is located 26 miles (42 km) away from Harvey Mudd College. Mudders occasionally amuse themselves by pranking Caltech. For example, in 1986, students from Mudd stole a memorial cannon from Fleming House at Caltech (originally from the National Guard) by dressing as maintenance people and carting it off on a flatbed truck for "cleaning". The students eventually returned the cannon after Caltech threatened to take legal action. In 2006, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) replicated the prank and moved the same cannon to their campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
== Notable alumni ==
Notable Harvey Mudd College alumni include:
Donald D. Chamberlin, co-inventor of SQL
Jonathan Gay (1989), creator of Adobe Flash software
Jennifer Holmgren, CEO of LanzaTech
Richard H. Jones, diplomat, U.S. ambassador to Israel
Stan Love, astronaut
George "Pinky" Nelson, astronaut
Sean "Day9" Plott, esports commentator and game designer
Tom Preston-Werner (dropped out), co-founder of GitHub, creator of Gravatar
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