Which MIT Alumni Were Named to the 2013 TIME 100?
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On Dec. 6, Slice highlighted MIT alumni who were nominated for TIME magazine's Person of the Year. But those alumni nominees weren't the only MITers honored by the magazine in 2013.
A few months back, TIME announced the 2013 TIME 100, the magazine’s annual list of the 100 most influential people throughout the past calendar year. According to TIME, entrants are recognized for changing and affecting the world—in a positive or negative way.
Three MIT alumni made this year's list and Slice is proud to announce that each had a positive effect on the world in 2013.
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As president of the European Central Bank, Draghi oversees the world’s largest single-currency area and is responsible for leading the European banking system towards an economic recovery.
“After 18 months at the helm of the Frankfurt institution, Mario has reshaped the bank. His down-to-earth approach and keen sense of humor conceal a formidable will and the courage to take on skeptics for the good of the currency — and the continent.”
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Katherine Luzuriaga ’78, SM ’80
Luzuriaga is an immunologist from the University of Massachusetts who, according to the magazine, is one of three women responsible orchestrating a medical breakthrough that functionally cured a newborn of AIDS.
Luzuriaga was named to the list alongside Hannah Gay, a pediatrician at the University of Mississippi, and Deborah Persaud, a virologist at Johns Hopkins Children’s Center.
“There’s even hope that adults may benefit from the same rapid treatment immediately after HIV infection. Following the success with the newborn, another study reported that 14 more patients have been able to control HIV. These findings show that early HIV treatment has even greater benefits than previously thought.”
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Ng, the director of the Stanford University AI Lab, cofound Coursera, the educational technology company that partners with universities to offer massive open online courses (MOOCs). He was named to the list with Coursera cofounder and Stanford Professor Daphne Koller.
“Coursera recruited elite schools and top professors, offers a range of courses beyond computer science and built a platform with enough bandwidth to reach a global audience. Daphne and Andrew’s energy and devotion to try to educate the world is terrific.”In 2012, five members of the TIME 100 had MIT connections: Draghi; educational pioneer Sal Khan ’98, MEng ’98; Professor Andrew Lo; Benjamin Netanyahu ’75, SM ’76; and Professor Donald Sadoway.
What’s your take? Are there other MIT alumni—or anyone else—who should have been named to the TIME 100? And which alums should be named to the 2014 list? Let us know in the comments below or on Facebook and Twitter.
