| Year | Date announced by The Tech | Commencement speaker | 
| 2011 | Nov. 9 | Ursula M. Burns, CEO of Xerox | 
| 2010 | Mar. 16 | Raymond S. Stata | 
| 2009 | Feb. 10 | Deval Patrick, Massachusetts Governor | 
| 2008 | Dec. 7 | Muhammad Yunus, 2006 Nobel Peace Prize winner | 
| 2007 | Mar. 13 | Charles M. Vest, former MIT president | 
| 2006 | Dec. 13 | Ben S. Bernanke, chairman of Federal Reserve Board | 
| 2005 | Apr. 12 | Irwin Jacobs, co-founder/chairman/CEO of Qualcomm | 
| 2004 | Mar.  9 | Elias Zerhouni, Director of NIH | 
| 2003 | Apr.  1 | George Mitchell, former U.S. Senator | 
| 2002 | Feb. 26 | James Wolfensohn, President of the World Bank | 
| 2001 | Mar. 23 | Daniel Goldin, NASA Administrator | 
| 2000 | Mar. 14 | Carly Fiorina, President & CEO, HP | 
| 1999 | Apr.  2 | Tom & Ray Magliozzi, MIT alumni and hosts of NPR’s “Car Talk” | 
| 1998 | Feb. 24 | William Jefferson Clinton and David Ho, AIDS researcher | 
| 1997 | Jan. 29 | Kofi Annan, UN Secretary-General | 
| 1996 | Mar.  1 | Albert Gore, U.S. Vice President | 
| 1995 | Apr. 21 | Hanna H. Gray, President Emeritus of the University of Chicago | 
| 1994 | Feb. 15 | Karim Aga Khan IV, spiritual leader of the Shia Ismaili Muslims |