Hidden Bibliographic Details
| Varying Form of Title: | History Makers video oral history with William Massey
William Massey
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| Other authors / contributors: | Massey, William A., 1956- interviewee.
Crowe, Larry F., interviewer.
Hickey, Matthew, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
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| Sound characteristics: | digital
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| Digital file characteristics: | video file
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| Notes: | Videographer, Matthew Hickey.
Larry Crowe, interviewer.
Recorded Princeton, New Jersey 2013 March 8.
Vendor-supplied metadata.
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| Summary: | Mathematician William A. Massey was born on September 4, 1956 in Jefferson City, Missouri. After receiving a Harvard Book Award and a National Achievement Scholarship at University City High School, Massey enrolled at Princeton University and graduated in 1977 with his A.B. degree in mathematics. Upon graduating magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, Massey was awarded a Bell Labs Cooperative Research Fellowship for minorities to attend Stanford University where he received his Ph.D. degree in mathematics in 1981. Massey became a member of the technical staff in the Mathematical Sciences Research Center at Bell Laboratories where he co-authored a U.S. Patent on server staffing. He was founder of the Council for African American Researchers in the Mathematical Sciences. In 2001, Massey was named the Edwin S. Wilsey Professor of Operations, Research, and Financial Engineering at Princeton University, making him the first tenured African American mathematician at an Ivy League University.
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