Research Corporation
Organization
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Jay Wright Forrester papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MC-0439
Scope and Contents
This collection documents the professional activities of Jay Wright Forrester, director of the Digital Computer Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Materials in this collection span from approximately 1940 to 2000, and include Forresters research, writings, speeches, correspondence, corporate consulting materials, and course notes for classes he taught at MIT. Forrester's research is documented in records about his patents and computation notebooks. These materials...
Dates:
1940-circa 2000
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Magnetic Core Memory records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: AC-0337
Scope and Contents of the Collection
The Forrester patent litigation extended over many years and resulted in a voluminous set of records. The records represent the documentation assembled and produced by MIT and the law firm of Kenway & Jenney in the course of the suits.The collection fully documents the development of magnetic core memory and MIT's involvement in the patent litigation cases. It also provides information concerning the administrative handling of a major university patent and the relationship...
Dates:
1932 - 1975
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Office of the President, records of Karl Taylor Compton and James Rhyne Killian
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: AC-0004
Abstract
The collection consists of records created while Karl Taylor Compton (president 1930-1948) and James Rhyne Killian (president 1948-1959) served in the position of president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). It contains correspondence, reports, memoranda, and committee materials about the activities of the presidents and their staff, the definition and evolution of policies, and the administration of the Institute. Records document Compton's early efforts to strengthen the...
Dates:
1930 - 1959
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- Magnetic cores -- Patents. 2
- Computer storage devices -- Patents. 1
- Computers -- History 1
- Disarmament -- History 1
- Education -- United States 1
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology -- Faculty 1
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology -- History 1
- Patent suits. 1
- Science -- Technological innovations -- Research. 1
- Whirlwind computer. 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Science -- United States. 1
- academic affairs 1
- fund raising 1
- governance 1
- institutional relationships 1
- presidents 1
- speeches (compositions) 1
- trustees 1 ∧ less
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