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| Bryant at MIT Sloan School (1969 - 1971) | ||
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| Monica & Portia | Bryant (1970) | Monica & Portia |
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| Lester Thurow | Malcolm Jones | Tony Gorry |
Bryant enters MIT Sloan School of Management (1969)
Takes Economics class from Dr. Lester Thurow (Nobel Laureate)
Completes M.S. thesis with Malcolm Jones and Tony Gorry on a PL/I based simulation language that runs under MULTICS
Meets Shirley Jackson, then a physics Ph.D. student at MIT, and now president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI)
Continues to work full time at John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company (1969 - 1971)
Plays in side games of the American Contract Bridge League (ACBL) National Championships in Boston, 1970. Wins Level B side game.
Becomes legally separated from Dianne Scott York in January 1970
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| Bryant at UCONN Law School (1973 - 1974) |
Bryant graduates MIT Sloan School earning M.S. in management (1971)
Works as a financial analyst at Travelers Equity Sales, Inc.
(1971 - 1973)
Works as a planning analyst at Travelers Life Insurance Company (1973-1974)
Attends University of Connecticut Law School Evening Division (1973 - 1974)
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| Ed Riseman | Michael Arbib | Al Hanson |
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| Robbie Moll | Elliot Soloway | Art Karshmer |
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| Our Department Faculty (and Friends) in 1978: Back Row (Left to Right): Robert Graham, Conrad Wogrin, Assaf Kfoury, Allen Hanson, Caxton Foster, Andrew Barto, Jack Wileden, Michael Arbib. Front Row (Left to Right): William Kilmer, Victor Lesser, Elliot Soloway, Lori Clarke, Nico Spinelli, Robert Moll. Faculty missing from photo: Edward Riseman. | ||
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| Nils Nilsson | Ruzena Bajcsy | Raj Reddy |
Bryant reads "Brains, Machines, and Mathematics" by Michael Arbib in 1974
Enters graduate school in Computer Science at the University of Massachusetts - Amherst
Meets and forms lasting friendships with Art karshmer, Robbie Moll, Elliot Soloway, Neal Ogden, Ed Riseman, Al Hanson, Tom Williams, John Prager, John Lowrance, Len Wesley, Andrew Singer, Daryl Lawton and Debra Richardson
Works for Dr. Edward Riseman and Dr. Allen Hanson on the VISIONS project
Teaches a mathematics course to inmates at the Pittsfield State Prison as part of the UMASS University Without Walls Program (1975)
Joins Association for Computing Machinery (1975)
Daughters, Monica and Portia, (2 Black Children) are force-bused out of a mixed school and four Black children are forced-bused in to replace them (Boston, 1975)
Earns M.S. in computer science (1976)
Meets Bill Wulf who mentors him throughout his career
Has opportunity to meet Nils Nilsson, Ruzena Bajcsy, Raj Reddy, David Marr, Marvin Minsky, Azriel Rosenfeld, Marty Tenenbaum, Norm Badler
Teaches one-week courses for Onig Minasian at military bases (San Diego, CA and Pomona, CA)
Bryant interviews at IBM Research (Yorktown and San Jose),Xerox PARC, SRI International, Stanford AI Lab (1978)
Accepts offer from IBM San Jose Research Lab (Fall 1978)
Bryant's mother is diagnosed with lung cancer (January 1979)
Passes dissertation defense, but revisions required (May 1979)
Begins work ABD at IBM at his mother's insistence (June 1979)
Bryant is a research staff member at IBM San Jose (1979 - 1983)
Experiences first California earthquake (1979)
Has opportunity to work for IBM Fellows, John Backus and Ted Codd
Has opportunity to work for Don Rosenheim, Frank King, Abe Peled, Peter Lucas, Bob Taylor
Has the opportunity to work alongside many famous researchers, including Jim Gray, Pat Mantey, Jim King, Maria Klawe, Barbara Simons, Alfred Spector, Al Inselberg, Ron Fagin, John Williams, Don Chamberlain, and Won Kim
Returns to UMASS in Fall 1980 and completes dissertation revisions
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| Bryant at DEC AI Lab (1984) | Monica and Portia (1984) |
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| Bryant in Andes Train Wreck (1983) | Bryant climbs Mt. Tungurahua (1983) |
Bryant Joins the Digital Equipment Corporation Artificial Intelligence Technology Center (1983)
Works with Ph.D students Ugo Buy (UMASS), Waqar Hasan (Stanford)
Works alongside Beryl Nelson, Greg Tutunjian, Jeff Dawson, Margaret Meehan, Jim Milstein, John Arnold, and Hal shubin
Is divorced from Dianne Scott York in June 1983
Travels to Galapagos Islands off the coast of Ecuador and climbs Mt. Tungurahua (5,033 meters) in Ecuador (July 1983)
Marries Margrete Miner July 31, 1983
Becomes separated from Margrete Miner in January 1984
Monica York graduates as first Black class president of Beaver Country Day School (1984)
Becomes divorced from Margrete Miner in October 1984
Attends ICOT Fifth Generation Computing Conference, Tokyo, Japan (November 1984). Bryant's former professor, Dr. Hironaka (Fields Medal Winner) gives keynote address.
Gets Magic Johnson's autograph in July 1985