|
Year
|
Date announced by The Tech
|
Commencement speaker and affiliation
|
|
2010 |
Mar. 16 |
Raymond S. Stata, founder of Analog Devices |
|
2009 |
Feb. 10 |
Deval Patrick, Massachusetts Governor |
|
2008 |
Dec. 7 |
Muhammad Yunus, 2006 Nobel Peace Prize winner |
|
2007 |
Mar. 13 |
Charles M. Vest, professor of Mechanial Engineering (at the time) and former president of MIT |
|
2006 |
Dec. 13 |
Ben S. Bernanke, chairman of Federal Reserve Board |
|
2005 |
Apr. 12 |
Irwin Jacobs, co-founder/chairman/CEO of Qualcomm |
|
2004 |
Mar. 9 |
Elias Zerhouni, Director of NIH |
|
2003 |
Apr. 1 |
George Mitchell, former US Senator |
|
2002 |
Feb. 26 |
James Wolfensohn, President of the World Bank |
|
2001 |
Mar. 23 |
Daniel Goldin, NASA Administrator |
|
2000 |
Mar. 14 |
Carly Fiorina, President & CEO, Hewlett-Packard |
|
1999 |
Apr. 2 |
Tom & Ray Magliozzi, MIT alums and hosts of NPR’s “Car Talk” |
|
1998 |
Feb. 24 |
William Jefferson Clinton, US President, and David Ho, AIDS |
|
1997 |
Jan. 29 |
Kofi Annan, United Nations Secretary-General |
|
1996 |
Mar. 1 |
Albert Gore, Vice President of the United States |
|
1995 |
Apr. 21 |
Hanna H. Gray, President Emeritus of the University of Chicago |
|
1994 |
Feb. 15 |
Karim Aga Khan IV, spiritual leader of the Shia Ismaili Muslims |
|
1993 |
Jan. 13 |
Carlos Salinas de Gortari, President of the United Mexican States |
|
1992 |
Mar. 31 |
Leslie Aspin, Congressman from Wisconsin; chairman of the House Armed Services Committee |
|
1991 |
Mar. 13 |
Walter E. Massey, director of the National Science Foundation |
|
1990 |
Dec. 5 |
Virgilio Barco, President of the Republic of Colombia |
|
1989 |
Feb. 14 |
Paul E. Tsongas, chairman of the Board of Regents of Higher Education of Massachusetts; former US Senator from Massachusetts |
|
1988 |
Feb. 12 |
A. Bartlett Giamatti, president of the National League of Professional Baseball Clubs; former president of Yale University |
|
1987 |
Feb. 3 |
Kenneth H. Olsen, founder and president of Digital Equipment Corp. |
|
1986 |
Feb. 4 |
William R. Hewlett, vice chairman of the board of directors, Hewlett-Packard. |
|
1985 |
Jan. 23 |
Lee A. Iacocca, chairman of the board and CEO, Chrysler Corp. |
|
1984 |
Feb. 7 |
Shirley Chisholm, former Congresswoman of Brooklyn, NY |
|
1983 |
Feb. 8 |
Helmut Schmidt, former Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany |
|
1982 |
Mar. 5 |
Katharine Graham, chairman of the board and CEO, Washington Post Co. |
|
1981 |
Mar. 20 |
Paul E. Gray, MIT president elected that academic year |