Dammit, I messed it all up. I meant Harry Mudd from Star Trek, as most correctly guessed.
Harcourt!!!
Haha, fine! I messed it up 2x.
Excited at first ... until he sold you the hMMM machine, took your credits and flew away, only for you to discover that this machine only programs in little endian brainf*ck!
Harvey Mudd is a college in California, mostly specializing in STEM majors.
How does it compare to Stony Brook?
Very different. HMC has fewer than 1000 students, all undergraduates, and is a private college, whereas Stony Brook is a public school with ~25k students including ~8k postgrads.
Mudd is to MIT what Swarthmore is to Chicago.
I feel like I'm missing something, Henry Mudd Harvey Mudd's son?
I'm guessing he was probably trying to refer to Harry Mudd, the Star Trek character?