List of Harvey Mudd College people explained

This is a list of notable alumni and faculty of Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, California, United States.

Academia

• James Enstrom, 1965, physicist, epidemiologist^[1]
• Robert L. Smith, 1966, engineer^[2]
• Jerrold B. Tunnell, 1972, mathematician^[3]

Astronauts and aeronautics

• Stan Love, 1987, astronaut, crew member for Space Shuttle Atlantis STS-122, "capcom" or communications officer with the International Space Station^[4]
• George "Pinky" Nelson, 1972, astronaut, flew on three Space Shuttle program missions, second American to walk in space without a tether to a spacecraft^[5]

Entertainment

• Sean "Day9" Plott, 2008, professional StarCraft player and commentator who represented the United States in the 2004 and 2005 World Cyber Games Grand Finals; won the 2007 WCG Pan American Championship^[6]
• Scott Stokdyk, 1991, Academy Award winner for best visual effects for Spider-Man 2; Visual Effects Supervisor at Sony Pictures Imageworks^[7]
• Michael Tapper, 2000, former member of the band We Are Scientists^[8]
• Michael G. Wilson, 1963, producer of the James Bond series of films^[9]

Software and engineering

• Donald D. Chamberlin, 1966, co-inventor of SQL (database query language) and IBM representative to the working group developing the XQuery language^[10]
• Joseph Costello, 1974, chairman and CEO of think3, former president and CEO of Cadence Design Systems^[11]
• Ned Freed, 1982, co-author of the MIME email standard (RFCs 2045-2049)^[12]
• Robert Freitas, 1974, Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology (2009)^[13]
• Nabeel Gareeb, CEO of MEMC Electronic Materials, Inc.^[14]
• Jonathan Gay, 1989, creator of Adobe Flash software^[15]
• Bruce Nelson, 1974, inventor of the remote procedure call for computer communications^[16]
• Tom Preston-Werner (dropped out), co-founder of GitHub, creator of Gravatar^[17]
• Sage Weil, 2000, co-founder of WebRing, DreamHost, Inktank, and Ceph^[18]

Politics

• Richard H. Jones, 1972, former US Ambassador to Israel, Kuwait, Kazakhstan, Lebanon, and Chief Policy Officer and Deputy Administrator of the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq^[19]
• Amanda Simpson, 1983, Executive Director of the Army Energy Initiatives Task Force, Department of Defense^[20]

Business

• Eric B. Kim, 1976, chief marketing officer of Intel, former CMO of Samsung Electronics^[21]

Miscellaneous

• Joe Pelton, 2000, professional poker player, winner of 2006 Legends of Poker tournament^[22]

Notable faculty

• William B. Allen
• Arthur T. Benjamin
• Nathaniel Davis
• Weiqing Gu
• Maria Klawe
• Ran Libeskind-Hadas
• Lisette de Pillis
• Nick Pippenger
• Francis Su
• Talithia Williams

Notes and References

1. Web site: James Eugene Enstrom, Ph.D., M.P.H. . scientificintegrityinstitute.org . Scientific Integrity Institute . 7 June 2024.
2. Web site: Dr. Robert L. Smith . 2024-05-12 . web.mit.edu.
3. Web site: 2022-04-15 . Jerrold Bates Tunnell . 2024-05-12 . Rio Grande SUN . en.
4. Web site: Stanley G. Love - NASA . 2024-05-12 . en-US.
5. Web site: Biographical Data GEORGE D. (NICKNAME PINKY) NELSON (PH.D.), NASA ASTRONAUT (FORMER) . Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
6. Web site: Farner . Shawn . 2018-08-11 . The Untold Truth Of Sean 'Day9' Plott . 2024-05-12 . SVG . en-US.
7. Book: Reardon, Mary . Spider-Man: Behind the mask . 2002-07-21 . ACM SIGGRAPH 2002 conference abstracts and applications . https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1242073.1242297 . en . 285 . 10.1145/1242073.1242297 . 978-1-58113-525-1.
8. Web site: We Are Scientists . 2024-05-12 . Contactmusic.com.
9. News: Barnes . Brooks . 2015-11-06 . A Family Team Looks for James Bond's Next Assignment . 2024-05-12 . The New York Times . en-US . 0362-4331.
10. Web site: Chamberlin . Donald Dean . 2001-10-03 . Oral history interview with Donald D. Chamberlin . en-US . Charles Babbage Institute. 11299/107215 .
11. Book: Addison . Craig . Costello, Joe (Joseph) oral history . Costello . Joseph . Herscher . Penny . 2008-05-16 . Computer History Museum . Mountain View, California.
12. Web site: [e-mail] . 2023-12-07 . Obituary: Edwin Earl "Ned" Freed . 2024-05-12 . Claremont COURIER . en-US.
13. Web site: 2015-09-16 . Robert A. Freitas Jr. . 2024-05-12 . The Brain Preservation Foundation . en-US.
14. Web site: Cooperman . Jeannette . 2009-06-17 . The Most Powerful Person You Know Nothing About . 2024-05-12 . www.stlmag.com . en-us.
15. Web site: Alumni Association to Honor Achievers, Friends Harvey Mudd College News . 2024-05-12 . en-US.
16. Web site: CMU Alumni Community . 2024-05-12 . community.cmu.edu . en-US.
17. Web site: Jr . Tom Huddleston . 2018-06-04 . How this 33-year-old college dropout co-founded GitHub, which just sold to Microsoft for $7.5 billion . 2024-05-12 . CNBC . en.
18. Web site: Scott . Ben . 2015-06-03 . Alum Sage Weil provides $3 million to UC Santa Cruz for open-source software research . 2024-05-12 . Santa Cruz Sentinel . en-US.
19. Web site: 2008-05-02 . Richard H. Jones named next IEA Deputy Executive Director - News . 2024-05-12 . IEA . en-GB.
20. Web site: LCWINS Amanda Simpson . 2024-05-12 . www.lcwins.org.
21. Web site: Intel Names Industry Veteran Eric B. Kim To Head Corporate Marketing . 2024-05-12 . www.intel.com.
22. News: Wilde . Matthew . September 1, 2006 . POKER: Pelton faced top players to win $1.5 million prize . The Courier . Waterloo, Iowa . 11.