Tag Archives: John Swartzentruber

In defense of learning weird stuff in college

January 13, 2015 – 12:36 pm

Running a power plant effectively requires keeping tabs on an awful lot of data relating to fuel consumption, power output, weather conditions, grid demand, etc. & etc. And in turn, keeping tabs on all this data effectively requires clever software that allows users to visualize and understand what might otherwise be a confounding torrent of ...More

Swartzendruber pioneered early global intranet for Lilly

January 12, 2015 – 12:34 pm

  Soon after graduating with a degree in chemistry, John Swartzendruber ’79 landed a job in the scientific research group of Eli Lilly and Company, one of the top pharmaceutical companies in the world. That’s where Swartzendruber says he got interested in computing, writing software for the Lilly X-Ray crystallography group. He also began working ...More