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Dec 7, 2023 · Judy Hoyt, a pioneer in semiconductor research and retired MIT professor of electrical engineering and computer science, passed away on Aug. 6. She was 65. Hoyt is known well for her groundbreaking research on strained silicon semiconductor materials, work which helped greatly decrease the size of integrated circuits.
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Judith Leighton was born in Portland, Maine, exactly two months before V-E Day. Her family later moved to North Reading, where she attended high school. Richard “Dick” Hoyt was born in North Reading, the fifth of 10 children, squeezed into a two bedroom house. Dick and Judy were high school sweethearts, he the captain of the football team, she the ...
Rick is confined to a life in a wheelchair, unable to move his limbs or speak. He cannot dress or feed himself. Doctors repeatedly told Judy and Dick that Rick did not have the cognitive abilities of a typical child, an opinion they refused to believe. “When Rick got his eyes opened, they were following mine and my wife’s,” said Dick Hoyt. “He was ...
In the early 1970s, the Hoyts asked a group of young engineers at Tufts University if they could build a machine that would help Rick communicate. At first, the engineers thought it would be a waste of time because they assumed that he could not understand people. They told the family that for $5,000 (about $35,000 today) they could build it. The m...
Working with local politicians, and taking meetings with anyone that would listen, Judy worked tirelessly to help draft the legislation known as Chapter 766, or the Massachusetts Special Education Law. Passed in 1972, Chapter 766 helped bring thousands of young people into more inclusive educational settings. It guaranteed all students age 3-22 acc...
Team Hoyt began in 1975 when Rick asked his father if they could run in a race together to benefit a lacrosse player at a local college who had become paralyzed. He wanted to prove that life went on no matter your disability. Dick was 36, and by his own admission out of shape. Adding to the complexity, at the time there were no wheelchairs designed...
By 1993, the pressure of Dick and Rick’s grueling marathon schedule – and the long hours of training that accompanied it – ended Judy and Dick’s marriage. Dick became Rick’s full time caregiver, while Judy continued to support families as an educational and parent advocate. Neither remarried, and both continuing to busy themselves in the service of...
Nov 27, 2023 · Professor Judy Hoyt, a pioneer in semiconductor research, passed away on August 6, 2023. She was 65 years old. Hoyt is known well for her groundbreaking work with strained silicon semiconductor materials, work which helped greatly decrease the size of integrated circuits. Her most recognized contribution was the first demonstration of the incorporation of lattice strain as a means to enhance ...
It is with great sadness that we share the news of the death of MIT Professor of Electrical Engineering Judy Hoyt. Judy passed away on August 6, 2023. Judy Hoyt was a dedicated teacher and a great mentor to her students at MIT and earlier at Stanford. She was a pioneer in the development of one of the most consequential semiconductor technologies in modern electronics: the incorporation of ...
MIT Obituary - Professor Judy Hoyt. Judy, a native of Garden City, Long Island NY, earned her undergraduate degree in Physics and Applied Mathematics at UC Berkeley in 1980, and her MS and PhD degrees in Applied Physics at Stanford University in 1983 and 1987, respectively. She remained at Stanford as Research Associate and then Senior Research ...
Mar 18, 2021 · Boston Marathon icon Dick Hoyt has died aged 80. He passed away in his sleep on Wednesday morning, his family confirmed and added that his "ongoing heart condition got the better of him." Dick and wife Judy Hoyt, who died in September 2010, were parents to Rick, Russell, and Robert.
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Mar 19, 2021 · Linnea Crowther. News editor, Legacy.com. Named 2017's Obituary Writer of the Year by the Society of Professional Obituary Writers. Quoted by CNN, the New York Times, and Macleans. Dick Hoyt ...
