The annual School of Engineering Infinite Mile Awards ceremony will be held May 22 from 3:00 to 5:00pm in the Grier Room, 34-401. School of Engineering Dean Ian Waitz will present the awards to the administrative, support, service and sponsored research staff from the School of Engineering Departments and Lab Centers who were nominated by their units and then specially selected. The Infinite Mile awards are given in three categories for Excellence, Diversity and Community and for Institutional Cooperation. In addition, the Ellen J. Mandigo Award is given to those staff who have demonstrated intelligence, skill, hard work and dedication to the Institute over an extended period of time.
Francis Doughty has worked for the past five and a half years with Associate Department Heads Srini Devadas and, since July of 2011, William Freeman in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Headquarters. Doughty has worked at an extensive group of MIT lab centers and departments including the Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE), the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL), the W3C, the Departments of Materials Science and Engineering, Chemistry and Earth Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences. Outside MIT, Frances Doughty is a professional instrumental guitar player (with two CDs and a third in the works). He and his wife Laura Doughty, who currently works in the Department of Biology at MIT, have lived in the house they built in Wendell, MA in 1990, where they live off the land -- all 18 acres (and heat with wood).
Lourenço Pires has been at MIT since 1982, when he joined the MIT Plasma Fusion Center. He joined the EECS Department in 1989 as Project Technician. His knowledge of the Unix system enabled him to jump right into the lab work – often fixing computers. As the department grew, Lourenço worked on equipment needed for the classes and eventually on demos for multiple classes. Over the years, Lourenco has worked with numerous EECS faculty members to prepare demos and equipment for their classes including Hal Abelson and Gerry Sussman for 6.003, Alan Grodzinsky and, later Herman Haus and Mark Zahn, for 6.013, and with Paul Gray and Campbell Searle, and later Anant Agarwal, for 6.002. Lourenço Pires’ favorite aspect of his work in EECS has been ‘performing’ live demos, which he particularly enjoys because of the responses he gets from students. This was particularly true for the MIT 150th Open House at which Lourenco wowed the crowds young and old with his demos. Read more in the 2012 EECS Connector.
Please come to the Grier Room, 34-401 at 3:00pm tomorrow, Wednesday, May 22 for the Infinite Mile Awards program and reception following.
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