Valued at $ 9. 7 billion in 2011, MIT's endowment is the sixth-largest among American colleges and universities.

In large machines there were other disk operating systems, such as IBM's VM, DEC's RSTS / RT-11 / VMS / TOPS-10 / TWENEX, MIT's ITS / CTSS, Control Data's assorted NOS variants, Harris's Vulcan, Bell Labs ' Unix, and so on.

On the other hand, MIT's extensive collaboration with the federal government on research projects has led to several MIT leaders serving as Presidential scientific advisers since 1940.

MIT's proximity to Harvard University (" the other school up the river ") has led to a substantial number of research collaborations such as the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology and Broad Institute.

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 ).

The response from MIT faculty and students has been very positive and MIT OpenCourseWare is seen as being consistent with MIT's mission ( to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century ) and is true to MIT's values of excellence, innovation, and leadership.

* 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 Arlington Hall effort was comparable in influence to other Anglo-American WW II-era technological efforts, such as the cryptographic work at Bletchley Park, the Naval Communications Annex, development of sophisticated microwave radar at MIT's Radiation Lab, and the Manhattan Project's development of nuclear weapons.

The contrast between MIT's approach and other laboratories was also described as a " procedural / declarative distinction ".

At noon on the Friday before Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, the teams gather in the lobby of MIT's Building 7 where the organizers present a skit describing the hunt's theme, the initial round of puzzles, as well as rules and other administrative matters.

In accordance with Law 2937, the MIT's interests include domestic and external organizations, financial resources, acts and movements of subversive or separatist elements working against the Constitutional order of the Republic of Turkey.

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.

Undergraduates are guaranteed four-year housing in one of MIT's 12 undergraduate dormitories, Those living on campus can receive support and mentoring from live-in graduate student tutors, resident advisors, and faculty housemasters.

Most FSILGs are located across the river in the Back Bay owing to MIT's history there, and there is also a cluster of fraternities on MIT's West Campus.

In the same lists, MIT's strongest showings apart from in engineering are in computer science, the natural sciences, business, economics, linguistics, mathematics, and, to a lesser extent, political science and philosophy.

The main challenge in implementing the OCW initiative had not been faculty resistance, but rather, the logistical challenges presented by determining ownership and obtaining publication permission for the massive amount of intellectual property items that are embedded in the course materials of MIT's faculty, in addition to the time and technical effort required to convert the educational materials to an online format.

MIT Sloan closely collaborates with MIT's engineering, science, and economics programs, all of which are regularly ranked # 1 in the world.

Key to the study is the realization that the mathematics of such jams, which the researchers call " jamitons ," are strikingly similar to the equations that describe detonation waves produced by explosions, says Aslan Kasimov, lecturer in MIT's Department of Mathematics.

MIT's Great Dome Newton tower On every slab-sided cornice, like proclamations of faith needing no explanation, are chiseled Darwin, Newton, Aristotle and, in lesser letters, the names of the more numerous Lavoisiers and Eulers and Faradays who have discovered the chemical elements or evolved the equations or stumbled upon the fundamentals of nature.

In 1982, Baltimore was appointed the founding director of MIT's Whitehead Institute, where he remained through June 1990.

" Caltech students also passed out T-shirts to MIT's incoming freshman class that had MIT written on the front and "... because not everyone can go to Caltech " along with an image of a palm tree on the back.

* A community of enthusiast computer programmers and systems designers, originated in the 1960s around the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's ( MIT's ) Tech Model Railroad Club ( TMRC ) and MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.

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.

* MIT's Introduction to Algorithms: Hashing 1 MIT OCW lecture Video

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

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 ).

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.

" The expansion and reforms cemented MIT's academic reputation, though unlike Ivy League schools, MIT catered more to middle-class families, and depended more on tuition than on endowments or grants.

Many iterations later this system became the MIT " Tin Lizzy " wearable computer design, and Starner went on to become one of the founders of MIT's wearable computing project.

With a view of revisiting MIT's history, a museum named MIT Museum has been set up inside the campus.

He joined MIT's Computation Center immediately upon graduation, became a professor in 1965, and stayed at MIT until he retired.

* 1964 TV episode of John Fitch, Science Reporter, featuring MIT's CTSS time-sharing system and an interview with MIT Professor Fernando J Corbato.

The Whitehead Institute was founded as a fiscally independent entity from Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( MIT ), and its members and associate members hold faculty appointments in MIT's Biology Department.

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.

* MIT tribute page-he was featured on MIT's daily-changing home page on December 19, 2005

and administration was transferred to the MIT Information Systems organization ( MIT's IT department ).

Greenblatt enrolled in MIT in the fall of 1962, and around his second term as an undergraduate student, he found his way to MIT's famous Tech Model Railroad Club.

Mallove taught science journalism at MIT and Boston University and was chief science writer at MIT's news office, a position he left as part of a dispute with the school over cold fusion.

* MIT's System Design and Management Program

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.

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