massachusetts institute of technology mit redirects here for other uses see mit disambiguation massachusetts institute of technologymottomens et manus latinmotto inenglishmind and handwebsitewebmitedu the massachusetts institute of technology mit is a private research university in cambridge massachusetts founded in 1861 in response to the increasing industrialization of the united states mit adopted a european polytechnic university model and stressed laboratory instruction in applied science and engineering the institute is traditionally known for its research and education in the physical sciences and engineering but more recently in biology economics linguistics and management as well mit is often ranked among the worlds top universities as of october2018 history history of the massachusetts institute of technology foundation and vision a school of industrial science aiding the advancement development and practical application of science in connection with arts agriculture manufactures and commerce act to incorporate the massachusetts institute of technologyacts of 1861 chapter 183 stereographic card showing an mit mechanical drafting studio 19th century photo by el allen leftright inverted original rogers building back bay boston 19th century in 1859 a proposal was submitted to the massachusetts general court to use newly filled lands in back bay boston for a conservatory of art and science but the proposal failed rogers a professor from the university of virginia wanted to establish an institution to address rapid scientific and technological advances proposing that the true and only practicable object of a polytechnic school is as i conceive the teaching not of the minute details and manipulations of the arts which can be done only in the workshop but the inculcation of those scientific principles which form the basis and explanation of them and along with this a full and methodical review of all their leading processes and operations in connection with physical laws the rogers plan reflected the german research university model emphasizing an independent faculty engaged in research as well as instruction oriented around seminars and laboratories early developments a 1905 map of mits boston campus massachusetts institute of technology boston mass two days after mit was chartered the first battle of the civil war broke out after a long delay through the war years mits first classes were held in the mercantile building in boston in 1865 mit was informally called boston tech the curriculum drifted to a vocational emphasis with less focus on theoretical science plaque in building 6 honoring george eastman founder of eastman kodak who was revealed as the anonymous mr smith who helped maintain mits independence in 1916 the mit administration and the mit charter crossed the charles river on the ceremonial barge bucentaur built for the occasion curricular reforms in the 1930s president karl taylor compton and vicepresident effectively provost vannevar bush emphasized the importance of pure sciences like physics and chemistry and reduced the vocational practice required in shops and drafting studios 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 the report comprehensively reviewed the undergraduate curriculum recommended offering a broader education and warned against letting engineering and governmentsponsored research detract from the sciences and humanities defense research mits involvement in military science surged during world war ii in 1941 vannevar bush was appointed head of the federal office of scientific research and development and directed funding to only a select group of universities including mit a special type of educational institution which can be defined as a university polarized around science engineering and the arts we might call it a university limited in its objectives but unlimited in the breadth and the thoroughness with which it pursues these objectives mit president james rhyne killian 1949 these activities affected mit profoundly a 1949 report noted the lack of any great slackening in the pace of life at the institute to match the return to peacetime remembering the academic tranquility of the prewar years though acknowledging the significant contributions of military research to the increased emphasis on graduate education and rapid growth of personnel and facilities in late 1960s and early 1970s student and faculty activists protested against the vietnam war and mits defense research however six mit students were sentenced to prison terms at this time and some former student leaders such as michael albert and george katsiaficas are still indignant about mits role in military research and its suppression of these protests in the 1980s there was more controversy at mit over its involvement in sdi space weaponry and cbw chemical and biological warfare research recent history the mit media lab houses researchers developing novel uses of computer technology and shown here is the 1982 building designed by im pei with an extension right of photo designed by fumihiko maki opened in march 2010 mit has kept pace with and helped to advance the digital age in addition to developing the predecessors to modern computing and networking technologies mit was named a seagrant college in 1976 to support its programs in oceanography and marine sciences and was named a spacegrant college in 1989 to support its aeronautics and astronautics programs in 2001 inspired by the open source and open access movements three days after the boston marathon bombing of april 2013 mit police patrol officer sean collier was fatally shot by the suspects dzhokhar and tamerlan tsarnaev setting off a violent manhunt that shut down the campus and much of the boston metropolitan area for a day in september 2017 the school announced the creation of an artificial intelligence research lab called the mitibm watson ai lab ibm will spend 240 million over the next decade and the lab will be staffed by mit and ibm scientists in october 2018 mit announced it will open a college of computing dedicated to the study of artificial intelligence in september 2019 to be named after lead donor and the blackstone group ceo stephen schwarzman the focus of the new college is to study not just ai code but interdisciplinary ai education and how ai can be used in fields as diverse as history and biology the cost of buildings and new faculty and buildings for the new college is expected to be 1 billion upon completion campus campus of the massachusetts institute of technology the central and eastern sections of mits campus as seen from above massachusetts avenue and the charles river left of center is the great dome overlooking killian court with kendall square to the upper right mits building 10 and great dome overlooking killian court mits 166acre 672ha campus in the city of cambridge spans approximately a mile along the north side of the charles river basin the kendall mbta red line station is located on the northeastern edge of the campus in kendall square the cambridge neighborhoods surrounding mit are a mixture of high tech companies occupying both modern office and rehabilitated industrial buildings as well as socioeconomically diverse residential neighborhoods each building at mit has a number possibly preceded by a w n e or nw designation and most have a name as well typically academic and office buildings are referred to primarily by number while residence halls are referred to by name the organization of building numbers roughly corresponds to the order in which the buildings were built and their location relative north west and east to the original center cluster of maclaurin buildings mits oncampus nuclear reactor other notable campus facilities include a pressurized wind tunnel for testing aerodynamic research and a towing tank for testing ship and ocean structure designs in 2001 the environmental protection agency sued mit for violating the clean water act and the clean air act with regard to its hazardous waste storage and disposal procedures the mit police with state and local authorities in the 20092011 period have investigated reports of 12 forcible sex offenses 6 robberies 3 aggravated assaults 164 burglaries 1 case of arson and 4 cases of motor vehicle theft on campus affecting a community of around 22000 students and employees mit has substantial commercial real estate holdings in cambridge on which it pays property taxes plus an additional voluntary payment in lieu of taxes pilot on academic buildings which are legally taxexempt as of 2017 the land is held for investment purposes and potential longterm expansion architecture the stata center houses csail lids and the department of linguistics and philosophy mits school of architecture now the school of architecture and planning was the first in the united states alvar aaltos baker house 1947 eero saarinens mit chapel and kresge auditorium 1955 and im peis green dreyfus landau and wiesner buildings represent high forms of postwar modernist architecture housing housing at the massachusetts institute of technology the simmons hall undergrad dormitory was completed in 2002 undergraduates are guaranteed fouryear housing in one of mits 10 undergraduate dormitories mit has an active greek and coop housing system including thirtysix fraternities sororities and independent living groups fsilgs organization and administration lobby 7 at 77 massachusetts avenue is regarded as the main entrance to campus mit is chartered as a nonprofit organization and is owned and governed by a privately appointed board of trustees known as the mit corporation the board is chaired by robert millard a cofounder of l3 communications holdings mit has five schools science engineering architecture and planning management and humanities arts and social sciences and one college whitaker college of health sciences and technology but no schools of law or medicine academics mit is a large highly residential research university with a majority of enrollments in graduate and professional programs mit students refer to both their majors and classes using numbers or acronyms alone undergraduate program the fouryear fulltime undergraduate program maintains a balance between professional majors and those in the arts and sciences and has been dubbed most selective by us news the infinite corridor is the primary passageway through campusall undergraduates are required to complete a core curriculum called the general institute requirements girs most classes rely on a combination of lectures recitations led by associate professors or graduate students weekly problem sets psets and periodic quizzes or tests while the pace and difficulty of mit coursework has been compared to drinking from a fire hose in 1969 margaret macvicar founded the undergraduate research opportunities program urop to enable undergraduates to collaborate directly with faculty members and researchers students join or initiate research projects urops for academic credit pay or on a volunteer basis through postings on the urop website or by contacting faculty members directly in 1970 the thendean of institute relations benson r snyder published the hidden curriculum arguing that education at mit was often slighted in favor of following a set of unwritten expectations and that graduating with good grades was more often the product of figuring out the system rather than a solid education the successful student according to snyder was the one who was able to discern which of the formal requirements were to be ignored in favor of which unstated norms for example organized student groups had compiled course biblescollections of problemset and examination questions and answers for later students to use as references this sort of gamesmanship snyder argued hindered development of a creative intellect and contributed to student discontent and unrest graduate program mits graduate program has high coexistence with the undergraduate program and many courses are taken by qualified students at both levels mit offers a comprehensive doctoral program with degrees in the humanities social sciences and stem fields as well as professional degrees admission to graduate programs is decentralized applicants apply directly to the department or degree program more than 90 of doctoral students are supported by fellowships research assistantships ras or teaching assistantships tas mit awarded 1547 masters degrees and 609 doctoral degrees in the academic year 201011 rankings university rankings national arwu 3 forbes 5 washington monthly 3 global arwu 4 qs 1 times 5 us news world report 2 mit also places among the top five in many overall rankings of universities see right and rankings based on students revealed preferences in 2014 money magazine ranked mit at number three for best colleges for your money in the us based on its assessment of getting the most bang for your tuition buck factoring in quality of education affordability and career outcomes times higher education has recognized mit as one of the worlds six super brands on its world reputation rankings along with berkeley cambridge harvard oxford and stanford collaborations eero saarinens kresge auditorium 1955 is a classic example of postwar architecture the university historically pioneered research and training collaborations between academia industry and government the us justice department began an investigation in 1989 and in 1991 filed an antitrust suit against mit the eight ivy league colleges and eleven other institutions for allegedly engaging in pricefixing during their annual overlap meetings which were held to prevent bidding wars over promising prospective students from consuming funds for needbased scholarships walker memorial is a monument to mits fourth president francis amasa walker mit main campus seen from vassar street as the great dome is visible in the distance and the stata center is at right mits proximity mit maintains substantial research and faculty ties with independent research organizations in the boston area such as the charles stark draper laboratory the whitehead institute for biomedical research and the woods hole oceanographic institution ongoing international research and educational collaborations include the amsterdam institute for advanced metropolitan solutions ams institute singaporemit alliance mitpolitecnico di milano the massmarket magazine technology review is published by mit through a subsidiary company as is a special edition that also serves as an alumni magazine libraries collections and museums see also massachusetts institute of technology libraries and campus of the massachusetts institute of technology artwork the mit library system consists of five subject libraries barker engineering dewey economics hayden humanities and science lewis music and rotch arts and architecture there are also various specialized libraries and archives the libraries contain more than 29 million printed volumes 24 million microforms 49000 print or electronic journal subscriptions and 670 reference databases the past decade has seen a trend of increased focus on digital over print resources in the libraries the mit museum was founded in 1971 and collects preserves and exhibits artifacts significant to the culture and history of mit the museum now engages in significant educational outreach programs for the general public including the annual cambridge science festival the first celebration of this kind in the united states since 2005 its official mission has been to engage the wider community with mits science technology and other areas of scholarship in ways that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century research mit was elected to the association of american universities in 1934 and remains a research university with a very high level of research activity in electronics magnetic core memory radar single electron transistors and inertial guidance controls were invented or substantially developed by mit researchers current and previous physics faculty have won eight nobel prizes in the domain of humanities arts and social sciences mit economists have been awarded five nobel prizes and nine john bates clark medals spanning many of the above fields macarthur fellowships the socalled genius grants have been awarded to 38 people associated with mit allegations of research misconduct or improprieties have received substantial press coverage professor david baltimore a nobel laureate became embroiled in a misconduct investigation starting in 1986 that led to congressional hearings in 1991 discoveries and innovation the gnu project and free software movement originated at mit natural sciences oncogene robert weinberg discovered genetic basis of human cancer reverse transcription david baltimore independently isolated in 1970 at mit two rna tumour viruses rmlv and again rsv thermal death time samuel cate prescott and william lyman underwood from 1895 to 1898 done for canning of food applications later found useful in medical devices pharmaceuticals and cosmetics computer and applied sciences akamai technologies daniel lewin and tom leighton discovered and developed a faster content delivery network and is one of the worlds largest distributed computing platforms responsible for serving between 15 and 30 percent of all web traffic cryptography mit researchers ron rivest adi shamir and leonard adleman developed one of the first practical publickey cryptosystems and started a company rsa cryptosystem electronic ink developed by joseph jacobson at mit media lab emacs text editor development began during the 1970s at the mit ai lab flight recorder black box charles stark draper developed the black box at mits instrumentation laboratory that lab later made the apollo moon landings possible through the apollo guidance computer it designed for nasa gnu project richard stallman formally founded the free software movement in 1983 by launching the gnu project at mit lisp programming language john mccarthy invented lisp in 1958 while he was at mit mccarthy published its design in a paper in communications of the acm in 1960 entitled recursive functions of symbolic expressions and their computation by machine part i lithiumion battery efficiencies yetming chiang and his group at mit showed a substantial improvement in the performance of lithium batteries by boosting the materials conductivity by doping it with aluminium niobium and zirconium mit opencourseware the opencourseware movement started in 1999 when the university of tbingen in germany published videos of lectures online for its timms initiative tbinger internet multimedia server in october 2002 the movement was soon reinforced by the launch of similar projects at yale utah state university the university of michigan and the university of california berkeley perdix microdrone autonomous drone that uses artificial intelligence to swarm with many other perdix drones project mac groundbreaking research in operating systems artificial intelligence and the theory of computation darpa funded project radar developed at mits radiation laboratory during world war ii sketchpad invented by ivan sutherland at mit presented in his phd thesis it pioneered the way for humancomputer interaction hci sketchpad is considered to be the ancestor of modern computeraided design cad programs as well as a major breakthrough in the development of computer graphics in general visicalc was the first spreadsheet computer program for personal computers originally released for the apple ii by visicorp mit alumni dan bricklin and bob frankston rented time sharing at night on an mit mainframe computer that cost 1hr for use world wide web consortium founded in 1994 by tim bernerslee w3c is the main international standards organization for the world wide web companies and entrepreneurship list of companies founded by mit alumnimit alumni and faculty have founded numerous companies some of which are shown below bose corporation 1964 founder amar bose bs phd buzzfeed 2006 cofounder jonah peretti ms dropbox 2007 founders drew houston bs and arash ferdowsi dropout etrade 1982 cofounder william a porter mba hewlettpackard 1939 cofounder william r hewlett ms huffpost 2005 cofounder jonah peretti ms intel 1968 cofounder robert noyce phd koch industries 1940 founder fred c koch bs qualcomm 1985 cofounders irwin m jacobs ms phd and andrew viterbi bs ms raytheon 1922 cofounder vannevar bush deng professor renaissance technologies 1982 founder james simons bs tsmc 1987 founder morris chang bs ms vmware 1998 cofounder diane greene ms zipcar 2000 cofounder robin chase mba traditions and student activities traditions and student activities at mit and mit class ring see also mit in popular culture the faculty and student body place a high value on meritocracy and on technical proficiency many upperclass students and alumni wear a large heavy distinctive class ring known as the brass rat activities traditions and student activities at mit see also hacks at the massachusetts institute of technology the start of the mit mystery hunt in 2007 mit has over 500 recognized student activity groups the independent activities period is a fourweeklong term offering hundreds of optional classes lectures demonstrations and other activities throughout the month of january between the fall and spring semesters some of the most popular recurring iap activities are autonomous robot design course 6270 robocraft programming 6370 and maslab competitions many mit students also engage in hacking which encompasses both the physical exploration of areas that are generally offlimits such as rooftops and steam tunnels as well as elaborate practical jokes athletics mit engineers the zesiger sports and fitness center houses a twostory fitness center as well as swimming and diving pools mit sponsors 31 varsity sports and has one of the three broadest ncaa division iii athletic programs people students demographics of mit student body undergraduate graduate white american 34 408 asian american 30 94 hispanic american 15 33 african american 10 21 native american 10 04 otherinternational 8 440 mit enrolled 4602 undergraduates and 6972 graduate students in 20182019 mit received 20247 applications for admission to the undergraduate class of 2021 it admitted 1452 71 percent and enrolled 1102 76 percent the interquartile range on the sat was 20902340 and 97 percent of students ranked in the top tenth of their high school graduating class undergraduate tuition and fees total 40732 per student and annual expenses are estimated mit has been nominally coeducational since admitting ellen swallow richards in 1870 richards also became the first female member of mits faculty specializing in sanitary chemistry a number of student deaths in the late 1990s and early 2000s resulted in considerable media attention focussing on mits culture and student life faculty and staff list of massachusetts institute of technology faculty institute professors emeriti and nobel laureates from left to right franco modigliani deceased paul samuelson also deceased and robert solow picture taken in 2000 as of 2013 faculty members who have made extraordinary contributions to their research field as well as the mit community are granted appointments as institute professors for the remainder of their tenures a 1998 mit study concluded that a systemic bias against female faculty existed in its school of science tenure outcomes have vaulted mit into the national spotlight on several occasions the 1984 dismissal of david f noble a historian of technology became a cause clbre about the extent to which academics are granted freedom of speech after he published several books and papers critical of mits and other research universities reliance upon financial support from corporations and the military in 20062007 mits denial of tenure to africanamerican stem cell scientist professor james sherley reignited accusations of racism in the tenure process eventually leading to a protracted public dispute with the administration a brief hunger strike and the resignation of professor frank l douglas in protest mit faculty members have often been recruited to lead other colleges and universities founding faculty member charles w eliot was recruited in 1869 to become president of harvard university a post he would hold for 40 years during which he wielded considerable influence on both american higher education and secondary education mit alumnus and faculty member george ellery hale played a central role in the development of the california institute of technology caltech and other faculty members have been key founders of franklin w olin college of engineering in nearby needham massachusetts as of 2014 former provost robert a brown is president of boston university former provost mark wrighton is chancellor of washington university in st louis former associate provost alice gast is president of lehigh university and former professor suh nampyo is president of kaist former dean of the school of science robert j birgeneau was the chancellor of the university of california berkeley 20042013 former professor john maeda was president of rhode island school of design risd 20082013 former professor david baltimore was president of caltech 19972006 and mit alumnus and former assistant professor hans mark served as chancellor of the university of texas system 19841992 in addition faculty members have been recruited to lead governmental agencies for example former professor marcia mcnutt is president of the national academy of sciences former professor hans mark served as secretary of the air force from 1979 to 1981 alumna and institute professor sheila widnall served as secretary of the air force between 1993 and 1997 making her the first female secretary of the air force and first woman to lead an entire branch of the us military in the department of defense as of 2017 notable alumni for a more comprehensive list see list of massachusetts institute of technology alumni many of mits over 120000 alumni have had considerable success in scientific research public service education and business as of 2014 alumni in american politics and public service include former chairman of the federal reserve ben bernanke former ma1 representative john olver former ca13 representative pete stark former national economic council chairman lawrence h summers and former council of economic advisors chairman christina romer mit alumni in international politics include foreign affairs minister of iran ali akbar salehi israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu president of colombia virgilio barco vargas president of the european central bank mario draghi former governor of the reserve bank of india raghuram rajan former british foreign minister david miliband former greek prime minister lucas papademos former un secretary general kofi annan former iraqi deputy prime minister ahmed chalabi former minister of education and culture of the republic of indonesia yahya muhaimin former jordanian minister of education higher education and scientific research former jordanian minister of energy and mineral resources khaled toukan alumni in sports have included olympic fencing champion johan harmenberg mit alumni founded or cofounded many notable companies such as intel mcdonnell douglas texas instruments 3com qualcomm bose raytheon apotex koch industries rockwell international genentech dropbox and campbell soup according to the british newspaper the guardian a survey of living mit alumni found that they have formed 25800 companies employing more than three million people including about a quarter of the workforce of silicon valley those firms collectively generate global revenues of about 19trillion 12trillion a year if mit were a country it would have the 11th highest gdp of any nation in the world prominent institutions of higher education have been led by mit alumni including the university of california system harvard university new york institute of technology johns hopkins university carnegie mellon university tufts university rochester institute of technology rhode island school of design risd new jersey institute of technology northeastern university lahore university of management sciences rensselaer polytechnic institute tecnolgico de monterrey purdue university virginia polytechnic institute kaist and quaideazam university berklee college of music the largest independent college of contemporary music in the world was founded and led by mit alumnus lawrence berk for more than three decades more than one third of the united states manned spaceflights have included miteducated astronauts among them apollo 11 lunar module pilot buzz aldrin more than any university excluding the united states service academies noted alumni in nonscientific fields include author hugh lofting pritzker prizewinning architects im pei and gordon bunshaft apollo 11 astronaut buzz aldrin scd 1963 aero astro former un secretarygeneral kofi annan sm 1972 management president of colombia 19861990 virgilio barco vargas sb 1943 civil engineering former federal reserve bank chairman ben bernanke phd 1979 economics physicist nobel laureate richard feynman sb 1939 physics economics nobel laureate paul krugman phd 1977 economics seyyed hossein nasr muslim philosopher and leading exponent of the perennial philosophy biologist suffragist philanthropist katherine dexter mccormick left sb 1904 biology challenger astronaut and physicist ronald mcnair phd 1976 physics israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu sb 1975 architecture sm 1976 management architect i m pei barch 1940 architecture ceo of general motors alfred p sloan sb 1895 electrical engineering boston guitarist tom scholz sb 1969 sm 1970 mechanical engineering boston portal university portal the coop campus bookstore engineering glossary of engineering notes citations also see the bibliography maintained by mits institute archives special collections and written works in mit in popular culture abelmann walter h 2004 the harvardmit division of health sciences and technology the first 25 years 19701995 cambridge massachusetts harvardmit division of health sciences and technology isbn9780674014589 angulo a j 2007 the initial reception of mit 1860s1880s history of higher education annual 26 128 bridger sarah 2015 scientists at war the ethics of cold war weapons research cambridge massachusetts harvard university press isbn9780674736825 etzkowitz henry 2006 mit and the rise of entrepreneurial science london routledge isbn9780415435055 hapgood fred 1992 up the infinite corridor mit and the technical imagination reading mass addisonwesley isbn9780201082937 jarzombek mark 2004 designing mit bosworths new tech boston mass northeastern university press isbn9781555536190 keyser samuel jay 2011 mens et mania the mit nobody knows cambridge massachusetts mit press isbn9780262015943 lecuyer christophe 1992 the making of a science based technological university karl compton james killian and the reform of mit 19301957 historical studies in the physical biological sciences 23 1 153180 doi10230727757693 jstor27757693 leslie stuart w 1993 the cold war and american science the militaryindustrialacademic complex at mit and stanford new york columbia university press isbn9780231079587 lewis warren k robnett ronald h soderberg c richard stratton julius a loofbourow john r 1949 report of the committee on educational survey lewis report pdf cambridge massachusetts mit press retrieved may 28 2012 mitchell william j 2007 imagining mit designing a campus for the twentyfirst century cambridge massachusetts mit press isbn9780262134798 nelkin dorothy 1972 the university and military research moral politics at mit science technology and society new york cornell university press isbn0801407117 peterson t f 2003 nightwork a history of hacks and pranks at mit cambridge massachusetts mit press isbn9780262661379 prescott samuel c 1954 when mit was boston tech 18611916 reprint ed mit press isbn9780262661393 postle denis 1965 how to be first bbc documentary on mit available at reidplazacom renehan colm 2007 peace activism at the massachusetts institute of technology from 1975 to 2001 a case study phd thesis boston boston college servos john w december 1980 the industrial relations of science chemical engineering at mit 19001939 isis the university of chicago press on behalf of the history of science society 71 4 531549 doi101086352591 jstor230499 shrock robert rakes 1982 geology at mit 18651965 a history of the first hundred years of geology at massachusetts institute of technology cambridge massachusetts mit press isbn9780262192118 simha o robert 2003 mit campus planning 19602000 an annotated chronology cambridge massachusetts mit press isbn9780262692946 snyder benson r 1971 the hidden curriculum cambridge massachusetts mit press isbn9780262690430 stratton julius a 2005 mind and hand the birth of mit cambridge massachusetts mit press isbn9780262195249 vest charles m 2004 pursuing the endless frontier essays on mit and the role of research universities cambridge massachusetts mit press isbn9780262220729 wildes karl l lindgren nilo a 1985 a century of electrical engineering and computer science at mit 18821982 cambridge massachusetts mit press isbn9780262231190 wikimedia commons has media related to massachusetts institute of technology official website texts on wikisource massachusetts institute of technology colliers new encyclopedia 1921 massachusetts institute of technology the encyclopedia americana 1920 massachusetts institute of technology the new students 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