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Here follows a list of notable alumni and faculty of
Harvey Mudd College ,
Claremont, California ,
United States .
Academia
Astronauts and aeronautics
Entertainment
Michael G. Wilson , 1963, producer of the
James Bond series of films
Sean 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
Scott Stokdyk , 1991, Academy Award winner for best visual effects for
Spider-Man 2 ; Visual Effects Supervisor at Sony Pictures Imageworks;
Michael Tapper , 2000, former member of the band
We Are Scientists
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
Tom Preston-Werner (drop out), co-founder of
GitHub , creator of
Gravatar
Jonathan Gay , 1989, creator of
Adobe Flash software
Joseph Costello , 1974, chairman and CEO of think3, former president and CEO of
Cadence Design Systems
Ned Freed , 1982, co-author of the
MIME email standard (RFCs 2045-2049)
Robert Freitas , 1974,
Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology (2009)
Nabeel Gareeb , CEO of
MEMC Electronic Materials , Inc.; sixth highest paid CEO in 2007 (with a salary of $79.6 million)
Dominic Mazzoni , 1999, creator of the
Audacity sound editing program
Bruce Nelson , 1974 (deceased), inventor of the
remote procedure call for computer communications
Sage Weil , 2000, co-founder of
WebRing ,
DreamHost ,
Inktank , and
Ceph
Politics
Business
Miscellaneous
Joe Pelton , 2000, professional poker player, winner of 2006 Legends of Poker tournament
Notable faculty
References
People
Athletics Organizations