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Carnegie Mellon University
Carnegie Mellon University (also known as CMU or simply Carnegie Mellon) is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The university began as the Carnegie Technical Schools, founded by Andrew Carnegie in 1900. In 1912, the school became Carnegie Institute of Technology and began...
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James Cromwell
James Oliver Cromwell (born January 27, 1940) is an American film and television actor. He has been nominated for an Oscar, three Emmy Awards, and four Screen Actors Guild Awards during his career.
Cromwell was born in Los Angeles, California and...
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Glenn B. Hamm
Glenn Bruce Hamm Jr. (May 30, 1936 in Dayton, Ohio – August 1980) was a noted artist who worked and lived in Richmond, Virginia.
Hamm taught art at Carlow College from 1963 to 1964, West Virginia University from 1965 to 1969 and Virginia...
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Glenn B. Hamm
Glenn Bruce Hamm Jr. (May 30, 1936 in Dayton, Ohio – August 1980) was a noted artist who worked and lived in Richmond, Virginia.
Hamm taught art at Carlow College from 1963 to 1964, West Virginia University from 1965 to 1969 and Virginia...
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David S. Touretzky
David S. Touretzky is a research professor in the Computer Science Department and the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition at Carnegie Mellon University. He received a BA in Computer Science at Rutgers University in 1978, and earned a Master's...
James D. Meindl
James D. Meindl (born April 20, 1933) is director of the Joseph M. Pettit Microelectronics Research Center, director of the Nanotechnology Research Center, and Pettit Chair Professor of Microelectronics at the Georgia Institute of Technology in...
Finn E. Kydland
Finn Erling Kydland (born 1 December 1943) is a Norwegian economist. He is currently the Henley Professor of Economics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He also holds the Richard P. Simmons Distinguished Professorship at the Tepper...
Jeff Dinitz
Jeffrey H. Dinitz (born 1952) is an American mathematician, currently teaching combinatorics at the University of Vermont. He is best known for proposing the Dinitz conjecture, which became a major theorem.
Jeff Dinitz is married to Susan Dinitz and...
Ian Williams
Ian Williams (born 1970 in Johnstown, Pennsylvania) is an American rock guitarist. He became noted for his finger tapping guitar playing in bands such as Don Caballero, Storm & Stress and currently in Battles.
Williams grew up in Pennsylvania and...
Patrick Wilson
Patrick Joseph Wilson (born July 3, 1973) is a Tony-, Emmy- and Golden Globe-nominated American actor and singer.
Wilson was born in Norfolk, Virginia to Mary K. Wilson, a voice teacher and professional singer, and John Wilson, who works as news...
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- 1995
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Jeffrey Scott Pierce
Jeff Pierce is a research staff member in IBM Research at the Almaden Research Center in the User-Focused Systems (USER) group. Prior to joining IBM Research, he was an Assistant Professor in the College of Computing at the Georgia Institute of...
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- Nov 2001
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- Jan 1997
Philip Pearlstein
Philip Pearlstein (born May 24, 1924) is an American painter, and part of the contemporary Realist school.
Pearlstein was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He studied at the Carnegie Institute of Technology and received his Masters in art history at...
James Gosling
James A. Gosling, O.C., Ph.D. (born May 19, 1955 near Calgary, Alberta, Canada) is a software developer, best known as the father of the Java programming language.
In 1977, James Gosling received a B.Sc in Computer Science from the University of...
David Servan-Schreiber
David Servan-Schreiber (born 1961 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine), M.D., Ph.D. is a physician, neuroscientist and author. He is a clinical Professor of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. He is also a lecturer in the...
Feng-hsiung Hsu
Feng-hsiung Hsu (Chinese: 許峰雄; pinyin: Xǔ Fēng Xióng; Cantonese: Heoi2 Fung1 Hung4) (nicknamed Crazy Bird) is a computer scientist and the author of the book Behind Deep Blue: Building the Computer that Defeated the World Chess Champion. His work...
David McDonald
David John McDonald (November 22, 1902 – August 8, 1979) was an American labor leader and president of the United Steelworkers of America from 1952 to 1965.
McDonald was born in 1902 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to David and Mary (Kelly) McDonald,...
Ted Danson
Edward Bridge “Ted” Danson III (born December 29, 1947) is an American actor best known for his role as central character Sam Malone in the sitcom Cheers, and his role as Dr. John Becker on the series Becker. He is currently a regular on Larry David...
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- 1968
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Jean Carson
Jean Carson (February 28, 1923 - November 2, 2005) was an American actress best known for her work on the classic 1960s sitcom The Andy Griffith Show.
Born to Alexander Carson and Sadie Leete (descendant of William Leete, first governor of the...
Earl Wild
Earl Wild (born November 26, 1915) is an American pianist known especially for his transcriptions of classical music and jazz. Wild is recognized widely as a leading virtuoso of his generation. Harold C. Schonberg called him a supervirtuoso in the...
Frank Gorshin
Frank John Gorshin, Jr. (April 5, 1933 – May 17, 2005) was an American actor and comedian. He was perhaps best known as an impressionist, with many guest appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show and The Tonight Show (with host Steve Allen). His most...
Underwood Dudley
Underwood Dudley (born January 6, 1937) is a mathematician, formerly of DePauw University, who has written a number of research works and textbooks but is best known for his popular writing. Most notable are several books describing crank...
Dagmara Dominczyk
Dagmara Domińczyk (born July 17, 1976) is a Polish-American actress.
Dominczyk was born in Kielce, the daughter of Mirek Dominczyk, a leader in the Polish Solidarity movement. She moved with her family to New York City in 1983, after her parents...
Holly Hunter
Holly P. Hunter (born March 20, 1958) is an American actress. Her films include Raising Arizona, Broadcast News, Always, and The Piano for which she won several acting awards, including an Academy Award for Best Actress. She stars in the cable...
Andy Bechtolsheim
Andy Bechtolsheim, co-founder of Sun Microsystems, Inc. and employee
number one, returns to Sun as Chief Architect and Senior Vice
President, Network Systems organization and is also a member of Sun's
executive management team. In his new role...
Renee Elise Goldsberry
Renee Elise Goldsberry (born January 2, 1971) is an American actress, singer and songwriter.
Goldsberry was born in San Jose, California and raised in both Houston, Texas and Detroit, Michigan. After graduating from Cranbrook Kingswood School in...
Edgar Dean Mitchell
Edgar Dean Mitchell, D.Sc. (born September 17, 1930) is an American pilot, engineer, and astronaut. As the lunar module pilot of Apollo 14, he spent nine hours working on the lunar surface in the Fra Mauro Highlands region, making him the sixth...
Edward Feigenbaum
Edward Albert Feigenbaum (born January 20, 1936; Weehawken, New Jersey) is a computer scientist working in the field of artificial intelligence. He is often called the "father of expert systems."
Feigenbaum completed his undergraduate degree, and a...
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Lori Cardille
Lori Cardille (born 1954) is an American actress, best known for her lead role in George Romero's Day of the Dead (1985). Her father, Bill "Chilly Billy" Cardille, appeared as a reporter in the original Night of the Living Dead (1968).
She is well...
Lourdes Benedicto
Lourdes Benedicto (born November 12, 1974 in Brooklyn) is an American actress of Filipino / Dominican descent. She is most well known for her starring role as Eva Rios on The Nine, and for her role as Alicia Lawson on the short-lived series Cashmere...
Jeffrey Housenbold
Previously, Jeffrey was Vice President of Business Development &
Internet Marketing at eBay, where he managed customer acquisition and
retention. At eBay he also held positions as Vice President &
General Manager of its Business-to-Consumer...
John Ousterhout
John Kenneth Ousterhout (pronounced /ˈoʊstərhaʊt/) is the chairman of Electric Cloud, Inc. and a professor of computer science at Stanford University. He founded Electric Cloud with John Graham-Cumming. Ousterhout previously was a professor of...
Herb Sendek
Herbert J. Sendek (born February 22, 1963 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States) is the head basketball coach at Arizona State University.
Sendek was formally introduced as the ASU head coach on April 3, 2006. A graduate of Carnegie Mellon...
Stephen Schwartz
Stephen Lawrence Schwartz (born March 6, 1948) is an American musical theater lyricist and composer. In a career already spanning over four decades, Schwartz has written such hit musicals as Godspell (1971), Pippin (1972) and Wicked (2003). He has...
David Parnas
David Lorge Parnas (born February 10, 1941) is a Canadian early pioneer of software engineering, who developed the concept of information hiding in modular programming, which is an important element of object-oriented programming today. He is also...
Gerald C. Meyers
Gerald C. Meyers, former chairman and CEO of American Motors Corporation (AMC) is an industrialist, author, lecturer, and management consultant.
Meyers earned a B.S. in engineering and a M.S. in business from Carnegie Mellon University. He joined...
Eugene Lee
Eugene Lee (Scenic Designer) was born in Beloit, Wisconsin, 1939. He attended Beloit Memorial High School. He has been resident designer at Trinity Rep since 1967. He has BFA degrees from the Art Institute of Chicago and Carnegie Mellon University,...
Suh Nam Pyo
Nam Pyo Suh (Korean: 서남표, Hanja: 徐南杓, 22 April 1936—) is the thirteenth and current president of KAIST. Suh began his appointment on July 13, 2006, replacing Robert B. Laughlin.
Suh was born in Korea on April 22, 1936, and immigrated to the U.S. in...
Emily Skinner
Emily Skinner (also known as Emily Scott Skinner) (born June 29, 1970) is an American musical theatre actress and singer.
Born in Richmond, Virginia, Skinner attended college at Carnegie Mellon University. She moved to New York in 1992 and took part...
Kai-Fu Lee
Kai-Fu Lee (simplified Chinese: 李开复; traditional Chinese: 李開復; pinyin: Lǐ Kāifù; born December 3, 1961) is an information technology executive and a computer science researcher.
He became the focus of a 2005 legal dispute between Google and...
John Forbes Nash
John Forbes Nash, Jr. (born June 13, 1928) is an American mathematician whose works in game theory, differential geometry, and partial differential equations have provided insight into the forces that govern chance and events inside complex systems...
Mao Yisheng
Dr. Mao Yisheng (traditional Chinese: 茅以升; pinyin: Máo Yǐshēng; Wade-Giles: Mao Yi-sheng; January 9, 1896 - November 12, 1989) was a Chinese structural engineer, an expert on bridge construction, and a social activist in China.
Mao was born in...
Steven Bochco
Steven Ronald Bochco (born December 16, 1943) is an American television producer and writer. He has developed a number of popular television hits including Hill Street Blues, L.A. Law, and NYPD Blue.
Bochco was born in New York City, the son of Mimi...
Gaius Charles
Gaius Charles (born May 2, 1983) is an American stage, television and film actor best known for playing Brian "Smash" Williams on NBC's Friday Night Lights.
Charles was born on May 2, 1983 in Manhattan, New York, then lived in Queens, and later...
Gilmer McCormick
Gilmer McCormick (born May 13, 1947) is an American actress and singer best known for her performance in the stage and film versions of Godspell in the early 1970s and for her role in the 1984 horror film Silent Night, Deadly Night.
Born in...
Kali Rocha
Kali Michele Rocha (born December 5, 1971) is an American actress.
Rocha was born in Memphis, Tennessee and grew up in Providence, Rhode Island, graduating from Carnegie Mellon School of Drama in 1993. Kali is best known to comedic audiences as the...
Luis von Ahn
Luis von Ahn (born in 1979 in Guatemala City, Guatemala) is an entrepreneur and a professor in the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University. He is the founder of the company reCAPTCHA, which sold to Google in 2009. As a professor,...
Dominic Mazzoni
Dominic Mazzoni is the creator of the Audacity audio editor. He received his Master's degree in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University and his Bachelor of Science degree from Harvey Mudd College. He is also associated with Google.
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Charles E. Leiserson
Charles Eric Leiserson is a computer scientist, specializing in the theory of parallel computing and distributed computing, and particularly practical applications thereof; as part of this effort, he developed the Cilk multithreaded language. He...
Ratnajeevan Hoole
Samuel Ratnajeevan Herbert Hoole (born September 15, 1952). is a professor of Electrical Engineering. Previously he was posted at the Peradeniya University. He has spent many years in USA.
President Mahinda Rajapakse appointed Prof. Hoole as the...
Soni Oyekan
Dr. Soni Olufemi Olubunmi Offiong Oyekan (1946 - ) is a U.S. citizen and chemical engineer. Soni has over 30 years experience in the field of petroleum refining and associated technologies. Soni came to the United States in 1966 from Nigeria and...
Raymond W. Smith
Raymond W. Smith is currently the Chairman of Rothschild Continuation Investments, Founding Partner of Arlington Capital Partners, a private equity firm, and Chairman of Verizon Ventures.
Raymond W. Smith rose from an entry level management trainee...
Michael McKean
David Ivor St. Hubbins (born August 13 1947) is a fictional character who is the lead singer and rhythm guitarist of the mock rock band Spinal Tap, which was the subject of "mockumentary" film This Is Spinal Tap (1984). David is played by actor...
Frederick Rossini
Frederick Dominic Rossini (1899- 1990) was an American thermodynamicist noted for his work in chemical thermodynamics.
In 1920, at the age of twenty-one, Rossini entered Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh, and soon was awarded a full-time...
Abby Brammell
Abby Brammell (born March 19, 1979) is an American television and stage actress.
Brammell was born in Kentucky and raised in San Antonio, Texas, where she graduated from Churchill High School in 1997. She graduated from the Carnegie Mellon...
Derek Stephen Prince
Derek Stephen Prince (born February 5, 1969 in Inglewood, California) is an American voice actor who is most memorable for his various roles in the Digimon series, as well as the voice of Elgar in the live-action Power Rangers Turbo and Power...
John-Michael Tebelak
John-Michael Tebelak (September 17, 1949—April 2, 1985) was an American playwright and director. He was most famous for creating the musical Godspell based on the Gospel of Saint Matthew. The music was by Stephen Schwartz. Some of the lyrics are...
Andy Warhol
Andrew Warhola (August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987), more commonly known as Andy Warhol, was an American painter, printmaker, and filmmaker who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. After a successful career as a...
Judith Light
Judith Ellen Light (born February 9, 1949) is an American actress. Her television roles include Angela Bower on the sitcom Who's the Boss?, and Claire Meade on ABC's TV series Ugly Betty and Judge Elizabeth (Liz) Donnelly on Law & Order Special...
