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the staff of the electrical engineering department there, which he accepted. In 1965 he moved his young family back to
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in 1936 to Neil and Alice MacDonald. His father was a
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board from 1982 to 1998. In addition to professorships in electrical engineering at MIT and UBC, MacDonald has served in an advisory capacity to the government and on the board of directors of numerous companies.
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and discovered that he had a natural aptitude for the systems. By the age of 16 he was spending his summer months traveling up and down the coast fixing radios on the various fleets and tourist boats.
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