'Under the Dome' security preparations
To the members of the MIT community: As you know an Open House is being held at MIT this Saturday, April 30, 2011. Although there is no way to confirm how many people will attend, it's possible that...
View ArticleExploring exploration
A live video feed from the International Space Station and a deep-sea radio transmission from near the site of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill established broad parameters for a two-day symposium at...
View ArticleThousands spend Saturday at MIT
Approximately 20,000 people descended on campus Saturday for “Under the Dome,” MIT's first open house in more than 30 years, where visitors of all ages got an up-close and often hands-on view of MIT’s...
View ArticleFlying piano solo
The undergraduate residents of Baker House celebrated MIT's 150th anniversary by following their own 40-year tradition: dropping a piano from their dorm's roof in an annual, smashing rite of spring.The...
View ArticleSpotlight on service
India produces half a million engineers each year, but according to a World Bank survey, 64 percent of their employers say they are only “somewhat” or “not at all satisfied” with their work. At the...
View ArticleVolunteer at Commencement 2011
Guest services volunteers in Killian Court are vital to the success of Commencement at MIT. They give directions, answer questions, make conversation with guests, and help them solve problems. Every...
View ArticleOf minds and machines
In the 1950s and ’60s — when MIT’s Warren McCulloch and Walter Pitts were building networks of artificial neurons, John McCarthy and Marvin Minsky were helping to create the discipline of artificial...
View ArticleMIT's campus all lit up
Thousands of spectators young and old saw the light at MIT this past weekend — literally.FAST Light, the finale event of the three-month-long Festival of Art + Science + Technology, illuminated MIT's...
View ArticleFrom Globe and Gates to Google and Guardian: Nods to MIT's 150th
MIT’s 150th anniversary has gotten considerable attention this past week.The Boston Globe published a special magazine and corresponding web content on Sunday, May 15, which celebrates "150 ideas,...
View ArticleResolved: U.S. Senate congratulates MIT
The U.S. Senate passed a resolution Monday evening (May 23) commemorating and honoring MIT on its 150th anniversary.The bipartisan resolution was co-sponsored by Sens. Scott Brown (R-Mass.) and John...
View ArticleToast to Tech marks end of MIT150 on June 4
Raise a glass, have a slice of anniversary cake and connect with the community during Toast to Tech — set for 9:30 to 11 p.m. on Saturday, June 4, in Killian Court. This event marks the official end to...
View ArticleLincoln Laboratory turns 60
This year marks the 60th anniversary of MIT Lincoln Laboratory’s founding as a U.S. Department of Defense laboratory conducting research and development for national security. Throughout 2011, the...
View ArticleDoc Draper in space
‘150 years of MIT’ is a series that looks at specific people and moments from MIT’s 150-year history and explains their lasting effect on the Institute, the nation and the world. See the full...
View ArticlePreparing the grounds
On Friday, June 3, some 2,500 graduates will march up Killian Court to receive their diplomas, one by one, in a celebration capping MIT’s 150th anniversary. It will be the 33rd year in which Killian...
View ArticleGreetings from space
MIT Tech TV Three MIT alumni with something unusual in common — they were on the International Space Station (ISS) together for eight days last month — co-star in a new video offering extraterrestrial...
View ArticleCampus visitors go the extra mile
Michael Lu has gotten to know MIT pretty well over the years, but his in-depth exploration of campus during MIT's “Under the Dome” open house on April 30 won him a brand-new iPad.There were an...
View Article‘Set your sights on changing the world’
Under the sunny skies of a warm spring day, MIT celebrated its 145th Commencement exercises on June 3 in the expansive Killian Court, nearing the culmination of 150 days of celebrations of the...
View Article‘To MIT — 150 more!’
No birthday celebration is complete without a cake, and MIT’s 150th confection was one for the ages.The 24-foot, 1,000-pound creation was on display for — and then promptly eaten by — the Institute...
View ArticleWind, war and weathermen
Well into the 20th century, American weather forecasting was not a rigorous science, but an “art,” as a National Research Council report stated in 1918. Forecasters knew, among other things, that...
View ArticleReunion giving tops $60 million
Saturday’s Technology Day began with faculty presentations on MIT’s past and future and ended with the bang of fireworks at the Toast to Tech finale of the MIT’s sesquicentennial celebrations. And the...
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