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Also Known As MIT
Date 1861 - present
Areas Of Involvement coeducation
Notable Alumni Vannevar Bush • Charles Stark Draper • Alan Jay Perlis • Ben Bernanke • Simon Johnson • Ellen Swallow Richards • John M. Deutch • David Baltimore • Robert C. Merton • Paul Krugman • Robert J. Shiller • Jean Tirole • Peter A. Diamond • Henry Way Kendall • Henry Kendall • Benjamin Netanyahu • Louis Sullivan • Walter Netsch • Sam Bankman-Fried • Esther Duflo • Mario Draghi • I.M. Pei • Robert Burns Woodward • Rainer Weiss • Shirley Ann Jackson • Jane Luu • Kofi Annan • Alex Padilla • Song Binbin • Danny Hillis • Ray Kurzweil • Lydia Villa-Komaroff • Carly Fiorina • George Shultz • Victor Ambros • David Miliband • Murray Gell-Mann • Lawrence Roberts • Chung Mong-Joon • Jay Wright Forrester • Leslie Lamport • David Julius • Sidney Altman • Buzz Aldrin • Michael Rosbash • William Nordhaus • Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala • Alfred P. Sloan, Jr. • Stanley Tigerman • Morris Chang • Robert B. Laughlin • Paul Modrich • James E. Rothman • Robert A. Mundell • Ray Tomlinson • Charles Koch • David Koch • Robert Thirsk • Joseph E. Stiglitz • David Scott • Andrew Z. Fire • Paul Romer • Edward Durell Stone • Lucas Papademos • Les Aspin • Adam Riess • Tachikawa Keiji • Daniel Chester French • Steven D. Levitt • George A. Akerlof • Andrea Ghez • Raja Chari • William B. Shockley • Cornelia Maria Clapp • Lawrence R. Klein • Oliver E. Williamson • Jasmin Moghbeli • Fernando Corbató • Robert J. Aumann • Edgar Mitchell • Leland H. Hartwell • Charles J. Pedersen • William D. Phillips • F.C. Kohli • Franklin Chang-Díaz • Robert Sanderson Mulliken • Eric A. Cornell • John Robert Schrieffer • Burton Richter • Raymond M. Hood
Related People Vannevar Bush • Charles Stark Draper • Nicholas Negroponte • Margaret Hamilton • Joseph Weizenbaum • Leonard M. Adleman • Ivan Sutherland • Alan Jay Perlis • John B. Goodenough • Adi Shamir • Isadore Singer • Edward Lorenz • Karl Taylor Compton • James Rhyne Killian, Jr. • Erastus Brigham Bigelow

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Building 10, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge.
Know about the ballroom dance club at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Understand how researchers are creating wrinkled surfaces with precise sizes and controlled patterns for use in various structures
Discover the development of an elastic surface with arrays of micropillars, capable of controlling the direction of the liquid, or influence the optical patterns on its surface
Know how patterned hydrophobic surfaces increase the efficiency of industrial plant condensers
Know about the MIT Laboratory for Chocolate Science dedicated to the science, history, politics, and economics of chocolate
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