Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a clandestine analysis university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1861 in acknowledgment to the accretion industrialization of the United States, MIT adopted a European polytechnic university archetypal and fatigued class apprenticeship in activated science and engineering. Researchers formed on computers, radar, and inertial advice during World War II and the Cold War. Post-war aegis analysis contributed to the accelerated amplification of the adroitness and campus beneath James Killian. The accepted 168-acre (68.0 ha) campus opened in 1916 and extends over 1 mile (1.6 km) forth the arctic coffer of the Charles River basin.

MIT, with 5 schools and one academy which accommodate a absolute of 32 departments, is commonly accepted for its analysis and apprenticeship in the concrete sciences and engineering, and added afresh in biology, economics, linguistics, and administration as well. MIT is generally cited as a allotment of the world's top universities. The "Engineers" sponsor 31 sports, a lot of teams of which attempt in the NCAA Division III's New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference; the Division I canoeing programs attempt as allotment of the EARC and EAWRC.

As of 2015, 84 Nobel laureates, 52 National Medal of Science recipients, 45 Rhodes Scholars, 38 MacArthur Fellows, 34 astronauts, and 2 Fields Medalists accept been affiliated with MIT. The academy has a able ambitious culture, and the aggregated revenues of companies founded by MIT alumni would rank as the eleventh-largest abridgement in the world
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a clandestine analysis university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1861 in acknowledgment to the accretion industrialization of the United States, MIT adopted a European polytechnic university archetypal and fatigued class apprenticeship in activated science and engineering. Researchers formed on computers, radar, and inertial advice during World War II and the Cold War. Post-war aegis analysis contributed to the accelerated amplification of the adroitness and campus beneath James Killian. The accepted 168-acre (68.0 ha) campus opened in 1916 and extends over 1 mile (1.6 km) forth the arctic coffer of the Charles River basin.

MIT, with 5 schools and one academy which accommodate a absolute of 32 departments, is commonly accepted for its analysis and apprenticeship in the concrete sciences and engineering, and added afresh in biology, economics, linguistics, and administration as well. MIT is generally cited as a allotment of the world's top universities. The "Engineers" sponsor 31 sports, a lot of teams of which attempt in the NCAA Division III's New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference; the Division I canoeing programs attempt as allotment of the EARC and EAWRC.

As of 2015, 84 Nobel laureates, 52 National Medal of Science recipients, 45 Rhodes Scholars, 38 MacArthur Fellows, 34 astronauts, and 2 Fields Medalists accept been affiliated with MIT. The academy has a able ambitious culture, and the aggregated revenues of companies founded by MIT alumni would rank as the eleventh-largest abridgement in the world

Campus
Main article: Campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The axial and eastern sections of MIT's campus as apparent from aloft Massachusetts Avenue and the Charles River. In the centermost is the Great Dome overlooking Killian Court with Kendall Square in the background.

MIT's Architecture 10 and Great Dome overlooking Killian Court
MIT's 168-acre (68.0 ha) campus spans about a mile of the arctic ancillary of the Charles River basin in the city-limits of Cambridge. The campus is disconnected almost in bisected by Massachusetts Avenue, with a lot of dormitories and apprentice activity accessories to the west and a lot of bookish barrio to the east. The arch abutting to MIT is the Harvard Bridge, which is accepted for getting apparent off in a non-standard assemblage of breadth – the smoot. The Kendall MBTA Red Line base is amid on the far northeastern bend of the campus in Kendall Square. The Cambridge neighborhoods surrounding MIT are a admixture of top tech companies application both avant-garde appointment and active automated barrio as able-bodied as socio-economically assorted residential neighborhoods.

Each architecture at MIT has a amount (possibly preceded by a W, N, E, or NW) appellation and a lot of accept a name as well. Typically, bookish and appointment barrio are referred to primarily by amount while abode halls are referred to by name. The alignment of architecture numbers almost corresponds to the adjustment in which the barrio were congenital and their breadth about (north, west, and east) to the aboriginal centermost array of Maclaurin buildings. Many of the barrio are affiliated aloft arena as able-bodied as through an all-encompassing arrangement of underground tunnels, accouterment aegis from the Cambridge acclimate as able-bodied as a breadth for roof and adit hacking.

MIT's on-campus nuclear reactor is one of the a lot of able university-based nuclear reactors in the United States. The bulge of the reactor's ascendancy architecture in a densely busy breadth has been controversial, but MIT maintains that it is well-secured. In 1999 Bill Gates donated US$20 actor to MIT for the architecture of a computer class called the "William H. Gates Building" that was advised by artist Frank O. Gehry. While Microsoft had ahead accustomed banking abutment to the institution, this was the aboriginal claimed donation accustomed from Gates.