There is also an initiative started by the OLPC foundation, a group out of MIT Media Lab and supported by several major corporations to develop a $ 100 laptop to deliver educational software.

In the early 1970s at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab, Minsky and Seymour Papert started developing what came to be called The Society of Mind theory.

In 1968, during his sophomore year at MIT, Kurzweil started a company that used a computer program to match high school students with colleges.

In 1981, Papert along with several others in the Logo group at MIT, started Logo Computer Systems Inc., of which he was Board Chair for over 20 years.

Shlomi Fish started his own solver in 2000, written in C and distributed with source under the public domain ( later relicensed under the MIT License ).

Tom Scholz first started writing music in 1969 while he was attending MIT, where he wrote an instrumental, titled " Foreplay ".

In 1928, I entered the MIT School of Architecture and started my architectural trip.

The development started in the mid 70s at MIT.

After working at AT & T he started a career as visiting lecturer and management consultant for many companies, universities, churches and non-profit organisations, for example at the Harvard Business School, University of Virginia, Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( MIT ) or Ford Foundation.

Founded in 1948, by Leo Beranek and Richard Bolt, professors at MIT, with Bolt's former student Robert Newman, Bolt, Beranek and Newman started life as an acoustical consulting company.

There is also the Brazilian initiative, named Open Mind Common Sense in Brazil ( OMCS-Br ), leaded by the Advanced Interaction Lab at Federal University of São Carlos ( LIA-UFSCar ) started in 2005 in collaboration with the Software Agents Group at the MIT Media Lab which main goal is to collect Brazilian's common sense and develop culturally sensitive software applications based on extracting cultural profiles ' knowledge from ConceptNet to help developers and users on better suite the final user's reality on having a culturally contextualized content software, making the final applications more flexible, adaptive, accessible and usable.

ITS development was initiated in the late 1960s by those ( the majority of the MIT AI Lab at that time ) who disagreed with the direction taken by Project MAC's Multics project ( which had started in the mid 1960s ), particularly such decisions as the inclusion of powerful system security.

The Jargon File started as a combined effort between people on the ITS machines at MIT and at SAIL.

He started in audio at Lafayette Radio in Boston in the 1940s and studied electronics in the US Navy and at Harvard University and MIT.

In the meantime, in the Fall of 1965, Severin Drix started a team at Cornell, and challenged his friend Ferd Wulkan of MIT to start a tiddlywinks team.

Bolt started a consulting firm with another MIT professor, Leo Beranek, in 1948, and worked on such projects as doing an audio analysis of the JFK assassination, the " 18. 5 minute gap " in Nixon's White House tapes, and improving the sound in concert halls.

The newly-capitalized " bank " of the MIT Blackjack Team started on August 1, 1980.

At MIT in the early 1960s, Ali Javan started a research project aimed at extending microwave frequency-measuring techniques into the infrared, he then developed the first absolutely accurate measurement of the speed of light.

The company was started by 7 founders, some of whom worked on the Multics project at MIT.

He was involved in early work on time-sharing through the PDP-1 which his research group owned at MIT ; that hardware later became famous in computer science history as the machine on which hacker culture started.

The roots of the company were started in 1886 by Arthur Dehon Little, an MIT chemist, and co-worker Roger B. Griffin ( Russell B. Griffin ), another chemist and a graduate of the University of Vermont who had met when they both worked for Richmond Paper Company.

The fab lab program was started in the Media Lab at Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( MIT ), a collaboration between the Grassroots Invention Group and the Center for Bits and Atoms ( CBA ) at MIT, broadly exploring how the content of information relates to its physical representation, and how a community can be powered by technology at the grassroots level.

The " Blu-ray Disc founder group " was started on May 20, 2002 by MIT and nine leading electronic companies: Sony, Panasonic, Pioneer, Philips, Thomson, LG Electronics, Hitachi, Sharp, and Samsung.

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.

MIT reinforced its independence in 1916 when it moved to its new campus on a mile-long tract on the Cambridge side of the Charles River, almost entirely on landfill.

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.