NXIVM was founded by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute alumni .
RPI Prof. Matthew Hunter invented a process to refine titanium in 1910.In addition to NVIDIA , RPI graduates have also gone on to found or co-found major companies such as John Wiley and Sons , Texas Instruments , Fairchild Semiconductor , PSINet , MapInfo , Adelphia Communications , Level 3 Communications , Garmin and Bugle Boy .
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