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About MIT
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT has five schools and one college, containing 32 academic departments, with a strong emphasis on scientific and technological research. MIT is one of two private land-grant universities and is also a sea grant and space grant university.
MIT was founded by William Barton Rogers in the year 1861 in response to the increasing industrialization of the United States. Although based upon German and French polytechnic models of an institute of technology, MIT's founding philosophy of "learning by doing" made it an early pioneer in the use of laboratory instruction, undergraduate research, and progressive architectural styles. As a federally funded research and development center during World War II, MIT scientists developed defense-related technologies that would later become integral to computers, radar, and inertial guidance. After the war, MIT's reputation expanded beyond its core competencies in science and engineering into the social sciences including economics, linguistics, political science, and management.
MIT's endowment and annual research expenditures are among the largest of any American university. MIT graduates and faculty are noted for their technical acumen (72 affiliated Nobel Laureates, 47 National Medal of Science recipients, and 29 MacArthur Fellows), entrepreneurial spirit (a 1997 report claimed that the aggregated revenues of companies founded by MIT affiliates would make it the twenty-fourth largest economy in the world), and irreverence (the popular practice of constructing elaborate pranks, or hacking, often has anti-authoritarian overtones). -
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“ If you want to specialize in radio frequency photonics, don't go to MIT, come to UMass Dartmouth. ”
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MassChallenge 2012 names 'final 26' startup teams
Explore Mass High Tech Business News (Oct 5 2012)
... Inc - "the bridge from abundance to need-healthy food to those who need it." * Ministry of Supply Inc. "is MIT meets fashion: Creating the next generation of business wear through fabric technology, engineering, and s... (Read Full Article)
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US Bio, Akrivis become first few biotechs in Salem
Explore Mass High Tech Business News (Oct 1 2012)
...everal weeks away, but the city of Salem has already received one treat this year: two new biotech companies. MIT team proposes $30B cancer research 'megafund' [October 1, 2012] Diverse group of companies flock to Kendal...
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Boston One of 10 Cities for Fast-Growth Companies
Which city in America is home to the most Inc. 5000 companies? It's home to many in the high tech and new media sectors. Hint: It's not San Francisco. This year, accessible business resources and tax incentives, as well as a healthy presence of venture capital funding, helped these 10 metro areas sustain the largest number of fast-growing companies. Which city in America is home to the most Inc. 5000 companies? Click through the Gallery to discover the city with 350 of the fastest growers, many in the high tech and new media sectors. Hint: It's not ...
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UMass 14th nationally in commercializing research
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...nd filed 50 patent applications. UMass was sixth overall among public institutions and second behind only the Massachusetts Institute of Technology among Bay State schools. President Robert Caret says research at UMass f...
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UMass researcher gets $1M photonics grant
Explore Mass High Tech Business News (Aug 16 2012)
... have an interest in changing photonics. “If you want to specialize in radio frequency photonics, don’t go to MIT, come to UMass Dartmouth,” Li said. Along with his current research, Li will be working on getting other g...
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Mount Holyoke professor part of NASA Mars Curiosity mission research team
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...in Indiana, graduated from Wellesley College and got her Ph.D from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). “I moved to Massachusetts when I was 18,” she said, “and I never wanted to leave.” The feeling is mutual...
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Work near end at Holyoke computing ctr.
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...ill support the computing needs of five of the state's most research-intensive universities, including UMass, MIT, and Harvard. Monday, crews were hard at work installing the cabinets that will house the data machines an...
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MIT gets $1M manufacturing process grant
Explore Mass High Tech Business News (Jun 12 2012)
...nnounced in 2010. A full list of project descriptions, including project partners, can be found here. In May, MIT hosted a handful of tech companies including iRobot, Amgen Corp. and Novartis, government leaders and facu...
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URI professor gets $520K NSF grant
Explore Mass High Tech Business News (Jun 5 2012)
...tts bionics company is helping to provide movement and function to amputees with a similar system. Founded at MIT by Hugh Herr, who lost both of his lower legs in a hiking incident on Mt. Washington in New Hampshire, Bed...
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MIT and Harvard launch $60M online partnership
Explore Mass High Tech Business News (May 2 2012)
...rtificates of mastery will be available for those who complete the courses online. Anant Agarwal, director of MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab will serve as the first president of edX. At Harvard, P... (Read Full Article)
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Six New England startups selected for MIT Innovation Showcase
Explore Mass High Tech Business News (Apr 23 2012)
... and business. The symposium is organized and developed by a team from the MIT Sloan Alumni Club of Boston, the MIT Center for Digital Business and the Boston Chapter of the Society for Information Management. ...
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MIT to build $450M research center
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...the Boston Globe reports. The lab, the paper says, would be run by Lincoln Laboratory — an MIT operation. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology would pay for construction, though the federal government later would re...
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Boston gets $5M grant for life sciences job training
Explore Mass High Tech Business News (Mar 9 2012)
...ear, $5 million life sciences grant from the U.S. Department of Labor to increase the life sciences workforce MIT researchers study innovation by numbers [March 9, 2012] Avedro submits new drug application to FDA [March ...
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Russia’s Maxwell Biotech fund finds a home in Boston
Explore Mass High Tech Business News (Feb 24 2012)
...e proximity to the source of cutting-edge innovation, ranging from top academic centers including Harvard and MIT to dozens of biotech and medtech companies.” Earlier this month, RVC committed to being a platinum level s... (Read Full Article)
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New Vermont Law School course to show legal ropes to utility executives
Explore Vermont Business Magazine (Feb 1 2012)
...ronment (IEE) development of the course, which is modeled after similar utility executive training courses at MIT and the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School. “We expect 12 to 15 high-potential, forward-thinking... (Read Full Article)
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