MIT

the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Location

the United States, Massachusetts, Cambridge

Website

http://web.mit.edu

Wrote

Syntactic Structures, Programming the Universe, Language learnability and language development, City of Bits

Student Number

10,384; 10,220

Area

0.7 square kilometres

Developer of

Zmacs

Wikipedia Page

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachusetts_Institute_of_Technology

Founded

1861, April 10th 1861, William Barton Rogers

Slogan

"Mens et Manus"

Address

77 Massachusetts Avenue, cambridge massachusetts, Massachusetts, 02139, United States; 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139

Coordinates

42°21'35.35"N, 42°21'35"N, 71°05'031.6"W

Colour

grey, Cardinal

President

Susan Hockfield

Alumni

▶ Chuck Norris, John Forbes Nash, Ben Bernanke, Paul Krugman, Richard P. Feynman,  …

James Woods, Lawrence Summers, Benjamin Netanyahu, Kofi Annan, Buzz Aldrin, David Miliband, Carly Fiorina, Raymond Kurzweil, John Thain, Edgar Dean Mitchell, Joseph Stiglitz, Elaine Chao, I. M. Pei, Claude Elwood Shannon, James Harris Simons, John E. Sununu, Aafia Siddiqui, Austan Goolsbee, Tom Scholz, Vannevar Bush, Philip Kotler, Joseph E. Stiglitz, John H. Sununu, William Shockley, Murray Gell-Mann, George Lakoff, Henry Mintzberg, Steven Levitt, Charlie Korsmo, David H. Koch, Amar Bose, Ronald McNair, Cheryl Chase, Andrew S. Tanenbaum, George P. Shultz, Robert Shiller, Jon Kabat-Zinn, Pete Stark, Tom Perkins, Randal Pinkett, David Scott, Dylan Bruno, Ahmed Chalabi, George Smoot, Charles Murray, Robert C. Merton, Analog Devices, Alfred P. Sloan, Whitney Young, Robert Metcalfe, Robert Noyce, N. Gregory Mankiw, Stanley Fischer, Andy Bloch, Steve Mann, Tom Magliozzi, Kevin A. Lynch, George Akerlof, Franklin Chang-Diaz, Robert Mundell, Richard Tomlinson, Les Aspin, John M. Deutch, Yau-Man Chan, Ken Olsen, Samuel W. Bodman, Ivan Sutherland, Ray Magliozzi, Stephen Green, Edward Norton Lorenz, Peter Camejo, Robert Aumann, Laura Tyson, Charles G. Koch, Robert Burns Woodward, Joe Kernen, Vilma Espín, William Easterly, Jagdish Bhagwati, Charles Moss Duke, Tsien Hsue-shen, Leslie Lamport, John Kotter, Mark Mobius, Theodore Ts'o, Frank J. Tipler, Marcy Kaptur, John E. Potter, Leonard Kleinrock, Eric Allin Cornell, Kenneth Rogoff, Kenichi Ohmae, Charles Bickford, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, John P. Holdren, Brewster Kahle, Daryl Morey, Andrei Shleifer, Michael Hammer, Elias James Corey, Frederic Mishkin, Raghuram Rajan, Alan Guth, Robert Varkonyi, Vali Nasr, Lynn Conway, Reid W. Barton, Andrew Viterbi, Jay Wright Forrester, Whitfield Diffie, Armand V. Feigenbaum, Theodore Miller Edison, Robert Thirsk, Pervez Hoodbhoy, Gerald Jay Sussman, Lawrence Roberts, Farouk El-Baz, Marius Kloppers, Susan Hockfield, Oliver R. Smoot, Carl Wieman, Christopher Cassidy, Albert S Humphrey, Terry Winograd, Ben Barres, Benjamin Whorf, Carl Feynman, Sumantra Ghoshal, Dan Bricklin, Semyon Dukach, Radia Perlman, Hossein Nasr, Sidney Altman, Alan Blinder, Harvey Gantt, Greene and Greene, Danah Boyd, Joseph Nacchio, Adi Godrej, Peter Diamandis, Irwin M. Jacobs, John S. Reed, Manuel Blum, Hal Abelson, Julianne Malveaux, Edward Durell Stone, Charles Correa, Harold Eugene Edgerton, Alan Perlis, Bill Gosper, Pierre S. du Pont, Cumrun Vafa, Edward Yourdon, Andrew Fire, Emma Georgina Rothschild, David A. Huffman, Ellen Swallow Richards, Thad W. Allen, Carl Shapiro, Fred Wilson, Olivier Blanchard, Fred C. Koch, John Olver, Arthur Butz, Lawrence Klein, Joseph J. Romm, Denice Denton, José Figueres Ferrer, Jerry York, Gordon Bell, Gilbert Strang, Steven A. Orszag, Oliver E. Williamson, Michael J. Massimino, Alex Rigopulos, Peter Shor, George Nakashima, Robert B. Laughlin, Gregory Chamitoff, Allan Snyder, Nathan Rosen, Hardy Cross, James Deering, Steve Meretzky, Ploypailin Mahidol Jensen, Kenneth Pollack, Hal Varian, Nathanael Herreshoff, Joshua Wurman, Durk Pearson, William Reddington Hewlett, Max Mathews, Robert S. Mulliken, Gerald Schroeder, Andre Marrou

Designer of

Zoombinis

Experts

William Barton Rogers

Employees

▶ Noam Chomsky, John Forbes Nash, Lawrence Summers, John Rawls, Tom Lehrer,  …

Provost, Claude Elwood Shannon, James Harris Simons, Thomas Samuel Kuhn, Junot Díaz, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Vannevar Bush, Paul Samuelson, Alan Kay, Steven Weinberg, Marvin Minsky, Lisa Randall, Amar Bose, John McCarthy, Myron Scholes, Robert Tappan Morris, Anita Desai, Robert C. Merton, peter senge, Robert Solow, David Baltimore, Har Gobind Khorana, Kevin A. Lynch, Richard Lindzen, John M. Deutch, Walter Lewin, Eric Lander, Franco Modigliani, Edward Norton Lorenz, Frank Wilczek, Julian Schwinger, Ron Rivest, Seymour Papert, Bob Kahn, Judith Jarvis Thomson, Barbara Liskov, Michael Hammer, Joseph Weizenbaum, Daron Acemoglu, Isidor Isaac Rabi, Alan Guth, Jay Wright Forrester, Susumu Tonegawa, Henry Jenkins, Gerald Jay Sussman, Susan Hockfield, Steven Gilborn, Rodney Brooks, Robert F. Engle, Alfred D. Chandler, Charles Hard Townes, Max Tegmark, Salvador Luria, Benjamin Mako Hill, Jill Ker Conway, Hal Abelson, Robert J. Van de Graaff, Edward Mills Purcell, Wolfgang Ketterle, Harold Eugene Edgerton, Samuel C. C. Ting, Robert Tarjan, Ali Javan, Ellen Swallow Richards, John Olver, Gilbert Strang, George M. Whitesides, Susan Athey, Daniel Kleitman, Martin Hellman, Peter Shor, Erik Demaine, Isadore Singer, Richard R. Schrock, Alan Lightman, Sherry Turkle, K. Barry Sharpless, Philip Morrison, David P. Reed, David D. Clark, Butler Lampson, Gian-Carlo Rota, Anton Zeilinger, Tom M. Apostol, Shafi Goldwasser, John C. Slater, Charles Stark Draper, Krzysztof Wodiczko, Evelyn Fox Keller, Michael Artin, Madhu Sudan, Robert Weinberg, William Barton Rogers, Carl Hewitt, John Harbison, Robert Birgeneau, Charles E. Leiserson, John W. Dower, Robert S. Langer, Drew Endy, Leonard H. Tower Jr., Cynthia Breazeal, Robert G. Gallager, Michael Sipser, Alberto Calderón, Phillip Allen Sharp, Greg Papadopoulos, Arthur Amos Noyes, Carl Kaysen, Morris Halle, Richard P. Stanley, Fernando J. Corbató, Kerry Emanuel, James Munkres, David Botstein, Henry Way Kendall, Neil Gershenfeld, Daniel Kleppner, Bruno Rossi, Kenneth French, Robert Jaffe, Silvio Micali, Carl Oglesby, William Z. Ripley, Edmund Beecher Wilson, Victor Frederick Weisskopf, Arthur Mattuck, Jeffrey Goldstone, Muriel Cooper, Evsey Domar, Arthur R. von Hippel, Kenkichi Iwasawa, Sheila Widnall, J. Bowyer Bell, Roman Jackiw, Peter A. Diamond, David Deveau, F. Thomson Leighton, Alan V Oppenheim, Robert Seamans, Mark Jarzombek, Barton Zwiebach, Mel King, Jerry A. Hausman, Herman Feshbach, Jerome Wiesner, Pauline Maier, L. Rafael Reif, Nancy Lynch, James Sherley, Alar Toomre, Gordon S. Brown, Mildred Dresselhaus, Joel Moses, Susan Lindquist, George Lusztig, James Crafts, Elliott H. Lieb, Dirk Jan Struik, Stephen Van Evera, Donald Sadoway, Robert Herrick, James L. Elliot, Mehran Kardar, Paul R. Gross, Mitchel Resnick, Francis Bitter, Mehmet Toner, George B. Thomas, Suh Nam Pyo, David S. Saxon, Evan Ziporyn, Kerson Huang, Warren K. Lewis, Victor Guillemin, Jack Dennis, James Killian, Vernon Ingram, James M. Poterba, Tanya Atwater, Sylvia Ceyer, William Robert Ware, Karl Taylor Compton, Bengt R. Holmström, Jack Baldwin, Wolfgang Smith, Thomas L. Magnanti, Chia-Chiao Lin, Arlo Bates, Joseph Jacobson, Theodore Postol, Richard M. Dudley, Irving Segal, Manson Benedict, Charles Marstiller Vest

Pupils

▶ John Forbes Nash; Ben Bernanke; Paul Krugman; Richard P. Feynman; James Woods;  …

Lawrence Summers; Benjamin Netanyahu; Kofi Annan; Buzz Aldrin; David Miliband; Carly Fiorina; Raymond Kurzweil; Edgar Dean Mitchell; Elaine Chao; I. M. Pei; Claude Elwood Shannon; John E. Sununu; Aafia Siddiqui; Austan Goolsbee; Vannevar Bush; Philip Kotler; Joseph E. Stiglitz; John H. Sununu; William Shockley; Murray Gell-Mann; George Lakoff; Henry Mintzberg; Charlie Korsmo; David H. Koch; Amar Bose; Ronald McNair; Cheryl Chase; George P. Shultz; Robert Shiller; Jon Kabat-Zinn; Pete Stark; Tom Perkins; Randal Pinkett; David Scott; Dylan Bruno; Ahmed Chalabi; Charles Murray; Robert C. Merton; Analog Devices; Alfred P. Sloan; Whitney Young; Robert Noyce; N. Gregory Mankiw; Stanley Fischer; Steve Mann; Tom Magliozzi; Kevin A. Lynch; George Akerlof; Franklin Chang-Diaz; Robert Mundell; Richard Tomlinson; Les Aspin; Yau-Man Chan; Ken Olsen; Samuel W. Bodman; Ray Magliozzi; Edward Norton Lorenz; Peter Camejo; Robert Aumann; Charles G. Koch; Joe Kernen; Vilma Espín; William Easterly; Jagdish Bhagwati; Charles Moss Duke; Tsien Hsue-shen; Leslie Lamport; John Kotter; Theodore Ts'o; Marcy Kaptur; John E. Potter; Leonard Kleinrock; Kenneth Rogoff; Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala; John P. Holdren; Brewster Kahle; Daryl Morey; Andrei Shleifer; Michael Hammer; Raghuram Rajan; Alan Guth; Robert Varkonyi; Andrew Viterbi; Jay Wright Forrester; Whitfield Diffie; Armand V. Feigenbaum; Robert Thirsk; Pervez Hoodbhoy; Lawrence Roberts; Farouk El-Baz; Carl Wieman; Christopher Cassidy; Ben Barres; Carl Feynman; Sumantra Ghoshal; Radia Perlman; Sidney Altman; Harvey Gantt; Greene and Greene; Danah Boyd; Peter Diamandis; Hal Abelson; Charles Correa; Harold Eugene Edgerton; Alan Perlis; Bill Gosper; Cumrun Vafa; Edward Yourdon; Andrew Fire; Emma Georgina Rothschild; David A. Huffman; Ellen Swallow Richards; Thad W. Allen; Carl Shapiro; Olivier Blanchard; Fred C. Koch; John Olver; Arthur Butz; Lawrence Klein; Denice Denton; José Figueres Ferrer; Gordon Bell; Peter Shor; George Nakashima; Robert B. Laughlin; Gregory Chamitoff; Allan Snyder; Nathan Rosen; Hardy Cross; Steve Meretzky; Ploypailin Mahidol Jensen; Hal Varian; Nathanael Herreshoff; William Reddington Hewlett; Max Mathews; Robert S. Mulliken; Andre Marrou; William R. Brody; David P. Reed; Bruce Morrison; Gelett Burgess; Gary Loveman; Jeff Sagarin; Erland Van Lidth De Jeude; Frederick Terman; Glenn Loury; William Daniel Phillips; Catherine Coleman; Roger Babson; Laura D'Andrea Tyson; Thomas H. Cormen; Moshe Arens; Mario Draghi; Marion Mahony Griffin; Jun Choi; W. Daniel Hillis; Elwyn Berlekamp; Elsie MacGill; Burton Richter; John Tsang; Kenneth Bainbridge; Geoffrey A. Landis; Lawrence M. Krauss; Harold L. Humes; J. Scott Armstrong; Robert S. Langer; Harold Kelley; Shuman Ghosemajumder; Daniel Kane; Bernard Vonnegut; Jeffrey Satinover; Leonard H. Tower Jr.; Ian Ayres; Cynthia Breazeal; Ivo H. Daalder; Amos E. Joel, Jr.; Oliver Selfridge; Avinash Dixit; Robert G. Gallager; Robert J. Gordon; Youssef Boutros Ghali; Thomas Homer Dixon; Arthur Amos Noyes; Harry Binswanger; Esther Duflo; Jared Cohon; Henry F. Schaefer, III; Eric Beinhocker; Robert Garriott; Thomas Kailath; Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa; Mohan Munasinghe; Robert A. Swanson; Robert Horton; Jonathan Sachs

Funding

privately-funded university

Symbol

beaver

Class

▶ research centre, single site university, academic institution, university, privately-funded university,  …

graduate school, land-grant university, research, organisation, educational organisation, geographical area, organisation classified by activity

Name-source of

4523 MIT

Roles

Provost, Research Affiliate, Associate Professor, Professor of Humanities

Examples

H. Alesso

Responsible For Content At

news-libraries.mit.edu, web.mit.edu, libraries.mit.edu

Subjects

▶ philosophy, Artificial Intelligence, house plan, Engineering, linguistics,  …

political science, Master of Business Administration, transport, operations research, management information system, independent, electrical engineer, Master of Arts, musical composition, Physical chemistry, Master of Engineering, Live coding, environmental planning, Master of Arts, Economics, Édouard Mathé

Attributes

Research

Related Websites

▶ http://www.hotcoursesusa.com/us/massachusetts-institute-of-technology-72058/all-programs.html, http://web.mit.edu/, http://www.facebook.com/pages/Massachusetts-Institute-of-Technology-MIT/30267693544, http://mitworld.mit.edu, http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg,  …

http://ocw.mit.edu, http://libraries.mit.edu/archives/exhibits/maps, http://mit.edu, http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/m/massachusetts_institute_of_technology/index.html, http://web.mit.edu

Former Students

Mark Pesce

Freebase ID

"/guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000000025f7c"

GeoNames URL

http://sws.geonames.org/4943351/

OpenCyc ID

"Mx4rvVjBwZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA"

DBPedia URI

http://dbpedia.org/resource/Massachusetts_Institute_of_Technology

Suborganisations

MIT Sloan School of Management, MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory

Postcode (zipcode)

"02139"

Rare Terms

"mits", "massachusetts institute of technologys", "mit's", "mit corporation", "massachusetts institute of technology’s"

Founded here

▶ IRobot, Infocom, Terrafugia, Cognex Corporation, Media Lab Europe,  …

mitbbs

Freebase Primary MID

"/m/04rwx"