Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Research Laboratory of Electronics.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Research Laboratory of Electronics records, 1944-2000.
Records received in 1989, box 1, 1945-1969, contain correspondence and reports on the organization of the Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE) and its office of publications, and a summary of research activities in 1968 and 1969.
Records received in 1990, boxes 2-6, 1946-1979, include meeting reports of the Joint Services Technical Advisory Committee from 1955 through 1973 and research reports for the same period. Administrative files of the director include annual reports, correspondence, research reviews, 20th anniversary of RLE materials, personnel directories, RLE's five-year plan, and Building 20 plans and space reports. Also included are Henry Zimmermann's lecture notes for course 6.681 from 1967 to 1970, and his work on various symposia and panels.
Records received in 1992, boxes 7-9, 1944-1966, contain material from the Radiation Laboratory, including the manuscript handbook, "Operating Instructions for Radio Set," 1945, and proposals and preliminary data files on the VTDC Project, 1944-1948. Also included is a conference file on Mechanical Translation, 1952, and an unpublished technical report entitled "Underlining Structures in Discourse," 1966, by Thomas G. Bever and John Robert Ross.
Records received in 1999, box 10, 1946-1983, contain reports and program files including some from the tenure of Henry Zimmermann, director of RLE, 1961-1976, and Harold Hazen, head of the Department of Electrical Engineering, 1938-1952.
Records received in 2001, boxes 11-20, include chronological correspondence files covering the period January 1985 - February 2000 and information on the cognitive sciences.
The Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE) was formally established on 1 January 1946 when the wartime Radiation Laboratory (radar research and production facility) located at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology closed and MIT took over the administration of its Division of Basic Research for the National Defense Research Committee (NDRC). On 1 July 1946 all association with the NDRC came to an end, and MIT took sole responsibility for the laboratory. Directors of RLE included Julius A. Stratton, 1946-1949; Albert G. Hill, 1949-1952; Jerome Wiesner, 1952-1961; Henry Zimmermann, 1961-1976; Peter Wolff, 1976-1981; Jonathan Allen, 1981-2000; and Jeffrey H. Shapiro, 2000-present (as of 2001).
Allen, Jonathan, 1934-
Bever, Thomas G.
Hazen, Harold L. (Harold Locke), 1901-1980.
Hill, A. G. (Albert Gordon), 1910-1996.
Ross, John Robert.
Shapiro, Jeffrey H. (Jeffrey Howard).
Stratton, Julius Adams, 1901-1994
Wiesner, Jerome B. (Jerome Bert), 1915-1994
Wolff, Peter, 1923-
Zimmermann, Henry J.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Electrical Engineering.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Radiation Laboratory.
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