Charles Stark Draper Laboratory
Organization
Dates
- Existence: 1966 - 2018
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Albert Gordon Hill papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MC-0365
Abstract
The collection documents the career of Albert Gordon Hill, who was professor of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from 1947 to 1955. Hill also held administrative positions as the director of several research laboratories at MIT. The collection contains records of his tenure as vice president for research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1970-1975, and includes material documenting the divestment of the Instrumentation Laboratory at MIT, which became the...
Dates:
1943 - 1981
Gordon Stanley Brown papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MC-0024
Scope and Contents of the Collection
The Gordon Stanley Brown collection documents Brown's career as teacher, research engineer, and administrator at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Lecture notes, problem sets, and other teaching materials describe his course Theory and Applications of Servomechanisms, first taught in 1940. A summary of wartime activity, as well as correspondence, describes Brown's role as founder and director of the Servomechanisms Laboratory. Correspondence and reports document his relationship...
Dates:
1920 - 1984
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: AC-0043
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Oral History Program, oral history interviews on computers at MIT
Collection
Identifier: MC-0131
Scope and Contents of the Collection
The collection consists of supporting documents for and tapes of interviews which discuss Project Whirlwind, Project MAC, and the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, all at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). There are transcripts only for the interviews with Hazen, Forrester, Perlis, and Carr (draft). Also includes transcripts and notes of a seminar, "Attitudes Towards Artificial Intelligence," with Philip Morrison, Jerome Lettvin, and Joseph Weisenbaum, and a...
Dates:
1976 - 1977