Word: birkhoff
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...their Eliot House dining hall. There were six of them, all in their 20s, all chosen on the basis of their exceptional promise, not their past work. Today, members of that first set of fellows have gone on to become the Putnam Professor of Pure and Applied Mathematics, Garrett Birkhoff; the Pierce Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, Willard V.O. Quine; and the Pierce Professor Emeritus of Psychology, B.F. Skinner...
Title of ProjectPrincipal Investigator Amount Period Harvard Faculty Concurrency Control and Reliability Mechanisms in Distributed Computer Systems and Distributed Multi-Processing Philip Bernstein, John Reif $97,000 7/1/80-6/30/82 Division of Applied Sciences Numerical Hydrodynamics Garrett Birkhoff $104,373 1/1/75-1/13/81 Arts and Sciences Spectroscopy and the Solid State and the Theory of Solids Nicolaas Bloembergen $2,990,000 4/1/78-3/31/82 Division of Applied Sciences Advance Programming Thomas E. Cheatham $375,000 5/23/80-12/31/81 Division of Applied Sciences Decentralized Control of Large Distributed Operational Systems Y.C. Ho, Kenneth J. Arrow, Peter McKinsey $90,000 9/1/79-9/30/81 Division of Applied Sciences Interactive Graphical Analysis of Multidimensional...