Alumni

Dr. Paul E. Green, Jr.
Class of 1948
MIT Lincoln Laboratory
IBM
Tellabs

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In the late 1950's, communications theory was in the forefront in electrical engineering departments across the country. It is in this "golden age" of communications research that the contributions of Dr. Paul E. Green, Jr. has forever changed the landscape of electronic signaling. Graduating with a Masters in Electical Engineering from NC State in 1948, Green has made a number of diverse contributions to communications and networking technology at MIT's Lincoln Laboratory and IBM and became one of the most accomplished alumni in NC State History. Now in retirement, Green has continued to lobby for increased optical network availability as a member of the recent National Academy of Engineering's Committee on Broadband Last Mile Technology, and the Fiber to the Home Council.

J. Turner Whitted
Class of 1978
Microsoft Corporation
Senior Researcher, Hardware Devices and Graphics


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J. Turner Whitted won't take credit for it, but he really should be listed in the lineage of Woody, Buzz, Shrek and the Matrix's Neo, as well as a lot of other computer generated characters and effects in both movies and computer games. Graduating with a PhD degree in Electrical Engineering in 1978, Dr. Whitted was the first to apply the concept of ray-tracing to global illumination in computer graphics. He earned his BSE and MS degrees in electrical engineering from Duke University.