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L. Rafael Reif is a professor of Electrical Engineering and the current Provost of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Reif previously served as the head of MIT's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science between 2004 and 2005 and the director of the Microsystems Technology Laboratoris.

Reif received his undergraduate degree in electrical engineering from the Universidad de Carabobo, Valencia, Venezuela in 1973 and his doctorate in electrical engineering from Stanford University in 1979. He joined the MIT faculty in 1980 and now holds the Maseeh Professorship in Emerging Technology. Before his appointment as Provost, his research centered on three-dimensional integrated circuit technologies and on environmentally benign microelectronics fabrication.

Reif is a fellow of the Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineers and is a member of Tau Beta Pi and the Electrochemical Society.

Reif and his wife, Christine, live in Newton, Massachusetts and have a daughter, Jessica, and a son, Blake.

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Provosts of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Julius Stratton (1949–1952) • Charles Townes (1961–1966) • Jerome Wiesner (1966–1971) • Walter A. Rosenblith (1971–1980) • Francis E. Low (1980–1985) • John M. Deutch (1985–1990) • Mark Wrighton (1990–1995) • Joel Moses (1995–1998) • Robert A. Brown (1998–2005) • L. Rafael Reif (2005–)



Electrical engineering (sometimes referred to as electrical and electronic engineering) is an engineering field that deals with the study and/or application of electricity, electronics and electromagnetism.
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Provost is the title of a senior academic administrator at many institutions of higher education in the United States and Canada, the equivalent of Vice-Chancellor at certain institutions in the British Isles such as UCL and Trinity College Dublin, and the head of certain smaller
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private, coeducational research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT has five schools and one college, containing 32 academic departments,[3]
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Nueva Valencia del Rey (New Valence Of King)

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Nickname: Capital industrial de Venezuela"
(English:"Industrial capital of Venezuela)
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Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly known as Stanford University or simply Stanford, is a private university located approximately 37 miles (60 kilometers) southeast of San Francisco and approximately 20 miles (32 km) northwest of San Jose in Stanford,
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list of Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty includes current, emeritus, former, and deceased professors, lecturers, and researchers. Faculty members who have become Institute Professors, Nobel Laureates, MacArthur Fellows, National Medal of Science recipients, or have
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Three-dimensional space is the physical universe we live in. The three dimensions are commonly called length, width, and breadth, although any three mutually perpendicular directions can serve as the three dimensions. Pictures are commonly two dimensional, they lack depth.
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integrated circuit (also known as IC, microcircuit, microchip, silicon chip, or chip) is a miniaturized electronic circuit (consisting mainly of semiconductor devices, as well as passive components) that has been manufactured in the surface of a
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Type Professional Organization
Founded January 1, 1963
Origins Merger of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers and the Institute of Radio Engineers
Key people Leah H.
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The Electrochemical Society

Formation 1902
Headquarters Pennington, New Jersey
Membership 8,000
Official languages English
Executive Director Calvo, Roque J.
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Newton, Massachusetts

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Nickname: The Garden City
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private, coeducational research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT has five schools and one college, containing 32 academic departments,[3]
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Julius Adams Stratton (1901 - 1994) was a U.S. educator. He attended the University of Washington for one year, where he was admitted to the Zeta Psi fraternity, then transferred to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), from which he graduated with a bachelor's
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Charles Hard Townes

Charles Townes in 1968
Born July 28 1915 (1915--) (age 92)
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Jerome Wiesner (Jerome Bert Wiesner) (May 30, 1915 – October 21, 1994) was an educator, a science advisor to U.S. Presidents Eisenhower and Kennedy, an advocate for arms control, and a critic of anti-ballistic-missile defense systems.
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Walter A. Rosenblith
Born September 21, 1913
Vienna, Austria
Died May 1, 2002
Miami Beach, Florida
Citizenship United States
Nationality Austrian
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Frances E. Low (born 1921 in New York City — died 16 February 2007 in Haverford, Pennsylvania) was a theoretical physicist. He was an Institute Professor at MIT and served as provost there from 1980 to 1985.
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John Mark Deutch (born July 27, 1938) is an American chemist and civil servant. He was the United States Deputy Secretary of Defense from 1994 to 1995 and Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) from May 10, 1995 until December 14, 1996.
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Mark S. Wrighton

Washington University in St. Louis Term 1995 – present
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Joel Moses (1941 -) is an Israel-born American computer scientist.

Joel Moses was born in Israel in 1941 and emigrated to the U.S. in 1954. He received his undergraduate degree in Mathematics from Columbia University and a masters degree in Mathematics, also from Columbia.
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Robert A. Brown (born July 221951) is the 10th president of Boston University. He was formerly the provost of MIT.

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He is a chemical engineer by training. A Texas native, he received his B.S. and M.A.
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