For several years, U. S. News & World Report, the QS World University Rankings, and the Academic Ranking of World Universities have ranked MIT's School of Engineering first, as did the 1995 National Research Council report.

His success as a practitioner of modern architecture and his prominence as an academic, enabled Stone to form bonds with other academics of the era like Walter Gropius ( Chairman of the Department of Architecture at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design ), Pietro Belluschi ( Dean of MIT's School of Architecture and Planning ), George Howe ( Chairman of Yale University ’ s School of Architecture ) and William Wurster ( co-founder of the University of California at Berkeley College of Environmental Design ).

Abelson was recipient in 1992 of the Bose Award ( MIT's School of Engineering teaching award ).

The Media Arts and Sciences program is a part of MIT's School of Architecture and Planning, and includes three levels of study: a doctoral program, a master's of science program, and a program that offers an alternative to the standard MIT freshman year as well as a set of undergraduate subjects that may form the basis for a future joint major.

Apart from the Media Lab, the building also hosts the List Visual Arts Center, the School of Architecture and Planning's Program in Art, Culture and Technology ( ACT ), and MIT's Program in Comparative Media Studies.

It is a one-year, rigorous programme with a heavy focus on the manufacturing sector, and is drawn on the lines of MIT's Leaders for Global Operations ( LGO ) ( formerly called Leaders For Manufacturing ( LFM )) programme, run jointly by MIT Sloan School of Management and MIT's School of Engineering.

Eric von Hippel of MIT's Sloan School of Management defined the user-led innovation model in his book Democratizing Innovation.

MIT's inability to secure a more stable financial footing during this era can largely be attributed to the existence of the Lawrence Scientific School at Harvard.

Despite his tenure at the analogous Sheffield School, Walker remained committed to MIT's independence from the larger institution.

Charles and Henry each received a " certificate for completion of partial course ," a special two-year program at MIT's School of Architecture, in 1891.

In 1999, Porter and his wife Joan gave $ 25 million to MIT's Sloan School of Management:

In 1967, Negroponte founded MIT's Architecture Machine Group, a combination lab and think tank which studied new approaches to human-computer interaction.

The program engages in research at both institutions and students can graduate with a Master of Science of Architectural Studies specializing in the Aga Khan program from MIT's Department of Architecture.

He is an artist and technologist who has worked extensively on virtual reality, including stints at NASA, Atari Research Labs, MIT's Architecture Machine Group and Keio University.

Specialists from Raytheon, Simrad ( now Kongsberg Maritime ), and Hydroacoustics, Inc .; Marty Klein of MIT and Klein Associates ( a producer of side scan sonar ); and Dr. Ira Dyer of MIT's Department of Ocean Engineering were all on hand to examine the data.

On July 18, 2007, when MIT's Astronautics Department's Professor Dava Newman displayed a biosuit, the suit was referenced as Mobile Suit Gundam's Normal Suit is now real by various news agencies.

It was decided to shelve the Whirlwind II design without building it and concentrate MIT's resources on programming and applications for the original machine, now called Whirlwind I. IBM based their production designs, the AN / FSQ-7, on the stillborn Whirlwind II.

MIT's Barta Building ( now building N42 ) which housed Whirlwind during the project's lifetime, was until recently home to MIT's campus-wide IT department, Information Services & Technology.

* Nick Patterson, Research, Medallion Fund ; chess player, formerly with the UK's GCHQ ; now at MIT's Broad Institute

He was director of MIT's Center for Cancer Research ( now the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research ) from 1985 to 1991 ; head of the Biology department from 1991 to 1999 ; and director of the McGovern Institute for Brain Research from 2000 to 2004.

To be considered a ' hack ' was an honour among like-minded peers as " to qualify as a hack, the feat must be imbued with innovation, style and technical virtuosity " ( Levy, 1984 p. 10 ) The MIT's Tech Model Railroad Club Dictionary defined hack in 1959 ( not yet in a computer context ) as " 1 ) an article or project without constructive end ; 2 ) a project undertaken on bad self-advice ; 3 ) an entropy booster ; 4 ) to produce, or attempt to produce, a hack ( 3 ).

For example, when MIT students surreptitiously put a fake police car atop the dome on MIT's Building 10, that was a hack in this sense, and the students involved were therefore hackers.

Though it was initially envisaged that these cellular automata would run on special computers, such as MIT's " Cellular Automata Machine-8 " ( CAM-8 ), by 1996 it was realised that the model originally proposed, which required cellular automata with thousands of states, was too complex to be realised in hardware.

Inspired by Colossal Cave, Marc Blank and Dave Lebling created what was to become the first Infocom game, Zork, in 1977 at MIT's Laboratory for Computer Science.

MIT's architecture faculty was also focused on the Beaux-Arts school, and Pei found himself uninspired by the work.

It seems likely that ' kluge ' came to MIT via alumni of the many military electronics projects run in Cambridge during the war ( many in MIT's venerable Building 20, which housed TMRC until the building was demolished in 1999 ).

In late 1960s and early 1970s, student and faculty activists protested against the Vietnam War and MIT's defense research .< ref > The Union of Concerned Scientists was founded on March 4, 1969 during a meeting of faculty members and students seeking to shift the emphasis on military research towards environmental and social problems.

MIT's campus-wide wireless network was completed in the fall of 2005 and consists of nearly 3, 000 access points covering of campus.

It was the machine that made time-sharing common ; it looms large in hacker folklore because of its adoption in the 1970s by many university computing facilities and research labs, the most notable of which were MIT's AI Lab and Project MAC, Stanford's SAIL, Computer Center Corporation ( CCC ), and Carnegie Mellon University.

MIT's example was donated to The Computer Museum, Boston, and from there ended up at the Computer History Museum ( CHM ).

MIT's CTSS, one of the first time sharing systems, was introduced in 1961.

The operating system and software development environment, over 500, 000 lines, was written in Lisp from the microcode up, based on MIT's Lisp Machine Lisp.

Fans of MIT's Incompatible Timesharing System ( ITS ) say it was coined in opposition to Multics users down the hall, for whom security was far more an issue than on ITS.

It originated at MIT's Project MAC ( from which it derived its prefix ) in the late 1960s and was based on Lisp 1. 5.

In 1933 Van de Graaff built a 40-foot ( 12 m ) model at MIT's Round Hill facility, the use of which was donated by Colonel Edward H. R. Green.

The Zephyr Notification Service ( still in use at some institutions ) was invented at MIT's Project Athena in the 1980s to allow service providers to locate and send messages to users.

* The Norbert Wiener Prize in Applied Mathematics was endowed in 1967 in honor of Norbert Wiener by MIT's mathematics department and is provided jointly by the American Mathematical Society and Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.

DEC was still heavily involved with MIT's AI Lab, and many feature requests from the LISP hackers were moved into this machine.

Chaosnet was first developed by Thomas Knight and Jack Holloway at MIT's AI Lab in 1975 and thereafter.

The first known use of the terms in print appear in a 1965 edition of MIT's " Tech Engineering News.

After years of delay caused by wartime funding and staffing difficulties, MIT's first classes were held in rented space at the Mercantile Building in downtown Boston in 1865.

* The Compatible Time-Sharing System ( CTSS ), one of the first time-sharing operating systems, was developed at MIT's Project MAC using a 7094 with an extra bank of memory, among other modifications.

The Compatible Time-Sharing System, or the CTSS, was one of the first time-sharing operating systems ; it was developed at MIT's Computation Center.

While the Servomechanisms Lab was in the process of developing their first mill, in 1953, MIT's Mechanical Engineering Department dropped the requirement that undergraduates take courses in drawing.

Six years later, MIT's publishing operations were first formally instituted by the creation of an imprint called Technology Press in 1932.

Calculating Space is the title of MIT's English translation of Konrad Zuse's 1969 book Rechnender Raum ( literally: " space that is computing "), the first book on digital physics.

Taylor had convinced ARPA's Director Charles M. Herzfeld to fund a network project earlier in February 1966, and hired Lawrence G. Roberts from MIT's Lincoln Laboratory to be its first program manager.

In 1975 this network became the first local area network on MIT's campus.

Oedipus ( who had the first punk rock show in the country while at MIT's college station, WTBS ) was hired first as a DJ in 1977, and then installed as program director in 1981, and helped to break The Ramones, The Clash, The Police, and countless punk and new wave bands out of Boston.

An early implementation of versioning, possibly the first, was in MIT's ITS.