Jack Ruina
Jack P. Ruina (August 19, 1923 – February 4, 2015) was an American electrical engineer who was a professor of electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from 1963 until 1997 and thereafter an MIT professor emeritus. From 1966 to 1970, he was also vice president for special laboratories at MIT.[1][2]
Ruina received his PhD degree in electrical engineering from the
Arlington, Virginia
.
While at MIT, Ruina served on government committees, including a presidential appointment to the General Advisory Committee from 1969 to 1977, and acting as senior consultant to the White House
MITRE Corporation, and the editor with Jeffrey Porro and Carl Kaysen
of the book The Nuclear Age Reader (1988).
References
- ^ Who's who in Technology - Volume 1. Research Publications. 1986. p. 83.
- ^ "Jack Ruina dies at 91". newsoffice.mit.edu. February 12, 2015.
- ^ "Jack Ruina dies at 91".
External links
- Bio at MITRE
- Bio at MIT Security Studies Program
- Oral history interview with Jack P. Ruina, ARPA.
- Oral history interview with J. C. R. Licklider, Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota. Licklider, the first director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency's (ARPA) Information Processing Techniques Office(IPTO), discusses his work at Lincoln Laboratory and IPTO. Topics include the work of ARPA director Jack Ruina.