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	Deborah G. Ancona 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	Sangeeta N. Bhatia SM ’93, PhD ’97 Professor	Donald L.M. Blackmer Professor	Gene M. Brown Professor; Dean, School of Science 1985-1991	Vladimir Bulović Professor
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 2001–2011
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	John DiFava Director, Facilities Operations and Security
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	Paula T. Hammond ’84, PhD ’93 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 2004–2012	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	John G. King ’50, PhD ’53 Professor Emeritus
Daniel Kleppner Professor Emeritus	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	Walter H.G. Lewin Professor Emeritus	Barbara Liskov Institute Professor; Associate Provost 2007–present	Andrew W. Lo Professor	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 MIT President 2012–present	Edward B. Roberts ’58, SM ’58, SM ’60, PhD ’62 Professor
Daniel Roos ’60, SM ’63, PhD ’66 Professor	Candace Royer Associate Professor	Donald R. Sadoway Professor	Paul A. Samuelson Institute Professor	Bishwapriya Sanyal Professor
Lawrence Sass SM ’94 PhD ’00 Professor	Stuart Schmill ’86 Dean of Admissions	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
J. Meejin Yoon Professor	Barrie R. Zesiger MIT Corporation	Maria T. Zuber Professor

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