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.

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.

Several universities are conducting direct research on the field, such as MIT, New York University, Duke University, and George Mason University.

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

Several academic and commercial groups have been involved in the analysis and development of vibration-powered energy harvesting technology, including the Control and Power Group and Optical and Semiconductor Devices Group at Imperial College London, IMEC and the partnering Holst Centre, AdaptivEnergy, LLC, ARVENI, MIT Boston, Georgia Tech, UC Berkeley, Southampton University, University of Bristol, Nanyang Technological University, PMG Perpetuum, Vestfold University College, National University of Singapore, NiPS Laboratory at the University of Perugia, Columbia University, Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona and USN & Renewable Energy Lab at the University of Ulsan ( Ulsan, South Korea ).

Several years of bad harvests and an inadequate transportation system had caused rising food prices, hunger, and malnutrition ; the country was further destabilized by the lower classes ' increased feeling that the royal court was isolated from, and indifferent to, their hardships.

Several locomotive classes have been powered by gas turbines, the most recent incarnation being Bombardier's JetTrain.

Several classes of widely used haloalkanes are classified in this way chlorofluorocarbons ( CFCs ), hydrochlorofluorocarbons ( HCFCs ) and hydrofluorocarbons ( HFCs ).

Several Idaho universities, including Boise State University, Idaho State University, and the University of Idaho, offer classes on the CSI campus.

Several courses of study were offered, but most classes focused on business and teaching.

* Several classes of Israeli missile boats:

Several function classes have been proposed, and it soon became obvious that trapdoor functions are harder to find than was initially thought.

Several classes of people comprise both men and women or women only, namely Hungarian Freedom Fighter in 1956, " U. S. Scientists " in 1960, Twenty-Five and Under in 1966, The Middle Americans in 1969, " American Women " in 1975, " The American Soldier " in 2003, You in 2006, and " The Protester " in 2011 ( represented on the cover by a woman ).

Several important classes of groups are algebraic groups, including:

Several lines of evidence suggest that mast cells may have a fairly fundamental role in innate immunity – they are capable of elaborating a vast array of important cytokines and other inflammatory mediators such as TNFa, they express multiple " pattern recognition receptors " thought to be involved in recognizing broad classes of pathogens, and mice without mast cells seem to be much more susceptible to a variety of infections.

Several other general classes of extensions are known but no theory exists which treats all the possible extensions at one time.

Several other classes of orthogonal polynomials, up to constant factors, are special cases of Jacobi polynomials, so these can be expressed using as well.

Several comedy classes, including " Comedy Writing for Television ," " Intermediate Creative Writing: Comedy " and " Writing for Stand-Up " are a regular part of the curriculum.

Several classes of Yellowstone, especially the Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range's locomotives, are among the largest steam locomotives, with the exact ranking dependent on the criteria used.

Several heroes of the Beastmaster and Witch classes are gnolls.

Several important classes of graphs may be defined by their cliques:

Several classes of singular perturbations are outlined below.

Several important complexity classes can be defined in terms of NSPACE.

Several important complexity classes are defined in terms of DSPACE.

Several important space complexity classes are sublinear, that is, smaller than the size of the input.

Several classes must be distinguished: the chanson de geste, legendary or apparently historical, the romance of adventure and the novel.

Several classes of divisions were also classified as " light ".

Several other of Caragiale's characters have traditionally been considered allegories of social classes and even regional identities.

Several of the sights on her trip inspired her, and they found their way into her poem, including the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, the " White City " with its promise of the future contained within its alabaster buildings ; the wheat fields of America's heartland Kansas, through which her train was riding on July 16 ; and the majestic view of the Great Plains from high atop Zebulon's Pikes Peak.

Several genera are popular with the horticultural community, including marigold, pot marigold ( also known as calendula ), cone flowers, various daisies, fleabane, chrysanthemums, dahlias, zinnias, and heleniums.

Several additional candidates for written ASL have appeared in over the years, including Sutton SignWriting, Sign Script, ASL-phabet, and Si5s.

Several saints and six popes have borne this name, including the only English pope, Adrian IV, and the only Dutch pope, Adrian VI.

Several of ASU's graduate schools also appear among the top of the US News & World Report rankings, including the 30th-ranked W. P. Carey School of Business ( along with its 4th-ranked program in Supply Chain Management and the 15th-ranked program in Information Systems ), the 26th-ranked Sandra Day O ' Connor College of Law, the 43rd-ranked Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering ( including five individual programs ranked in the top 30 ), the 16th-ranked School of Public Affairs, the 26th-ranked Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College, the 21st-ranked College of Nursing and Health, and 25th-ranked Healthcare Management.

Several new features, including better scalability, enhanced clustering and management capabilities are mentioned.

Several public interest groups, including the Coordinating Body of Indigenous Organizations of the Amazon Basin ( COICA ) and the Coalition for Amazonian Peoples and Their Environment ( Amazon Coalition ) objected.

Several other alkaloids were discovered around that time, including xanthine ( 1817 ), atropine ( 1819 ), caffeine ( 1820 ), coniine ( 1827 ), nicotine ( 1828 ), colchicine ( 1833 ), sparteine ( 1851 ), and cocaine ( 1860 ).

Several roller coasters are specifically known by this name, including ;

Several areas at the edge of the neocortex, including the hippocampus and amygdala, are also much more extensively developed in mammals than in other vertebrates.

Several components that eventually played a key role in the development of the automobile were invented for the bicycle, including ball bearings, pneumatic tires, chain-driven sprockets, and tension-spoked wheels.

* Several major landmarks in and around Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Franklin's longtime home, including:

Several substyles exist, including maibock or helles bock, a paler, more hopped version generally made for consumption at spring festivals ; doppelbock, a stronger and maltier version ; and eisbock, a much stronger version made by partially freezing the beer and removing the water ice that forms.

Several players lost home runs that way, including Ruth.

Several of the actors also attended including James Robinson ( Young William ), Andrew Weir ( Young Hamish ), Julie Austin ( the young bride ) and Mhairi Calvey ( Young Murron ).

Several collectors have catalogued the songs including John Meredith whose recording in the 1950s became the basis of the collection in the National Library of Australia.

Several residential projects are underway, including LEED buildings which cater to the environmentally conscious.

Several songs have been written about the Bloody Sunday ( 1972 ) in Northern Ireland, including:

Several of the most prominent revolutionaries, including Leon Trotsky, were of Jewish descent.

Several editions of the Pius X Breviary were produced during the twentieth century, including a notable edition prepared with the assistance of the Sisters of Stanbrook Abbey in the 1950s.

Several publishers, including Grand River Books, Potomac Books ( formerly known as Brassey's Inc .), and Skyhorse Publishing have re-published the Factbook in recent years.

Several condensed matter systems are being studied with potential applications to quantum computation, including experimental systems like quantum dots, SQUIDs, and theoretical models like the toric code and the quantum dimer model.

Several languages in the vicinity of the Sahara Desert, including Arabic, lack.

Several kinds of descriptive categorizations can be applied broadly to the elements, including consideration of their general physical and chemical properties, their states of matter under familiar conditions, their melting and boiling points, their densities, their crystal structures as solids, and their origins.