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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.
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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 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 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.
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 ).
MIT and 2006
* 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 )
In 2006, MIT replicated the prank and moved the same cannon to their campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
In 2006, President Hockfield launched the MIT Energy Research Council to investigate the interdisciplinary challenges posed by increasing global energy consumption.
Making Silicon Valley: Innovation and the Growth of High Tech, 1930-1970 Published by MIT Press, 2006. ISBN 0262122812
In 2006 the source code for this Lisp Machine operating system from MIT was released as open source.
Making Silicon Valley: Innovation and the Growth of High Tech, 1930-1970 Published by MIT Press, 2006. ISBN 0262122812
* Macfarlane, Allison M. and Ewing, Rodney C., editors, Uncertainty Underground: Yucca Mountain and the Nation's High-Level Nuclear Waste MIT Press, 2006.
Reprinted in Women Artists at the Millennium, edited by Carol Armstrong and Catherine de Zegher, MIT Press / October Books, 2006.
When Frank Moss was appointed director of the lab in 2006, Negroponte stepped down as lab chairman to focus more fully on his work with One Laptop Per Child ( OLPC ) although he retains his appointment as professor at MIT.
Since September 2006, Welch has been teaching a class at the MIT Sloan School of Management to a hand-picked group of 30 MBA students with a demonstrated career interest in leadership.
Push Singh was slated to become a professor at the MIT Media Lab to lead the Common Sense Computing group in 2007 until his suicide on Tuesday, February 28, 2006.
" Grade Retention: An evaluation of Florida's test-based Promotion Policy in Education and Finance Policy, MIT Press, 2006
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