I have lived in Cambridge in my house since 1966 + 4 years in Baker House while a student at MIT in 1956-1960. From 1967-1986 I worked in a ~40 person Cambridge office of a computer company working on Multics, a very advanced computer sysem for the times - for the last several years I was the manager ( Read more... )

As some of you know I have been involved as a commitee member and behind-the-scenes volunteer in many city government activities for over 30 years. As a result I get invited to various holiday celebrations. On Friday there was the unveiling of the portrait of now retired Mayor Henrietta Davis that will be hung in the Council Chambers along with ( Read more... )

Before the Cambridge Public library was renovated it had a multistory section that housed the stacks. After the renovation part of this space been repurposed as the Young Adult section. When I first started using the library in the 60s it was a closed stack; you'd look up stuff in the card catalogue and then fill out a request slip and someone ( Read more... )

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Tonight I went to a reception/dessert party at the new Cambridge Library. I think its main function was to cultivate possible donors. The architects were there and there were mini tours where we got to talk to the tour guides, a few staff and some of the trustees - all of whom I know. I got a chance for a couple of one-on-ones with the chief ( Read more... )

On Thursday I went to the ribbon cutting ceremony of the new Cambridge Public Library. I was heavily involved in the project as a member of the Library21 committee which was charged with determining the need and the program and help build resident support, and then the Design Advisory Committee which worked with the Architects. The Library21 ( Read more... )

This morning I met with Kathleen Gilroy, the person who recently founded a Cambridge Public Library social network that I'd recently joined to talk about what we could do with this network. She is a very interesting person - an entrepreneur who is the CEO of Swift Media Networks that is working on social networking tools for meetings and ( Read more... )

I've been reporting from time to time about several of my civic activities in Cambridge - one is to get a new public library, and the other was to get back a dance space in the city as part of a planned Youth and Community center. Last night was a very important City Council meeting because the bond authorizations for the two projects were on the ( Read more... )