Massachusetts Institute off Technology

The Massachusetts Institute off Technology ([[French]: Massachusetts Institute of Technology )] is an institution of research and a American Université , specialized in the fields of the Science and the Technologie. Located at Cambridge, in the Massachusetts, in the vicinity immediate of Boston, she is regarded with the 21e century as the best Western university in sciences and technologies.

Description

With the 21e century, MIT is world leader for teaching and research in science and technology, but it is also famous in other fields like the Management, the economy, the Linguistique, the Political sciences and the Philosophie.

The course more followed is that of Engineer, with: 2000 students, then that of sciences.

What characterizes MIT is its proximity with the industrial world and its very strong implication in the scientific research and technological, in which the students take part as of their first year of course. In 2002, it is the first university to put the integrality of its courses on line on Internet, the MIT OpenCourseWare .

In 2005,61 members or former members of MIT (teaching bodies and pupils) had received the Nobel Prize.

MIT breaks up into 5 schools which contain 27 departments:

  • School off Architecture and Planning ;
  • School off Engineering (in French, “School of Engineers”);
  • School off Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences ;
  • Alfred P. Sloan School off Management ;
  • School off Science (in French, “School of Science”).

Among his the most famous departments and schools, one counts:

  • the Lincoln Laboratory (in French, Laboratory Lincoln );
  • the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (in French, Laboratory of Artificial intelligence and Data processing );
  • the Media Lab ;
  • the Nuclear Laboratory ;
  • the Center for Bits and Atoms (CBA) which explores the bonds between information and its physical representation (see Fab lab)

History

MIT was founded in 1861 by William Barton Rogers, to answer the increasing demand of formation in the technical fields of the industrial development of the United States. Based on the operation of the European institutes, MIT is different quickly by the principle from the training by the practice in laboratory. During the second world war, of share its place of subsidized institute, it takes a position of point in the development of military techniques. Position which will do nothing but increase during the cold war. At the beginning school of architecture, the institute quickly becomes multi-field. August 1st In 2006, it counts close to: 1000 teachers for: 10000 students.

According to a quotation celebrates of Richard Stallman: " MIT it is well, eat in! ".

Famous personalities of MIT

Teachers or old teaching

Former students

  • List of famous pupils

External bonds

  • Official site
  • Course in line

Simple: Massachusetts Institute off Technology

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