Alumni such as L. In particular, the Alto used a computer mouse , which had been invented by Doug Engelbart B.

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Simonyi later became the first repeat space tourist , blasting off on Russian Soyuz rockets to work at the International Space Station orbiting the earth. Joy, who went on to co-found Sun Microsystems, also developed the original version of the terminal console editor vi , while Ken Arnold BA created Curses , a terminal control library for Unix-like systems that enables the construction of text user interface TUI applications.

ViolaWWW was the first browser to have embedded scriptable objects, stylesheets, and tables. Alumni collectively have won at least eight Pulitzer Prizes. Pulitzer Prize—winning cartoonist Rube Goldberg BS invented the comically complex—yet ultimately trivial—contraptions known as Rube Goldberg machines. Alumna and professor Susan Rasky won the Polk Award for journalism in Alumni have also written novels and screenplays that have attracted Oscar-caliber talent, including The Call of the Wild author Jack London.

Stone also wrote The Agony and the Ecstasy , which was later made into a film of the same name starring Oscar winner Charlton Heston as Michelangelo. Collectively, alumni have won at least 20 Academy Awards. Ferguson BA have each [] [] won an Oscar for documentary filmmaking. Alumni have collectively won at least 25 Emmy Awards: Elisabeth Leamy is the recipient of 13 Emmy awards. Alumni have acted in classic television series that are still broadcast on TV today. Alumni have also participated in the world of sports. Matt Biondi BA won eight Olympic gold medals during his swimming career, in which he participated in three different Olympics.

Berkeley alumni—often generous benefactors—have long been among the billionaire ranks, giving rise to many of the campus' eponymous schools, pavilions, centers, institutes, and halls, with some of the more prominent being J.

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