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Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni

  • Jon KleinbergJon Kleinberg found that a web page can matter because of where it sends you.
  • George AkerlofGeorge Akerlof showed why good used cars can vanish from a market.
  • Nathan RosenNathan Rosen co-authored the first known wormhole paper in July 1935. He was Albert Einstein's assistant at the time.
  • Esther DufloEsther Duflo was 46 when she became the youngest Nobel economics winner ever. She shared it in 2019.
  • Arthur Samuel (computer scientist)Arthur Samuel's checkers program moved IBM's stock up 15 points in a single night. He coined "machine learning" in 1959.
  • Daniel HuttenlocherIn 2019, Daniel Huttenlocher became the first dean of MIT's new Schwarzman College of Computing.
  • Carl WiemanAfter a Nobel Prize in physics, Carl Wieman turned to why students learn so little in science class.
  • Eric Allin CornellIn 1995, Eric Cornell and Carl Wieman made the first Bose-Einstein condensate. It is a new state of matter.
  • Sam Bankman-FriedSam Bankman-Fried played League of Legends while pitching investors. Sequoia later put in more than $200 million.
  • Claude ShannonClaude Shannon built a mechanical mouse that learned its way through a maze. He named the 1950 machine Theseus.
  • Terry WinogradTerry Winograd once taught a computer to obey commands about toy blocks.
  • Walter PittsWalter Pitts, a homeless teenager, helped create the first mathematical model of a neural network.
  • Gilbert N. LewisChemist Gilbert N. Lewis was nominated for the Nobel Prize 41 times and never won. He discovered the covalent bond.
  • Andrew NgA neural network taught itself to recognize cats from YouTube videos. Andrew Ng cofounded Google Brain.
  • Robert J. ShillerRobert J. Shiller called the stock market a bubble in his 2000 book Irrational Exuberance. He shared a Nobel in 2013.
  • Bridgit MendlerBridgit Mendler is an American entrepreneur, a former actress and a singer-songwriter, and she once explained how she spent the COVID-19 lockdowns. She told CNBC: "While everybody else was making their sourdough starters, we were building…

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