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.

The MIT Media Lab houses researchers developing novel uses of computer technology.

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.

Examples: The New School in New York City ( the first Media Studies Program in the country, created in 1975 ), The Paley Center for Media in New York City, Comparative Media Studies at MIT, Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Chicago, Media and Cultural Studies at the University of California, Riverside, Rhetoric and Media Studies at Willamette University, Media Studies in Communication at Kennesaw State University, the Instructional Technology and Media Program at Columbia University, and The Department of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University.

At MIT, Papert went on to create the Epistemology and Learning Research Group at the MIT Architecture Machine Group which later became the MIT Media Lab.

MIT has also contributed significant research in this field, notably Things That Think consortium ( directed by Hiroshi Ishii, Joseph A. Paradiso and Rosalind Picard ) at the Media Lab and the CSAIL effort known as Project Oxygen.

* Exploring Emergence: An introduction to emergence using CA and Conway's Game of Life from the MIT Media Lab

A research group at the MIT Media Lab has reported the use of polarization field synthesis to create a dynamic light field display.

The magazine was founded by American journalist Louis Rossetto and his partner Jane Metcalfe and Ian Charles Stewart in 1993 with initial backing from software entrepreneur Charlie Jackson and eclectic academic Nicholas Negroponte of the MIT Media Lab, who was a regular columnist for six years, through 1998 and wrote the book Being Digital.

While at MIT, in then Director Nicholas Negroponte's words he " brought the seed " that founded the Wearable Computing group in the Media Lab.

A ground-level corridor through Buildings 16, 56, and 66 forms an eastern extension of the Infinite Corridor, ending at Ames Street across from a ceremonial archway designed by I. M. Pei, next to the MIT Media Lab.

In 1985, Negroponte created the MIT Media Lab with Jerome B. Wiesner.

* Chromatography Videos – MIT OCW – Digital Lab Techniques Manual

* John McCarthy: Co-founder of the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab and Stanford AI Laboratory

Professor Ted Postol has accused the MIT administration since 2000 of attempting to whitewash potential research misconduct at the Lincoln Lab facility involving a ballistic missile defense test, though a final investigation into the matter has not been completed.

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.

Scheme was developed at the MIT AI Lab by Guy L. Steele and Gerald Jay Sussman who introduced it to the academic world via a series of memos, now referred to as the Lambda Papers, over the period 1975 – 1980.

Symbolics was a spinoff from the MIT AI Lab, one of two companies to be founded by AI Lab staffers and associated hackers for the purpose of manufacturing Lisp machines.

Lisp Machines, Inc. and later Texas Instruments ( with the TI Explorer ) would share a common code base, but their dialect of Lisp Machine Lisp would differ from the version maintained at the MIT AI Lab by Richard Stallman and others.

* MIT, Building Technology Program, Daylighting Lab

* The Terrafugia Transition is under development by a private company founded by MIT graduates.

At MIT, the Edgerton Center, founded in 1992, is a hands-on laboratory resource for undergraduate and graduate students, and also conducts educational outreach programs for high school students and teachers.

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.

Shri Kiron Roy, who was an alumnus and an ex-student of MIT, founded his electrical firm in Calcutta and helped the College of Engineering and Technology.

The aggregated revenues of companies founded by MIT alumni would rank as the eleventh-largest economy in the world.

The MIT Museum was founded in 1971 and collects, preserves, and exhibits artifacts significant to the life and history of MIT as well as collaborating with the nearby Museum of Science.

In 1959 he and John McCarthy founded what is now known as the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.

He joined the Department of Electrical Engineering at MIT in 1919, and founded the company now known as Raytheon in 1922.

It was founded at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Laboratory for Computer Science ( MIT / LCS ) with support from the European Commission and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency ( DARPA ), which had pioneered the Internet and its predecessor ARPANET.

The Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, described as Israel's MIT, was founded in 1924.

Thinking Machines Corporation was a supercomputer manufacturer founded in Waltham, Massachusetts in 1982 by W. Daniel " Danny " Hillis and Sheryl Handler to turn Hillis's doctoral work at MIT on massively parallel computing architectures into a commercial product called the Connection Machine.

* Richard P. Gabriel: Performance and Evaluation of Lisp Systems, The MIT Press, 1985, ISBN 0-262-57193-5, PDF

He earned his Ph. D. in Applied Mathematics from MIT in 1985.

2, Revised Edition, MIT Press, 1985, Chapter 2 on " Detonation and Preignition ", pp 34 – 85.

( Cambridge MA: MIT Press ) ( 1985 ) 1989.

The MIT Media Lab was founded by MIT Professor Nicholas Negroponte and former MIT President Jerome Wiesner and opened its doors in the Wiesner Building ( designed by I. M. Pei ) ( also known as the E15 building ) at MIT in 1985.

( MIT Press, 1985 / University of Chicago Press ; University of Chicago edition, 2004 with an Introduction by Tracy B.

The company sold its first order, 10 copies of MATLAB, for $ 500 to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( MIT ) in February 1985.

It is named in honor of former MIT president Jerome Wiesner and his wife Laya and was dedicated in 1985.

Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1985.

He was a member of the visiting committees for the Department of Applied Biological Sciences ( 1985 – 88 ), the Department of Nutrition and Food Science ( 1980 – 85 and 1974 – 80 as chairman ), the MIT Sloan School of Management ( 1972 – 76 and 1965 – 66, and 1964 – 65 as chairman ), and the School of Industrial Management ( 1961 – 63, 1963 – 64 as chairman and 1959 – 61 as a presidential nominee ).

SpaceFair is a national space conference that was hosted by MIT in 1983, 1985 and 1987.

* J .- P. Blaizot and G. Ripka: Quantum Theory of Finite Systems, MIT Press ( 1985 )

Throughout her career Rozema has written, directed, edited and produced a number of short films, including Passion: A Letter in 16mm ( 1985 ); Urban Menace ( 1986 ); Desperanto ( 1991 ) as part of Montreal Vu Par ; This Might Be Good ( 2000 ) for the Toronto International Film Festival ; and Suspect ( 2005 ) which was reproduced in the journal Alphabet City 10 – Suspect ( MIT Press ).

Honorary member of Neurosciences Research Program, MIT and Rockefeller University ( US ), since 1984 ; Honorary member of the Japanese Biochemical Society, Sendai, Japan, 1985 ; Honorary member of the American Neurology Association, 1988 ; Honorary member of University College London, 1990 ; Membre d ' honneur à titre étranger de la Société Belge de Neurologie, Bruxelles, 1991 ; Member of European Molecular Biology

and a PhD from the MIT Sloan School of Management in 1983 and 1985 respectively, and was also awarded a D. B. A.

In 1985 a monograph of essays by Krauss, titled The Originality of the Avant-Garde and Other Modernist Myths was published by The MIT Press.

Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 1985.