MIT's Building 20: The Magical Incubator 1943 - 1998

Commemoration

Program

Thursday, March 26

In the Dorothy J. and Herbert E. Grier Conference Room (34-401) in the EG&G Education Center

2:00 - 7:00 pm

Registration

Displays

5:00 - 7:00 pm

Welcome Reception

Friday, March 27

8:00 am

Registration and Continental Breakfast

in the Dorothy J. and Herbert E. Grier Conference Room (34-401)

Friday's program will be held in the Esther M. and Harold E. Edgerton Lecture Hall (34-101) in the EG&G Education Center

Morning program moderator:

Paul L. Penfield, Jr. '60, Head, Department of EECS

8:30 - 8:45 am

Welcome

Joel Moses '67, Provost

8:45 - 9:00 am

Building 20 -- The Magical Incubator

Paul L. Penfield, Jr. '60, Head, Department of EECS

9:00 - 9:45 am

Building 20 -- The Early Years

Ted Saad '41, Staff Member, Radiation Laboratory

Walter E. Morrow, Jr. '49, Director, MIT Lincoln Laboratory

9:45 - 10:15 am

Break

10:15 - 10:45 am

Communications in Building 20 and Where It Went

Peter Elias '44, Professor of Electrical Engineering, Emeritus

10:45 - 11:15 am

Building 20 and Scientific Innovation

Rainer Weiss '55, Professor of Physics

11:15 - 12:15 pm

Next to Last Chance to Visit Building 20

12:00 - 1:00 pm

Box Lunch

in the Dorothy J. and Herbert E. Grier Conference Room (34-401)

Afternoon program moderator:

Gill Pratt '83, Assistant Professor of EECS

1:00 - 1:30 pm

Building 20 -- Womb for Bioscience and Bioengineering

Jerome V. Lettvin '47, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Bioengineering, Emeritus

1:30 - 2:00 pm

Building 20 -- Incubator for MIT's Linguistics and Philosophy Programs

Morris Halle, Institute Professor, Emeritus

2:00 - 2:30 pm

Laboratory For Nuclear Science -- Then And Now

Robert P. Redwine, Director, Laboratory For Nuclear Science

2:30 - 3:30 pm

Learning By Doing

Solar Electric Vehicle Club

James D. Worden '89, Co-Founder and CEO, Solectria Corporation

Tech Model Railroad Club

Alan Kotok '62, Associate Chairman, World Wide Web Consortium

3:30 - 5:00 pm

Refreshments

in the Dorothy J. and Herbert E. Grier Conference Room (34-401)

3:30 - 5:00 pm

Last Chance to See Building 20

or

Visit the Tech Model Railroad Club in New Facilities in the MIT Museum Building (N52, at the corner of Massachusetts Avenue and Front Street)

6:00 pm

Reception and Dinner

in Walker Memorial, in honor of Maria and Ray Stata '57, Founder and Chairman, Analog Devices, Inc.

The Next Incubator . . . and Its Champions

Paul L. Penfield, Jr. '60, Head, Department of EECS

Joel Moses '67, Provost

Robert A. Brown, Dean, School of Engineering

Charles M. Vest, President