Abstract The collection documents the career of Alvin W. Drake, who taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1960 to 1996. He served as associate director of the Operations Research Center from 1966 to 1977. Drake’s work in operations research focused on decision analysis, applied probability, applications of operations research to public systems and blood and organ banking. Course materials, including exams, syllabi, problem sets, and lecture notes, document his teaching and...

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This collection is an audio recording of a lecture by Amar Bose on the development of high fidelity stereo systems for automobiles. The lecture was delivered to the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusets Institute of Technology on March 19, 1984.

Scope and Contents of the Collection The American Institute of Mining Engineers, Boston Section collection consists of minutes from the first meeting of the American Institute of Mining Engineers (A.I.M.E.), Boston Section, on 12 Feb. 1912 through the 182nd meeting on 6 Jan. 1936. Also included are summaries of talks given at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; speakers include: Waldemar Lindgren, Kirtley F. Mather, Warren Judson Mead, Samuel C. Prescott, Robert H. Richards, George F. Swain and Robert J. Van de...

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The collection comprises records of the American Research and Development Corporation spanning the years of 1946 to 1958.

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The Margaret MacVicar Memorial AMITA (Association of MIT Alumnae) Oral History Project began in 1990 with the purpose of documenting life histories of women who graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The collection comprises interviews of women who graduated in 1922 and later. Interviews have been conducted by students working in MIT’s Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP).

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This collection documents the activities of Annamaria Torriani-Gorini, who was a professor in the Department of Biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Materials in the collection span the 1960s-1970s. Among the materials are correspondence, research materials, writings, lecture notes and more. Of interest are materials on women in science and women faculty groups at MIT.

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The collection documents the professional activities of Anthony P. French from approximately 1950 to 2011. The collection consists of course notes and preparatory materials, correspondence, publications, talks, and background materials.

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The collection documents the professional activities of Antoine Marc Gaudin from approximately 1923 to 1964.

Included in the materials are a 1939 signed letter from Herbert Hoover and a 1949 letter from Dwight D. Eisenhower. The collection also comprises consulting reports, working papers and manuscripts of the second edition of "Flotation," correspondence, notes, photographs, copies of illustrations, and a report by Gaudin on Memory and Arts completed for Hochschild.

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The collection consists of Arthur Kramer's notes to problem sets (“class bibles”) from 1948 to 1952.

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The Art, Culture and Technology Program at MIT records consist of five boxes of DVDs of lectures and events, as well as two boxes of unprocessed mixed materials.

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The collection documents the professional activities of Arthur C. Smith.

Scope and Contents The collection is composed of records of Arthur D. Little, Inc. The dates of the records in the collection span the years 1909 to 2000, though the bulk was created between 1940s and 1993. The records encompass all aspects of research and consultant services and demonstrate the growth of the company within the consulting world. There are no original papers of the founder, Arthur D. Little, himself. His papers are located at the Library of Congress. Papers of the other directors are few and...

Scope and Contents of the Collection The collection consists primarily of Massachusetts Institute of Technoloy professor of electrical engineering Arthur Kennelly's correspondence, 1916-1920, dealing with the need for standards in electrical engineering, the measurement of radio waves, and other topics. Copies of selected Kennelly correspondence, dating from 1904-1935, were compiled by Richard H. Frazier for a research project about Kennelly, and have been retained in the collection; originals are held by the American...

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The collection documents the professional activities of Arthur K. Kerman during the years of 1950 to 2015.

Materials include: reports, meetings materials, correspondence, notes, and files.

Scope and Contents of the Collection The collection of Arthur R. von Hippel papers includes biographical materials on von Hippel, and two oral histories conducted by Z. Malek, and the Smithsonian Computer History Project. Also includes many of von Hippel's publications, personal and professional correspondence, some materials from courses he taught at MIT, and research notebooks from the 1930s in German about his early work with semiconductors. There are also writings and materials used by von Hippel to research the behavior...

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The collection documents the professional activities of Arthur Steinberg from circa 1965 to 1997.

Materials include: Course notes, grants and proposals, writings, program materials, and administrative files.

Scope and Contents of the Collection The Arthur T. Ippen papers document his career as professor of civil engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and his active professional leadership and consulting work. The papers are resources on the topics of engineering education, international education, and water research. They also chronicle the construction and expansion of the MIT Hydrodynamics Laboratory and reflect Ippen's and the Institute's activities in international educational exchange during the 1960s...

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Collection consists of notes from classes Arthur Townsend Trowbridge attended in 1906 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in physics, calculus, and applied mechanics.

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The collection comprises records produced by Donald P. Severence and William J. Hecht, Executive Vice Presidents of the Association of Alumni and Alumnae of MIT. The materials span the years of 1962 to 1970 and 1980 to 1997.

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This collection was compiled by the Association of Independent Living Groups (AILG) of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for the MIT 150th Anniversary Archives Project. It includes the charter and bylaws of the AILG, as well as information on the history, present state, and possible future of Fraternities, Sororities, and Independent Living Groups (FSILG) at MIT.

Scope and Contents of the Collection This collection contains correspondence, bylaws, annual reports, minutes of meetings, directories and records that document the administration and activities of the Association of MIT Alumnae (AMITA). The collection includes documents from the 1907 incorporation of the Association in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.There are good records from the founding years of the organization, including minutes of association meetings and summary annual reports, from 1903 to 1936. Ellen...

Abstract Atoms for Peace, Inc. was formed by the Ford Motor Company as a memorial to Henry and Edsel Ford to present awards to those who made contributions to the peaceful uses of atomic energy. In August 1955, James R. Killian, president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, accepted the invitation of Henry Ford II to serve as chairman of the Organization and Planning Committee for the Atoms for Peace awards. The directors of the Ford Motor Company authorized an appropiation of one million...

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The collection comprises an audio recording of a speech given by National Academy of Sciences (NAS) president Deplev Bronk at an NAS symposium at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) on November 9 and 10, 1953.

Scope and Contents of the Collection The papers of Avery Allen Ashdown contain a scrapbook of newspaper clippings and diary entries; material on Ashdown House; and biographical essays on the following chemical engineers associated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Arthur Alphonzo Blanchard, William H. Carlisle, Jr., Arthur Clay Cope, James Mason Crafts, Tenney Lombard Davis, Frederick George Keyes, Gilbert Newton Lewis, Arthur D. Little, James Flack Morris, Allan Winter Rowe, William P. Ryan, and Charles William...

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The collection comprises the papers of Barry Marshall Trager.