The most visible difference in these views was in the design of the MIT hackers ' Incompatible Timesharing System, which deliberately did not have any security measures.

For example a group at MIT concluded that the planet Mesklin in Hal Clement's 1953 novel Mission of Gravity would have had a sharp edge at the equator, and a Florida high-school class calculated that in Larry Niven's 1970 novel Ringworld the topsoil would have slid into the seas in a few thousand years.

For example, when the computers at MIT were protected either by physical locks or login programs, the hackers there systematically worked around them in order to have access to the machines.

FOLDOC goes on to say, " TMRC and the MIT hacker culture of the early 1960s seems to have developed in a milieu that remembered and still used some WWII military slang ( see also foobar ).

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.

These buildings have not always been well received ; in 2010, The Princeton Review included MIT in a list of twenty schools whose campuses are " tiny, unsightly, or both ".

At least nine Turing Award laureates and seven recipients of the Draper Prize in engineering have been or are currently associated with MIT.

In the domain of humanities, arts, and social sciences, MIT economists have been awarded five Nobel Prizes and nine John Bates Clark Medals.

Spanning many of the above fields, MacArthur Fellowships ( the so-called " Genius Grants ") have been awarded to 38 people associated with MIT.

Four Pulitzer Prize winning writers currently work at or have retired from MIT.

An interdisciplinary team from MIT have estimated that given the expected growth of nuclear power from 2005 – 2055, at least four serious nuclear accidents would be expected in that period.

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.

Although X10 offered interesting and powerful functionality, it had become obvious that the X protocol could use a more hardware-neutral redesign before it became too widely deployed, but MIT alone would not have the resources available for such a complete redesign.

It may have been inspired by the humorous Law of Software Development and Envelopment at MIT, which was posted on Usenet in 1989 by Greg Kuperberg, who wrote:

Many other universities and educational institutions of the United States have been involved in the development of the project and its instruments, namely the University of Alaska Fairbanks, Stanford University, Penn State University ( ARL ), Boston College, UCLA, Clemson University, Dartmouth College, Cornell University, Johns Hopkins University, University of Maryland, College Park, University of Massachusetts Amherst, MIT, Polytechnic Institute of New York University, and the University of Tulsa.

The continuous interaction of material science research at MIT and the resulting improvements in jet engine efficiency and power have kept the jet engine plant in Lynn ever since.

Several recent studies, one conducted by researchers at MIT and another by researchers at the Tufts University School of Medicine, have rekindled the debate once again.

A vast majority ( 76 %) of the current faculty of AUEB have obtained their PhD degrees from the USA or the UK, in Universities such as Harvard, Columbia, MIT, Cambridge, Northwestern University, Berkeley University, NYU, Pennsylvania, LSE, LBS, Warwick, Manchester, Strathclyde, Essex, Maryland, City, Bath, Reading, etc.

Bhatia's success has earned him widespread acclaim ; the venture capital firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson named him ' Entrepreneur of the Year 1997 ', MIT chose him as one of 100 young innovators who are expected to have the greatest impact on technology and awarded ' TR100 ', San Jose Mercury News and POV magazine selected him as one of the ten most successful entrepreneurs of 1998 and Upside magazine's list of top trend setters in the New Economy named him ' Elite 100 '.

The MIT group also concluded that the planet would have had a sharp edge at the equator.

In addition, MIT Sloan students can freely cross-register for courses at Harvard Business School, and vice versa, the only pair of leading business schools to have such an agreement.

In December 2009, some Caltech students declared that MIT had been sold and had become the Caltech East campus.

Ken Olsen and Harlan Anderson were two engineers who had been working at MIT Lincoln Laboratory on the lab's various computer projects.

The efficacy of melodic intonation therapy has been proven by studies that show that MIT can result in greater recovery when compared to non-intonation therapy.

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 term hack arose from MIT lingo, as the word had long been used to describe college pranks that MIT students would regularly devise.

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

Although keeping up with the pace and difficulty of MIT coursework has been compared to " drinking from a fire hose ", the freshmen retention rate at MIT is similar to that at other national research universities.

The MIT Media Lab, founded in 1985 within the School of Architecture and Planning and known for its unconventional research, has been home to influential researchers such as constructivist educator and Logo creator Seymour Papert.

Professor Ted Postol has accused the MIT administration since 2000 of attempting to whitewash potential research misconduct at the Lincoln Lab facility involving a ballistic missile defense test, though a final investigation into the matter has not been completed.

He has been on the MIT faculty since 1958.

Melodic intonation therapy ( MIT ) has been pursued for some years with aphasic patients under the belief that it helps stimulate the ability to speak normally.

He graduated in 1913 and succeeded in getting a scholarship to MIT which had earlier been won by his father.

According to a study by Carola Frydman of MIT, from 1936 to the early 2000s there has been a rapid increase in the share of MBA graduates acting as CEOs ; from approximately 10 % of CEOs in 1960 to more than 50 % by the end of the century.

The MIT Lisp Machine operating system has been developed from the middle 1970s to the early 1980s.

One such system had been developed for the PDP-1 at MIT by Daniel Murphy before he joined BBN.

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.

thesis in electrical engineering at MIT, awarded in 1931.

MIT awarded 1, 547 master's degrees and 609 doctoral degrees in the 2010 – 11 academic year.

MIT has never awarded an honorary degree, nor does it award athletic scholarships, ad eundem degrees, or Latin honors upon graduation.

However, MIT has twice awarded honorary professorships: to Winston Churchill in 1949 and Salman Rushdie in 1993.

There are several fellowship and traineeship programs, and graduate degrees are awarded through a joint program with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( MIT ) or by the Institution itself.

in 1973 from MIT and his Ph. D. from Stanford University in 1977 ; he was also awarded a Doctor of Science, honoris causa from the University of Chicago in 1997.

Later, a story emerged that MIT had entered into an agreement with Dolby whereupon the university would be awarded a large sum if the MPEG-2 system was rejected.

In 1993, Robinson was awarded the NASA / Space Club Low Memorial Engineering Fellowship, and was assigned for 15 months to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( MIT ) as Visiting Engineer in the Man Vehicle Laboratory ( MVL ).

He was awarded the Shaw Prize in 2012 ( along with Jane Luu of MIT Lincoln Laboratory ) for the " discovery and characterization of trans-Neptunian bodies, an archeological treasure dating back to the formation of the solar system and the long-sought source of short period comets ".

Among the various awards he's received for his work on inflation, in 2002 he was awarded the Dirac Medal, along with Alan Guth of MIT and Paul Steinhardt of Princeton University.

Later, a story emerged that MIT had entered into an agreement with Dolby whereupon the university would be awarded a large sum if the MP2 system was rejected.

* Yung Ho Chang ( 张永和 ), Owner of ' Architecture Prize ' awarded by American Academy of Arts, Faculty of the U. S. Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( MIT ), Department of Architecture ( Department of Architecture, 81 )

In 1935, MIT awarded him with the PhD in mathematics.

Prof. Sterman has twice been awarded the Jay W. Forrester Prize for the best published work in system dynamics, won an IBM Faculty Award, won the Accenture Award for the best paper of the year published in the California Management Review, has seven times won awards for teaching excellence, and was named one of the MIT Sloan School's " Outstanding Faculty " by the Business Week Guide to the Best Business Schools.

The first fellowship was awarded to Louise Houssiere for graduate study at MIT in 1940.

All students are awarded the SMA fellowship which provides all tuition fees at MIT and NUS and living allowance, travel grants.

and a PhD from the MIT Sloan School of Management in 1983 and 1985 respectively, and was also awarded a D. B. A.

He was awarded a Doctor of Science degree by MIT in 1949.

In addition to the MBA awarded by the Sloan School, participants are awarded a Certificate in Entrepreneurship and Innovation from MIT.