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“The amazing level of support from alumni since the onset of the national economic crisis has been both heartening and inspiring. For this we are extremely grateful.”— Eric Grimson, fall 2009We at EECS extend out thanks to the generous donors listed below who made gifts to the Department this year.

We have attempted to list all donors of $100 or more to EECS for Fiscal year 2009 (July 1, 2008-June 30, 2009), unless anonymity was requested. Although care has been taken in the preparation of this list, some errors or omissions may have occurred; for these we extend our sincere apologies. If you designated your gift to the EECS Department and your name does not appear here or is incorrectly listed, please bring the error to our attention.

(.deceased).All donor recognition categories are exclusive of corporate matching gifts. BENEFACTORS$100,000-999,999Alan L. McWhorter ScD’55 PATRONS$50,000-99,999Amar G. Bose ’51, SM’52, ScD’56 SPONSORS$10,000-49,999James D.

Ahlgren ’55Michael AthansSunlin Chou ’66, SM’67, EE’68Paul A. Green II ’73Daniel B. Grunberg ’82, SM’83, PhD’86Michael G. Hluchyj EE’79, SM’79, PhD’82Carl W Hoffman ’80Charlene C. Kabcenell ’79Dirk A. Kabcenell ’75Friends of Jin Au KongRonald B. Koo ’89, SM’90John C.

Pinson SM’54, ScD’57James K. Roberge ’60, SM’62, ScD’66Nils R.

Sandell SM’71, EE’73, PhD’74David S. SoaneZoya SoaneAndrew F.

Stark ’97, MEng’98Henry M. Wu ’86, SM’87Kenneth M. Yip ’79, SM’81, PhD’89 SUPPORTING MEMBERS$5,000-9,999Abraham I.

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Dranetz SM’48Arthur A. Gleckler ’88, SM’92James A. Goldstein ’89John C. Hardwick ’86, SM’88, PhD’92Carol C.

HerderCharles H. HerderDavid Lee ’46Anthony J. Ley SM’63Ervin F. Lyon SM’59, PhD’66Kenneth W.

Nill ’61, SM’63, PhD’66William L. Sammons ’43, SM’44Joel E. Schindall ’63, SM’64, PhD’67Gunter SteinJohn D. Summers SM’84Michael W. Szeto ’72, SM’72Valerie C. SzetoEdward G. Tiedemann Jr.

PhD’87Alan S. Willsky ’69, PhD’73Ronald E. Zelazo ’66, SM’67, EE’69, PhD’71Francis H.

Zenie ‘56 SUSTAINING MEMBERS$1,000-4,999Jose M. Brito Infante SM’62, EE’63Charles G. Bures ’69Michele W.

Chan ’84Chung-Kwang ChouGrace W. ChouAdrian B. Danieli ’97, MEng’98Donald A. Dobson SM’51Norman Doelling ’53, SM’55David H. Doo ’77Paul R. Drouilhet Jr.

’54, SM’55, EE’57Paul D. Edelman PhD’78Robert M. Fano ’41, ScD’47G. Forney SM’63, ScD’65Edward C. Giaimo III ’74, SM’75Yehuda Golahny SM’54Donald J. Gray ’50, SM’52Sol W. GuttagOlga P.

GuttagDonald H. & Ruth A. Hageman TrustGordon K.

SM’66Joshua Y. Hayase ’52, EE’57, SM’57Jerrold A. Heller SM’64, PhD’67Steven J. Henry ’72, SM’73Donald A. Hess ’66.Charles Hieken ’51, SM’52Karen W. Ho 1994Sou K. Hom ’71, SM’72, EE’73, SM’73Tareq I.

Hoque ’88, SM’88, SM’92William W. ’87, SM’91,EE ’92, MEng ’92Carl J. Johnson SM ’65Anita K. JonesTina Kapur SM ’95, PhD’99William F.

Kelly SM’61, EE’63Wen Y. KongErnest R.

Kretzmer SM’46, ScD’49James W. Lambert ’76Kristina S. Lambert ’76Yang-Pal Lee ’72Frederick J.

Leonberger SM’71, EE’72, PhD’75David H. Liang ’81Frank J.

Liu EE’66Henrique S. Malvar PhD’86Hardy C. Martel SM’50Kenneth E. McVicar SM’50Paola Fano Nisonger SM’79Robert L. Nisonger SM’78Paul L. ScD’60Sharon E.

Perl SM’88, PhD’92Alma B. Pomponi PhD’61Silvester J.

Pomponi ’57Senad Prusac ’90, ’91Alexander L. Pugh III SM’53, EE’59Ellen E. Reintjes ’73John F. ’66William ReintjesJames R. Relyea SM’58Roger A. Roach ’67Joseph J. ’57, SM’58John E.

Savage ’61, SM’62, PhD’65Malcolm L. Schoenberg ’45Richard J. Schwartz SM’59, ScD’62Charles L. Seitz ’65, SM’67, PhD’71Burton J. Smith SM’68, EE’69, ScD’72William M.

SM’39Donald H. Steinbrecher SM’63, PhD’66David L.

Sulman SM’69Daniel M. Teal ’89Aurelie Thiele SM’00, PhD’04Richard D. Thornton SM’54, ScD’57Richard L. Townsend SM’59, EE’60John A. Tucker EstateJoseph E. Wall EE’76, SM’76, PhD’78Kang-Lung Wang SM’66, PhD’70Shen-Wei Wang PhD’68John W.

Wissinger PhD’94Joseph F. Wrinn ’75Katsumi Yamane SM’71Anthony Yen SM’87, EE’88, PhD’92Dale A. Zeskind EE’76, SM’76Bazil R. Zingali ’58Posted in. Ron Dror, MIT EECS PhD '02 Ron Dror“I’ve been interested in applying computation and engineering to biomedical problems since college, when I worked on computational modeling of neuronal motor control circuits at Rice University.” After working in an experimental neuroscience lab and earning his masters degree at Cambridge University on a Churchill Scholarship, Ron Dror headed to MIT, where he worked with Professors Alan Willsky and Edward Adelson.Dror’s thesis research focused on estimation problems in computer vision. But he also got involved with human vision experiments and computational analysis of gene expression data.

Upon completing his PhD in 2002, Dror nearly accepted a faculty position, but decided instead to join David E. Shaw (a former computer science professor who founded a number of technology-based companies, including a quantitative hedge fund) to join in the effort to start up an independent research lab focusing on biomolecular simulations. He became the first hire in that group, which is now known as D. Shaw Research.At D.E. Shaw Research, Dror’s work has focused on molecular dynamics simulations, which can serve as a computational “microscope” onto atomic-level phenomena that are difficult to observe experimentally—including protein folding and the structural changes that underlie protein function.

Through a combination of novel algorithms and custom-designed computer chips, Dror and and his colleagues have accelerated these simulations by approximately three orders of magnitude beyond what was previously possible on the most powerful supercomputers, allowing the simulations to reach timescales on which biochemical events of interest frequently take place. He explains, “these tools can be used to understand the mechanisms of scientifically and pharmaceutically important proteins, such as kinases and G-protein–coupled receptors.”“As the lab has grown to over 100 employees,” Dror notes, “I’ve maintained responsibility for much of its operation, including coordination of research that spans structural biology, algorithms, and high-performance computer architecture. The two most salient aspects of my job are interdisciplinary research and management. MIT prepared me well for both. The MIT faculty encouraged me to follow my interests regardless of departmental and disciplinary boundaries. Working with people in a variety of departments (including Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Biology, and even Civil Engineering, as well as both the “EE” and “CS” sides of EECS) also taught me—frequently forced me—to coordinate the efforts of people with very different backgrounds, which is what I now do every day.”Posted in. Cynthia Skier, WTP directorThis summer marked the eighth year of the Women’s Technology Program (WTP) in EECS.

Forty participants are selected each year from an applicant pool of the top 11th grade female students from across the U.S. WTP-EECS students live on campus for four weeks and take rigorous hands-on lab based college level classes in electrical engineering, computer science, and discrete mathematics, all designed and taught by a dedicated staff of MIT graduate and undergraduate women students. WTP students engaged in a project in the electrical engineering lab, summer 2009.We choose participants who are not yet certain about their future college majors—girls who are excelling in math and science but are not yet seriously considering engineering or computer science as a future direction. WTP gives them the opportunity to explore these fields in a collaborative atmosphere with female role models.

They work in teams to solve problems, create and build engineering projects, and learn about some of the exciting research being done at MIT.We have been tracking our alumnae over time to assess the impact of WTP on the choice of college majors. Of the 201 WTP-EECS alumnae with declared college majors, 62% are in a field of engineering or computer science!

In addition, 110 (41%) of WTP-EECS alumnae have come back to MIT.Our alumnae frequently cite WTP as the experience that sparked their interest in engineering. We recently contacted women who attended WTP in 2004 and learned what they are doing after completing their Bachelor’s degrees in June 2009. Here is a small sample:“I will be finishing up a mechanical engineering B.S. From University of California Davis in December 2009, with a minor in Global and International Studies. This summer I have an internship as a Project Engineer Intern for Chevron Energy Solution, a division of Chevron. I still have my motor I made at WTP sitting on my desk!” — Sarah Kinzli, UC Davis 2009, Mechanical Engineering“Whenever I’ve had to write code these past four years, I always thought back to my first time coding – learning Java in WTP.

I’ll be working for Merck & Co. In New Jersey in September.”— Xin He, MIT Class of 2009, Chemical Engineering“I will be working at Westinghouse in Windsor, CT doing structural analysis on nuclear power plants. I will also be entering Harvard Business School in 2011. WTP was a wonderful start to my MIT experience and I’m sure this year’s students will enjoy the program as much as I did!”— Allison Dee, MIT Class of 2009, Civil and Environmental EngineeringPlease visit the for more information, and we welcome your help encouraging high school women to apply for summer 2010. — Rachel Chaney, MIT Class of 2009, EECS“I am staying here at MIT to get my Masters of Engineering in EECS. My thesis professor is Professor Steve Leeb, who taught our WTP Motor Building Project.

My experience at WTP encouraged me to pursue an education in Electrical Engineering, and also gave me a foot in the door finding a professor to supervise my thesis project.” “I am staying here at MIT to get my Masters of Engineering in EECS. My thesis professor is Professor Steve Leeb, who taught our WTP Motor Building Project. My experience at WTP encouraged me to pursue an education in Electrical Engineering, and also gave me a foot in the door finding a professor to supervise my thesis project.” — Rachel Chaney, MIT Class of 2009, EECSPosted in. Jacobs Fellows Presidential FellowsGraduate students in the EECS Department at MIT are fortunate to be eligible, on acceptance into the program, for fellowship support through generous gifts from EECS alumni and friends. Several recipients of this fellowship support have written about the opportunities made possible for them.Fifteen inaugural Irwin Mark Jacobs (SM ’57, PhD ’59) and Joan Klein Jacobs Presidential Fellows are now launched in their second year of graduate work thanks to the support they received as they entered EECS in Fall 2008. Read more about the generous support given to EECS graduate students from Irwin and Joan Jacobs in the.The other 2008 inaugural Jacobs Presidential Fellows, not spotlighted here include: Justin Burkhart, Hossein Fariborzi, Soheil Feizi-Khankandi, Shao-L. Huang, Katrina LaCurts, Sidhant Misra, Samuel Perli, Xi Wang and Lei Zhang.

The fall term 2009 class of Jacobs Presidential Fellows include Prasant Gopal Anumanchipalli, Giancarlo Baldan, Flavio Calmon, Matthew Carey, Ramesh Chandra, Kimon Drakopoulos, Diego Feijer Rovira, Qing He, Daw-Sen Hwang, Vivi Jayanty, Rui Li, Yandong Mao, Joseph G. McMichael, Raluca Popa, Zachary Remscrim, Arman Rezaee, Kuang Xu, and Weifei Zeng. — Evelyn Kapusta, 2008 Jacobs Presidential Fellow“I came into MIT very open minded with a background in free space communication systems and device characterization. After a year at MIT, I have come to love device fabrication, specifically for integrated photonic networks. My motivation comes from my natural ability to do research. I am at MIT because I have followed what makes me happy rather than what I want to gain or bring to the world.

Eventually I would like to take what I have learned and inspire others with it, especially young girls who are continually told by the world that math and science is not the field for them.Personally, the Jacob’s Presidential Fellowship provided me with a safety net during the first year. Although I had a research project I didn’t have to focus on it, because my funding was coming from the Jacob’s Presidential Fellowship. This gave me the freedom to reshape the way I think and approach problems.

Without the support of the fellowship, I don’t know if I would have ever taken the chance. Thank you!”— Evelyn Kapusta, Jacobs Presidential Fellow 2008. — Zohaib Mahmood, Jacobs Presidential Fellow, 2008“When I came to MIT, I had an invisible fortress built around my research domain, which was pure electrical engineering.

After I started my research and got exposure by the seminars and talks given by distinguished researchers, I realized how exciting multidisciplinary research can get. Now, I feel highly intrigued by the idea of applying my skill set to solve problems from other fields in particular physics and medical sciences.I am currently working with the computational prototyping group under EECS Prof. My research focus is on the automatic extraction of nonlinear macromodels for analog circuits. Using semi-definite programming and other convex optimization techniques, we identify a compact dynamical model for the system while preserving its important physical properties.

I believe that I shall be able to take these techniques to the next level by finding novel and unexplored applications.The idea of joining MIT always made me feel at home. MIT people care very much about you even before joining them.

I did not get such a response from any other institute. This makes MIT unique.”— Zohaib Mahmood, Jacobs Presidential Fellow 2008Posted in. Li-Shiuan Peh, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciencejoins the EECS Department as Associate Professor in the fall of 2009, and is a member of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, as well as an associate member of the Microsystems Technology Laboratories.Li-Shiuan grew up in Singapore, where she received a bachelor’s degree in Computing from National University of Singapore.

In 1997, she moved to Stanford University where she completed her Ph.D. Studies in Computer Science under the supervision of Professor William J. From Stanford, she went to Princeton in 2002, where she spent seven years on the faculty at Princeton University’s Department of Electrical Engineering.Peh’s research interests lie in on-chip networks, parallel computer architectures and wireless networked systems. Through her research, Peh seeks answers to the question of how to interconnect and manage hundreds and thousands of nodes, where the nodes span from processor cores on a chip to phones across a city. Specifically, her group has been exploring a network-driven approach where an intelligent network fabric handles all required coordination in addition to communication. Her research findings to date have led to several awards, including the Computing Research Association’s Anita Borg Early Career Award in 2007, the Sloan Research Fellowship in 2006, and the National Science Foundation CAREER award in 2003.

Outside of work, she enjoys playing with her two kids, aged 2 and 5. Dana Weinstein, Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering, Principal Investigator in MTLjoined the EECS Department in August 2009 as Assistant Professor and a member of the Microsystems Technology Laboratories at MIT. Dana received her bachelor’s degree in Physics from UC Berkeley in 2004, where she worked on ultra-fast X-ray streak camera design at the Advanced Light Source (ALS) at Lawrence BerkeleyNational Laboratory. She then moved to Cornell University, where she completed her Ph.D.

In Applied Physics in 2009, working on Radio Frequency (RF) Micro Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS).Weinstein’s research focuses on hybrid MEMS-CMOS devices for low-power wireless communication, microprocessor clocking, and sensing applications. In particular, she is working to harness the benefits of acoustic vibrations to enhance the performance of next-generation electron devices. Her recent work on Resonant Body Transistors, in which a field effect transistor (FET) is embedded inside a MEMS resonator, has yielded the highest frequency resonance measured in silicon to date.Additionally, Dana is pursuing the integration of such hybrid devices into CMOSbased systems, including low-power, narrow-bandwidth low noise amplifiers for transceivers and low phase-noise oscillator arrays for clock generation and temperature sensing in microprocessors. Ron Weiss, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Biological Engineeringjoined the MIT EECS Department and the Department of Biological Engineering as an Associate Professor in July 2009.Weiss earned an undergraduate degree in Computer Science and Economics from Brandeis University in 1992 and subsequently received a PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT in 2001. He then held a faculty appointment in the Electrical Engineering and Molecular Biology Departments at Princeton University between 2001 and 2009, and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2007.Ron Weiss’s research focuses primarily on synthetic biology, where he programs cell behavior by constructing and modeling biochemical and cellular computing systems. A major thrust of his work is the synthesis of gene networks that are engineered to perform in vivo analog and digital logic computation as a means to obtain precise control over cell behavior. He is also interested in programming cell aggregates to perform coordinated tasks using cell-cell communication based on chemical diffusion mechanisms such as quorum sensing.During the last eight years, the Weiss lab has constructed and tested many novel in vivo biochemical logic circuits and intercellular communication systems.

The research projects in the Weiss lab focus both on foundational technology for synthetic biology as well as the pursuit of novel approaches to several biomedical applications enabled by synthetic biology (e.g. Tissue engineering, diabetes, and cancer therapy). Weiss is interested in both hands-on experimental work and in implementing software infrastructures for simulation and design work.Posted in.

Wilson, former EECS Department Head and Dean of the MIT School of Engineering retired, June 2009.Gerry Wilson’s connection with MIT is a long one. He earned his BS and MS in electrical engineering in the years 1961 to 1963, respectively, and his ScD in mechanical engineering in 1965, at which time he became assistant professor. As the Philip Sporn associate, and later, professor, of energy processing (1973-82), Wilson created the Electric Power Systems Engineering Laboratory (EPSEL) in 1974.

Eventually this lab, which he directed from 1975-80, became the Laboratory for Electromagnetic and Electronic Systems (LEES). Wilson was the Vannevar Bush Professor of Electrical Engineering from 1982 to 2009, a position he held jointly with the Department of Mechanical Engineering from 1993.Early in his career, Gerry Wilson decided to follow his instinct for enabling his — and others’ at MIT — to apply their research efforts in a way that would have more immediate impact toward the betterment of society.

His area of interest at that time was electric power systems engineering and energy conversionsystems though he recognized the need for applying this approach to other areas. In his words, “If it is to continue to serve as a useful contributor to the needs of mankind, MIT must share an interest in the needs of society today. It must continue to develop people who can combine the tools of science with an accurate understanding of the needs of society in order to create components, systems and ideas which improve life for all.”With that conviction, Gerry Wilson and Sloan School of Management Director Lester Thurow created the ‘Leaders for Manufacturing (LFM) Program’ in 1987. The LFM was the first all-out genuine collaboration between Sloan and Engineering, and has been spectacularly effective and much copied. It was also the first time industry was brought into educational program development and operation as an equal partner. Today the LFM has grown and evolved, since June 2009, as the Leaders for Global Operations (LGO).Gerry Wilson was the father of Project Athena, which was launched in 1983.

As noted by former MIT president and EECS colleague Paul Gray: “It was not an easy task to persuade both DEC and IBM to gift computers, servers, etc. To MIT to get it started. This step changed the culture of computing for students at MIT, and has been a powerful educational tool.”On the occasion of Wilson’s retirement, Paul Gray added: “Gerry is very smart, has great energy and motivation and insists on excellence in all that he commits himself to.”Posted in.

Rines, teacher at MIT of patent law and principles of intellectual property and inventions and founder of the Academy of Applied Science (1963) and the Franklin Pierce Law Center (1973) died Nov. 1, 2009 in Boston. He was an accomplished international patent attorney, professor of law, prolific inventor, and musical composer. In the MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, he was noted for his creation and teaching of 6.901/6.931 Inventions and Patents/Development of Inventions and Creative Ideas. (Read the on his retirement in May, 2008).

Robert Rines prior to teaching the last class for 6.901 Invention and Patents and 6.931, Development of Inventions and Creative Ideas, spring 2008.Rines earned a B.S. In physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he developed his first contributions to the technology of high-resolution image-scanning radar. After serving as a Signal Corps radar officer in World War II in both the European and Pacific theaters, during the time when his microwave high-resolution radar inventions were secretly being developed, Rines went on to receive a law degree from Georgetown University while serving as a patent examiner in the United States Patent Office.Holding over 80 patents, Rines’ inventions were also basic to solid state Loran boat and air navigation and to high-definition sonar scanning used in submarine detection, and the successful location of the Titanic and the Bismarc. They are used in new medical instrumentation that allows for noninvasive ultrasound imaging of internal organs. Rines has also adapted the same technology to perform scientific sonar searches for the Loch Ness “Monster” in Scotland from which he has attained images that appear to show a large flipper and body, some of the most noteworthy photographs ever taken of the monster.

“The Beast of Loch Ness,” a documentary of his Loch Ness expeditions was produced by NOVA in 1997. His patents are credited by the U.S. Army Signal Corps as the basis for nearly all the high-definition image-scanning radar used to provide early warning, weapons fire control and some artillery and missile detection radars used during the Persian Gulf War.As a practicing attorney, Rines represented scores of inventors to secure legal protection for their innovations and he commercialized technology through business formation and licensing in the US and throughout the world. As entrepreneur and founder of several buisinesses,including several based on his own inventions, he also became a spokesman for independent inventors nationwide.Rines served on the Technical Advisory Board of the US Department of Commerce and also helped establish an invention-encouraging patent system in mainland China, and earlier in Taiwan, where he completed a Ph.D. Thesis at Chiao Tung University in 1972. Rines is founder and president of the Academy of Applied Science, a nonprofit organization that conducts the National Junior Science and Humanities Symposia Program sponsored by the US Army, Navy and Air Force to encourage and reward high school scientific research, as well as the New Hampshire Young Inventors Program for primary schools.Rines wrote music for more than 10 Broadway and off-Broadway shows, including collaborating in the Emmy-winning television and then later Broadway production Hizzoner!

He also produced a ballet, Life at MIT, which was based on a musical suite he created at the tender age of 18. A workshop performance of the ballet debuted in May 1999 at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City.In 1994 Rines was honored with induction into the US National Inventors Hall of Fame in recognition of his high-resolution image-scanning radar and sonar inventions, and later that year he was inducted into the U.S. Army Signal Corps Wall of Fame. In 1995, the Robert H. Rines Building was dedicated at the Franklin Pierce Law Center, and in 1997, MIT dedicated a distance-learning center in his name.A Memorial Service was held Saturday for Robert H.

Rines, November 7, 2009, at 4p.m. In the Palm Garden Room of the Boston Marriott Long Wharf, in Boston.Read more:by Charles Siebert in The Lives They Lived: “Robert Rines: Monster Hunter”: “Robert Rines, Inventor and Monster Hunter, Dies at 87.”Posted in. Department Head Eric Grimson shared with his colleagues the news that Michael Hammer, EECS faculty member from 1973 to 1984 passed away Sept. He was 60 years old.In Prof. Grimson’s words: “Michael Hammer, member of our faculty from 1973 to 1984, and a colleague to many of us, sadly passed away last evening.

Michael celebrated his 60th birthday earlier this year. In addition to his early work as doctoral student and faculty member, Michael was very well known as a business consultant. His book “Re-engineering the corporation: A manifesto for business revolution,” written with James Champy, was very influential, and widely used in business restructuring. His process oriented view of business management is widely known and used, and his company is still highly influential in helping business and other organizations create efficient and effective operating structures.”. Michael Hammer member of the MIT EECS faculty from 1973 to 1984, died Sept. 4, 2008Hammer earned three degrees from MIT: the SB degree in Mathematics in 1968, the SM in Computer Science in 1970 and the PhD in Computer Science in 1973. As a graduate student, Hammer was recognized for his skill as a lecturer, becoming Instructor in the Lab for Computer Science from 1970-73.On receiving his PhD, Hammer was made assistant professor in the Laboratory for Computer Science at MIT.

He was noted for his teaching in both regular subjects and in tutorial lectures for peers and business executives. His areas of interest included database management systems, office automation, management information systems, and strategic planning for technology.In his final year as a graduate student, Hammer worked at the IBM Watson Laboratory in Yorktown Heights, NY, as a principal designer of a language called the Business Definition Language, BDL, a forerunner of research in programming. Subsequently, Hammer developed new semantic models for database management while continuing involvement with major industrial database projects such as pioneering the distributed database system, SDD-1, at the Computer Corporation of America.During his tenure at MIT, Michael Hammer was promoted to Associate Professor in 1977, and was appointed Associate Director of the Laboratory for Computer Science in 1979. Eventually taking leave from MIT in 1982, Hammer applied his expertise to found and lead Hammer and Company, Inc. Despite his involvement in this company, Hammer took on an adjunct professorship in the EECS Department at MIT in 1984, offering a practical undergraduate course on applications of computers to business.Read a from MIT class of 1968 classmate, Randall Warniers.Posted in. Schreiber, Professor Emeritus in the EECS Department at MIT, died suddenly at his home in Cambridge, MA.

On Monday September 21, 2009, at the age of 84.Dr. Schreiber attended Columbia University, where he received the B.S. In electrical engineering and in 1953, received the PhD in applied physics at Harvard University. Schreiber worked at Sylvania from 1947 to 1949 and at Technicolor Corporation in Hollywood, CA from 1953 to 1959. In 1969 with Melvin J. Fennell from The Associated Press and fellow MIT professors Samuel J. Mason, and Donald E.

Schreiber developed one of the first commercially successful optical character recognition (OCR) machines, which served as the basis for starting, in the same year, the company Electronic Character Recognition Machinery (ECRM). Schreiber, 1925-2009, former EECS faculty member and director of the Advanced Television Research program.From l959 until his retirement in l990, he was a faculty member at MIT as Professor of Electrical Engineering and served as director of the Advanced Television Research program from 1983 until his retirement. He was visiting professor of electrical engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India, in 1964-66, at INRS-Telecommunications, Montreal, Quebec, in 1981-82 and 1991-93, and at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, in 1990.Dr.

Schreiber’s major professional interest was image processing systems, including printing, facsimile, and television. This work encompassed theory and extensive practical applications, including the development of a number of successful commercial products that incorporated innovative image-processing technology developed under his direction. He worked in graphic arts, including color correction, color printing, and laser scanner and recorder design, in facsimile, and in television. The TV work included digital television and high-definition television.For his contributions, Schreiber was awarded the Honors Award of the Technical Association for the Graphic Arts, the David Sarnoff Gold Medal from the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, SMPTE, the Gold Medal of the International Society for Optical Engineering, and was a four-times recipient of the Journal Award of SMPTE. He was a member of the National Academy of Engineering.Throughout the period when he was an active member of the MIT faculty, Dr. Schreiber maintained a consulting practice in his fields of expertise, and served as an expert witness in patent legislation.

His numerous students at MIT, many now holding significant positions in engineering, revered him for his technical originality and especially for his patient helpfulness as a teacher.Former EECS student, Dr. Susie Wee of Hewlett-Packard said, “I proudly carry the honor of being Professor Schreiber’s last Ph.D. He was as modern at the end of his career as he was at the beginning; even in retirement he still worked harder than any graduate student or professor I knew. He was an inventive, energetic, generous teacher with a twinkle in his eye, fighting for causes that make the world around him a better place.”A commemorative service about Dr. Schreiber’s life was held Saturday, November 21 at 5pm at the MIT Faculty Club.Read more in the Oct. 1, 2009 article: “ECRM founder Dr.

Schreiber passes away at 84.”Posted in.

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