STEVEN RICHARD LERMAN

Professor Steven R. Lerman holds the Class of 1922 Distinguished Professorship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He served as the Chair of the MIT Faculty from 1998-2001 and as the Associate Chair of the Faculty from 1996-1998.

He is currently the Director of the Center for Educational Computing Initiatives, the research unit of an MIT-wide research center devoted to studying the application of computational and communication technologies on education. He also Chairs the Faculty Advisory Board of the MIT OpenCourseWare initiative and is Deputy Director of the Singapore-MIT Alliance, MIT’s largest distance education program.

From 1983 to 1988, Professor Lerman directed MIT’s Project Athena. This project developed a campus-wide distributed system of advanced computer workstations at MIT. Prof. Lerman has been a Visiting Foreign Professor in the MBA in International Business Program at Gabriela Mistral University in Santiago, Chile since 1993 and was a Professor II (Visiting Adjunct Professor giving periodic guest lectures) at the University of Bergen in Norway for five years.

 Dr. Lerman received his B.S. in civil engineering and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Transportation from M.I.T. in 1972, 1973 and 1975 respectively.

Prof. Lerman and his wife Lori live on the MIT campus and serve as Faculty Housemasters of one of MIT’s graduate dormitories. They co-chair the Housemaster Council. He can be reached via email at lerman@mit.edu.