|
Year
|
Date announced by The Tech
|
Commencement speaker
|
|
2011 |
Nov. 9 |
Ursula M. Burns, CEO of Xerox |
|
2010 |
Mar. 16 |
Raymond S. Stata |
|
2009 |
Feb. 10 |
Deval Patrick, Massachusetts Governor |
|
2008 |
Dec. 7 |
Muhammad Yunus, 2006 Nobel Peace Prize winner |
|
2007 |
Mar. 13 |
Charles M. Vest, former MIT president |
|
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 U.S. 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, HP |
|
1999 |
Apr. 2 |
Tom & Ray Magliozzi, MIT alumni and hosts of NPR’s “Car Talk” |
|
1998 |
Feb. 24 |
William Jefferson Clinton and David Ho, AIDS researcher |
|
1997 |
Jan. 29 |
Kofi Annan, UN Secretary-General |
|
1996 |
Mar. 1 |
Albert Gore, U.S. Vice President |
|
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 |