Bob Herbold (GRS'66, Mathematics, '68, Computer Science, read more
Paul Buchheit (BS/MS ’98) was Google's 23rd employee. Paul is the creator and lead developer of Gmail, which anticipated many aspects of Web 2.0, including the idea of Ajax, long before that term was coined.
Craig Newmark (BS '75, MS '77) Craig is the founder of craigslist.org, one of the top U.S. Web sites with roughly 5 billion page views per month. The site features a wide variety of postings‐including notices for jobs, housing, personals, services, events and much more‐for more than 400 cities worldwide.
Chi-Foon Chan (PhD ‘77) President/COO/Director at Synopsys, Inc. , Mountain View, CA. He has served as COO since April 1997 and as President and a Director of Synopsys since February 1998.
Don Knuth (BS/MS ’60 Math) is the Professor Emeritus of the Art of Computer Programming at Stanford University. Knuth is the father of several areas such as analysis of algorithms, parsing, attribute grammars, empirical study of programming languages. Knuth is the author of the Art of Computer Programming, a series of 3 books that attempt to organize the vast field of computer methods.
Peter Tippett (MD, PhD in Bioch.) is CTO at Cybertrust. He has been a leader and visionary in the computer security industry for more than fifteen years, beginning with the development of the first-and highly acclaimed-anti-virus software, “Vaccine”. In 1992 Dr. Tippett sold his company, Certus, to Symantec which turned “Vaccine” into the incredibly popular “Norton AntiVirus.”
Larry J. Hornbeck (Physics Ph.D. '73) who invented MEMS-based digital light processor at TI. Larry received numerous awards for For his invention and pioneering innovations in both the design and manufacturing of Digital Micromirror Devices (DMDs) integrated into metal-oxide semiconductor (MOS) technology.
