is a venture capital investment arm of Alphabet Inc., founded by Bill Maris, that provides seed, venture, and growth stage funding to technology companies. Founded as Google Ventures in 2009, the firm has operated independently of Google, Alph ...

* Lisa Endlich – business author, former vice-president at Goldman Sachs * Mark Gorenberg – partner of the venture capital firm Hummer Winblad Venture Partners *

Robert C. Hancké Robert C. (Bob) Hancké (born 18 July 1962) is a Belgium, Belgian economist specializing in Europe, European economies and in particular labour relations. Hancké was born in Antwerp, Belgium. He holds a doctorate, doctoral degree from the Mass ...

– Belgian economist * Michael Hammer – pioneer of

Business Process Reengineering Business process re-engineering (BPR) is a business management strategy originally pioneered in the early 1990s, focusing on the analysis and design of workflows and business processes within an organization. BPR aims to help organizations fund ...

, founder of Hammer and Co. * Mansoor Ijaz – founder and chairman of Crescent Investment Management Ltd; developer of the CARAT trading system *

Shantanurao Laxmanrao Kirloskar Shantanurao Laxmanrao Kirloskar (28 May 1903 – 24 April 1994) was an Indian businessman who was instrumental in the rapid growth of the Kirloskar Group. S. L. Kirloskar was the son of Laxmanrao Kirloskar, who established the Kirloskar Gro ...

– founder of

Kirloskar Group Kirloskar Group is an Indian conglomerate, headquartered in Pune. The group exports to over 70 countries over most of Africa, Southeast Asia and Europe. The flagship and holding company, Kirloskar Brothers Ltd, established in 1888, is India's l ...

Arthur Dehon Little Arthur Dehon Little (December 15, 1863 – August 1, 1935) was an American chemist and chemical engineer. He founded the consulting company Arthur D. Little and was instrumental in developing chemical engineering at the Massachusetts Instit ...

– entrepreneur, founder of the eponymous management consulting firm Arthur D. Little in 1886 * Mark Mobius – emerging markets investor and fund manager * Kenichi Ohmae – former director of the Japan arm of

McKinsey & Company McKinsey & Company is a global management consulting firm founded in 1926 by University of Chicago professor James O. McKinsey, that offers professional services to corporations, governments, and other organizations. McKinsey is the oldest and ...

, management consultants * Tom Perkins – founder of

venture capital Venture capital (often abbreviated as VC) is a form of private equity financing that is provided by venture capital firms or funds to start-up company, startups, early-stage, and emerging companies that have been deemed to have high growth poten ...

firm

Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers Kleiner Perkins, formerly Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB), is an American venture capital firm which specializes in investing in incubation, early stage and growth companies. Since its founding in 1972, the firm has backed entrepreneurs ...

* John S. Reed – chairman of the

New York Stock Exchange The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE, nicknamed "The Big Board") is an American stock exchange in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan in New York City. It is by far the world's largest stock exchange by market capitalization of its listed ...

* Ed Seykota – commodity trader *

Jim Simons Jim or James Simons may refer to: *Jim Simons (mathematician) (born 1938), mathematician and hedge fund manager *Jim Simons (golfer) (1950–2005), American golfer *Jimmy Simons (born 1970), Dutch footballer *Jimmy Simons, co-winner of 2001 Primeti ...

– mathematician; philanthropist; founder of Renaissance Technologies hedge fund *

John Thain John Alexander Thain (born May 26, 1955) is an American businessman, investment banker, and former chair and CEO of the CIT Group. Thain was the last chairman and chief executive officer of Merrill Lynch before its merger with Bank of America ...

– former

CEO A chief executive officer (CEO), also known as a central executive officer (CEO), chief administrator officer (CAO) or just chief executive (CE), is one of a number of corporate executives charged with the management of an organization especiall ...

Merrill Lynch Merrill (officially Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated), previously branded Merrill Lynch, is an American investment management and wealth management division of Bank of America. Along with BofA Securities, the investment banki ...

, former Chief Executive Officer of the

* William Toy – director at CDC, New York and Goldman Sachs; developer of the Black–Derman–Toy interest rate model * C. S. Venkatakrishnan – CEO of

Barclays Barclays () is a British multinational universal bank, headquartered in London, England. Barclays operates as two divisions, Barclays UK and Barclays International, supported by a service company, Barclays Execution Services. Barclays traces ...

. *

Nigel Wilson Nigel Edward Wilson (born January 12, 1970) is a Canadian former Major League Baseball player from Oshawa, Ontario. He played for the Florida Marlins, Cincinnati Reds, and Cleveland Indians. He also spent six highly successful seasons in Nippon ...

– CEO of

Legal & General Legal & General Group plc, commonly known as Legal & General, is a British multinational financial services and asset management company headquartered in London, England. Its products and services include investment management, lifetime mortg ...

Health care and biotechnology

David Benaron David A. Benaron (born November 21, 1958) is an American digital health entrepreneur, physician, and former Stanford University professor. His work in the field of medical optical imaging, digital health wearables, and predictive behavioral and ...

– digital health entrepreneur, physician * George A. Herzlinger (B.S., PhD

physics Physics is the natural science that studies matter, its fundamental constituents, its motion and behavior through space and time, and the related entities of energy and force. "Physical science is that department of knowledge which rel ...

) – medical innovation entrepreneur who invented and, with Regina, founded firms that built and sold an intra aortic balloon pump and a standard-of-care rapid infuser that have saved thousands of lives * Regina E. Herzlinger (B.S.

economics Economics () is the social science that studies the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. Economics focuses on the behaviour and interactions of economic agents and how economies work. Microeconomics analy ...

) – First woman to be tenured and chaired at HBS and to serve on large corporate health care Boards of Directors, including John Deere and Cardinal Health; author of three best-selling health care trade books. Known as the "Godmother of Consumer-Driven health care." *

Paul F. Levy Paul F. Levy is an American businessman, author, professor, and was elected on Nov 2, 2021 to a two-year term (Jan 2022 to Dec 2023) for the Ward 6 seat on the Newton (MA) School Committee. He is noted for his use of social media in health care lea ...

(SB, MCP 1974) – former president of

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) in Boston, Massachusetts is a teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School. It was formed out of the 1996 merger of Beth Israel Hospital (founded in 1916) and New England Deaconess Hospital (founded ...

hospitals, former Executive Director of Boston's MWRA Harbor Cleanup project *

Bernard Sherman Bernard Charles "Barry" Sherman, (February 25, 1942 – December 13, 2017) was a Canadian businessman and philanthropist who was chairman and CEO of Apotex Inc. With an estimated net worth of US$3.2 billion at the time of his death, acco ...

(PhD

astrophysics Astrophysics is a science that employs the methods and principles of physics and chemistry in the study of astronomical objects and phenomena. As one of the founders of the discipline said, Astrophysics "seeks to ascertain the nature of the he ...

) – Canadian billionaire, philanthropist, and founder of

Apotex Apotex Inc. is a Canadian pharmaceutical corporation. Founded in 1974 by Barry Sherman, the company is the largest producer of generic drugs in Canada, with annual sales exceeding . By 2016, Apotex employed over 10,000 people as one of Canada's l ...

* Robert A. Swanson – co-founder of

Genentech Genentech, Inc., is an American biotechnology corporation headquartered in South San Francisco, California. It became an independent subsidiary of Roche in 2009. Genentech Research and Early Development operates as an independent center within ...

Ron Williams Ronald Allen Williams (born 1949) is an American Businessman, Entrepreneur and management consultant, and board director on corporate, public sector and non-profit boards. Williams is the author of ''Learning to Lead: The Journey to Leading Y ...

– CEO of

Aetna Aetna Inc. () is an American managed health care company that sells traditional and consumer directed health care insurance and related services, such as medical, pharmaceutical, dental, behavioral health, long-term care, and disability plans ...

Miscellaneous

* David A. Aaker – consultant and author of ''Marketing'' * Aditya Birla – industrialist, deceased son of

basant Kumar Birla Basant Kumar Birla (12 January 1921 – 3 July 2019) was an Indian businessman of the Birla family. He was chairman of the Krishnarpan Charity Trust, BK Birla Institute of Engineering & Technology (BKBIET) and various educational trusts and ...

and father of Kumar Mangalam who heads

Aditya Birla Group Aditya Birla Group is an Indian multinational conglomerate, headquartered in Mumbai. It operates in 100 countries with more than 1,40,000 employees directly and indirectly. The group was founded by Seth Shiv Narayan Birla in 1857. The group has ...

* Joseph Chung – co-founder of Art Technology Group with fellow MIT grad Jeet Singh * Jack Crichton – oil and

natural gas Natural gas (also called fossil gas or simply gas) is a naturally occurring mixture of gaseous hydrocarbons consisting primarily of methane in addition to various smaller amounts of other higher alkanes. Low levels of trace gases like carbon ...

industrialist from Texas; Republican candidate for governor in 1964 *

Samuel Face Samuel Allen Face Jr. (August 2, 1923 – May 2, 2001) was an American inventor and co-developer of some of the most important advances in concrete floor technology and wireless controls. Early life Face was born at the home of his maternal ...

– inventor and co-developer of advances in concrete and piezoelectric technologies * Victor Kwok-king Fung – prominent Hong Kong billionaire businessman and political figure * Antonio Galloni – Wine critic and founder of Vinous * Eugenio Garza Sada – Mexican businessman, philanthropist and founder of the

Tec de Monterrey Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM) ( en, Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education), also known as Tecnológico de Monterrey or just Tec, is a secular and coeducational private university based in ...

* Krisztina "Z" Holly (B.S. 1989, M.S. 1992) - co-founder of

Stylus Innovation Vertical Communications, Inc. is a corporation that specializes in cloud and premises-based private branch exchanges, i.e., business telephone systems. Vertical Communications changed its name on January 1, 2005 from Artisoft, Inc. after acquirin ...

, curator of first

TEDx TED Conferences, LLC (Technology, Entertainment, Design) is an American-Canadian non-profit media organization that posts international talks online for free distribution under the slogan "ideas worth spreading". TED was founded by Richard Sau ...

, founder of MIT Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation, former vice provost for innovation at

University of Southern California , mottoeng = "Let whoever earns the palm bear it" , religious_affiliation = Nonsectarian—historically Methodist , established = , accreditation = WSCUC , type = Private research university , academic_affiliations = , endowment = $8. ...

* John Legere – CEO of

T-Mobile T-Mobile is the brand name used by some of the mobile communications subsidiaries of the German telecommunications company Deutsche Telekom AG in the Czech Republic ( T-Mobile Czech Republic), Poland ( T-Mobile Polska), the United States ( T-Mob ...

, post-graduate school, received M.S. from MIT *

Nikolaos Mavridis Nikolaos Mavridis (born April 28, 1973) is the founder and director of the Interactive Robots and Media Lab (IRML), and a PhD graduate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology He is also an assistant professor of research at the Computer Sci ...

– founder of the

Interactive Robots and Media Lab The Interactive Robots and Media Lab (IRML) is a research laboratory, originally hosted at the College of IT of the United Arab Emirates University in Al-Ain, Abu Dhabi Emirate, UAE, then moved on to the CSE facilities of New York University Abu ...

* David McGrath – founder of TAD Resources, now part of Adecco * Dana G. Mead – former CEO and chair of

Tenneco Tenneco (formerly Tenneco Automotive and originally Tennessee Gas Transmission Company) is an American automotive components original equipment manufacturer and an aftermarket ride control and emissions products manufacturer. It is a Fortune 5 ...

Hamid R. Moghadam Hamid Moghadam (born August 26, 1956) is an Iranian-American business executive and philanthropist. In 2011 Moghadam orchestrated the combination between AMB, a firm he co-founded in 1983, and ProLogis to create Prologis, the largest logistics re ...

– co-founder, chairman and CEO of Prologis * Stewart Nelson – founder of Systems Concepts *

Eric P. Newman Eric Pfeiffer Newman (May 25, 1911 – November 15, 2017) was an American numismatist. He wrote several "works about early American coins and paper money considered the standards on their subjects", as well as hundreds of articles. Newman sold his ...

–

numismatist A numismatist is a specialist in numismatics ("of coins"; from Late Latin ''numismatis'', genitive of ''numisma''). Numismatists include collectors, specialist dealers, and scholars who use coins and other currency in object-based research. Altho ...

Arthur S. Obermayer Arthur S. Obermayer (July 17, 1931 – January 10, 2016) was an American chemist, entrepreneur and philanthropist. He was the founder and president of the Moleculon Research Corporation. He was a co-founder of Partners for Progressive Israel ...

– founder of the Moleculon Research Corporation; philanthropist * John Ofori-Tenkorang – Director General of the Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT),

Ghana Ghana (; tw, Gaana, ee, Gana), officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country in West Africa. It abuts the Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic Ocean to the south, sharing borders with Ivory Coast in Ghana–Ivory Coast border, the west, Burkina ...

* Generoso Pope – founder and owner of '' The National Enquirer'' * Alexander N. Rossolimo – founding chairman of Center for Security and Social Progress *

– founder of MicroStrategy * Alan Spoon (B.S. 1973) – former president of The

Washington Post ''The Washington Post'' (also known as the ''Post'' and, informally, ''WaPo'') is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C. It is the most widely circulated newspaper within the Washington metropolitan area and has a large na ...

Company * Leelila Strogov – general assignment reporter for Fox 11 News * Richard Tomlinson – British intelligence officer * Helmut Weymar – founder of Commodities Corporation

Education

* Theodosios Alexander (M.S. in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering 1982; M.S. in Ocean Systems Management; M.S. in Mechanical Engineering; ScD in Mechanical Engineering 1987) – Dean of Parks College of Engineering, Aviation and Technology of

Saint Louis University Saint Louis University (SLU) is a private Jesuit research university with campuses in St. Louis, Missouri, United States, and Madrid, Spain. Founded in 1818 by Louis William Valentine DuBourg, it is the oldest university west of the Mississip ...

; Professor and Chair of Energy Engineering,

Queen Mary, University of London , mottoeng = With united powers , established = 1785 – The London Hospital Medical College1843 – St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College1882 – Westfield College1887 – East London College/Queen Mary College , type = Public researc ...

; former James Watt Professor at the

University of Glasgow , image = UofG Coat of Arms.png , image_size = 150px , caption = Coat of arms Flag , latin_name = Universitas Glasguensis , motto = la, Via, Veritas, Vita , ...

, Scotland; former Mechanical Engineering Professor at Washington University in St. Louis *

Joseph E. Aoun Joseph Aoun (born March 26, 1953) is a Lebanese-born American linguist and academic administrator, currently serving as the 7th president of Northeastern University in Boston since August 2006. Previously, Aoun was dean of the College of Letters, ...

(PhD 1982) – president of

Northeastern University Northeastern University (NU) is a private research university with its main campus in Boston. Established in 1898, the university offers undergraduate and graduate programs on its main campus as well as satellite campuses in Charlotte, North C ...

linguist Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. It is called a scientific study because it entails a comprehensive, systematic, objective, and precise analysis of all aspects of language, particularly its nature and structure. Lingui ...

, author * Andrew Armacost (M.S. 1995, PhD 2000) – dean of the

United States Air Force Academy The United States Air Force Academy (USAFA) is a United States service academy in El Paso County, Colorado, immediately north of Colorado Springs. It educates cadets for service in the officer corps of the United States Air Force and Un ...

Dennis Assanis Dennis N. Assanis is a Greek academic administrator, scientist, engineer and author. He is the 28th president of the University of Delaware, a position he has held since June 6, 2016. Biography Assanis was born and raised in Athens, Greece, As ...

(M.S. in

Naval Architecture Naval architecture, or naval engineering, is an engineering discipline incorporating elements of mechanical, electrical, electronic, software and safety engineering as applied to the engineering design process, shipbuilding, maintenance, and ...

and

Marine Engineering Marine engineering is the engineering of boats, ships, submarines, and any other marine vessel. Here it is also taken to include the engineering of other ocean systems and structures – referred to in certain academic and professional circl ...

1983, M.S. in

Mechanical Engineering Mechanical engineering is the study of physical machines that may involve force and movement. It is an engineering branch that combines engineering physics and mathematics principles with materials science, to design, analyze, manufacture, ...

1983, M.S. in

Management Management (or managing) is the administration of an organization, whether it is a business, a nonprofit organization, or a government body. It is the art and science of managing resources of the business. Management includes the activities ...

1986, PhD in Power and

Propulsion Propulsion is the generation of force by any combination of pushing or pulling to modify the translational motion of an object, which is typically a rigid body (or an articulated rigid body) but may also concern a fluid. The term is derived from ...

1986) – former Jon R. and Beverly S. Holt Professor and Arthur F. Thurnau Professor at the

University of Michigan , mottoeng = "Arts, Knowledge, Truth" , former_names = Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania (1817–1821) , budget = $10.3 billion (2021) , endowment = $17 billion (2021)As o ...

; Provost and Senior VP for Academic Affairs at

Stony Brook University Stony Brook University (SBU), officially the State University of New York at Stony Brook, is a public research university in Stony Brook, New York. Along with the University at Buffalo, it is one of the State University of New York syste ...

* Larry Bacow (B.S. 1972) – president of

Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of high ...

, former president of

Tufts University Tufts University is a private research university on the border of Medford and Somerville, Massachusetts. It was founded in 1852 as Tufts College by Christian universalists who sought to provide a nonsectarian institution of higher learnin ...

, lawyer, economist, author *

Merrill J. Bateman Merrill Joseph Bateman (born June 19, 1936) has been a general authority of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) since 1992, originally as a member of the Second Quorum of the Seventy. He is currently an emeritus general a ...

(PhD 1965) – former president of

Brigham Young University Brigham Young University (BYU, sometimes referred to colloquially as The Y) is a private research university in Provo, Utah. It was founded in 1875 by religious leader Brigham Young and is sponsored by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day ...

;

Mormon Mormons are a religious and cultural group related to Mormonism, the principal branch of the Latter Day Saint movement started by Joseph Smith in upstate New York during the 1820s. After Smith's death in 1844, the movement split into seve ...

Presiding Bishop *

Scott C. Beardsley Scott C. Beardsley is an American-French professor and academic administrator. He serves as the dean of the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia, where he is also the Charles C. Abbott Professor of Business. Early life Scott C. ...

– dean of the University of Virginia Darden School of Business * Lawrence Berk (B.S. Architectural Engineering 1932) – founder and former president of

Berklee College of Music Berklee College of Music is a private music college in Boston, Massachusetts. It is the largest independent college of contemporary music in the world. Known for the study of jazz and modern American music, it also offers college-level cou ...

(1945–1978) * William R. Brody (B.S. 1965, M.S. 1966) – former president of

Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University (Johns Hopkins, Hopkins, or JHU) is a private research university in Baltimore, Maryland. Founded in 1876, Johns Hopkins is the oldest research university in the United States and in the western hemisphere. It consiste ...

, current president of

Salk Institute The Salk Institute for Biological Studies is a scientific research institute located in the La Jolla community of San Diego, California, U.S. The independent, non-profit institute was founded in 1960 by Jonas Salk, the developer of the polio vacci ...

Emily Calandrelli Emily Dawn Calandrelli is an American science communicator, former MIT engineer, and the host and an executive producer of ''Xploration Outer Space'' and '' Emily's Wonder Lab''. Early life and education Emily Calandrelli grew up in Morgantown, ...

(M.S. 2013) – aerospace engineer and STEM communicator *

Marion Hamilton Carter Marion Hamilton Carter (1865-1937) was an American Progressive Era educator, psychologist, children’s literature editor, short story writer, and artist. In her prime, she worked as a muckraker journalist, magazine editor, women’s suffrage adv ...

(1893) – educator, journalist, author *

Jared Cohon Jared Leigh Cohon (born October 7, 1947) served as the eighth president of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. he is a University Professor in the Carnegie Mellon College of Engineering. He holds a BS in C ...

(M.S. 1972, PhD 1973) – former president of

Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. One of its predecessors was established in 1900 by Andrew Carnegie as the Carnegie Technical Schools; it became the Carnegie Institute of Technology ...

* William Cooper (PhD 1976) – president of

University of Richmond The University of Richmond (UR or U of R) is a private liberal arts college in Richmond, Virginia. It is a primarily undergraduate, residential institution with approximately 4,350 undergraduate and graduate students in five schools: the School ...

* Dianna Leilani Cowern (2011) – physics alumnus and STEM educator and communicator on

YouTube YouTube is a global online video sharing and social media platform headquartered in San Bruno, California. It was launched on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim. It is owned by Google, and is the second most ...

and elsewhere as a

YouTuber A YouTuber is an online personality and/or influencer who produces videos on the video-sharing platform YouTube, typically posting to their personal YouTube channel. The term was first used in the English language in 2006. Influence Influe ...

and similar as “Physics Girl” collaborating often with fellow MIT graduate

and many other people associated with many other organizations * Allan Cullimore – former president of

New Jersey Institute of Technology {{Infobox university , name = {{nowrap, New Jersey Institute of Technology , image = New Jersey IT seal.svg , image_upright = 0.9 , former_names = Newark College of Engineering (1930–1975)Ne ...

(1920–1947) *

Laura D'Andrea Tyson Laura D'Andrea Tyson (born June 28, 1947) is an American economist and university administrator who is currently a Distinguished Professor of the Graduate School at the Haas School of Business of the University of California, Berkeley and a senio ...

(PhD 1974) – chairman of the CEA under

Clinton Clinton is an English toponymic surname, indicating one's ancestors came from English places called Glympton or Glinton.Hanks, P. & Hodges, F. ''A Dictionary of Surnames''. Oxford University Press, 1988 Clinton has frequently been used as a given ...

; former dean of the

Haas School of Business The Walter A. Haas School of Business, also known as Berkeley Haas, is the business school of the University of California, Berkeley, a public research university in Berkeley, California. It was the first business school at a public university ...

; former dean of the

London Business School London Business School (LBS) is a business school and a constituent college of the federal University of London. LBS was founded in 1964 and awards post-graduate degrees (Master's degrees in management and finance, MBA and PhD). Its motto is " ...

* Woodie Flowers (M.S. 1968, ME 1971, PhD 1973) – MIT professor, created ''Introduction to Design'' (2.70), founder of

FIRST Robotics Competition FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) is an international high school robotics competition. Each year, teams of high school students, coaches, and mentors work during a six-week period to build robots capable of competing in that year's game that wei ...

, starting host of ''

Scientific American Frontiers ''Scientific American Frontiers'' was an American science television program aired by PBS from 1990 to 2005. The show was a companion program to the ''Scientific American'' magazine, and primarily covered new technology and discoveries in science ...

'' (1990–93) *

Philip Friedman Philip Friedman (born January 8, 1944) is an American author and attorney. His book ''Reasonable Doubt'' spent 15 weeks on the ''New York Times'' bestseller list He is also the co-author of a nonfiction book about the Pilates Method, co-author ...

(PhD 1972) – president of Golden Gate University *David Garrison – founding chair, University of Houston–Clear Lake Physics Department * Thomas P. Gerrity – former dean of

Wharton School The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania ( ; also known as Wharton Business School, the Wharton School, Penn Wharton, and Wharton) is the business school of the University of Pennsylvania, a private Ivy League research university in ...

at the

University of Pennsylvania The University of Pennsylvania (also known as Penn or UPenn) is a private research university in Philadelphia. It is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and is ranked among the highest-regarded universit ...

* Hollis Godfrey (1889) – former president of

Drexel University Drexel University is a private research university with its main campus in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Drexel's undergraduate school was founded in 1891 by Anthony J. Drexel, a financier and philanthropist. Founded as Drexel Institute of Ar ...

* Eric Grimson (PhD Mathematics 1980) – computer scientist and Chancellor of MIT * Amos Horev (B.S., M.S.) – former president of Technion *

Shirley Jackson Shirley Hardie Jackson (December 14, 1916 – August 8, 1965) was an American writer known primarily for her works of horror and mystery. Over the duration of her writing career, which spanned over two decades, she composed six novels, two me ...

(B.S. 1968, PhD 1973) – president of

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute () (RPI) is a private research university in Troy, New York, with an additional campus in Hartford, Connecticut. A third campus in Groton, Connecticut closed in 2018. RPI was established in 1824 by Stephen Va ...

, physicist * Martin C. Jischke (M.S., PhD 1968) – former president of

Purdue University Purdue University is a public land-grant research university in West Lafayette, Indiana, and the flagship campus of the Purdue University system. The university was founded in 1869 after Lafayette businessman John Purdue donated land and ...

Theodora J. Kalikow Theodora June "Theo" Kalikow (born 1941) is an American academic, university president, author, and women's rights advocate. Holder of a master's degree and PhD in philosophy, she taught at Southeastern Massachusetts University for 17 years before ...

(Sc.M. 1970) – former president of the University of Maine at Farmington and the University of Southern Maine *

Salman Khan Abdul Rashid Salim Salman Khan (; 27 December 1965) is an Indian actor, film producer, and television personality who works in Hindi films. In a film career spanning over thirty years, Khan has received numerous awards, including two Nationa ...

– founder and executive director of

Khan Academy Khan Academy is an American non-profit educational organization created in 2008 by Sal Khan. Its goal is creating a set of online tools that help educate students. The organization produces short lessons in the form of videos. Its website also i ...

Joseph Klafter use both this parameter and , birth_date to display the person's date of birth, date of death, and age at death) --> , death_place = , death_cause = , body_discovered = , resting_place = , resting_place_coordinates = ...

–

chemical physics Chemical physics is a subdiscipline of chemistry and physics that investigates physicochemical phenomena using techniques from atomic and molecular physics and condensed matter physics; it is the branch of physics that studies chemical proce ...

professor, the eighth President of

Tel Aviv University Tel Aviv University (TAU) ( he, אוּנִיבֶרְסִיטַת תֵּל אָבִיב, ''Universitat Tel Aviv'') is a public research university in Tel Aviv, Israel. With over 30,000 students, it is the largest university in the country. Locate ...

Martin C. Libicki Martin C. Libicki is an American scholar and Professor at the Frederick S. Pardee RAND Graduate School in Santa Monica, California. Early life Martin C. Libicki graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Massachus ...

(B.S. Mathematics) – professor at the Frederick S. Pardee RAND Graduate School in

Santa Monica, California Santa Monica (; Spanish language, Spanish: ''Santa Mónica'') is a city in Los Angeles County, California, Los Angeles County, situated along Santa Monica Bay on California's South Coast (California), South Coast. Santa Monica's 2020 United Sta ...

John Maeda John Maeda (born 1966) is a Vice President of Design and Artificial Intelligence at Microsoft. He is an American technologist and designer whose work explores where business, design, and technology merge to make space for the "humanist technol ...

(B.S., M.S. 1989) – former president of

Rhode Island School of Design The Rhode Island School of Design (RISD , pronounced "Riz-D") is a private art and design school in Providence, Rhode Island. The school was founded as a coeducational institution in 1877 by Helen Adelia Rowe Metcalf, who sought to increase the ...

(2008–2013), graphic designer, computer scientist, author, venture capitalist * Modesto Maidique (B.S. 1962, M.S. 1964, EE 1966, PhD 1970) – former president of

Florida International University Florida International University (FIU) is a public research university with its main campus in Miami-Dade County. Founded in 1965, the school opened its doors to students in 1972. FIU has grown to become the third-largest university in Florida ...

* Julianne Malveaux (PhD 1980) – president of

Bennett College Bennett College is a private historically black liberal arts college for women in Greensboro, North Carolina. It was founded in 1873 as a normal school to educate freedmen and train both men and women as teachers. Originally coed, in 1926 i ...

Alan Marcus Alan J. Marcus is an American economist, and the first recipient of the Mario J. Gabelli Endowed Professorship at the Carroll School of Management at Boston College, where he currently teaches. He is an author of several textbooks widely used ...

(PhD 1981) – economist; professor at the

Carroll School of Management The Wallace E. Carroll School of Management (CSOM) is the business school of Boston College in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. The school is regularly ranked among the best business schools in the United States, particularly its undergraduate progr ...

Boston College Boston College (BC) is a private Jesuit research university in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. Founded in 1863, the university has more than 9,300 full-time undergraduates and nearly 5,000 graduate students. Although Boston College is classifi ...

. The first recipient of the Mario Gabelli Endowed Professorship. * David McClain (PhD 1974) – president of

University of Hawaii A university () is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. ''University'' is derived from the Latin phrase ''universitas magistrorum et scholarium'', which ...

* Frederic Mishkin (B.S. 1973, PhD 1976) – economist; professor at

Columbia Business School Columbia Business School (CBS) is the business school of Columbia University, a private research university in New York City. Established in 1916, Columbia Business School is one of six Ivy League business schools and is one of the oldest busin ...

; Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (2006–2008); appeared in the documentary '' Inside Job'' * Leo E. Morton (M.S. 1987) – chancellor of

University of Missouri-Kansas City A university () is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. ''University'' is derived from the Latin phrase ''universitas magistrorum et scholarium'', which r ...

* Gretchen Ritter (Ph.D.) – dean of the Cornell University College of Arts and Sciences. * Richard Santagati (M.S. 1979) – former president of

Merrimack College Merrimack College is a private Augustinian university in North Andover, Massachusetts. It was founded in 1947 by the Order of St. Augustine with an initial goal to educate World War II veterans. Its campus has grown to a campus with nearly 40 ...

* Rahmat Shoureshi – researcher, professor, and provost of

New York Institute of Technology The New York Institute of Technology (NYIT or New York Tech) is a private research university founded in 1955. It has two main campuses in New York—one in Old Westbury, on Long Island, and one in Manhattan. Additionally, it has a cyberse ...

(NYIT) *

Reed Shuldiner Reed Shuldiner is the Alvin L. Snowiss Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, and Co-Director of the Center for Tax Law and Policy. Biography Shuldiner has a bachelor of science in engineering degree from Princeton Univers ...

(Ph.D. 1985) – Alvin L. Snowiss Professor of Law at the

University of Pennsylvania Law School The University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School (also known as Penn Law or Penn Carey Law) is the law school of the University of Pennsylvania, a private research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is among the most selective and olde ...

* Nam-Pyo Suh (B.S. 1959, M.S. 1961) – president of

KAIST The Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) is a national research university located in Daedeok Innopolis, Daejeon, South Korea. KAIST was established by the Korean government in 1971 as the nation's first public, resear ...

(Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) * Lawrence H. Summers (B.S. 1975) – former president of

, economist, former presidential advisor * Subra Suresh (ScD 1981) – former president of

, former Director of the

National Science Foundation The National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent agency of the United States government that supports fundamental research and education in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering. Its medical counterpart is the National ...

, former Dean of the School of Engineering at MIT * Demetri Terzopoulos (PhD 1984) -

Academy Award The Academy Awards, better known as the Oscars, are awards for artistic and technical merit for the American and international film industry. The awards are regarded by many as the most prestigious, significant awards in the entertainment in ...

winning

computer scientist A computer scientist is a person who is trained in the academic study of computer science. Computer scientists typically work on the theoretical side of computation, as opposed to the hardware side on which computer engineers mainly focus ( ...

, university

professor Professor (commonly abbreviated as Prof.) is an academic rank at universities and other post-secondary education and research institutions in most countries. Literally, ''professor'' derives from Latin as a "person who professes". Professor ...

author An author is the writer of a book, article, play, mostly written work. A broader definition of the word "author" states: "''An author is "the person who originated or gave existence to anything" and whose authorship determines responsibility f ...

, and

entrepreneur Entrepreneurship is the creation or extraction of economic value. With this definition, entrepreneurship is viewed as change, generally entailing risk beyond what is normally encountered in starting a business, which may include other values t ...

Ahmed Tewfik Ahmed H. Tewfik is an Egyptian-American electrical engineer, professor and college administrator who currently serves as the IEEE Signal Processing Society President. He also holds the Cockrell Family Chair in Engineering #1 at UT Austin. He s ...

(PhD 1987) –

IEEE Signal Processing Society The IEEE Signal Processing Society (IEEE SPS) is one of the nearly 40 technical societies of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the first one created. Its mission is to "advance and disseminate state-of-the-art scie ...

President, former chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the

Cockrell School of Engineering The Cockrell School of Engineering is one of the eighteen colleges within the University of Texas at Austin. It has more than 8,000 students enrolled in eleven undergraduate and thirteen graduate programs. The college is ranked 10th in the world a ...

at the

* Lee T. Todd, Jr. (M.S. 1970, EE 1971, PhD 1974) – president of

University of Kentucky The University of Kentucky (UK, UKY, or U of K) is a public land-grant research university in Lexington, Kentucky. Founded in 1865 by John Bryan Bowman as the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Kentucky, the university is one of the state's ...

Hal Varian Hal Ronald Varian (born March 18, 1947 in Wooster, Ohio) is Chief Economist at Google and holds the title of emeritus professor at the University of California, Berkeley where he was founding dean of the School of Information. Varian is an econom ...

(B.S. 1969) – chief economist at

, founding dean of the School of Information at

UC Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public university, public land-grant university, land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of Californi ...

* Patrick Henry Winston (B.S. 1965, M.S. 1967, PhD 1970) – author of standard textbooks on

artificial intelligence Artificial intelligence (AI) is intelligence—perceiving, synthesizing, and inferring information—demonstrated by machine A machine is a physical system using Power (physics), power to apply Force, forces and control Motion, moveme ...

and

programming languages A programming language is a system of notation for writing computer program, computer programs. Most programming languages are text-based formal languages, but they may also be visual programming language, graphical. They are a kind of computer ...

, MIT professor, co-founded Ascent Technology *

Elisabeth Zinser Elisabeth Ann Zinser (born February 20, 1940) is a retired university president, most recently at Southern Oregon University (2001–06) in Ashland, Oregon. Previously she was the chancellor of the Lexington campus of the University of Kentucky ...

(M.S. 1982) – president of

Southern Oregon University Southern Oregon University (SOU) is a public university A public university or public college is a university or college that is in state ownership, owned by the state or receives significant government spending, public funds through a nation ...

* Muhammad M. Al-Saggaf (M.S. 1996, PhD 2000 in Geophysics) - President of

King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM) ( ar, جامعة الملك فهد للبترول و المعادن, – short: ar, جامعة البترول ), after 1975 as the University of Petroleum and Minerals and initially as the ...

Humanities, arts, and social sciences

Academics

* Saleem Ali (PhD 2001) – Blue and Gold Distinguished Professor of Energy and Environment at the University of Delaware, National Geographic Emerging Explorer, World Economic Forum Young Global Leader *

Harry Binswanger Harry Binswanger (; born 1944) is an American philosopher. He is an Objectivist and a board member of the Ayn Rand Institute. He was an associate of Ayn Rand, working with her on ''The Ayn Rand Lexicon'' and helping her edit the second edition ...

– philosopher, associate of

Ayn Rand Alice O'Connor (born Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum;, . Most sources transliterate her given name as either ''Alisa'' or ''Alissa''. , 1905 – March 6, 1982), better known by her pen name Ayn Rand (), was a Russian-born American writer and p ...

* Michael Brame (PhD 1970) – professor of linguistics at the

University of Washington The University of Washington (UW, simply Washington, or informally U-Dub) is a public research university in Seattle, Washington. Founded in 1861, Washington is one of the oldest universities on the West Coast; it was established in Seat ...

* Dan Massey – sexual freedom scholar, religious philosopher, human rights activist, chief engineer at

BBN Technologies Raytheon BBN (originally Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc.) is an American research and development company, based next to Fresh Pond in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. In 1966, the Franklin Institute awarded the firm the Frank P. Brown ...

, and senior scientist at

Science Applications International Corporation Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), Inc. is an American technology company headquartered in Reston, Virginia that provides government services and information technology support. History The original SAIC was created in 196 ...

* Charles Murray (M.S.; PhD Political Science 1974) – researcher, co-author of ''

The Bell Curve ''The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life'' is a 1994 book by psychologist Richard J. Herrnstein and political scientist Charles Murray, in which the authors argue that human intelligence is substantially influenced b ...

'' - professor of Management Science and Engineering at Stanford University *

Ellen Swallow Richards Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards (December 3, 1842 – March 30, 1911) was an American industrial and safety engineer, environmental chemist, and university faculty member in the United States during the 19th century. Her pioneering work in ...

(B.S. 1873) – founder of the modern

home economics Home economics, also called domestic science or family and consumer sciences, is a subject concerning human development, personal and family finances, consumer issues, housing and interior design, nutrition and food preparation, as well as texti ...

discipline and first woman admitted to MIT

Actors, Directors, and other crew

* Dylan Bruno – actor; former model * Yau-Man Chan (B.S. 1974) – contestant on ''Survivor:'' ''Figi'' and '' Survivor: Micronesia'';

table tennis Table tennis, also known as ping-pong and whiff-whaff, is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight ball, also known as the ping-pong ball, back and forth across a table using small solid rackets. It takes place on a hard table div ...

player * James Eckhouse (1976, dropped out) – actor, ''

Beverly Hills, 90210 ''Beverly Hills, 90210'' (often referred to by its short title, ''90210'') is an American teen drama television series created by Darren Star and produced by Aaron Spelling under his production company Spelling Television. The series ran ...

'' *

Herbert Kalmus Herbert Thomas Kalmus (November 9, 1881 – July 11, 1963) was an American scientist and engineer who played a significant role in developing color motion picture film. Kalmus was the co-founder and president of the Technicolor Motion Picture Co ...

(1903) – inventor of

Technicolor Technicolor is a series of color motion picture processes, the first version dating back to 1916, and followed by improved versions over several decades. Definitive Technicolor movies using three black and white films running through a special ...

; star on the

Hollywood Walk of Fame The Hollywood Walk of Fame is a historic landmark which consists of more than 2,700 five-pointed terrazzo and brass stars embedded in the sidewalks along 15 blocks of Hollywood Boulevard and three blocks of Vine Street in Hollywood, Calif ...

* Erland Van Lidth De Jeude –

Hollywood Hollywood usually refers to: * Hollywood, Los Angeles, a neighborhood in California * Hollywood, a metonym for the cinema of the United States Hollywood may also refer to: Places United States * Hollywood District (disambiguation) * Hollywoo ...

actor;

opera Opera is a form of theatre in which music is a fundamental component and dramatic roles are taken by singers. Such a "work" (the literal translation of the Italian word "opera") is typically a collaboration between a composer and a libre ...

singer *

James Woods James Howard Woods (born April 18, 1947) is an American actor. He is known for his work in various film, stage, and television productions. He started his career in minor roles on and off- Broadway. In 1972, he appeared in ''The Trial of the ...

(1969, dropped out) –

actor;

Oscar Oscar, OSCAR, or The Oscar may refer to: People * Oscar (given name), an Irish- and English-language name also used in other languages; the article includes the names Oskar, Oskari, Oszkár, Óscar, and other forms. * Oscar (Irish mythology), ...

nominee; Emmy winner *

Dottie Zicklin Dottie Dartland Zicklin (born in Florida in 1964) is an American television writer and producer. Zicklin graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1986. She is the co-creator of the sitcoms '' Caroline in the City'', ''Dharma & ...

(1986) – television writer and producer; co-creator of the sitcoms '' Caroline in the City'', '' Dharma & Greg'', and '' Are You There, Chelsea?''

Economists, correspondents, and Political Advisors

Dean Karlan Dean Karlan is an American development economist. He is Professor of Economics and Finance at Northwestern University where, alongside Christopher Udry, he co-founded and co-directs the Global Poverty Research Lab at Kellogg School of Management. ...

(PhD Development Economics and Public Finance 2002) – development economist and founder of

Innovations for Poverty Action Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) is an American non-profit research and policy organization founded in 2002 by economist Dean Karlan. Since its foundation, IPA has worked with over 400 leading academics to conduct over 600 evaluations in 51 co ...

Paul Krugman Paul Robin Krugman ( ; born February 28, 1953) is an American economist, who is Distinguished Professor of Economics at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and a columnist for ''The New York Times''. In 2008, Krugman was t ...

(PhD) – ''

New York Times ''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid ...

'' columnist,

John Bates Clark Medal The John Bates Clark Medal is awarded by the American Economic Association to "that American economist under the age of forty who is adjudged to have made a significant contribution to economic thought and knowledge." The award is named after the ...

and

Nobel Prize The Nobel Prizes ( ; sv, Nobelpriset ; no, Nobelprisen ) are five separate prizes that, according to Alfred Nobel's will of 1895, are awarded to "those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind." Alfre ...

winner (economics) * David Walter – British BBC and

ITN Independent Television News (ITN) is a UK-based television production company. It is made up of two divisions: Broadcast News and ITN Productions. ITN is based in London, with bureaux and offices in Beijing, Brussels, Jerusalem, Johannesburg, N ...

correspondent and later, political advisor (winner of Kennedy Memorial Scholarship to MIT)

Musicians, Record Producers, and Engineers

* Nate Greenslit (PhD) – musician, writer and academic * Ned Lagin – played keyboards and

synthesizer A synthesizer (also spelled synthesiser) is an electronic musical instrument that generates audio signals. Synthesizers typically create sounds by generating waveforms through methods including subtractive synthesis, additive synthesis ...

at a number of the

Grateful Dead The Grateful Dead was an American rock music, rock band formed in 1965 in Palo Alto, California. The band is known for its eclectic style, which fused elements of rock, Folk music, folk, country music, country, jazz, bluegrass music, bluegrass, ...

shows between 1970 and 1975 and on a few mid–1970s albums *

Rajesh Mehta Rajesh Jaswanth Rai Mehta (born 20 June 1964) is an Indian billionaire businessman, based in Bangalore. He is the owner and executive chairman of the jewellery company Rajesh Exports. As of April 2017, ''Forbes'' estimated his net worth at $2.6 ...

(B.S. Humanities and Engineering 1986) – hybrid trumpeter, composer, educational technology consultant * Alan Pierson (B.S. Music, Physics, 1996-1997) – American conductor; Northwester University faculty * Tom Scott (B.S. 1966) – winner of two Academy Awards for Best Sound for '' The Right Stuff'' and '' Amadeus'' * Jamshied Sharifi –

Tony Award The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Broadway Theatre, more commonly known as the Tony Award, recognizes excellence in live Broadway theatre. The awards are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at an annual ce ...

winning composer

Painting, Sculpting, and visual art

Alia Farid Alia Farid (born 1985) is a Kuwaiti-Puerto Rican visual artist. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from La Escuela de Artes Plásticas de Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico, a Master of Science in Visual Studies from the Visual Arts Program at MIT, Cambridg ...

– contemporary artist * Marisa Morán Jahn (M.S.) – multimedia artist and founder of Studio REV- * Alan Rath (B.S. 1982) –

electronic Electronic may refer to: *Electronics, the science of how to control electric energy in semiconductor * ''Electronics'' (magazine), a defunct American trade journal *Electronic storage, the storage of data using an electronic device *Electronic co ...

, kinetic, and robotic sculptor * Samuel Washington Weis – painter

Writers and Editors

Steve Altes Steve Altes (born November 13, 1962) is an American writer and former aerospace engineer. He writes humorous essays about his misadventures. Early life Altes was born on November 13, 1962, in Syracuse, New York. He graduated from Fayetteville-M ...

(B.S. 1984, M.S. 1986) – humorist,

recipient, writer of ''Geeks & Greeks'' graphic novel about MIT * John W. Campbell (physics, dropped out) – writer, longtime editor of ''

Astounding Science Fiction ''Analog Science Fiction and Fact'' is an American science fiction magazine published under various titles since 1930. Originally titled ''Astounding Stories of Super-Science'', the first issue was dated January 1930, published by William C ...

'' * Rebecca Richardson Joslin – essayist, lecturer, benefactor, clubwoman * Kealoha, born Steven Wong (1999) – performance poet; Hawaii's first Poet Laureate and National Poetry Slam Legend; storyteller; Hawaii's SlamMaster *

Hugh Lofting Hugh John Lofting (14 January 1886 – 26 September 1947) was an English American writer trained as a civil engineer, who created the classic children's literature character Doctor Dolittle. The fictional physician to talking animals, based in ...

– author of ''

Dr. Dolittle Doctor John Dolittle is the central character of a series of children's books by Hugh Lofting starting with the 1920 '' The Story of Doctor Dolittle''. He is a physician who shuns human patients in favour of animals, with whom he can speak in t ...

'' series of books; trained at MIT as civil engineer, 1904–05 * John Shelton Reed (B.S. 1964) – sociologist, author of ''The Enduring South,'' elected to the Fellowship of Southern Writers

Science and technology

* Colin Adams – mathematician,

knot theory In the mathematical field of topology, knot theory is the study of mathematical knots. While inspired by knots which appear in daily life, such as those in shoelaces and rope, a mathematical knot differs in that the ends are joined so it cannot ...

expert, teacher, writer, math humorist * Rakesh Agrawal –

National Medal of Technology and Innovation The National Medal of Technology and Innovation (formerly the National Medal of Technology) is an honor granted by the President of the United States to American inventors and innovators who have made significant contributions to the development ...

Laureate and Professor of Chemical Engineering at

John George Trump John George Trump (August 21, 1907 – February 21, 1985) was an American electrical engineer, inventor, and physicist. A professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1936 to 1973, he was a recipient of the National Medal of Sc ...

- electrical engineer, inventor, and physicist, then become a professor of MIT from 1936 until 1973, direct the MIT High Voltage Research Laboratory from 1946 to 1980 *

Buzz Aldrin Buzz Aldrin (; born Edwin Eugene Aldrin Jr.; January 20, 1930) is an American former astronaut, engineer and fighter pilot. He made three spacewalks as pilot of the 1966 Gemini 12 mission. As the Lunar Module ''Eagle'' pilot on the 1969 ...

– combat pilot, astronaut, second man to walk on the Moon * Pauline Morrow Austin – meteorologist, Director of Weather Radar at MIT, research staff in Radiation Laboratory *Adrian Bejan – professor of mechanical engineering, namesake of the Bejan number *Gordon Bell – computer engineer and manager, designer of Digital Equipment Corporation, DEC Programmed Data Processor, PDP, manager of the VAX project *Stephen Benton – invented rainbow hologram, pioneered digital holography *Manuel Blum – computer scientist, received Turing Award (1995) for studies in computational complexity theory *

– computer game designer and programmer, developed ''Zork'' adventure game *

– computer scientist and electrical engineer involved in developing the algorithm used in filtering the first images of a

taken by the

*Dan Bricklin – co-inventor of Visicalc, the first WYSIWYG PC spreadsheet program *Alice G. Bryant – otolaryngologist and inventor of surgical tools *Edward M. Burgess – chemist, inventor of the Burgess reagent *Christopher Chen (academic), Christopher Chen – William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Boston University. *David D. Clark – led the development of TCP/IP (the protocol that underlies the Internet) *Wesley A. Clark – computing pioneer, creator of the LINC (the first minicomputer) *Fernando Corbató – retired MIT professor, Turing Award (1990), co-founder of the Multics project *Shiladitya DasSarma (PhD 1985) – pioneering microbiologist and professor at University of Maryland School of Medicine who deciphered genetic code for Halobacterium NRC-1 *Peter J. Denning (M.S. 1965, PhD 1968) – computer scientist, professor, co-founder of the Multics project, pioneered virtual memory *Jack Dennis – retired MIT professor, co-founder of the Multics project *Peter Diamandis – founder and chairman of the X PRIZE Foundation, co-founder and chairman of Singularity University, and co-author of ''New York Times'' bestseller ''Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think'' *Whitfield Diffie – pioneer of public-key cryptography and the Diffie-Hellman protocol, Turing Award (2015) *K. Eric Drexler – pioneer nanotechnologist, author, co-founded Foresight Institute *Doc Edgerton, Harold Eugene "Doc" Edgerton (M.S. 1927, ScD 1931) – former MIT Institute professor; co-founder, and the "E", of

; stroboscope photography pioneer;

winner 1940 *Theodore Miller Edison (1898–1992) – only child of Thomas Alva Edison who graduated from college; inventor with over 80 patents *Farouk El-Baz – Supervisor of Lunar Science Planning, Project Apollo, Apollo Program, NASA *Kelly Falkner (PhD 1989) – oceanographer, Antarctic researcher *Bran Ferren (Class of 1974) – Designer, Technologist, Engineer, entertainment technology expert, prolific inventor,

nominee *Carl Feynman – computer scientist; son of the physicist Richard Feynman *Mike Fincke (B.S. Aero/Astro 1989, SB EAPS 1989) – NASA astronaut. *Marron William Fort (B.S. 1926, M.S. 1927, PhD 1933) – first African-American to earn a PhD in engineering *Bob Frankston (B.S. 1970, M.S. EE 1974) – co-inventor of Visicalc (first WYSIWYG PC spreadsheet program); critic of telecommunications public policy *Limor Fried – open-source hardware pioneer, founder of Adafruit Industries *Simson Garfinkel – journalist, author, computer security researcher, entrepreneur, computer science professor *Ivan Getting – co-inventor of the Global Positioning System (GPS), Draper Prize (2003) *Jim Gettys – an original developer of X Window, former director of GNOME *Martha Goodway – archaeometallurgist at the Smithsonian Institution *Bill Gosper (B.S. 1965) – mathematician, a founder of the original hacker (programmer subculture), hacker community, pioneer of symbolic computing, originator of hashlife *Julia R. Greer (B.S. 1997) – materials science professor at Caltech, pioneer in the fields of nanomechanics and architected materials, CNN 2020 Visionary *Gerald Guralnik (B.S. 1958) – Professor of Physics, Brown University; co-discoverer of Higgs mechanism and Higgs boson in 1964 with C.R. Hagen; awarded Sakurai Prize, J. J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics in 2010American Physical Society – J. J. Sakurai Prize Winners
/ref> *C. R. Hagen (B.S., M.S. 1958, PhD. 1963) – Professor of Physics, University of Rochester; co-discoverer of Higgs mechanism and Higgs boson in 1964 with Gerald Guralnik; awarded J. J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics in (2010) *George Ellery Hale – astronomer, founded several astronomical observatories, developed Throop College of Technology into Caltech *Heidi Hammel (B.S. 1982) – planetary astronomer who has extensively studied Neptune and Uranus. *Karen Hao (B.S. 2015), award-winning AI journalist * William W. Happ (M.S.) – Silicon transistor pioneer at Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory, and Professor at Arizona State University. * Guadalupe Hayes-Mota – (B.S. 2008, M.S. 2016, MBA 2016) - biotechnologist and business director. *Asegun Henry (M.S., PhD 2009) – mechanical engineer * Caroline Herzenberg (B.S. 1953) – physicist *Julian W. Hill (PhD 1928) – inventor of nylon *C.-T. James Huang (PhD 1982) – generative grammar, generative linguistics, linguist, Professor and Director of Graduate Studies at Harvard University, Harvard, Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America (2015), recipient of the Linguistic Society of Taiwan's Lifetime Achievement Award (2014) *David A. Huffman – computer scientist known for Huffman coding used in lossless data Data compression, compression *Jerome C. Hunsaker (M.S. 1912, ScD 1923) – pioneering aeronautical engineer, airship designer, former head of MIT Mechanical Engineering Department *Anya Hurlbert (PhD, 1989) – visual neuroscientist *William Jeffrey (NIST), William Jeffrey – defense technology expert, former director of National Institute of Standards and Technology *Thomas Kailath – entrepreneur, retired Stanford professor, IEEE Medal of Honor (2007) *Rudolf E. Kálmán – electrical engineer, theoretical mathematician, co-inventor of Kalman Filter algorithm, Draper Prize (2008) *Jordin Kare – high energy laser physicist, developer of "mosquito laser zapper" *Gregor Kiczales – computer scientist, professor at the University of British Columbia, Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery *Leonard Kleinrock (M.S. Electrical Engineering 1959, PhD Computer Science 1963) – computing and Internet pioneer, one of the key group of designers of the original

*Henry Kloss (1953, dropped out) – audio engineer; entrepreneur; founder of Acoustic Research, KLH (company), KLH, Advent, Kloss Video, Cambridge SoundWorks, Tivoli Audio *Loren Kohnfelder – introduced the term "public key certificate" for public key cryptography in secure network communication *Raymond Kurzweil (B.S. 1970) – inventor, entrepreneur in music synthesizers, optical character recognition, OCR and speech-to-text processing *Leslie Lamport (B.S. 1960) – computing pioneer in temporal logic, developer of LaTeX, winner of the Turing Award (2013) *Robert S. Langer – biochemical engineer, biomedical researcher, MIT professor, inventor, entrepreneur, Draper Prize (2002) *Norman Levinson (B.S., M.S. 1934, ScD 1935) – theoretical mathematician, former Institute Professor at MIT, developed Levinson recursion *Daniel Levitin – neuroscientist, music producer, author of This Is Your Brain on Music *Soung Chang Liew (B.S. 1984, M.S. 1986, PhD 1988) – information engineering professor *Steven R. Little (PhD 2005) – chemical engineer, pharmaceutical scientist, and department chair of Chemical Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh Swanson School of Engineering *Maureen D. Long (PhD 2006) – observational seismologist *Edward Norton Lorenz – mathematician, meteorologist, MIT professor emeritus, invented chaos theory, discovered Lorenz attractor *Joseph Lykken (PhD 1982) – theoretical physicist, proposed "weak scale superstring" theory *Danilo M Maceda Jr – technology policy expert, software entrepreneur, film writer, software engineer, computer programmer (dropout for hacking CIA server) *Hiram Percy Maxim – inventor of the "Maxim Silencer" and founder of the American Radio Relay League *John F. McCarthy Jr. (B.S. 1950, M.S. 1951) – director of MIT Center for Space Research and director of Lewis Research Center, NASA *Douglas McIlroy (PhD 1959) – mathematician, software engineer, professor, developed component-based software engineering, an original developer of Unix, member of National Academy of Engineering *Diane McKnight (B.S. 1975, M.S. 1978, PhD 1979) – engineering professor, limnologist, biogeochemist, Antarctic researcher *Anne McNeil (Postdoc 2005–2007) – chemist and professor at

*Faye McNeill (PhD 2005) – American atmospheric chemist and Professor of Chemical Engineering at Columbia University *Parisa Mehrkhodavandi (PhD 2002) – chemist *Fulvio Melia (PhD 1985) – theoretical astrophysicist, professor, author, editor, general educator *Holly Michael, (PhD 2005) – hydrogeologist and professor *Arnold Mindell (MSc 1961) – physicist, author, psychologist – developer of Process Oriented Psychology *Daniel Mindiola – professor of chemistry at

*Douglas J. Mink (B.S. 1973, M.S. 1974) – astronomer, software developer, co-discovered rings around Uranus, bicycling activist *Bill Parker (artist/inventor), Bill Parker – artist, engineer, inventor of the modern plasma globe, plasma lamp *Bradford Parkinson – co-inventor of the Global Positioning System (GPS), Draper Prize (2003) *Bob Pease, Robert A. "Bob" Pease (B.S. 1961) – Analog electronics, analog integrated circuit design expert, technical author *Irene Pepperberg (B.S. 1969) – Brandeis University professor, researcher in Comparative psychology, animal cognition, trained Alex (parrot), Alex (parrot) *Alan Perlis (M.S. 1949, PhD 1950) – computer scientist, professor, pioneer of

, winner of the first Turing Award (1966) *Radia Perlman (B.S. 1973, M.S. 1976, PhD 1988) – computer scientist, network engineer, invented numerous data network technologies, "mother of the Internet" *David Pesetsky (PhD 1982) – generative grammar, generative linguistics, linguist, Ferrari P. Ward Professor of Modern Languages and Linguistics and Head of the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at the MIT *Edward Rebar (PhD 1997) – biologist, senior vice president, and chief technology officer at Sangamo Therapeutics *ChoKyun Rha (B.S. 1962, M.S. 1964, M.S. 1966, SCD 1967) – food technologist, professor at MIT *Adam Riess (B.S. 1992) – physicist,

winner in Physics awarded in 2011 for demonstrating the acceleration of the universe's rate of expansion *Louis W. Roberts (PhD 1946) – microwave physicist, chief of the Microwave Laboratory at NASA's Electronics Research Center, director of the John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center *Jerome Saltzer – retired MIT professor, timesharing computing pioneer, co-founder of the Multics project, Director of Project Athena *Frederick P. Salvucci (B.S. 1961, M.S. 1962) – civil engineer, transportation planner, MIT professor, former Massachusetts Secretary of Transportation, public transit advocate, Big Dig advocate *George W. Santos – pioneer in bone marrow transplantation *Bob Scheifler – computer scientist, leader of the X Window System project, architect of Jini *Julie Segre – epithelial biologist, Chief of the National Human Genome Research Institute, Human Genome Research Institute *Oliver Selfridge – computer scientist, father of machine perception *Claude Shannon – mathematician, electrical engineer, and cryptographer known as "the father of information theory" *Amy B. Smith (B.S. 1984, M.S. 1995) – mechanical engineer, inventor, former Peace Corps volunteer, MIT senior lecturer and researcher in appropriate technology, MacArthur Fellow (2004) *Oliver R. Smoot – namesake of the smoot unit of measurement, former chair of ANSI; former president of International Organization for Standardization, ISO *Richard M. Stallman (grad student, dropped out) – computer programmer; Free Software activist; creator of EMACS editor, GNU; MacArthur Fellow (1990) *Guy L. Steele, Jr. (M.S. 1977, PhD 1980) – computer scientist, programming language expert, an original editor of the Jargon File (''Hacker's Dictionary'') *Richard Stratt (B.S. 1975) – professor of physical chemistry at Brown University *Mahmooda Sultana (PhD 2010) – NASA research engineer *Bert Sutherland (M.S., PhD) – managed research laboratories, including Sun Microsystems Laboratories (1992–1998), the Systems Science Laboratory at Xerox PARC (1975–1981), and the Computer Science Division of Bolt, Beranek and Newman *Ivan Sutherland (PhD 1963) – computer graphics pioneer, former professor, ARPAnet and Internet pioneer, co-founded Evans & Sutherland, Turing Award (1988) *Lynne Talley (PhD 1982) – physical oceanographer, professor *Badri Nath Tandon (1961) – gastroenterologist, textbook author, Sasakawa WHO Health Prize and Padma Bhushan winner *Andrew S. Tanenbaum (B.S. 1965) – computer scientist, professor, textbook author (operating systems), creator of Minix (the precursor to Linux) *Frederick Terman – electrical engineer; former provost of Stanford University; "father of Silicon Valley" *Ray Tomlinson – innovator of email systems, pioneered the use of the "@" symbol for email *Leonard H. Tower Jr. (B.S. Biology 1971) – early Free Software Activism, activist, software hacker (programmer subculture), hacker *John G. Trump – electrical engineer, inventor, and physicist *Kay Tye – neuroscientist, MIT assistant professor *Denisa Wagner – vascular biologist at Harvard Medical School *Ann M. Valentine – chemist, professor at Yale University, Yale and Temple University, Temple University *Manuel Sandoval Vallarta – MIT professor, founder of the Physics Institute at UNAM; mentor of Nobel laureate Richard Feynman *Susie Wee – Women in Technology International laureate; CTEO of Collaboration at Cisco *Robert Williams Wood – optical physicist, developed "black light", ultraviolet and infrared photography *Joshua Wurman – meteorologist, inventor, developed the Doppler On Wheels, Bistatic Weather Radar Networks, founder and president of Center for Severe Weather Research (CSWR) *Jenny Y Yang (PhD 2007) – chemist *Edward Yourdon – computer pioneer, author, lecturer, popularized the term "Y2K Bug" *Gregorio Y. Zara – inventor of the first two-way videophone; National Scientist of the Philippines *Günter M. Ziegler – mathematician, Free University of Berlin professor, ex-president of the German Mathematical Society, recipient of the Chauvenet Prize, Chauvenet and Leroy P. Steele Prize, Leroy P. Steele prizes

Sports

*Jimmy Bartolotta (2009) – professional basketball player *Charlie Butt, Charles Butt, Jr. (1941) – rowing coach *Skip Dise (2003) – member of 2010 US National Rowing Team *Adam Edelman (2014) – American-born Israeli Olympic skeleton athlete *Johan Harmenberg (dropped out circa 1975-1977; drafted by Sweden) – épée fencer, gold medal winner in the 1980 Olympics, world champion *Larry Kahn (tiddlywinks), Larry Kahn – tiddlywinks champion *Dave Lockwood (tiddlywinks), Dave Lockwood (1975) – tiddlywinks champion *Jeff Sagarin (1970) – sports statistician *Zeke Sanborn – Olympic Games, Olympic gold medalist *Jason Szuminski (2000) – major league pitcher *Steve Tucker (rower), Steve Tucker (1991) – two-time member of the US Olympic rowing team

Miscellaneous

*Katy Croff Bell (B.S. Ocean Engineering 2000) – ''National Geographic'' explorer *Sylvester Q. Cannon (B.S. Mining Engineering) – Apostle (Latter Day Saints), Apostle of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints *Csaba Csere (1978 B.S., 2 Mechanical Engineering) – automotive journalist, editor of ''Car and Driver'' *Janet Hsieh (2001) – Taiwanese-American television personality, violinist, author, and model; host of ''Fun Taiwan'' *Jeff Hwang – US Air Force fighter pilot, 1999 winner of Mackay Trophy *J. Kenji López-Alt (2002 B.S., 4, Architecture) – celebrity chef, author of ''The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science'' *Ray Magliozzi (1972 B.S., 21B, Humanities and Science) – radio personality, ''Car Talk'' *Tom Magliozzi (1958 B.S., 14A, Economic Policy and Engineering) – radio personality, ''Car Talk'' *Lalit Pande (1972 M.S., 2 Mechanical Engineering) – environmentalist and Padma Shri awardee *London Akira Mizuno (2000 B.S. Electrical engineer) *Randal Pinkett – chairman and CEO of BCT Partners; winner of television show ''The Apprentice (U.S. TV series), The Apprentice'' *Ubol Ratana (1973 B.S., 18 Mathematics) – Princess of Thailand *Aafia Siddiqui (1995 B.S., 7 Biology / Life Science) – neuroscientist; alleged Al-Qaeda operative; convicted of assaulting with a deadly weapon and attempting to kill US soldiers and FBI agents *Ellen Spertus (1990 B.S., 1992 M.S., 1998 PhD, Computer Science) – professor, computer scientist, 2001's "Sexiest Geek Alive" *Kelvin Teo (M.S. 2006) – young entrepreneur and season 1 winner of Malaysian reality show ''Love Me Do'' *Robert Varkonyi (1983 B.S., 15 Management, 1983 SB, 6 Computer Science and Engineering) – winner of the 2002 World Series of Poker Main Event

Fictional

*Lex Luthor, diabolical genius and supervillain of the DC Universe *Timothy McGee, Tim McGee, field agent specializing in cybersecurity and computer crime on ''NCIS (TV series), NCIS'', portrayed by Sean Murray (actor), Sean Murray *Tony Stark (Marvel Cinematic Universe), Tony Stark, alter ego of Iron Man, portrayed by Robert Downey Jr. in the Marvel Cinematic Universe films *Howard Wolowitz, character on ''The Big Bang Theory'', portrayed by Simon Helberg

Nobel laureate alumni

, the MIT Office of the Provost says that 76 Nobel awardees had or currently have a formal connection to MIT. Of this group, 29 have earned MIT degrees (MIT has never awarded honorary degrees in any form).

Astronaut alumni

References

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