page_title: List of University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign people
section_title: Engineering and technology
hierarchical_section_title: List of University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign people / Notable alumni / Engineering and technology
context_page_description: This is a list of notable people affiliated with the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, a public research university in Illinois.
context_section_description: Shoaib Abbasi, B.S. 1980, M.S. 1980 – president and chief executive officer of Informatica
  Harlan Anderson, B.S., M.S. – computer pioneer and founder of Digital Equipment Corporation
  Marc Andreessen, B.S. 1993 – co-creator of Mosaic, co-founder of Netscape, currently co-founder of venture-capital firm Andreessen Horowitz
  Bruce Artwick, M.S. 1976 – creator of Microsoft Flight Simulator
  William F. Baker, M.S. 1980 – best known for being the structural engineer of Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest man-made structure
  Ken Batcher, Ph.D. 1969 – ACM/IEEE Eckert-Mauchly Award winner for work on parallel computers
  Arnold O. Beckman, B.S. 1922, M.S. 1923 – inventor of the pH meter, founder of Beckman Instruments; major donor to the university which included a gift to found the Beckman Institute; namesake of the Beckman Quadrangle
  Eric Bina, B.S. 1986, M.S. 1988 –- co-creator of the Mosaic and among the first employees of Netscape
  Donald Bitzer, B.S. 1955, M.S. 1956, Ph.D. 1960–2003 Emmy Award in Technical Achievement for the invention of the plasma display
  Ed Boon, B.S. 1986 – creator of the Mortal Kombat video game series
  Keith Brendley, B.S., 1980—leading authority on active protection systems and president of Artis, a research and development company
  Mike Byster, 1981 – mental calculator, mathematician
  Steve Chen – co-founder of YouTube
  Ven Te Chow, Ph.D. – professor of hydrology
  John Cioffi, B.S. 1978 – father of DSL (broadband internet connection), Marconi Prize winner, founder of Amati Communications (sold to Texas Instruments), IEEE Fellow
  Alan M. Davis, M.S. 1973, Ph.D. 1975 – IEEE Fellow for contributions to software engineering, author, entrepreneur
  Lemuel Davis, M.S. – software engineer in the field of computer animation; winner of a 1992 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Scientific and Engineering Award
  James DeLaurier, B.S. – designed the first microwave-powered aircraft, the first engine-powered ornithopter, and the first human-carrying ornithopter
  Daniel W. Dobberpuhl, B.S. 1967 – creator of Alpha and StrongARM microprocessors at DEC
  Steve Dorner, B.S. 1983 – creator of Eudora
  Russell Dupuis, B.S. 1970, M.S. 1971, Ph.D. 1972 – professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology; co-recipient of the 2002 National Medal of Technology; awarded the 2007 IEEE Edison Medal; pioneer in metalorganic chemical vapor deposition and the commercialization of LEDs
  Brendan Eich, M.S. 1986 – creator of JavaScript; chief technology officer of Mozilla Corporation
  Larry Ellison, attended (left after sophomore year) – founder of Oracle Corporation
  Michael Hart, B.A. 1973 – founder of Project Gutenberg
  Tomlinson Holman, B.S. 1968 – creator of THX, professor at the USC School of Cinematic Arts
  John C. Houbolt, B.S. 1940, M.S. 1942 – retired NASA engineer who successfully promoted lunar orbit rendezvous for Apollo Space Program
  Jawed Karim, B.S. 2004 – co-founder of YouTube
  Fazlur Khan, Ph.D. 1955 – designer and builder of the Sears Tower, the tallest building in the world when it was built in 1973
  Shahid Khan, B.S. 1971 – owner of Flex-N-Gate Corp.; owner of Jacksonville Jaguars
  Ed Krol – author of Whole Internet User's Guide and Catalog
  Chris Lattner – author of LLVM and related projects, such as the compiler Clang and the programming language Swift.  At the start of 2017 he started working at Tesla Motors  as vice president of Autopilot Software.
  Max Levchin, B.S. 1997 – co-founder of PayPal
  Jenny Levine, M.L.I.S. 1992 – evangelist for library technology and American Library Association Internet strategist
  Russel Simmons – co-founder and chief technical officer of Yelp!
  Bob Miner, B.A. (mathematics) 1963 – co-founder of Oracle Corporation
  Ray Ozzie, B.S. 1979 – creator of Lotus Notes cofounder of Lotus, co-president of Microsoft
  Anna Patterson, Ph.D 1988 – Vice President of Engineering, Artificial Intelligence at Google and co-founder of Cuil
  Cecil Peabody – writer, graduate of MIT (1877) and professor at MIT
  Jerry Sanders, B.S. 1958 – co-founder and former chief executive officer of Advanced Micro Devices
  Peter Shirley, Ph.D. 1
caption: Panorama of the Bardeen Quad
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