Notable Faculty
- David Evans - founder of the computer science department at the U, graphics pioneer and co-founder of Evans & Sutherland
- Stephen Jacobsen - Distinguished professor and founder of Sarcos, a robotics company that is now part of Raytheon
- Suhas Patil - Computer scientist, prolific entrepreneur and founder of Cirrus Logic, a fabless semiconductor company.
- Ivan Sutherland - Winner of the Turing Award in 1988 for Sketchpad, co-founder of Evans and Sutherland
- Thomas Stockham - founder of Soundstream Inc., one of the experts selected to investigate President Richard Nixon's White House tapes.
- Willem Johan Kolff - the father of artificial organs, pioneer of hemodialysis as well as artificial organs
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