Name |
Class year |
Notability |
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James Truslow Adams |
1898 |
Writer, historian |
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Benjamin Adler |
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Helped develop commercial television |
[7] |
Ali Akansu |
1983, 1987 |
Turkish American scientist; known for his contributions to the theory and applications of sub-band and wavelet transforms; professor at NJIT |
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Fred Amoroso |
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Chairman of Yahoo!; former President, CEO, and director of Rovi Corporation |
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Charles E. Anderson |
1948 |
First African American to receive a Ph.D. in Meteorology |
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Bishnu S. Atal |
1968 |
Researcher in linear predictive coding; joined Bell Laboratories in 1961; made major contributions in the field of speech analysis, synthesis, and coding, including low bit-rate speech coding and automatic speech recognition; retired in 2002 to become affiliate professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Washington |
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Franklin Bartlett |
1865 |
U.S. Representative from New York |
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Jacob Bekenstein |
1966, 1969, 1971 |
Namesake of Bekenstein bound in general relativity; member of Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities; Laureate of the Wolf Prize in Physics for work on black holes |
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David Bergstein |
1982 |
Entrepreneur; film producer; chairman of THINKFilm and Capitol Films |
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Barouh Berkovits |
1956 |
Invented the cardiac defibrillator and artificial cardiac pacemaker |
[1] |
Denis Blackmore |
1965, 1969 |
Physicist; contributed to the foundation of black hole thermodynamics; professor at New Jersey Institute of Technology |
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Israel Borovich |
1967, 1968, 1971, Hon 2005 |
Chairman, El Al Israel Airlines |
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Ursula Burns |
1980 |
CEO, Xerox Corporation |
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Charles Camarda |
1974 |
NASA scientist and mission specialist on the Return to Flight voyage of the shuttle Discovery |
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Hugh John Casey |
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Chairman of the New York City Transit Authority; chief engineer of the Army |
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K. Mani Chandy |
1968 |
Simon Ramo Professor of Computer Science and Deputy chair of engineering at the California Institute of Technology |
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Francesco DeMaria |
1951 |
Italian-American chemist; professor at University of Connecticut |
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Bern Dibner |
1921 |
Inventor of the first solderless electrical connector; founder of the Burndy Corporation |
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John Dionisio |
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Chairman and CEO of AECOM |
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Dot da Genius |
2008 |
Hip-hop producer |
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Gertrude B. Elion |
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Former doctoral student at Polytechnic; awarded 1988 Nobel Prize in medicine |
[8] |
George Ellner |
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Developed the use of ultraviolet light for sterilization |
[2] |
Joel S. Engel |
1964 |
Engineer, known for fundamental contributions to the development of cellular networks |
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Leopold B. Felsen |
1959, 1961, 1964 |
Electrical engineer; member of the National Academy of Engineering; named a life fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers; Dean of Engineering 1974-1978 at Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn; professor at Boston University College of Engineering |
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Antonio Ferri |
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Leader of a team that created the first practical hypersonic tunnel heater, used to heat air for discharge into a wind tunnel |
[2] |
Paul Ferri |
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Founder of Matrix Partners |
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Charles Ranlett Flint |
1868 |
Businessman; founder of the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company, which later became IBM |
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Bruno A. Boley |
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Dean of Engineering at Northwestern University |
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Fazlollah Reza |
1950 |
Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
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Elmer L. Gaden |
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Russ Prize winner |
[9] |
Torunn Atteraas Garin |
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Oversaw the development of the artificial sweetener aspartame and was a national spokesperson for it; developed nontoxic processes to create food colorings and remove caffeine from coffee |
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Carl Gatto |
1960 |
Republican member of the Alaska House of Representatives |
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Norman Gaylord |
1949, 1950 |
Industrial chemist and research scientist; played a key role in the development of the oxygen-permeable contact lens |
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Erol Gelenbe |
1968, 1972 |
Electrical engineer; Electrical and Computer Engineering professor at University of Michigan; Electrical and Computer Engineering professor at Duke University; Electrical and Computer Engineering professor at Imperial College London |
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Bancroft Gherardi, Jr. |
1891, 1933H |
Electrical engineer; pioneer in early telephone systems |
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John Gilbert |
1953 |
Inventor of non-stick coating as an application of Teflon |
[10] |
Tetsugen Bernard Glassman |
1960 |
Jewish-American Zen Buddhist roshi |
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Samuel D. Goldberg |
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Revolutionized dentistry by inventing local anesthetics and making Novocain commercially feasible |
[2] |
Steven L. Goldman |
1962 |
Andrew W. Mellon Distinguished Professor in the Humanities at Lehigh University |
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Martha Greenblatt |
1967 |
Chemist, researcher, and faculty member at Rutgers University |
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Jay Greene |
1964 |
Former Chief Engineer of NASA Johnson Space Center |
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Leonard Greene |
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Inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame; inventor and aerodynamics engineer who held more than 200 patents, many aviation-related |
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Clayton Hamilton |
1900 |
Drama critic; professor at Columbia University |
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Fredric J. Harris |
1961 |
Expert on DSP and communication systems |
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Charles Waldo Haskins |
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Founder of Haskins and Sells, which later merged with Deloitte |
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F. Augustus Heinze |
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Colorful Montana entrepreneur |
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Nicholas Hoff |
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Structural analyst whose calculations became the international guideposts in aircraft design |
[2] |
Edward Everett Horton |
1908 |
Character actor, appeared in The Front Page, Top Hat, Here Comes Mr. Jordan, Pocketful of Miracles |
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Ta-Lin Hsu |
1968 |
Electrical engineer; Chairman of H&Q Asia Pacific; on the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Advisory Board at the University of California, Berkeley; Advisory Board Member of the Haas School of Business at U.C. Berkeley |
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Frances Hugle |
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Scientist, engineer, inventor; contributed to the understanding of semiconductors, integrated circuitry, and the unique electrical principles of microscopic materials |
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Joseph J. Jacobs |
1937, 1939, 1942 |
Founder of Jacobs Engineering Group |
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Tudor Jenks |
1874 |
Author, poet, artist, editor, journalist, lawyer |
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Peter Grant Jordan |
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President at Tarrant County College |
[11] |
Leopold Just |
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Designed virtually every major bridge and tunnel in New York City, as well as Washington’s Metro system and the Ohio and Connecticut Turnpikes |
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Ephraim Katzir |
Post-doc |
President of Israel; biophysicist |
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Thomas Kelly |
1958 |
Scientist, father of lunar module |
[12] |
Raymond E. Kirk |
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Editor, with Othmer, of the industry-standard Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology |
[2] |
Murray S. Klamkin |
1947 |
Mathematician |
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Eugene Kleiner |
1948 |
Honored by the U.S. Postal Service with a commemorative stamp for developing and manufacturing revolutionary computer chips |
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Edward R. Knowles |
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Designed searchlights for the U.S. Navy; invented the storage battery |
[2] |
William B. Kouwenhoven |
1906 |
Inventor of closed-chest cardiac defibrillator; recipient of Edison Medal; professor and dean of engineering at Johns Hopkins University |
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Erich E. Kunhardt |
1976 |
Professor at Stevens Institute of Technology, University of Texas, and NYU-Poly |
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Norman Lamm |
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Chancellor and President of Yeshiva University |
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Eugene Lang |
1940-41 |
Millionaire; industrialist; Chair Emeritus of Swarthmore College; founder and Chair Emeritus of the Conference of Board Chairs of Liberal Arts Colleges; board member of the Columbia University Business School; board member of New School University |
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Yehuda (Leo) Levi |
1964 |
Rector of Jerusalem College of Technology |
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Robert H. Lieberman |
1962 |
Novelist and film director; long-time member of the Physics faculty at Cornell University |
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Hung-Chang Lin |
1956 |
Inventor |
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O. Winston Link |
1937 |
Pioneering photographer |
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Charles Battell Loomis |
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Author |
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William H. Maddren |
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Physician; fourth head coach of the Johns Hopkins University lacrosse team, 1897-1901 |
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Nathan Marcuvitz |
|
Head of the experimental group of the Radiation Laboratory (MIT) |
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Christos V. Massalas |
1976 |
Greek academic working in the fields of mathematics and materials science |
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George W. Melville |
1861 |
Civil War-era engineer for the Navy; awarded Congressional Gold Medal; namesake of several ships |
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Ami Miron |
|
An American Israeli entrepreneur and technology developer; developed and patented the first picture-in-picture for Philips Electronics; led the development of the first high-definition television (HDTV) system in the U.S., for which he received two Technology and Engineering Emmy Awards; founded software networking company MoreCom; president and founder of AM Partners |
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Stephen Morse |
1963 |
Architect of the Intel 8086 chip |
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Paolo A. Nespoli |
1988, 1989 |
Italian astronaut, mission specialist of STS-120 Space Shuttle mission |
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A. Michael Noll |
1971 |
Professor Emeritus and dean at the Annenberg School for Communication at University of Southern California |
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Joseph Owades |
1944, 1950 |
Brewing pioneer, inventor of lite beer |
[13] |
Frank Padavan |
1956 |
Republican New York state senator |
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Judea Pearl |
1965, Ph.D |
Professor of Computer Science and Statistics and Director of the Cognitive Systems Laboratory at UCLA; awarded Turing Prize in 2011 |
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Martin L. Perl |
1948, Hon 1996 |
Awarded 1982 Wolf Prize in physics and 1995 Nobel Prize in physics; member of National Academy of Sciences |
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Peter Pershan |
1956 |
Physicist; Frank B. Baird, Jr. Professor of Science, in both the Physics Department and Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University; recipient of 1988 Rothschild Prize, 2005 Israel Prize, and 2012 Wolf Prize in Physics |
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Martin Pope |
1950 |
Physical chemist and professor emeritus at New York University |
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George Preti |
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Analytical organic chemist, Monell Chemical Senses Center |
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Stav Prodromou |
1967, 1970 |
Executive Advisor, Alien Technology |
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Buddy Ratner |
1972 |
A founding father of modern bioengineering; Fellow of the American Association For the Advancement of Science |
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Peter P. Regna |
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Helped discover Terramyscin, an antibiotic effective against more than 100 diseases |
[2] |
Mark Ronald |
1968 |
Former President and CEO, BAE Systems Inc. |
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Jack Ruina |
1957, 1961 |
Professor Emeritus of Electrical Engineering at MIT; instrumental in establishing the MIT Security Studies Program and its first director; professor at Brown University and the University of Illinois |
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Richard Santulli |
1966 |
CEO, NetJets |
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Martin Schechter |
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Order of British Columbia recipient for HIV research |
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George Segal |
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Sculptor of monochromatic, cast plaster figures |
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Hugh Seidman |
1961 |
Taught writing at the University of Wisconsin, Yale University, Columbia University, the College of William and Mary, and The New School |
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Seymour Shapiro |
1956 PhD |
Synthesized phenformin |
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Len Shustek |
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Chairman of the board of trustees of the Computer History Museum |
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Ronald Silverman |
1979, 1990 |
Professor of ophthalmology at Weill Cornell Medical College |
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Joel B. Snyder |
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IEEE president |
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Robert J. Stevens |
1985 |
Chairman, President and CEO of Lockheed Martin |
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Admiral Charles F. Stokes |
1880 |
Member of the first Board of Regents of the American College of Surgeons; Surgeon General of the United States Navy; President Theodore Roosevelt's personal physician |
[14] |
Jerome Swartz |
1968 |
Co-founded Symbol Technologies; professor at Stony Brook University in the departments of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Applied Math & Statistics; professor at NYU-Poly; board member at Stony Brook University and NYU-Poly; trustee at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and at the University of California at San Diego |
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Mario Tchou |
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Led a group of scientists from the University of Pisa to invent, in 1959, the ELEA 9003, Italy's first computer |
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David J. Thomson |
1967, 1971 |
Electrical engineer; professor at Princeton University, Stanford University, MIT, University of Cambridge, and Queen’s University; Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada |
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Don Torrieri |
1966 |
Research engineer; Fellow of the US Army Research Laboratory |
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William Tubby |
1875 |
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Hermann Viets |
1965, 1966, 1970 |
President of Milwaukee School of Engineering; Professor of Engineering at Wright State University; professor and Associate Dean for Research at West Virginia University; Dean of Engineering at University of Rhode Island |
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Pat Villani |
1976, 1982 |
Computer programmer |
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Steve Wallach |
1966 |
Adviser to Centerpoint Venture partners, Sevin-Rosen, and Interwest; consultant to the United States Department of Energy Advanced Scientific Computing program at Los Alamos |
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Sang Whang |
1956, 1966 |
Korean American community leader and politician in Florida |
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Robert Anton Wilson |
attended 1952–57 |
Author of 35 influential books |
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Ronald R. Yager |
1958 |
Professor at Pennsylvania State University; Visiting Researcher and scholar at University of California, Berkeley |
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Leonard M. Pomata |
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Virginia's secretary of technology |
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