Martin, William Ted, 1911-2004

Abstract Harold Locke Hazen, a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was a member of the MIT faculty from 1931 to 1972, serving as head of the Department of Electrical Engineering, 1938-1951, and Dean of the Graduate School, 1952-1967. His work was in the field of machine computation, automatic control, and servomechanisms. During World War II he was head of Division 7, Fire Control, of the National Defense Research Committee (NDRC). The collection contains research notes and...

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This collection documents the career of Norbert Wiener. Wiener was a member of the faculty at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1919 to1960 in the Department of Mathematics, and was a leader in the field of cybernetics. The material in this collection includes biographical information, correspondence, course material, manuscripts, and reprints.

Scope and Contents Martin's activities as a professor at MIT are documented in correspondence and reports on the reform of MIT education and student unrest in the late 1960s and 1970s; correspondence with Robert Horton Cameron, a colleague in the Department of Mathematics; tapes, transcripts, and correspondence concerning the 1961 testimonial for Norbert Wiener; and correspondence about 1980 celebrations for the outgoing MIT president, Jerome Wiesner. Correspondence, working notes, minutes, speeches, and other...