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Alumni in sports have included Olympic fencing champion [[Johan Harmenberg]]. | Alumni in sports have included Olympic fencing champion [[Johan Harmenberg]]. | ||
MIT alumni founded or co-founded many notable companies, such as [[Robert Noyce|Intel]], [[James Smith McDonnell|McDonnell]] [[Donald Wills Douglas, Sr.|Douglas]], [[Cecil Howard Green|Texas Instruments]], [[Robert Metcalfe|3Com]], [[Andrew Viterbi|Qualcomm]], [[Amar Bose|Bose]], [[Vannevar Bush|Raytheon]], [[Apotex]], [[Fred C. Koch|Koch Industries]], [[Willard Rockwell|Rockwell International]], [[Robert A. Swanson|Genentech]], [[Drew Houston|Dropbox]], and [[John Thompson Dorrance|Campbell Soup]]. According to the British newspaper '' | MIT alumni founded or co-founded many notable companies, such as [[Robert Noyce|Intel]], [[James Smith McDonnell|McDonnell]] [[Donald Wills Douglas, Sr.|Douglas]], [[Cecil Howard Green|Texas Instruments]], [[Robert Metcalfe|3Com]], [[Andrew Viterbi|Qualcomm]], [[Amar Bose|Bose]], [[Vannevar Bush|Raytheon]], [[Apotex]], [[Fred C. Koch|Koch Industries]], [[Willard Rockwell|Rockwell International]], [[Robert A. Swanson|Genentech]], [[Drew Houston|Dropbox]], and [[John Thompson Dorrance|Campbell Soup]]. According to the British newspaper ''The Guardian'', "a survey of living MIT alumni found that they have formed 25,800 companies, employing more than three million people including about a quarter of the workforce of Silicon Valley. Those firms collectively generate global revenues of about $1.9 trillion (£1.2 trillion) a year". If the companies founded by MIT alumni were a country, they would have the 11th-highest [[Gross domestic product|GDP]] of any country in the world.<ref name="Entrepreneur">{{cite journal |url=http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/217327 |title=Gurus and Grads |journal=Entrepreneur |date=September 20, 2010 |author1=Ericka Chickowski}}</ref><ref name="Kauffman">{{cite news |title=Kauffman Foundation study finds MIT alumni companies generate billions for regional economies |publisher=MIT News Office |url=http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2009/kauffman-study-0217.html |date=February 17, 2009 |access-date= February 25, 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Pilkington |first=Ed |title=The MIT factor: celebrating 150 years of maverick genius |url=https://www.theguardian.com/education/2011/may/18/mit-massachusetts-150-years-genius |newspaper=The Guardian |date=May 18, 2011 |access-date= May 25, 2011}}</ref> | ||
MIT alumni have led prominent institutions of higher education, including the [[David S. Saxon|University of California]] system, [[Lawrence H. Summers|Harvard University]], the [[Rahmat Shoureshi|New York Institute of Technology]], [[William R. Brody|Johns Hopkins University]], [[Subra Suresh|Carnegie Mellon University]], [[Larry Bacow|Tufts University]], [[Albert J. Simone|Rochester Institute of Technology]], [[John Maeda|Rhode Island School of Design (RISD)]], [[Vishaan Chakrabarti|UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design]], the [[Allan Cullimore|New Jersey Institute of Technology]], [[Joseph E. Aoun|Northeastern University]], [[Joseph Klafter|Tel Aviv University]], [[Adil Najam|Lahore University of Management Sciences]], [[Shirley Jackson (physicist)|Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute]], [[Eugenio Garza Sada|Tecnológico de Monterrey]], [[Martin C. Jischke|Purdue University]], [[T. Marshall Hahn|Virginia Polytechnic Institute]], [[Suh Nam-pyo|Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology]], and [[Pervez Hoodbhoy|Quaid-e-Azam University]]. [[Berklee College of Music]], the largest independent college of contemporary music in the world, was founded and led by MIT alumnus [[Lawrence Berk]] for more than three decades. | MIT alumni have led prominent institutions of higher education, including the [[David S. Saxon|University of California]] system, [[Lawrence H. Summers|Harvard University]], the [[Rahmat Shoureshi|New York Institute of Technology]], [[William R. Brody|Johns Hopkins University]], [[Subra Suresh|Carnegie Mellon University]], [[Larry Bacow|Tufts University]], [[Albert J. Simone|Rochester Institute of Technology]], [[John Maeda|Rhode Island School of Design (RISD)]], [[Vishaan Chakrabarti|UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design]], the [[Allan Cullimore|New Jersey Institute of Technology]], [[Joseph E. Aoun|Northeastern University]], [[Joseph Klafter|Tel Aviv University]], [[Adil Najam|Lahore University of Management Sciences]], [[Shirley Jackson (physicist)|Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute]], [[Eugenio Garza Sada|Tecnológico de Monterrey]], [[Martin C. Jischke|Purdue University]], [[T. Marshall Hahn|Virginia Polytechnic Institute]], [[Suh Nam-pyo|Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology]], and [[Pervez Hoodbhoy|Quaid-e-Azam University]]. [[Berklee College of Music]], the largest independent college of contemporary music in the world, was founded and led by MIT alumnus [[Lawrence Berk]] for more than three decades. | ||