Oliver R. Smoot
From Free net encyclopedia
(Redirected from Oliver Smoot)
- For other meanings, see Smoot (disambiguation).
Oliver Reed Smoot, Jr. was Chairman of the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) from 2001 to 2002 and President of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) from 2003 to 2004. As a pledge member of MIT's Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity in 1958, he was used to measure the Harvard Bridge and became the standard for the smoot. He received his Bachelor of Science from MIT and his Juris Doctor from Georgetown University.
Smoot gave a speech to the hearing to the House Science Committee's Subcommittee on Technology on March 20, 2000, entitled “The Role of Technical Standards in Today's Society and in the Future" .
Smoot was interviewed on National Public Radio on 7 December 2005 on the occasion of his retirement.
[edit]
Sources
- Biography by ANSI
- Speech for the House
- NPR Interview on December 7 2005
- MIT tribute page - he was featured on MIT's daily-changing home page on December 19 2005