<h2>Nobel </h2>
<p>Subject Year Name
Physics 1937 Clinton J. Davisson
Chemistry 1998 Walter Kohn
Economics 2004 Finn E Kydland
Economics 1995 Robert E. Lucas, Jr.
Economics 1990 Merton H. Miller
Economics 1985 Franco Modigliani
Economics 1994 John F. Nash, Jr.
Chemistry 1998 John A. Pople
Economics 2004 Edward C. Prescott
Physics 1994 Clifford Shull
Economics 1978 Herbert Simon
Physics 1943 Otto Stern</p>
<h2>Business</h2>
<pre><code>* Paul Allaire, former Xerox CEO and Chairman
* Yoshiaki Fujimori President and CEO of General Electric Asia
* Larry Kurzweil, President and COO of Universal Studios Hollywood
* Howard Pien CEO and Chairman of Chiron Corporation
* Dina Dublon former EVP and CFO of JP Morgan Chase; board member of Microsoft, Accenture, PepsiCo, and Carnegie Mellon University
* David A. Coulter retired Vice Chairman of JP Morgan Chase; former Chairman and CEO of Bank of America
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<h2>Science & Technology</h2>
<pre><code>* Andy Bechtolsheim (M.S. 1976), co-founder of Sun Microsystems
* Mark Canepa (B.S. 1976, M.S. 1977), Executive Vice President, Network Storage Products Group for Sun Microsystems
* George Cowan (Ph.D. 1950), nuclear scientist who was involved in the Manhattan Project, the U.S. atomic initiative during World War II
* Robert Dennard (Ph.D. 1958), inventor of dynamic random access memory (DRAM)
* Edward Feigenbaum (B.S. 1956, Ph.D. 1960), computer scientist and artificial intelligence expert
* Edward H. Frank (Ph.D. 1985), Vice President R&D, Broadcom
* Charles Geschke (Ph.D. 1973), co-founder of Adobe Systems
* James J. Gillogly (Ph.D. 1978), cryptographer who was the first to publicly solve parts 1-3 of Kryptos
* Stephen Glicker A famous figure in the gaming industry
* James Gosling (M.S. 1983, Ph.D. 1983), creator of Java programming language
* Feng-hsiung Hsu (Ph.D. 1990), co-creator of ChipTest (while at CMU), which was the predecessor of Deep Thought, which in turn evolved into Deep Blue at IBM
* Vinod Khosla (M.S. 1978), co-founder of Sun Microsystems, venture capitalist at Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers
* Stephanie Kwolek (1946), inventor of Kevlar
* Edgar Mitchell (1952), astronaut, 6th man to walk on the moon
* Michael Montemerlo (B.S. and M.S. 1997, Ph.D. 2003), software lead for Stanley, the robotic car that won the DARPA Grand Challenge in 2005
* John Ousterhout (Ph.D. 1980), inventor of the Tcl scripting language
* Drew D. Perkins (1985), author of Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP)
* Alan Perlis (1943), computer scientist
* Judith Resnik (1970), astronaut who died in the Challenger explosion during the launch of the mission STS-51-L.
* Barb Samardzich (M.S. 1985), Vice President, Powertrain Operations, Ford Motor Company
* Jonathan I. Schwartz (transferred to Wesleyan University) - CEO of Sun Microsystems
* Pradeep Sindhu (Ph.D.) - cofounder and CTO of Juniper Networks
* Ivan Sutherland (1959), computer programmer and Internet pioneer
* Avie Tevanian (M.S. 1985, Ph.D. 1988), former Apple CTO
* Hau Thai-Tang (1988), Director of Advanced Product Creation and Special Vehicle Team at Ford Motor Company, Chief Engineer of the 2005 Ford Mustang
* Red Whittaker (M.S. 1975, Ph.D. 1979), professor at CMU; led CMU teams that won second and third place in the DARPA Grand Challenge in 2005
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