Memorial Tributes Volume 23 (2021) / Chapter Skim
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ROBERT R. EVERETT
ROBERT R. EVERETT
Pages 88-91
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His father was a civil engineer who designed waterworks; as the young Bob accompanied him on trips to visit various projects such as power plants and pumping stations, he grew up expecting to be an engineer. He earned his bacherlor's degree from Duke University in 1942 and in 1943 his master of science degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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He formed the MITRE Institute for the company's engineering workforce to learn about high-value cases from MITRE project leaders supporting government system development projects. The institute helped to foster a company culture that placed extraordinary value on "systems engineering in the public interest," thereby attracting highly talented engineers to join the company with expectations of positively influencing suc cessful development of government systems that would ben efit from electronics technology innovations.
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Bush. He also received the Eugene Fubini Award from the Defense Science Board and was recognized as a fellow of IEEE and the Computer History Museum ("For his work on the MIT Whirlwind and SAGE computer system and B17:B41 -- a lifetime of directing advanced research and development projects")
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