Concerning information processing, DARPA made great progress, initially through its support of the development of time-sharing ( all modern operating systems rely on concepts invented for the Multics system, developed by a cooperation among Bell Labs, General Electric and MIT, which DARPA supported by funding Project MAC at MIT with an initial two-million-dollar grant ).

In 1983, Richard Stallman, longtime member of the hacker community at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, announced the GNU project, saying that he had become frustrated with the effects of the change in culture of the computer industry and its users.

The art of mechanical analog computing reached its zenith with the differential analyzer, built by H. L. Hazen and Vannevar Bush at MIT starting in 1927, which in turn built on the mechanical integrators invented in 1876 by James Thomson and the torque amplifiers invented by H. W. Nieman.

* Fodor, Jerry ( 1995 ) The Elm and the Expert: Mentalese and its Semantics, Cambridge: MIT Press.

In 1959 he was approached by MIT to design a building for its Earth science program.

Still, as late as 1949, the Lewis Committee lamented in its report on the state of education at MIT that " the Institute is widely conceived as basically a vocational school ", a " partly unjustified " perception the committee sought to change.

By the 1950s, MIT no longer merely benefited the industries it had worked so closely with three decades prior, and was much closer to its new patrons, philanthropic foundations and the federal government.

MIT was named a sea-grant college in 1976 to support its programs in oceanography and marine sciences and was named a space-grant college in 1989 to support its aeronautics and astronautics programs.

In 2001, inspired by the open source and open access movements, MIT launched OpenCourseWare to make the lecture notes, problem sets, syllabuses, exams, and lectures from the great majority of its courses available online for no charge, though without any formal accreditation for coursework completed.

In 2011, MIT announced it would offer formal certification ( but not credits or degrees ) to online participants completing coursework in its " MITx " program, for a modest fee.

In 2001, the Environmental Protection Agency sued MIT for violating Clean Water Act and Clean Air Act with regard to its hazardous waste storage and disposal procedures.

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 offers 44 undergraduate degrees across its five schools.

MIT allocates a percentage of the budget for all new construction and renovation to commission and support its extensive public art and outdoor sculpture collection.

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.

Such proprietary software retains its proprietary nature even though it incorporates software under the MIT License.

* Nanoparticles made of polyethylene glycol ( PEG ) carrying payload of antibiotics at its core could swift charge thus allowing them to target bacterial infection more precisely inside the body, a group of MIT researchers reported.

Chemist John C. Sheehan at MIT completed the first total synthesis of penicillin and some of its analogs in the early 1950s, but his methods were not efficient for mass production.

In 1962, DEC donated the engineering prototype PDP-1 to MIT, where it was placed in the room next to its ancestor, the TX-0 computer, which was by then on indefinite loan from Lincoln Laboratory.

David Kaiser of MIT mentioned in his book, How the Hippies Saved Physics, that the possibilities of instantaneous long-range communication derived from Bell's theorem stirred interest among hippies, psychics, and even the CIA, with the counter-culture playing a critical role in its development toward practical use.

Richard Stallman's account claims Symbolics engaged in a business tactic in which it forced MIT to make all fixes and improvements to the Lisp Machine OS available only to it, and thereby choke off its competitor LMI, which at that time had insufficient resources to independently maintain or develop the OS and environment.

In the Northeastern Province of the United States, a group of Latin American students decided to organize a cultural and intellectual fraternity ; as a result Pi Delta Phi ( ΠΔΦ ) fraternity was founded at Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( MIT ) in 1916.

Most notably designed by inspiration of the Rotunda and Lawn are the expansive green spaces headed by Rotunda-like buildings built at Duke University in 1892, Johns Hopkins University in 1902, Rice University in 1910, Peabody College of Vanderbilt University in 1915, the Green at the University of Delaware in 1916, Killian Court at MIT in 1916 and the " Grand Auditorium " of Tsinghua University in Beijing built in 1917.

Thereafter, Nichols served as the 10th President of Dartmouth College between 1909 and 1916, and as the president of MIT from 1921 until 1923.

MIT moved across the river in 1916 ; the edifice has since been replaced by a life insurance building.

He also taught papermaking at MIT from 1893 to 1916.

In 1917, the company moved to a building of its own, the Arthur D. Little Inc., Building, at 30 Memorial Drive on the Charles River next to the campus of MIT which had moved to Cambridge from Boston in 1916.

* Ascher H. Shapiro, MIT professor and expert in fluid dynamics ( 1916 – 2004 )

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.

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.

The next year he returned to Cambridge, Massachusetts when the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( MIT ) appointed him to a faculty position, in which he had a chance to join a group of outstanding physical chemists under the direction of Arthur Amos Noyes.

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.

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.

Infocom was founded on June 22, 1979 by MIT staff and students led by Dave Lebling, Marc Blank, Albert Vezza, and Joel Berez and lasted as an independent company until 1986 when it was bought by Activision.

MIT ultimately prevailed when the Justice Department dropped the case in 1994.

: MIT graduate coder and multimillionaire who stays with Microsoft when the rest of the characters leave for California.

* MMIXX – An X11-based graphics package contributed by Andrew Pochinsky of MIT ’ s Center for Theoretical Physics which, when combined with the MMIXware sources above, augments the < tt > MMIX </ tt > virtual machine with a 640 × 480 pixel, true-color ‘ virtual display ’ ( for UNIX / Linux ).

** For instance, when a magazine claims that An MIT professor predicts that the robotic era is coming in 2050, the use of big-name " MIT " ( a world-renowned American university for the advanced research in math, science, and technology ) establishes the " strong " credibility.

In the summer of 1886, when the campus was first being planned, Stanford brought the president of Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( MIT ), Francis Amasa Walker, and prominent Boston landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted westward for consultations.

He held this position until 1967, when he became professor of applied math and director of the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, until 1981 ; he also served as Cecil & Ida Green professor of education at MIT from 1974-1981.

MIT started its millimeter size turbine engine project in the middle of the 1990s when Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics Alan H. Epstein considered the possibility of creating a personal turbine which will be able to meet all the demands of a modern person's electrical needs, just as a large turbine can meet the electricity demands of a small city.

Under ITS, when a user first walked up to a terminal at MIT and typed control-Z to get the computer's attention, it printed out some status information, including how many people were already using the computer.

Sutherland replaced J. C. R. Licklider as the head of the US Defense Department Advanced Research Project Agency's Information Processing Techniques Office ( IPTO ), when Licklider returned to MIT in 1964 .< ref >

The group really became intensively involved with computers when Jack Dennis, a former member by then on the MIT Faculty, introduced them to the TX-0, a $ 3, 000, 000 computer on long-term-loan from Lincoln Laboratory.

The MIT class ring, commonly referred to as " The Brass Rat ," when cast in Celestrium ( also known as jeweler's steel ) is often referred to as " The Stainless Steel Rat " in reference to The Stainless Steel Rat series.

The trolley problem was first imported into cognitive science from philosophy in a systematic way by John Mikhail, who began testing trolley problems on different groups of people, including children and people from non-Western cultures, when he was a visiting graduate student in MIT ’ s Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences.

MIT reluctantly licensed versions of VAX Macsyma from Berkeley to about 50 universities, starting with Caltech, under condition that the licenses would be revoked when negotiations for a proper license were complete.

At MIT Macsyma had a link to the IMSL ( now Rogue Wave Software ) numerical libraries, but this link was severed when Macsyma moved to Symbolics.

He served as president of MIT until 1870, when he stood down because of declining health.

Abbot would meet Samuel P. Langley on MIT campus when Langely visited seeking an assistant.