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Also stepping down from the Board in 1993 are Vice President Albert A. Gore Jr. '69, former MIT President Jerome B. Wiesner and Andrew F. Brimmer, a former governor of the Federal Reserve System...

Author: By Stephen E. Frank, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Overseer Nominees Named | 1/25/1993 | See Source »

Wood made light of the fact that only two ofsix newly elected overseers attended Saturday'sforum. Former MIT President Jerome B. Wiesner '37and Pulitzer Prize-winning author FrancesFitzGerald '62 were originally scheduled toattend, but later bowed out because of othercommitments...

Author: By Mark M. Colodny, | Title: Overseers Call for Open Board at Student Forum | 9/28/1987 | See Source »

...Both Wiesner and FitzGerald ran as part of the12-person official University-nominated slate forthe six spots that opened on the 30 member Boardthis year. Two other University-nominatedcandidates were elected. They are Sen. Albert Gore'69 (D-Tenn.) and former Federal Reserve Boardmember Andrew F. Brimmer...

Author: By Mark M. Colodny, | Title: Overseers Call for Open Board at Student Forum | 9/28/1987 | See Source »

...Wood '64 and congressional committee counsel Consuela M. Washington ran on a pro-divestment slate and captured two of the six seats up for grabs. Two of the other winning candidates nominated by the University, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Frances FitzGerald '62 and former MIT President Jerome B. Wiesner '37, have spoken out in favor of divestment publicly, while another elected Board member, Presidential candidate and U.S. Senator Albert Gore, Jr. '69 (D-Tenn.) has vocally supported sanctions against South Africa...

Author: By John C. Yoo, | Title: While You Were Away | 9/17/1987 | See Source »

Negroponte began raising funds for the Media Lab in 1980 with the help of Jerome Wiesner, former M.I.T. president. The two men sought out publishers, broadcasters and electronics manufacturers whose businesses were being transformed by the advent of VCRs, cable television and personal computers. Then they hinted broadly that the faculty at M.I.T. knew precisely where all this was headed. Money came in from such leading sponsors as IBM, CBS, Warner Communications, 20th Century Fox, Mitsubishi, Time Inc. and the Washington Post. Sponsors can send scientists and other observers to the Media Lab and make commercial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Computers: Dreaming The Impossible at M.I.T. | 8/31/1987 | See Source »

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