MIT retaliated in April 2006, when students posing as the Howe & Ser ( Howitzer ) Moving Company stole the 130-year-old, 1. 7-ton Fleming House cannon and moved it over 3000 miles to their campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts for their 2006 Campus Preview Weekend, repeating a similar prank performed by nearby Harvey Mudd College in 1986.

Articles included " MIT Invents the Interweb ," " Architects Deem Campus ' Unfortunate '," and " Infinite Corridor Not Actually Infinite.

Because housing assignments are made based on the preferences of the students themselves, diverse social atmospheres can be sustained in different living groups ; for example, according to the Yale Daily News Staff's The Insider's Guide to the Colleges, 2010, " The split between East Campus and West Campus is a significant characteristic of MIT.

In 2009 the city of Boston declared October 4 to be " Mission of Burma Day " in honor of the band's work in a ceremony held at the MIT East Campus Courtyard.

* William J. Mitchell: Imagining MIT: Designing a Campus for the Twenty-First Century, Me ++: The Cyborg Self and the Networked City

To fulfill the need of carrying out Research, Development and Innovation work, MIT Center of Excellence for Research & Innovation ( MITCERI ) is established on MIT Pune Campus. Its immediate goal will be to encourage faculty members and students at the Bachelor's and Master's levels to consciously bringing in research and innovation elements in their Project work.

It was rumored that Harvey Mudd would attempt to steal the cannon again in 2006 to celebrate the 20th anniversary of their original theft ; however, the cannon disappeared on March 28, a day before the anniversary, only to show up at MIT, just in time for Campus Preview Weekend, during which many rising freshmen visit MIT.

June 25, 2004, The R. A. 9299 of the Philippine bicameral Congress has grown Mabinay Institute of Technology ( MIT ) into Negros Oriental State University Mabinay Campus ( NORSU-M ).

File: Jacques Lipchitz, Birth of the Muses ( 1944-1950 ), MIT Campus. JPG | Jacques Lipchitz, " Birth of the Muses ", ( 1944-1950 ).

The establishment of the Virtual University Campus ( IEMS ) in Samundri allows students to study for various HEC approved and recognized degrees, including BBA, MBA, MCS, MIT, BSCS, BSIT, B. Com, B. Sc.

Central Square serves as the commercial center for the surrounding neighborhoods of Cambridgeport, Riverside, Mid Cambridge, Area 4 and MIT.

* MIT's Introduction to Algorithms: Hashing 2 MIT OCW lecture Video

MIT managed $ 718. 2 million in research expenditures and an $ 8. 0 billion endowment in 2009.

Several major computer-related organizations have originated at MIT since the 1980s: Richard Stallman's GNU Project and the subsequent Free Software Foundation were founded in the mid-1980s at the AI Lab ; the MIT Media Lab was founded in 1985 by Nicholas Negroponte and Jerome Wiesner to promote research into novel uses of computer technology ; the World Wide Web Consortium standards organization was founded at the Laboratory for Computer Science in 1994 by Tim Berners-Lee ; the OpenCourseWare project has made course materials for over 2, 000 MIT classes available online free of charge since 2002 ; and the One Laptop per Child initiative to expand computer education and connectivity to children worldwide was launched in 2005.

" MIT also has 5 dormitories for single graduate students and 2 apartment buildings on campus for married student families.

MIT was elected to the Association of American Universities in 1934 and remains a research university with a very high level of research activity ; research expenditures totaled $ 718. 2 million in 2009.

The MIT X Consortium produced several significant revisions to X11, the first ( Release 2 – X11R2 ) in February 1988.

It was written by a student at Cornell University, Robert Tappan Morris, and launched on November 2, 1988 from MIT.

* Benjamin C. Pierce, Types and programming languages, MIT Press, 2002, ISBN 0-262-16209-1, chapter 15 ( subtyping of record types ), 19. 3 ( nominal vs. structural types and subtyping ), and 23. 2 ( varieties of polymorphism )

2, Revised Edition, MIT Press, 1985, Chapter 2 on " Detonation and Preignition ", pp 34 – 85.

* NUnitLite up to 2. 0 Alpha, a lightweight version of NUnit, NUnitLite is available under MIT / X / Expat Licence

1, issue 2, pp. 219 – 228, MIT Press, July 1992.

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* 6. 055J / 2. 038J The Art of Approximation in Science and Engineering taught by Sanjoy Mahajan at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( MIT ).

Jeffrey Alan Hoffman, Ph. D. ( born November 2, 1944 ) is an American former NASA astronaut and currently a professor of aeronautics and astronautics at MIT.

He was listed at # 2 on the MIT150 list of the top 150 innovators and ideas from MIT.

* Blauert " Spatial Hearing-Revised Edition: The Psychophysics of Human Sound Localization ", The MIT Press ; Rev Sub edition ( October 2, 1996 )

While the MIT team's card counting techniques can give players an overall edge of about 2 percent, some of the MIT team's methods have been established as gaining players an overall edge of about 4 percent.

* Files referring to the award and its presentation in the libraries of the MIT, seen at libraries. mit. edu, December 2, 2009 ( PDF )

Just over the Longfellow Bridge from Boston, at the eastern end of the MIT campus, it is served by the Kendall / MIT station on the MBTA Red Line subway.

CLU is a programming language created at MIT by Barbara Liskov and her students between 1974 and 1975.

There is also an initiative started by the OLPC foundation, a group out of MIT Media Lab and supported by several major corporations to develop a $ 100 laptop to deliver educational software.

Furthermore, it has been seen that, in MIT, individuals with small lesions in the left hemisphere seem to recover by activation of the left hemisphere perilesional cortex, while, in individuals with larger left-hemisphere lesions, there is a recruitment of the use of language-capable regions in the right hemisphere.

The effect is named for the 1966 chatterbot ELIZA, developed by MIT computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum.

* The Terrafugia Transition is under development by a private company founded by MIT graduates.

He was especially loved by MIT students for his willingness to teach and his kindness: " The trick to education ," he said, " is to teach people in such a way that they don't realize they're learning until it's too late.

At MIT, the Edgerton Center, founded in 1992, is a hands-on laboratory resource for undergraduate and graduate students, and also conducts educational outreach programs for high school students and teachers.

The film is based on Ben Mezrich's best seller, Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six MIT Students Who Took Vegas for Millions, a story of student MIT card-counters who used mathematical probability to aid them in card games such as blackjack.

MIT OpenCourseWare, for example, is under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, also known as MIT, is a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.

Still, as late as 1949, the Lewis Committee lamented in its report on the state of education at MIT that " the Institute is widely conceived as basically a vocational school ", a " partly unjustified " perception the committee sought to change.

The bridge closest to MIT is the Harvard Bridge, which is known for being marked off in a non-standard unit of length – the smoot.

The prominence of the reactor's containment building in a densely populated area has been controversial, but MIT maintains that it is well-secured.

MIT is chartered as a non-profit organization and is owned and governed by a privately appointed board of trustees known as the MIT Corporation.

The mass-market magazine Technology Review is published by MIT through a subsidiary company, as is a special edition that also serves as an alumni magazine.