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.

Thirty members of Fleming House traveled to MIT and reclaimed their cannon on April 10, 2006.

The current distance and duration record recognised by the FAI was achieved on 23 April 1988 from Heraklion on Crete to Santorini in a MIT Daedalus 88 piloted by Kanellos Kanellopoulos: a straight distance of in 3 hours, 54 minutes.

* April 12, 2005-A Conversation with Jack Welch at MIT Sloan School of Management

* April 23-Kanellos Kanellopoulos recreates the mythical flight of Daedalus by flying a pedal-powered aircraft, the MIT Daedalus from Crete to Santorini, covering the in 3 hours 54 minutes.

Richard Henry Bolt Ph. D., better known as Richard Bolt or Dick Bolt, ( Peking, China, April 22, 1911-Boston, Massachusetts, January 13, 2002 ) was a physics professor at MIT with an interest in acoustics.

In April 2011, Hamilton was listed as the 2nd best college in America for writers ( after Emory University and before Johns Hopkins, MIT and NYU ) by USA Today / CollegeDegree. com.

Robert Coldwell Wood ( September 16, 1923 – April 1, 2005 ) was an American political scientist, administrator, and professor of political science at MIT.

The MIT Press ( April 1, 2004 ) 514 pages ISBN 0-262-63300-0 ISBN 978-0-262-63300-0

The following year, a three-day Founding Conference convened at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( MIT ) from 10-12 April 1987.

While he heads a full research laboratory at MIT, as of April 1, 2009, he serves as the director of the RIKEN Brain Science Institute ( BSI ) in Wako-shi, Japan.

In April 2006, the OpenCourseWare website of " Visualizing Cultures " was announced on the main page of the MIT website, causing a stir among some Chinese students at MIT that found the material offensive.

The MIT Aeronautics and Astronautics Department's Daedalus was a human-powered aircraft that, on 23 April 1988, flew a distance of 71. 5 mi ( 115. 11 km ) in 3 hours, 54 minutes, from Iraklion on the island of Crete to the island of Santorini.

*" Television's Great Writer ", Milch at MIT, April 20, 2006 ( video: 1: 23: 15 ).

Philip Morrison, ( November 7, 1915 in Somerville, New Jersey – April 22, 2005 in Cambridge, Massachusetts ) was Institute Professor Emeritus and Professor of Physics Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( MIT ).

The one volume of his writings to appear in English translation is The Road to Democracy in Iran ( MIT Press, April 2008 ).

* arts @ MIT Press Release 3 / 19 / 2007: ' Einstein's Dreams ' at MIT April 19-29

" Research Interests: History of Science ", MIT, accessed April 27, 2011.

She spoke at MIT on 12 April 2007 after a screening of Fire.

* 6. 912 Introduction to Copyright Law taught by Keith Winstein, MIT OpenCourseWare January IAP 2006

* MIT OpenCourseWare 6. 912 Introduction to Copyright Law Free self-study course with video lectures as offered during the January 2006, Independent Activities Period ( IAP )

For about a decade, every student taking the 6. 004 class at MIT was part of a team — each team had one semester to design and build a simple 8 bit CPU out of 7400 series integrated circuits.

MIT enrolled 4, 384 undergraduates and 6, 510 graduate students for the 2011 – 2012 school year.

In 2011, MIT faculty and researchers disclosed 632 inventions, were issued 153 patents, earned $ 85. 4 million in cash income, and received $ 69. 6 million in royalties.

Starting in 2012, MIT has announced it will post those decisions ( privately ) online on Pi Day at exactly 6: 28pm, which they have called " Tau Time ", to honor the rival numbers Pi and Tau equally.

* Official 6. 001 site for Spring, 2007 ( an MIT course that goes by the same name as the book )

MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Memo 6.

It hosts 6 of the top 100 chemists worldwide by citation impact for 2000 – 2010, tied with MIT for the most of any instutition.

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In spring 2008, Abelson initiated the first " Building Mobile Application " class at MIT ( 6. 081 ).

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

For his role in procuring such a gigantic grant, Dertouzos eventually was made head of Course 6, the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department at MIT.

Indeed, he spent so much time programming the PDP machines there he failed out of MIT as a first-term junior and had to take a job at the Charles Adams Associates firm until the AI Lab hired him about 6 months later.

In 2011, he was listed at # 6 on the MIT150 list of the top 150 innovators and ideas from MIT.

Starner is also a co-founder of the IEEE International Symposium on Wearable Computers ( ISWC ) and co-founder and first member of the MIT Wearable Computing Project, where he was one of the first 6 cyborgs involved.

Among those who attended were Eric Drexler ( at the time a freshman at MIT ), scientist-astronaut Joe Allen ( from Astronaut Group 6 ), Freeman Dyson, and science reporter Walter Sullivan.

Worldwide Online Olympiad Training ( WOOT ), United States of America Mathematics Olympiad and the International Mathematics Olympiad, Mathematical Olympiad Program, the MIT 6. 370 Battlecode Competition, and The Center for Excellence in Education.

USA on 1 February 2007 ); Sonata for Organ ( premiered by Robert Green at St David's Cathedral, Pembrokeshire, Wales on 22 August 2007 ); the opera, Far from the Madding Crowd, premièred at the Thomas Hardy Festival in July 2006 ; Mass for Unaccompanied Solo Voice, premiered by soprano Paula Downes at the MIT Chapel, Boston, Massachusetts, USA on 6 March 2008 ; Sonata for Horn, Violin and Piano for the Brahms Trio Prague ( Monica Vrabcová, violin ; Ondrej Vrabec, Horn Czech Philharmonic Orchestra and Daniel Wiesner, piano ), premiered at the Suk Hall, Rudolfinum, Prague on 5 February 2008 ( a CD of this work has now been released on the Czech Philharmonic Artesmon label ); Finished Fields, a setting of four poems by Wilfred Owen commissioned by Jonathan Pugsley ( bass-baritone ) and Duncan Honeybourne ( piano ) and premiered in Weymouth, Dorset on 12 November 2008 ; Concerto for Piano and Orchestra for pianist Duncan Honeybourne and the Central England Ensemble, conducted by Anthony Bradbury in Birmingham Town Hall on 1 March 2009, and given again by the same artists in Coventry Cathedral in July 2010 ; Sonata for Contrabass Flute and Piano for Peter Sheridan, premiered in 2009 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia ; and Sonata for Clarinet and Piano for clarinettist Angus Merion and Duncan Honeybourne, premiered in Salisbury, UK in January 2010.

* MIT CS 6. 897: Advanced Data Structures: Lecture 4, Fusion Trees, Prof. Erik Demaine ( Spring 2003 )

* MIT CS 6. 897: Advanced Data Structures: Lecture 5, More fusion trees ; self-organizing data structures, move-to-front, static optimality, Prof. Erik Demaine ( Spring 2003 )

* MIT CS 6. 851: Advanced Data Structures: Lecture 13, Fusion Tree notes, Prof. Erik Demaine ( Spring 2007 )

* MIT CS 6. 851: Advanced Data Structures: Lecture 12, Fusion Tree notes, Prof. Erik Demaine ( Spring 2012 )

At some universities, the Order of St. Anthony maintains a chapter house colloquially referred to as " The Hall " or " St. A's ", although at MIT, the society is known as " The Number Six Club " in reference to that chapter's original founding and residence at No. 6 Louisburg Square in Boston's Beacon Hill neighborhood.