Undergraduate Enrollment: 4,147
Notable Alums: Enrique Salem, CEO Symantec; John Donahoe, CEO Ebay
Tech Feature: The
Dartmouth Regional Technology Network, a private, non-profit technology incubator designed to help burgeoning tech companies realize their goals and take root in the Northeast.
Alumni Innovation: Not all Dartmouth grads take technology seriously. Steve Russell ‘58 led the team that developed one of the first videogames,
Spacewar!, in 1962.
Undergraduate Enrollment: 6,532
Notable Alums: Thomas Edsall, CTO Cisco Systems; Paul Wehrley, COO Clicker
Tech Feature: The
Stanford University Persuasive Technology Lab examines how computers and technology influence day-to-day decision making in a field of research called captology.
Alumni Innovation: David Packard and William Hewlett founded Hewlett-Packard in 1939, five years after they graduated, with $538 in startup capital and a garage to work out of. The company has far exceeded its modest beginnings, with a market value of $122 billion. Two Stanford students again changed the world decades later when Sergey Brin and Larry Page (while working on their master’s degrees) created an algorithm that evolved into the search engine they dubbed Google.
Undergraduate Enrollment: 4,878
Notable Alums: Eric Schmidt, CEO Google; Jeff Bezos, CEO Amazon
Tech Feature: The
Center for Information Technology Policy researches how technology interacts with society at large, with a focus on economics and public policy.
Alumni Innovation: The Internet as we know it probably wouldn’t be the same without David Boggs ‘72, who co-invented Ethernet, a high speed cable-based information delivery system, while working for Xerox in 1975.
Undergraduate Enrollment: 10,156
Notable Alums: Steve Ballmer, CEO Microsoft; Mark Bregman, CTO Symantec
Tech Feature: The
Office of Technology Development ensures that science and technology breakthroughs are available to underserved communities and the general public.
Alumni Innovation: J. Robert Oppenheimer ‘25 is often called the “father of the atomic bomb”, instrumental in the Manhattan Project and developing the weapon that shapes politics and ethics around the world to this day.
Undergraduate Enrollment: 4,153
Notable Alums: Colin Angle, CEO iRobot; Eric Brandt, CFO Broadcom
Tech Feature: The
Women's Technology Program offers a four-week summer residential boot camp to steer women in high school toward studies in engineering.
Alumni Innovation: You know those glass globes that appear to be filled with electricity that's attracted to the touch? They're at just about every local science museum. Well, Bill Parker '74 invented the modern version. The globes are actually filled with a high-voltage gas and are called plasma globes or plasma lamps.
Undergraduate Enrollment: 6,496
Notable Alums: William Hawkins, CEO Medtronic; Leslie Jones, CIO Motorola
Tech Feature: The
Duke Digital Initiative provides the tech leaders of tomorrow with modern learning resources, including microprojectors, iPods, webcams, and social networks.
Alumni Innovation: A quirkier contribution to the world of innovation:
The Beer Launching Fridge.
Undergraduate Enrollment: 9,336
Notable Alums: Rob Goldman, CEO Threadsy; Paul Sagan, CEO Akamai
Tech Feature: The
Innovation and New Ventures Office helps inventors navigate the path from idea to patented idea to marketable product.
Alumni Innovation: Richard Skrenta '89 is responsible for what's believed to be the first self-replicating computer virus. Created in 1982, the Elk Cloner attacked Apple computers. A poem would appear on the screen of an infected computer every 50th bootup: "Elk Cloner: The program with a personality/It will get on all your disks/It will infiltrate your chips/Yes, it's Cloner!/It will stick to you like glue/It will modify RAM too/Send in the Cloner!" Skrenta wrote the virus when he was still in high school, so don't blame Northwestern.
Undergraduate Enrollment: 4,876
Notable Alums: Wendell Weeks, CEO Corning; John Gardner, COO LearnVest
Tech Feature: The
Launch-IT Program encourages Lehigh Valley 6th to 12th graders toward careers in information technology.
Alumni Innovation:
Jesse Reno—class of 1883—built the world's first working escalator, which was installed at Coney Island in 1895 as a ride. He also drew up plans in 1896 for a double-decker subway system, which was rejected by New York City.
Undergraduate Enrollment: 5,277
Notable Alums: Todd Sullivan, CEO Chyngle; Scott Young, CMO Radio Shack
Tech Feature: At the
Initiative in Science, Religion and Technology students of the Yale Divinity School think critically about how religion, science, and technology interact.
Alumni Innovation: Paul MacCready '47 was a pioneer of aerodynamics and was named Engineer of the Century in 1980. His inventions include the first human-powered aircraft, the Gossamer Condor, and several solar-powered aircraft.
Undergraduate Enrollment: 5,577
Notable Alums: Samuel Palmisano, CEO IBM; Ari Balogh, CTO Yahoo
Tech Feature: The
Technology Transfer encourages researchers to develop their ideas into companies and share their knowledge with the world.
Alumni Innovation: Before Michael Bloomberg '64 gained national prominence as the mayor of New York City, his company developed a machine that changed the financial world and made Bloomberg a billionaire. The Bloomberg Terminal allows paid subscribers access to the proprietary Bloomberg data service, which during pre-Internet times was especially unique for providing real-time stock quotes and other financial data.
Undergraduate Enrollment: 13,846
Notable Alums: Shaygan Kheradpir, CIO Verizon; Yong Ming Guang, CEO Socialwok
Tech Feature: The
Cornell NanoScale Science & Technology Facility provides support and cutting-edge equipment for more than 700 nanoscience researchers each year.
Alumni Innovation: Robert C. Baker '43, sometimes nicknamed the Thomas Edison of poultry, invented the chicken nugget two decades before McDonald's made them standard Happy Meal fare.
Undergraduate Enrollment: 26,536
Notable Alums: Henry Samueli, CTO Broadcom; Rich Sulpizio, CEO Qualcomm
Tech Feature: The $829 million, state-of-the art
Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center
Alumni Innovation: Steve Crocker '68 was one of many engineers responsible for developing the U.S. Department of Defense's Advanced Research Projects Agency Network, which would become the model for the Internet. Crocker was also instrumental in creating the Request for Comments series, an academic publishing platform that Internet researchers use to communicate new ideas and concepts.
Undergraduate Enrollment: 31,417
Notable Alums: Susan Bostrom, CMO Cisco Systems; Kevin Lynch, CTO Adobe
Tech Feature: The
Technology Entrepreneur Center, the University of Illinois' technology incubator.
Alumni Innovation: Ed Boon '86 isn't known for being a violent guy, but he did co-create Mortal Kombat, one of the first mass-market videogames to feature lifelike blood and guts.
Undergraduate Enrollment: 10,124
Notable Alums: Robert Parkinson, CEO Baxter International; Kenneth Meyers, CFO Telephone and Data Systems
Tech Feature: The
Innovations in Leadership program brings together four teams of medical professionals to research patient care and services.
Alumni Innovation: Quality management—basically the system that managers use to ensure their companies provide high-quality products—is taken for granted by most American consumers. But the concept wouldn’t exist without Joseph M. Juran '35, a major theorist of standardized quality management, whose seminal
Quality Control Handbook was published in 1951.
Undergraduate Enrollment: 12,162
Notable Alums: Landell Hobbs, COO Time Warner Cable; Mark Hurd, CEO Hewlett-Packard
Tech Feature: The
Baylor Research and Innovation Collaborative
Alumni Innovation: It took until the last half of the last decade of the 20th century, but in 1997 Marjorie Scardino '69 paved new ground as the first female CEO of one of the top 100 British companies, Pearson PLC.
Undergraduate Enrollment: 30,912
Notable Alums: Lynn Blodgett, CEO Affiliated Computer Sciences; David Marble, COO Sprowtt Marketplace
Tech Feature: The
Innovation Boot Camp a hands-on workshop to develop student inventions.
Alumni Innovation: Can you hear me now? If so, credit to Harvey Fletcher, 1907, who invented the hearing aid and developed stereophonic—stereo—sound reproduction.
Undergraduate Enrollment: 24,188
Notable Alums: Diane Bryant, CIO Intel; Judith Sim, CMO Oracle
Tech Feature: The
FIRST Robotics Competition
Alumni Innovation: Agronomist Dr. Gurdev Khush '60, winner of the 1996 World Food Prize, developed high-quality and high-quantity strains of rice suitable for growth in many countries facing food shortages.
Undergraduate Enrollment: 17,427
Notable Alums: Ted Schremp, CMO Charter Communications; Robert Henry, COO Harris
Tech Feature: The
Technology Commercialization Alliance
Alumni Innovation: Charles Glen King '30 co-discovered Vitamin C and established the relationship between malnutrition and degenerative diseases. King wrote more than 200 academic articles on vitamins, enzymes, and nutrition over his career.
Undergraduate Enrollment: 28,031
Notable Alums: Janet Haugen, CFO Unisys; Michael Christenson, COO CA
Tech Feature: The
Technology Management Research Center marries globalization with innovation.
Alumni Innovation: Stanley Norman Cohen '56 worked on the lab team that in 1974 spliced the first gene, a strand of frog RNA that was transferred into E. Coli cells. This experiment became the basis of the biotechnology industry.
Undergraduate Enrollment: 37,389
Notable Alums: Michael Dell, CEO Dell; Lee Applbaum, CMO RadioShack
Tech Feature: The
Austin Technology Incubator
Alumni Innovation: Modern elections in America were shaped by V.O. Key, Jr. '29, who wrote the influential textbook
Politics, Parties and Pressure Groups. Key's main contribution to political theory was to expand its scope to include the study of public interest groups and regional politics.
Undergraduate Enrollment: 28,789
Notable Alums: Norm Fjeldheim, CIO Qualcomm; Greg Young, CEO Luxtera
Tech Feature: The
San Diego State University Research Foundation takes the school's creative intellectual property and makes it publicly available and commercially viable.
Alumni Innovation: For more than two decades, Julie Kavner '71 and her gravelly voice has changed the perception of the TV mom with her portrayal of everyone's favorite blue-haired matriarch, Marge Simpson.
Undergraduate Enrollment: 21,149
Notable Alums: Joe Langevin, CEO Insttant; Gerri Martin-Flickinger, CIO Adobe
Tech Feature: The
Clean Technologies program focuses on studying climate change and developing alternative energies.
Alumni Innovation: Millions of lives have been saved thanks to John Abelson '60. Abelson's Agouron Institute developed and marketed Viracept, the best drug currently available to treat HIV.
Undergraduate Enrollment: 22,980
Notable Alums: Andy Bryant, CAO Intel; James Bryant, CAO CA
Tech Feature: The
University of Missouri Technology Park at Fort Leonard Wood, the first technology incubator on an active military base.
Alumni Innovation: Renowned robotocist Ernie Hall '65 holds numerous breakthrough patents, including an optical vision system for robots and a system for remotely guiding unmanned robots.
Undergraduate Enrollment: 36,205
Notable Alums: Pete Bocian, EVP Hewlett-Packard, James Gooch, CFO RadioShack
Tech Feature: MSU has placed specific emphasis on creating technology that is useful and marketable. A recent development is a tattoo-matching
technology which the school licensed to a national identity-management company so law enforcement can search tattoo image databases.
Alumni Innovation: The innovations of Rolla C. Carpenter, 1873, in heating and ventilation helped pave the way for modern indoor climate control. Carpenter penned such exciting titles as
Heating and Ventilating Buildings. For their times, vital.
Undergraduate Enrollment: 25,151
Notable Alums: Shervin Pishevar, CEO ToyBots Woozees; Paul Jacobs, CEO Qualcomm
Tech Feature: The
Science, Technology and Society Center, which offers a unique and extensive range of academic specialties including the History of Science and Management of Technology.
Alumni Innovation: The creator of SendMail, an open source and proprietary software that handles the majority of email sent today, was Eric Allman '77, who received his undergraduate and graduate degrees at UC Berkeley.
Undergraduate Enrollment: 26,475
Notable Alums: Gary Swart, CEO oDesk; Bhatia Gaurav, co-founder iMO
Tech Feature: The
Maryland Technology Enterprise Institute recently announced finalists for its business plan competition, which included three entrants in the category of High Technology. The winning plan will win $75,000.
Alumni Innovation: Sergey Brin, half of the team behind Google and the search engine revolution, received his B.S. from the University of Maryland in 1993.
Undergraduate Enrollment: 30,362
Notable Alums: Carol Bartz, CEO Yahoo!; Joshua Sapan, CEO Cablevision
Tech Feature: The
Science and Technology Studies department hosts a brown bag series that meets every other Thursday to showcase student and faculty work. Next up: Law Professor Heinz Klug talks about pharmaceutical production in South Africa.
Alumni Innovation: The trajectory of technology innovation would have been much different without alumni John Atanasoff '30, the physicist credited as the inventor of the first electronic digital computer, the Atanasoff-Berry computer, which was used to solve linear equations.
Fall 2008 Enrollment: 31,673
Notable Alums: Mark Stieglitz, COO 5to1.com; Marwan Fawaz, CTO Charter
Tech Feature: The University's Department of Computer Science holds an annual programming
competition and festival during which high school and community college students solve programming problems with computer science for prizes.
Alumni Innovation: Seymour Liebergot ‘63, a NASA flight controller, was in charge of the electrical systems on spacecrafts and helped to direct Apollo 13 back to Earth.
Undergraduate Enrollment: 33,105
Notable Alums: Karenann Terrell, CIO Baxter International; John Johnson, CIO Intel
Tech Feature: The
Purdue Research Parks are four research and business incubators located throughout Indiana.
Alumni Innovation: Ward Cunningham, who earned his undergraduate and graduate degrees at the university, is known as the developer of the first wiki—an online database edited and accessed by multiple users. Wikipedia enthusiasts can thank Purdue.
