The journal, named in honor of Sojourner Truth, a freed slave, abolitionist and women's rights advocate, received some seed money from Dr. Paul E. Gray, then chancellor, later president and now chairman of the Corporation, with the understanding it would have to support itself. But by the end of the first year it became obvious, Ms. Willmore said, that Sojourner would have to reorganize to survive. So the journal began reaching beyond MIT to the greater-Boston women's community and was reincorporated as a regular business. After a brief break in publication, the journal returned to the newsstands and began its climb toward national distribution. The journal, now housed in Jamaica Plain, still relies heavily on volunteers and interns, but it also has two editorial people, a half-time copy editor, a business manager, accountant and circulation and advertising staff.
Incentives are important to get people to perform.
1960, Dr. Gustav Solomon and Irving S. Reed, working at Lincoln Laboratory, invented what are known as the Reed-Solomon codes. Word has now been received of the death of Dr. Solomon, a mathematician, who received his doctorate from MIT in 1956 and was on Lincoln's staff from 1957 to 1961. He died at his home in Beverly Hills, CA, at the age of 65. His co-inventor, Dr. Irving S. Reed, is on the faculty at the University of Southern California. Their codes have had a number of consumer uses, in compact discs, in digital audiotapes and in the advanced high-definition television systems.