Two Engineering Alums among Wired's "25 Geniuses..."

5/1/2016

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Wired (May 2016) -- Two Engineering at Illinois alumni are among Wired's "25 Geniuses Who Are Creating the Future of Business." Inside Apple, CS alumnus Chris Lattner leads the team that built Swift, one of a new breed of programming languages that give coders real power. ECE alumnus Arvind Krishna wants to overhaul Wall Street. And Wall Street is OK with that. Krishna is the head of research at IBM and the driving force behind the Hyperledger, a new twist on the enormously powerful idea that underpins bitcoin.


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This story was published May 1, 2016.