Word: beranek
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...Beranek, who received a Ph.D. in applied sciences from Harvard in 1940, recalled that while here, a professor once told him “that discovering something new was like falling down in the mud and coming up with diamonds...
...Engineering, in fact, has long been considered a “dirty” science in homage to the archetypical gears, grime, and grease often associated with it. Thanks to innovators like Beranek, a pioneer of modern acoustics who played a key role in the development of the Internet, the modern digital age changed our very notion of what technology could be: invisible, pervasive, and as clean as silicon...
...examples above are all fundamentally human questions—fit as much for a Shakespeare play as for a physics textbook. I suspect Beranek, now 93, vividly recalled his mentor’s words because they are universally applicable—useful for building a circuit, teasing out a moral dilemma in biotechnology, or confronting global warming...
...panel included Lisa Drake, an environmental engineer; Penny Ellard '88, a project manager and software engineer at Bolt, Beranek and New-man, a computer technology firm; and Lorna Gibson, an MIT materials engineer professor...
...first e-mail program was invented by Bolt, Beranek and Newman (BBN), which recently merged with GTE. Until two weeks ago, BBN was Harvard's Internet service provider. The University upgraded its link and switched providers...