Infinite History

Over the past few years, the MIT150 Infinite History project team has captured the first-person recollections of more than one hundred people who have shaped — or been shaped by — MIT. These individuals have made extraordinary contributions to their fields and to MIT and they include Institute leadership, faculty, alumni, staff, and friends.

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Harold (Hal) Abelson PhD ’73 Professor	Karen W. Arenson ’70 MIT Corporation; Alumni Association President 1995–1996	Lawrence S. Bacow ’72 Chancellor 1998–2001	Lotte Bailyn Professor	David L. Baltimore Institute Professor 1994–1997
Cynthia Barnhart SM ’86, PhD ’88 Professor; Associate Dean of Engineering for Academic Affairs 2007–present	Angela M. Belcher Professor; MacArthur Fellow	Leo L. Beranek Founder, BBN	Suzanne Berger Professor	Timothy J. Berners-Lee Professor; MacArthur Fellow
Donald L.M. Blackmer Professor	Gene M. Brown Professor; Dean, School of Science 1985-1991	Claude R. Canizares Professor; VP for Research & Associate Provost 2006–present	James A. Champy ’63, SM ’65 MIT Corporation	Yung Ho Chang Professor
Noam Chomsky Institute Professor	Phillip L. Clay PhD ’75 Professor; Chancellor 2001–present	Isaac Colbert Dean for Graduate Students 1999-2007	Brit J. d’Arbeloff SM ’61 MIT Corporation	John M. Deutch ’61, PhD ’66 Institute Professor; Provost 1985–1990
Peter A. Diamond PhD ’63 Institute Professor	Mildred Dresselhaus Institute Professor	John Essigmann SM ’72, PhD ’76 Professor	Robert R. Everett SM ’43 Lincoln Laboratory; Project Whirlwind	Robert M. Fano ’41, ScD ’47 Professor
Woodie C. Flowers SM ’68, ME ’71, PhD ’73 Professor	Jay Forrester SM ’45 (Part 1) Professor; Project Whirlwind 1944–1956	Jay Forrester SM ’45 (Part 2) Professor; Project Whirlwind 1944–1956	Jerome I. Friedman Institute Professor	Joseph G. Gavin, Jr. ’41, SM ’42 MIT Corporation; Alumni Association President 1986–1987
Martha L. Gray SM ’81, PhD ’86 Professor	Paul E. Gray ’54, SM ’55, ScD ’60 (Part 1) MIT President 1980–1990	Paul E. Gray ’54, SM ’55, ScD ’60 (Part 2) MIT President 1980–1990	Priscilla K. Gray MIT First Lady 1980–1990	Ann M. Graybiel PhD ’71 Institute Professor
Ellen T. Harris Professor; Associate Provost 1989–1996	Wesley L. Harris Professor; Associate Provost 2008–present	Daniel E. Hastings SM ’78, PhD ’80 Professor; Dean for Undergraduate Education 2006–present	George N. Hatsopoulos ’49, SM ’50, ScD ’56 MIT Corporation	William J. Hecht ’61, SM ’76 Alumni Association
Susan Hockfield MIT President 2004–present	Nancy H. Hopkins Professor	H. Robert Horvitz ’68 Professor	Tyler Jacks Professor	Shirley A. Jackson ’68, PhD ’73 MIT Corporation
Howard Johnson (Part 1) MIT President 1966–1971	Howard Johnson (Part 2) MIT President 1966–1971	Wolfgang Ketterle Professor	Philip S. Khoury Professor; Associate Provost 2006–present; Dean, SHASS 1991–2006	Robert S. Langer, Jr. ScD ’74 Institute Professor
Richard Larson ’65, SM ’67, PhD ’69 Professor	Tom Leighton PhD ’81 Professor	Steven R. Lerman ’72, SM ’73, PhD ’75 Vice Chancellor & Dean for Graduate Education 2008–2010	Richard K. Lester PhD ’80 Professor	Barbara Liskov Institute Professor; Associate Provost 2007–present
Andrew Lo Charles E. & Susan T. Harris Professor Director, Laboratory for Financial Engineering	Thomas L. Magnanti Institute Professor; Dean, School of Engineering 1999-2006	Patrick J. McGovern ’59 MIT Corporation	James D. McLurkin ’95, SM ’04, PhD ’08 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize 2003	Dana G. Mead PhD ’67 Chairman of the MIT Corporation 2003–2010
Robert C. Merton PhD ’70 Professor	David A. Mindell PhD ’96 Professor; Chair, MIT150 Steering Committee	Marvin Minsky Professor	William J. Mitchell Professor; Dean, School of Architecture and Planning 1992–2003	Shigeru Miyagawa Professor
Fred Moavenzadeh Professor	Ernest J. Moniz Professor	Walter E. Morrow, Jr. ’49, SM ’51 Director, Lincoln Laboratory 1977–1998	Joel Moses PhD ’67 Institute Professor; Provost 1995–1998; Dean, School of engineering 1991–1995	Carl M. Mueller ’41 MIT Corporation
Nicholas Negroponte ’66, MAR ’66 Professor	Dava J. Newman SM ’89, PhD ’92 Professor	John A. Ochsendorf Associate Professor; MacArthur Fellow	A. Neil Pappalardo ’64 MIT Corporation	Paul L. Penfield, Jr. ScD ’60 Professor
James M. Poterba Professor	William F. Pounds Professor; Dean, Sloan School of Management 1966–1980	Robert M. Randolph Chaplain to the Institute 2007–present	Robert Redwine Professor; Dean for Undergraduate Education 2000–2005	John S. Reed ’61, SM ’65 Chairman of the MIT Corporation 2010–present
L. Rafael Reif Professor; Provost 2005–present	Ed Roberts Professor, MIT Sloan School of Management	Daniel Roos ’60, SM ’63, PhD ’66 Professor	Candace Royer Associate Professor	Donald R. Sadoway Professor
Paul A. Samuelson Institute Professor	Richard R. Schrock Professor	Jeffrey H. Shapiro ’67, SM ’68, EE ’69, PhD ’70 Professor	Phillip A. Sharp Institute Professor	Robert J. Silbey Professor; Dean, School of Science 2000–2006
Isadore Singer Institute Professor	Eugene B. Skolnikoff ’50, SM ’50, PhD ’65 Professor	Kenneth A. Smith ’58, SM ’59, ScD ’62 Professor; Associate Provost & VP for Research 1980-1991	Merritt Roe Smith Professor	Robert M. Solow Institute Professor
Raymond S. Stata ’57, SM ’58 MIT Corporation; Alumni Association President 1987–1988	Charles Stewart III Professor	Catherine N. Stratton MIT First Lady 1959–1966	Glenn P. Strehle ’58 SM ’60 Treasurer 1975-1986;  Treasurer and Vice President 1986-1994; Treasurer and Vice President for Finance 1994-1998	Subra Suresh ScD ’81 Professor; Dean, School of Engineering 2007–2010
Lester C. Thurow Professor; Dean, Sloan School of Management 1987–1993	Samuel C.C. Ting Professor	Glen L. Urban Professor; Dean, Sloan School of Management 1993–1998	J. Kim Vandiver Professor; Dean for Undergraduate Research 2000–present	Charles M. Vest MIT President 1990–2004
Rebecca M. Vest MIT First Lady 1990–2004	Emily V. Wade ’45 MIT Corporation; Alumni Association President 1988–1989	Mary Frances Wagley ’47 MIT Corporation; Alumni Association President 1984–1985	D. Reid Weedon, Jr. ’41 MIT Corporation; Alumni Association	Sheila E. Widnall ’60, SM ’61, ScD ’64 Institute Professor
Frank Wilczek Professor; MacArthur Fellow	Rosalind H. Williams Professor; Dean for Undergraduate Education & Student Affairs 1995–2000	Kathryn Willmore VP & Secretary of the MIT Corporation 1998–2006	Gerald L. Wilson ’61, SM ’63, ScD ’65 Professor Emeritus; Dean, School of Engineering 1982-1992	Barrie R. Zesiger MIT Corporation
Maria T. Zuber Professor

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