Jerry Wiesner : scientist, statesman, humanist : memories and memoirs /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Wiesner, Jerome B. (Jerome Bert), 1915-1994, Rosenblith, Walter A.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2003.
Temas:
Wiesner, Jerome B. > (Jerome Bert), > 1915-1994.
Wiesner, Jerome B. > (Jerome Bert), > 1915-1994
Electrical engineers > United States > Biography.
Scientists > United States > Biography.
Ingénieurs électriciens > États-Unis > Biographies.
Scientifiques > États-Unis > Biographies.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Electrical.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Science & Technology.
Electrical engineers.
Scientists.
Electrical Engineering.
Electrical & Computer Engineering.
Engineering & Applied Sciences.
United States.
Biographies.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Memories
  • Brothers / Walter A. Rosenblith
  • Abiding optimist / Louis D. Smullin
  • Ace communicator / Alan Lomax
  • Scientist, educator, sailor / Robert I. Hulsizer, Jr.
  • A view from the White House / Theodore C. Sorensen
  • International perspectives / Michael Sela
  • A man for all seasons / Eugene B. Skolnikoff
  • An enlightenment man / Philip Morrison
  • Educator, political leader, much loved friend / John Kenneth Galbraith
  • Race, education, and community / Elma Lewis
  • The search for Soviet cybernetics / Spurgeon M. Keeny, Jr.
  • A passion for the arts / Catherine N. Stratton
  • Peace became his profession / Carl Kaysen
  • Excellence in action / Paul E. Gray
  • A lesson in wisdom / Shirley Ann Jackson
  • Three glimpses / Robert M. Solow
  • A man of courage and integrity / Willard R. Johnson
  • Giving women a break when few men did / Carola Eisenberg
  • Campaigner for urban justice / Melvin H. King
  • The origins of the media lab /Nicholas Negroponte
  • Continuing communication / Emma Rothschild
  • Commitment to international peace and security / Ruth S. Adams
  • A voice of reason / Anthony Lewis
  • Coda / Howard W. Johnson
  • Jerry in his own words
  • Memoirs
  • A random walk through the twentieth century
  • Remembering the rad lab and RLE
  • Los Alamos
  • Technological capabilities panel
  • Up the ladder to the White House
  • Kennedy
  • ABM
  • Gorbachev's revolution
  • Selected speeches and papers
  • Convocation speech/MIT, October 15, 1969
  • Science, technology, and the quality of life/Inaugural address as MIT president, October 7, 1971
  • Commencement address/Valedictory address as MIT president, June 2, 1980
  • Communication theory and the learning process/CBS, Westchester, New York, October 23, 1980
  • Disenthralling ourselves/National Academy of sciences, Washington, D.C., April 28, 1984
  • Creating with computing/ Wiesner Building dedication, MIT, October 2, 1985
  • The rise and fall of the President's science advisory committee, Cosmos Club, Washington, D.C., April 27, 1987
  • Survival, the moral equivalent of the arms race/National Geographic Society, Washington, D.C., January 1988
  • A department of development/Cambridge, Mass., May 17, 1988
  • In memory of Andrei Sakharov/American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Cambridge, Mass., April 27, 1990
  • President Eisenhower's changing search for peace/Moscow, Russia, November 1990
  • The world needs a better security system/Cambridge, Mass., December 1991
  • Lillian/Memorial meeting for Lillian Hellman, ca. 1993
  • Award speech/National Academy of Sciences Public welfare medal, Washington, D.C., April 24, 1993
  • Selected letters and documents.

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