My teaching began in 1936 at Iowa State College where T. W. Schultz was the department chairman.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
My mother was a teacher.
I was the Chair of the first department of medical physics in a medical school in the U.S.
In 1948 I was appointed to a Lectureship in Physics and in 1949 elected to a Fellowship at Trinity College.
I then moved to the University of Western Ontario where I was made a full professor in 1985.
It started 25 years ago, when I was teaching elementary school in a small town in Missouri.
I had two wonderful teachers: Sanford Melsner and Fred Kareman.
I went to Princeton in the fall of 1930 as a half-time instructor.
Then I was president of the Bakelite Corporation from 1910 to 1930.
I moved to MIT from Stanford in 1984 to teach, and became the founding director of MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab.
A couple of years I taught in graduate programs at NYU and Columbia, in the early eighties.