Word: wiesner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Last week a report prepared by the Operations Research Society of America-a professional organization for systems analysts and researchers-criticized scientists involved in the ABM debate. The report was critical of research methods used by both sides, but the ABM opponents, specifically M.I.T. Provost Jerome Wiesner and M.I.T. Professors George Rathjens and Steven Weinberg, drew the most censure for misusing scientific evidence...
Plans for the merger continued through the winter, and on May 27--after a meeting between President Bok and M.I.T. President Jerome Wiesner, the Deans' Committee for Information Technology at Harvard approved the merger...
...Wiesner's liberal views were one factor that helped deny him the M.I.T. presidency five years ago when the trustees passed him up in favor of the less controversial Johnson, an economist and expert on industrial relations. Johnson promptly made Wiesner his chief academic officer. Together they handled student disruptions with great skill. They also began moving the university with such innovations as environmental studies and a center for visual arts...
...long run is next Monday," he said last September as he announced his impending retirement. Johnson will replace James R. Killian Jr. (Eisenhower's science adviser) in the part-time post of chairman of the M.I.T. Corporation. Under an understanding becoming common between college presidents and their boards, Wiesner himself expects to serve as president for only five years...
...usually affable man, Wiesner has a streak of impatience that makes him walk out of boring meetings. He relaxes aboard a yet unchristened 23-ft. sailboat with a dinghy named Neutron. But he usually puts in two hours of early morning reading at his home in nearby Watertown before cooking breakfast for his family and churning off to the M.I.T. campus for his daily blitz of telephone calls and meetings. His abiding interest in education has led him to campaign successfully for election to the Watertown school board...