History of MIT

Charles M. Vest

President, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Biography

December 5, 2003

Deborah Douglas, science and technology curator at the MIT Museum, examines one of the thermometers (held by Professor of Mechanical Engineering John H. Lienhard) stored for more than a century in the chest behind them.

Old thermometers make temp job for MIT Museum

September 24, 2003

One of the 22 bounty warrants returned from the MIT Museum to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. This one is dated 1791 and is a receipt for sail cloth.

MIT returns John Hancocks to state

June 26, 2003

Maynard Tishman (left) and Marvin Fox point to their fathers in a photo of the F&T Restaurant in Kendall Square, which was demolished in the 1980s. The fathers, Isaac Fox and Robert Tishman, opened their doors in 1924 and passed the business on to the next generation.

F&T fans recall good talk and good food

June 12, 2003

Hacks make MIT history

June 4, 2003

Wilber B. Huston (right) and Arthur O. Williams Jr. (S.B 1934) flank their benefactor, inventor Thomas A. Edison, at the announcement that Williams won the second Edison contest scholarship in 1930. Below: a recent snapshot of Huston.

70th reunion for Edison discovery

June 4, 2003

Big achievements included room-size computers

May 21, 2003

The Whirlwind I operational control center, replacing its analog system predecessors, was used in the early 1950s for mathematical research and studying engineering problems.

EECS celebrates 100 years of glory

May 21, 2003

The MIT-EPSEL model power system, also known as the Transmission System Simulator, was used to study power-system dynamics and control. Left to right: professors Gerald Wilson, John Kassakian and James Kirtley, circa 1968.

Gray lists EECS 'cardinal principles'

May 21, 2003

EECS celebrates 100 years at MIT

May 14, 2003

Pomeroy returns for 40th anniversary of jazz ensemble at MIT

April 30, 2003

Professors Pauline Maier and Merritt Roe Smith with "Inventing America."

Profs write the book on technology's past

April 30, 2003

Williams weaves together personal, Institute history

March 5, 2003

MIT student Hannah Sullivan takes a water sample from a well in the village of Mahilwari, Nepal, assisted by a villager. Sullivan and seven colleagues visited villages in Nepal to test inexpensive ways to make drinking water safe.

Making a splash in 2002:

Landmarks in MIT science in the year gone by

January 8, 2003

Sylvia Nasar, author of "A Beautiful Mind," said her book is "a drama about the mysteries of the human mind, but also very much a love story."

'Beautiful Mind' like a Greek myth

October 30, 2002

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70th reunion for Edison discovery

Big achievements included room-size computers

EECS celebrates 100 years of glory

Gray lists EECS 'cardinal principles'

EECS celebrates 100 years at MIT

Pomeroy returns for 40th anniversary of jazz ensemble at MIT

Profs write the book on technology's past

Williams weaves together personal, Institute history

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