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Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 12:08:07 -0500
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From: "Deborah A. Levinson" <debby@MIT.EDU>
Subject: Farewell
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Hi,

I'm writing to let you know that I have accepted a job with Art 
Technology Group (ATG), and that my last day at MIT will be Friday, 
February 2. I will be a design lead at ATG, working to maximize the 
user experience for their redesigned web site, atg.com, due to launch 
in early February.

It was an extraordinarily difficult decision to leave MIT. As most of 
you know, I was a student here in the late '80's/early 90's, and 
though when I graduated I was only too happy to get away from the 
place, I did eventually return in 1997. Information Systems has been 
a wonderful place to learn and grow, both personally and 
professionally, but I have decided to explore the new challenge of 
concentrating on a single, huge corporate web site with interactive, 
database-driven elements.

Of course, the hardest thing to leave at MIT, as I know others have 
observed, is the people. I have always been impressed with the 
quality and intelligence level of the faculty, staff and students 
here, and I shall miss all of you. Although I do not have my new 
contact information at ATG yet, you can always reach me via email 
forwarding at debby@alum.mit.edu. Those of you who need web 
publishing assistance can continue to contact Web Communications 
Services at 253-0101 and web-help@mit.edu.

Best of luck to you all, and given my many other ties to the MIT 
community, I expect I will still see many of you on a regular basis.

--debby
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Debby Levinson
Electronic Publishing Consultant
MIT Web Communication Services

debby@mit.edu
http://web.mit.edu/debby/www/

Humanity has an amazing inability to plan.  Not too many
generations ago, when our relatives lived by hunting and
gathering, the inability to plan for the next season meant
death. Planners survived. The clueless died.  But today,
Homo Sapiens eats at McDonalds - for the moment, planning
and survival are not strongly linked.    --David Isenberg
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