It also has a long standing rivalry with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( MIT ).

Ray Magliozzi has a bachelor of science degree in humanities and science from MIT, while Tom has a bachelor of science degree in economics from MIT and an MBA and DBA from the Boston University Graduate School of Management.

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.

MIT has five schools and one college, containing a total of 32 academic departments, with a strong emphasis on scientific and technological education and research.

MIT has a strong entrepreneurial culture.

MIT has kept pace with and helped to advance the digital age.

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.

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 has also taken steps to reduce its environmental impact by running alternative fuel campus shuttles, subsidizing public transportation passes, and building a low-emission cogeneration plant that serves most of the campus electricity, heating, and cooling requirements.

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

MIT has five schools ( Science, Engineering, Architecture and Planning, Management, and Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences ) and one college ( Whitaker College of Health Sciences and Technology ), but no schools of law or medicine.

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.

A cross-registration program between MIT and Wellesley College has also existed since 1969, and in 2002 the Cambridge – MIT Institute launched an undergraduate exchange program between MIT and the University of Cambridge.

MIT has more modest cross-registration programs with Boston University, Brandeis University, Tufts University, Massachusetts College of Art, and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

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.

In a very universal sense, hacker also means someone who makes things work beyond perceived limits in a clever way in general, without necessarily referring to computers, especially at the MIT.

* Down From the Top of Its Game: The Story of Infocom, Inc .— A report from MIT which offers a very detailed examination of Infocom's creative successes and marketing failures.

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.

But more recent, and more rigorously conducted, research has revealed that MIT can be very effective at recovering language function.

Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press The editors ' long introduction gives a clear and very useful overview of theories of vagueness, and they collect many classic papers on the subject.

This use is very much aligned with the original intention of the MIT project.

The more widespread was a set of computer communication packet-based protocols intended to connect the then-recently developed and very popular ( within MIT ) Lisp machines ; the second was one of the earliest local area network hardware implementations.

Designed at the MIT Lincoln Laboratory largely as an experiment in transistorized design and the construction of very large core memory systems, the TX-0 was essentially a transistorized version of the equally famous Whirlwind, also built at Lincoln Lab.

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.

Although improvements in new types of aviation radar were soon forthcoming from the engineers at MIT and the electronic industry, the available primitive radars in 1943 were very bulky, attributed to the fact that they contained vacuum tube technology.

and, as editor, very high resolution spectroscopy, He left RRE to become Professor of Physics at the University of Sheffield in 1961, came to MIT as Director of the Center for Materials Science and Engineering a year later, and became Vice-Chancellor of Heriot-Watt University in 1968, retiring in 1974.

Studies from Rebecca Saxe's lab at MIT, using a false belief versus false photograph task contrast aimed to isolate the mentalizing component of the false belief task, have very consistently found activation in mPFC, precuneus, and temporo-parietal junction ( TPJ ), right-lateralized.

She is very intelligent, is an MIT graduate and is always well informed about her customers.

His current research activities are now concentrated on the application and extension of the Turbo technology in various domains, including his research on Artificial thinking, because the Turbo-decoding has been recognized as a new instance of the very general principle of Belief propagation ; one application of this principle has been invented for the decoding of Low-density parity-check codes ( LDPC codes also known as Gallager codes, in honor of Robert G. Gallager, who developed the LDPC concept in his doctoral dissertation at MIT in 1960 as a theoretical model whose practical implementation was not widely developed until recently ).

Several robots, built in the 1980s by Marc Raibert at the MIT Leg Laboratory, successfully demonstrated very dynamic walking.

In addition, Thorp, while a professor of mathematics at MIT, met Claude Shannon, and took him and his wife Betty Shannon as partners on weekend forays to Las Vegas to play roulette and blackjack, at which Thorp was very successful.

While a postdoc at MIT she spent some time in the lab of subsequent 1976 chemistry Nobel Prize winner William N. Lipscomb, Jr. of Harvard University where she was inspired to pursue very large structures.

* 1943 MIT becomes active in the field of food preservation for the U. S. Army

The consulate at that time also set up Falun Gong clubs at MIT and Columbia University which are active to this day.

He was also an active member of the MIT debating team.

The Student Association for Freedom of Expression is no longer active on the MIT campus.

On February 15, 1999, while being transferred from the Greek embassy to Nairobi international airport, Öcalan was captured in an operation by the Turkish National Intelligence Agency ( MIT ).

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.

* Dizikes, Peter, " Chicago hope: Ambitious attempt to help the city ’ s poor by moving them out of troubled housing projects is having mixed results, MIT study finds ", MIT News, MIT News Office, March 3, 2011.

While MIT was always coeducational it could only provide housing to about fifty female students.

In 1999 the Massachusetts Institute of Technology took stock of its housing system, and studied a variety of residence models in " Reinventing residence life @ MIT ".