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JORDAN BARUCH
JORDAN BARUCH
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In 1940 he entered Brooklyn College. In his freshman physics class, Jordan's professor announced there would be gendersegregated seating in alphabetical order.
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He taught many of his friends to sail, as well as his children and grandchildren. Favorite vacations involved charters in the Caribbean with friends and "bumping into" old Cambridge friends on some sparsely populated island.
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Professor Beranek encouraged him to go for his doctorate and arranged for him to get the Armstrong Cork fellowship and other assistance. He received scholarships in the MIT Acoustics Laboratory during the next two years.
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Bolt was named chairman, Beranek president, Labate vice president, and Baruch treasurer. Government contracts started to pour in from the U.S.
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As Professor Octo Barnett, director of computer science at MGH, has written: "BBN's timesharing technology was at the cutting edge of computer science, and its use at MGH was one of the first demonstrations of the potential power of remote access to a real, online data base." With Baruch as parent, the system allowed nurses and doctors to create and access patients' records at a number of hospital stations, all connected to a central station. When Jordan was installed as a regent of the National Library of Medicine, he was introduced as the father of medical informatics.
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It was featured in a two-page article in the New York Times as "probably the best television station in the U.S." In 1982 the station was sold to MetroMedia, and Jordan's share in the receipts made him well off. Afterward, he joined with his longtime friends Isaac Auerbach and William Poorvu, as well as Howard Stevenson from the Harvard Business School, to form an investment firm -- The Baupost Group.
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The Chinese were very responsive and followed Baruch's recommendation to establish a school of management jointly with the United States. Baruch was authorized to help hire staff, including American professors and case writers for the new school in Dalien, China.
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He was involved in efforts to develop industry strategies and to increase innovation in India, Indonesia, and Israel. Baruch told of a humorous incident: "I was involved in starting another management school in the country Jordan despite the fact that ‘Baruch' is a Hebrew word well known in the Arab world.
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Baruch Fund to support undergraduates conducting research for the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program in the School of Engineering and the School of Science. Recipients of the fund are known as Baruch Undergraduate Researchers.
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