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34 unusual facts about Massachusetts Institute of Technology


92893 Michaelperson

It is named after Michael J. Person, a planetary scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Abbott Fuller Graves

Hoping to become an architect, Graves attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology but did not graduate.

Alloy Analyzer

The Alloy Analyzer, and the associated Alloy language, were developed by a team led by Daniel Jackson at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the United States.

Autosegmental phonology

Autosegmental phonology is the name of a framework of phonological analysis proposed by John Goldsmith in his PhD thesis in 1976 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Behavior-based robotics

The school of behavior-based robots owes much to work undertaken in the 1980s at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology by Professor Rodney Brooks, who with students and colleagues built a series of wheeled and legged robots utilising the subsumption architecture.

Bucky bit

Bucky bits were used heavily on keyboards designed by Tom Knight in MIT, including space-cadet keyboards used on LISP machines.

C.L.E. Moore instructor

The job title of C.L.E. Moore instructor is given by the Math Department at Massachusetts Institute of Technology to recent math Ph.D.

Cambridge Scientific Center

The IBM Cambridge Scientific Center, established in February 1964 by Norm Rasmussen, was situated at 545 Technology Square (Tech Square), Cambridge, Massachusetts in the same building as MIT's Project MAC.

Charles Herbert Woodbury

After graduation from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (with degree in Mechanical Engineering), in 1886 Woodbury had great success painting up the New England coast and in the towns and beaches of Nova Scotia and exhibiting the results.

Charles River Valley Boys

Although the group's membership changed frequently, the core performers of the Charles River Valley Boys in the early years were Eric Sackheim (guitar, mandolin), Bob Siggins (banjo, vocals), and Clay Jackson (guitar, vocals), all students at Harvard, and Ethan Signer (guitar, mandolin, autoharp, vocals), a graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Fluid catalytic cracking

Chemical engineering professors Warren K. Lewis and Edwin R. Gilliland of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) suggested to the CRA researchers that a low velocity gas flow through a powder might "lift" it enough to cause it to flow in a manner similar to a liquid.

George Edward Dering

His principal interest was electricity: he had a standing order with booksellers for books on the subject and amassed a huge collection, subsequently bought by Theodore Newton Vail and presented to Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Hellenic Naval Academy

Finally, officers ranked Lieutenant Junior Grade and Lieutenant, may be educated abroad (in Europe or in the USA) in schools such as NPS, MIT, the University of Michigan etc., thus becoming further specialized in fields such as electronics, weapon systems, computers, operation research, marine architecture etc.

Intercollegiate Taiwanese American Students Association

In 1998, Taiwanese American students at Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Tufts University established the Boston Intercollegiate Taiwanese Students Association (BITSA) to serve the many campuses in the Boston area.

International Solid-State Circuits Conference

The first conference consisted of papers from six organizations: Bell Telephone Laboratories, General Electric, RCA, Philco, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Pennsylvania.

Izchak Miller

Miller was a coordinator of the Cognitive Science Research Group at the University of Pennsylvania from 1985 to 1986; he later on joined the faculty of Yeshiva University in 1993, and also taught at Stanford University, Brandeis University and the MIT.

Jamie Laurie

Together they released the independently released album Onomatopoeia in 2001, and the title track ended up in a compilation by the MIT Songwriting Club at Yahktoe's alma mater.

Leonard H. Tower, Jr.

In 1971, Tower received an SB in biology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

LiftPort Group

November 12, 2004, Demonstrated a lifter at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology by having it climb up a ribbon approximately 90 meters tall, during a snowstorm.

LINCOS

The LINCOS program was initiated in late 1998 as a joint initiative between the Costa Rican Foundation for Sustainable Development, the Media Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the Costa Rica Institute of Technology.

Marco Stroppa

From 1980 to 1984, Stroppa collaborated with the Centro di Sonologia Computazionale of the University of Padua, before moving to the USA where he continued his studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology supported by a grant from the Fulbright Foundation until 1986.

Monsanto House of the Future

The design and engineering of the house was done jointly by Monsanto, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Walt Disney Imagineering.

Pauline Hopkins

Hopkins spent the remainder of her years working as a stenographer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Peter Berndtson

Born in Massachusetts, he studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology for two years, but dropped out after his father died.

Peter Landin

Most of his work was published during this period and the brief time he worked for Univac and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the United States before taking a position at Queen Mary, University of London.

Richard H. Solomon

He was educated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, receiving an S.B. in 1960, and a Ph.D. in Political Science with a specialization in Chinese politics in 1966.

Ryan Shapiro

Ryan Shapiro is a doctoral candidate at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a U.S. Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) researcher and an advocate for animal rights.

Steve Isakowitz

A native of Cleveland, Ohio, Mr. Isakowitz graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a bachelor’s and master’s degree in aerospace engineering.

T. Michael Kerr

Kerr graduated from Tufts University and holds a Masters Degree in City Planning from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Tenzin Tethong

The Dalai Lama Foundation also works to develop close relations with other organizations that are engaged in the Dalai Lama's work for peace in the world, and collaborates with a number of organizations bearing the Dalai Lama's name; The Foundation for Universal Responsibility of the Dalai Lama in New Delhi, The Dalai Lama Center for Peace Education in Vancouver, Canada, and The Dalai Lama Center for Ethics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston.

The Science Academy of South Texas

Many SciTech students who graduate in the top 10% of their class have been accepted to Yale University, Stanford University, California Institute of Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Rice University, and Princeton University.

Thomas M. Siebel Center for Computer Science

The Siebel Center houses the Department of Computer Science, which currently shares the distinction of being one of the top five Computer Science departments in the nation with Stanford University, the University of California, Berkeley, Carnegie Mellon University, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Thomas Piketty

After his thesis, Piketty taught economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from 1993 to 1995.

Wendy and Richard Pini

After an exemplary academic performance at school, he was accepted into the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) for an astrophysics degree.


Andrew D. Hamilton

He also served as Provost of the Yale University from October 2004 to October 2008 after his predecessor, Susan Hockfield was appointed the 16th President of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

ArsDigita Prize

All first runners-up received a free trip to the computer research laboratories at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, seats at a two-day seminar taught by Philip Greenspun, lunch with David D. Clark, Tim Berners-Lee and Michael Dertouzos, dinner with Hal Abelson and Gerry Sussman, and access to a Web server for life.

Arthur Raymond Brooks

He graduated as valedictorian from Framingham Academy and High School in Massachusetts in 1913 and from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1917.

Auguste Doriot

After the war the family sent him to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the USA but he switched to the Harvard Business School where he became a Professor and the father of Venture Capitalism.

Biotecnol

Dr de Noronha Pissarra has worked at numerous institutions, including King's College, London, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA and the Centre for Biotechnology of the Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby.

Cache-oblivious algorithm

The idea (and name) for cache-oblivious algorithms was conceived by Charles E. Leiserson as early as 1996 and first published by Harald Prokop in his master's thesis at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1999.

Chattertocks

Several of their alumnae, such as Gwyneth Walker (composer), Susan Bennett (commercial vocalist and voice of Siri), Ellen Turner Harris, (Professor of Music at Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Anitra Brooks Kocyba (vocalist), and Stephanie Cotsirillos (performer) have gone on to become successful musicians and performers.

Computronium

Computronium is a material hypothesized by Norman Margolus and Tommaso Toffoli of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to be used as "programmable matter," a substrate for computer modeling of virtually any real object.

Eve Andree Laramee

She has participated in exhibitions at the Venice Biennale, Mass MOCA, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; the High Museum of Art, Atlanta; the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston; among other institutions.

Gabriel Segal

Finally, Segal received his PhD in Philosophy from MIT in 1987, supervised by Ned Block and Noam Chomsky.

Hebrew High School of New England

Virtually all students go on to four-year colleges after graduation, and HHNE students have been accepted to top schools such as Cooper Union, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Barnard College, Brandeis University, Boston University, New York University (NYU), Columbia University, Sarah Lawrence College, and Yeshiva University.

Ignacio J. Pérez Arriaga

Ignacio J. Pérez Arriaga (Madrid, 1948) is a Spanish Professor of Engineering, Economics and Regulation of the Electric Power Sector, currently at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT, USA) and the ICAI School of Engineering (Comillas Pontifical University, Spain).

Kim Vicente

During 2002-03, he was Jerome Clarke Hunsaker Visiting Professor of Aerospace Information Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Leo Paquette

He received his B.S. degree from Holy Cross College in 1956 and his Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1959.

Marc Postman

Postman attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as an undergraduate from 1978 to 1981, receiving a S.B. in Physics in 1981.

Mars Gravity Biosatellite

Over the next few years, the program grew tremendously in both scope and vision, with staff and students from MIT (Payload), UW (Spacecraft Bus) and UQ (Reentry) collaboratively designing various parts of the mission.

Masayoshi Tomizuka

Professor Masayoshi Tomizuka received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Keio University, Tokyo, Japan in 1968 and 1970, and his Ph. D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in February 1974.

Michael DiMercurio

DiMercurio was a 1980 honors graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy with a B.S. in mechanical engineering, a 1981 National Science Foundation Scholarship fellow at MIT with a masters degree in mechanical engineering, and an officer in the U.S. Navy’s attack submarine force.

Michael Martin Hammer

Michael Martin Hammer (13 April 1948 – 3 Sept 2008) was an American engineer, management author, and a former professor of computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), known as one of the founders of the management theory of Business process reengineering (BPR).

Millstone Hill Observatory

Millstone Hill Observatory is a Massachusetts Institute of Technology atmospheric sciences research centre in Westford, Massachusetts.

Namib Desert beetle

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have emulated this capability by creating a textured surface that combines alternating hydrophobic and hydrophilic materials.

Richard L. Schmalensee

He holds a joint appointment with the Department of Economics at MIT.

Richard S. Morse

Richard S. Morse (August 19, 1911- July 1, 1988) was an American inventor and scientist credited with invention of the orange juice concentrate, the founder of the Minute Maid, a member of the National Academy of Engineering, Assistant Secretary of the Army, senior lecturer at Sloan School of Management of Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Ron Rocco

Later he began graduate study at the Center for Advanced Visual Studies at M.I.T. under the instruction of the German Group Zero artist, Otto Piene, filmmaker Ricky Leacock, and anthropologist Heather Lechtman.

Science Week Ireland

The guest lecturers include Professor Aubrey Manning, a distinguished zoologist and broadcaster, Gerry Johnston, director of Special Effects Ireland, Dr. Cynthia Breazeal, Associate Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stephen Attenborough of Virgin Galactic and Patrick Collison, Irish Young Scientist of the Year winner 2005.

Scientific American Frontiers

The show first aired in 1990 with MIT professor Woodie Flowers who served as the original host from 1990 to the spring of 1993.

SolidWorks

SolidWorks Corporation was founded in December 1993 by Massachusetts Institute of Technology graduate Jon Hirschtick; Hirschtick used $1 million he had made while a member of the MIT Blackjack Team to set up the company.

Stewart Rawlings Mott

He attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for three years, and finished his education at Columbia University School of General Studies earning two Bachelor's degrees, one in business administration and one in comparative literature.

Time-of-flight mass spectrometry

The idea had been proposed two years earlier, in 1946, by W. E. Stephens of the University of Pennsylvania in a Friday afternoon session of a meeting, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, of the American Physical Society.