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Former members of 1127:

  • Agrawal, Vishwani => Agere => Auburn University (emeritus)
  • Aho, Al => Columbia University => retired (now in NC)
  • Alur, Rajeev => University of Pennsylvania
  • Baird, Henry => Xerox PARC => Lehigh => retired
  • Baker, Brenda => consulting
  • Basu, Anindya => Morgan Stanley
  • Bartal, Yair => Israel
  • Bentley, Jon => Avaya => retired
  • Berenbaum, Alan => Agere => consulting => deceased (27/1/2016)
  • Bleichenbacher, Daniel => Switzerland
  • Blue, Jim => NIST => retired
  • Blume, Matthias => Toyota Technological Institute, Chicago => Google
  • Bounimova, Ella => Lucent WNG => Microsoft
  • Bourne, Steve => SGI => DEC => Sun => Cisco => El Dorado Ventures
  • Branigan, Steve => Lumeta
  • Brown, Stan => retired => deceased 1/16/2013
  • Browning, Sally => Silicon Graphics => Bell Labs => consulting => Galois, Inc => retired
  • Businger, Peter => law
  • Canaday, Rudd => ministry => Entefy
  • Cardelli, Luca => DEC => Microsoft UK => Oxford (retired)
  • Carr, Caryl => medicine => weaving
  • Cargill, Tom => consultant
  • Chandra, Satish => IBM Research, New Delhi, India => Meta => Google
  • Chekuri, Chandra => University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne
  • Cheswick, Bill => Lumeta => AT&T => retired
  • Chesson, Greg => SGI => Atheros => Google => deceased (27 june 2015)
  • Clarkson, Ken => IBM Almaden
  • Coughran, Bill => Bell Labs Research Silicon Valley => Entrisphere.com => Google => Sequoia Capital
  • Dams, Dennis => Bell Labs Antwerp => TNO Netherlands
  • Ditzel, Dave => Sun => Transmeta => Intel => ThruChip => esperanto.ai => retired
  • Dorward, Sean => SandBridge => Google
  • Du, Vic => Google NYC
  • Duff, Tom => Pixar => retired
  • Dwyer, Harry => Lucent Microelectronics => Villanova => independent
  • Emlin, Grace => relocated, witness protection program
  • Elliot, Jane => Bellcore => retired
  • Van Enk, Stephen => Physics Research
  • Etessami, Kousha => Univ. Edinburgh
  • Farach-Colton, Martin => Rutgers => Google
  • Feldman, Stu => Bellcore => IBM => Google => retired => Schmidt Philantrophies
  • Felty, Amy => University of Ottawa
  • Flandrena, Bob => Morgan Stanley => retired (France)
  • Fraser, Chris => Microsoft => Google => Concurix => Polyverse
  • Fortune, Steve => Google NY (9/14/2015) => retired
  • Freund, Roland => UC Davis
  • Fuchs, Chris => Physics Research => Perimeter Institute
  • Fullerton, Wayne => deceased
  • Gabber, Eran => Google
  • Gajewska, Hania => DEC => Sun => Poland raising dogs
  • Gay, David => AMPL Optimization LLC => Sandia => AMPL Optimization
  • Gentleman, Morven => National Research Council of Canada => Dalhousie University => deceased 12/13/2018
  • George, Lal => Network Speed Technologies => Lehman Brothers NY => Walmart
  • Giancarlo, Raffaele => Universita di Palermo
  • Glick, Paul => consulting => Columbia
  • Godefroid, Patrice => Microsoft => Lacework => Microsoft
  • Grampp, Fred => Lucent CIO security => retired => deceased
  • Grosse, Eric => Google => retired
  • Gunther, Elsa => University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne
  • Hall, Andy => Alliant => Sun => Sybase => BEA (now Oracle)
  • Hamming, Richard => Naval Postgraduate School => deceased
  • Heintze, Nevin => Agere => Google
  • Hobby, John => post-1127 survivor
  • Hogan, David => deceased
  • Holzmann, Gerard => NASA/JPL, Laboratory for Reliable Software => Nimble Research
  • Howe, Doug => Carleton University
  • Huelsbergen, Lorenz => Google => Upthere
  • Jeremiassen, Tor => TI => Google
  • Hodgins, Jessica => Georgia Tech => CMU
  • Johnson, Steve => ... => MathWorks => ... (startup)
  • Kahrs, Mark => Rutgers => Univ. Pittsburgh => consulting
  • Kanakia, Hemant => AT&T Labs => Torrent Networking Technologies (acquired by Ericsson) => India
  • Kaufman, Linda => William Paterson College => retired
  • Kaxiras, Stefanos => Agere => Univ of Patras, Greece => Uppsala Univ., Sweden
  • Kernighan, Brian => Princeton Univ
  • Keshav, S. => AT&T Labs => Cornell => Ensim Corp. => U of Waterloo -> Cambridge U.
  • Jukl, Milan => AT&T Labs => Cadence
  • Klarlund, Nils => Google
  • Knowlton, Ken => deceased
  • Kurshan, Bob => Cadence (deceased 3/10/2021)
  • Lee, David => Bell Labs Research, Beijing => Ohio State => HP
  • Lee, Wonsuk => Samsung Software Research Center => Samsung Mobile Buss. Div. (Korea) => Seoul National Univ. (Korea) => SK Hynix (US)
  • Lesk, Ann => law => www.alaskaonmadison.com => ?
  • Lesk, Mike => Bellcore => NSF => Rutgers => retired (2023)
  • Leue, Stefan => Univ of Waterloo => Univ of Freiburg => Univ of Konstanz
  • Levin, Vladimir => Lucent WNG => Microsoft
  • Leonid Libkin => U. of Toronto => Univ. Edinburgh
  • Lin, Dong => NetApp
  • Lin, Shen => retired
  • Locanthi, Bart => startup => Google (=> Switzerland)
  • Lubachevsky, Boris => consulting
  • Mahaney, Steve => DIMACS => NSF => deceased 26 june 2007
  • Mackenzie, Phil => DoCoMo Labs
  • MacQueen, Dave => Univ Chicago => retired (2012)
  • Manasse, Mark => DEC, Compaq => Microsoft Research => Salesforce => i2chain
  • McIlroy, M. Douglas => retired => Dartmouth
  • McKie, Jim => Cisco -> deceased June 16, 2020
  • McLellan, Rae => retired
  • McMahon, Lee => deceased
  • Mencer, Oskar => Imperial College, London
  • Mitchell, John => Stanford
  • Monrose, Fabian => Johns Hopkins
  • Morgan, Sam => retired => deceased may 19, 2015
  • Morris, Bob => NSA => retired (deceased 26 June 2011)
  • Morris, Robert T. => Harvard => Y Combinator founder => MIT
  • Mullender, Sape => Cisco => retired
  • Namjoshi, Kedar => post-1127 survivor
  • Neumann, Peter => SRI => deceased 5/17/26
  • Ordille, Joann => Database Systems Research Department => Avaya => Lafayette College
  • Ossanna, Joe => deceased
  • Oswald, Peter => International University Bremen
  • Paone, Judy => BOC => retired
  • Parseghian, Pat => Transmeta => Sun => Google => retired
  • Peled, Doron => Univ. Texas ece => Univ. Warwick => Bar-Ilan Univ. Israel
  • Pavlidis, Theo => SUNY Stony Brook => retired
  • Pike, Rob => Google (in Australia) => retired
  • Presotto, David => Google => retired?
  • Puchol, Carlos => Transmeta => Nvidia => Amahi
  • Pucella, Riccardo => Cornell
  • Puri, Anuj => Berkeley
  • Quinlan, Sean => Google
  • Reppy, John => Univ Chicago
  • Riecke, Jon => Aleri => Google (NY)
  • Ritchie, Dennis => deceased (9 Oct. 2011)
  • Rose, Don => Duke => deceased 6/12/2015
  • Ryder, Barbara => Rutgers => Va Tech => retired
  • Salamon, Todd => post-1127 survivor
  • Savari, Serap => Univ Michigan => Texas AM Univ.
  • Sethi, Ravi => President Research, Avaya => retired => U of Arizona
  • Sitar, Ed => retired
  • Smith, Margaret => NASA/JPL, Pasadena, CA => retired (1/1/2017)
  • Szymanski, Tom => Avaya => Google => retired
  • Shoji, Masakazu => retired
  • Sleator, Danny => CMU
  • Thompson, Ken => Entrisphere.com => Google => retired
  • Traub, Joe => Columbia => deceased 8/24/15
  • Trickey, Howard => Google
  • Tulone, Daniela => CNR Italy
  • Ullman, Jeff => Stanford => retired
  • Van Wyk, Chris => Drew => Peddie School => Drew University
  • Vardapetyan, Leon => Ansoft => ANSYS => Quantlab Financial
  • Venutolo, John => Hannah Real Estate / retired
  • Vyssotsky, Vic => DEC CRL => retired => deceased (12/24/2012)
  • Wadler, Phil => Avaya => Univ. Edinburgh
  • Warner, Dan => Clemson => retired
  • Walters, Ed => Agere
  • Weinberger, Peter => AT&T Labs => Renaissance Technologies => Google
  • White, Chris => NEC Labs
  • Wilson, Norman => University of Toronto => York University => University of Toronto
  • Winterbottom, Phil => Bell Labs Research Silicon Valley => Entrisphere.com => Ericsson => Gainspeed => Nokia => Fathom Computing => Celestial AI => Marvell
  • Wright, Margaret => NYU => retired 6/2022
  • Yagati, Lakshman => Google => Facebook => Google
  • Yannakakis, Mihalis => Avaya => Stanford => Columbia Univ.
  • Young, Cliff => D.E.Shaw => Google
  • Zhang, Lisa => post-1127 survivor
Number of people on this list who are at, or retired from, Google: 26 (~17%).
Number of people who appear on the 1127 org-charts I have (Sep. 1980 to Feb. 2003),
and who remain after the disappearance of 1127: 5 (~4%).

Others helped to found AT&T Labs in 1996:

  • Cherry, Lorinda => retired => deceased 2/2022
  • Colbry, Brian => left AT&T
  • Condon, Joe, => retired => deceased (jan. 2011)
  • Feigenbaum, Joan => Yale
  • Feldmann, Anja => Technical University Munich
  • Fraser, Sandy => Fraser Research => retired => deceased 6/13/2022
  • Gray, Sharon => retired
  • Hume, Andrew, AT&T => Ericsson
  • Kalmanek, Chuck => MongoDB
  • Kaplan, Alan => Unique Technical Solutions => retired (3/26)
  • Killian, Tom
  • Koenig, Andy => retired/consultant
  • Lund, Carsten
  • Marotta, Dom => retired
  • Marshall, Bill
  • Pinson, Elliot => retired
  • Phillips, Steven => left at&t
  • Ramakrishnan, K.K. => Teraoptic Networks => AT&T => Rutgers => UC Riverside
  • Reingold, Nick => deceased
  • Restrick, Bob => Teraoptic Networks => AT&T => retired (now in SC)
  • Schryer, Norm => retired => deceased (12/30/2016)
  • Stroustrup, Bjarne => Texas A&M / Columbia Univ. / Morgan Stanley => Columbia Univ.

last update May 18, 2026

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