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  2. In 2006–2007, MIT's denial of tenure to African-American biological engineering professor James Sherley prompted accusations of racism in MIT's tenure process, eventually leading to a protracted public dispute with the administration, a brief hunger strike, and the resignation of Professor Frank L. Douglas in protest. [87] [88]

  3. Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Wikipedia

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    MIT's endowment, real estate, and other financial assets are managed through by the MIT Investment Management Company (MITIMCo), a subsidiary of the MIT Corporation created in 2004. [173] A minor revenue source for much of the Institute's history, the endowment's role in MIT operations has grown due to strong investment returns since the 1990s ...

  4. List of presidents of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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    MIT Presidents No. Term Name Term starts Term ends 1 1: William Barton Rogers: 1862 1870 2 2: John Daniel Runkle: 1870 1878 – 3 William Barton Rogers 1879 1881 3 4: Francis Amasa Walker: 1881 1897 4 5: James Crafts: 1897 1900 5 6: Henry Smith Pritchett: 1900 1907 acting: Arthur Amos Noyes: 1907 1909 6 7: Richard Cockburn Maclaurin: 1909 1920 ...

  5. Campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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    The campus includes dozens of buildings representing diverse architectural styles and shifting campus priorities over MIT's history. MIT's architectural history can be broadly split into four eras: the Boston campus, the new Cambridge campus before World War II, the "Cold War" development, and post-Cold War buildings.

  6. MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences

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    The MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (SHASS) is one of the five schools of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, US. The school includes 11 academic areas and works alongside six departments, labs, and programs.

  7. ELIZA - Wikipedia

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    A conversation with Eliza. ELIZA is an early natural language processing computer program developed from 1964 to 1967 [1] at MIT by Joseph Weizenbaum. [2] [3] Created to explore communication between humans and machines, ELIZA simulated conversation by using a pattern matching and substitution methodology that gave users an illusion of understanding on the part of the program, but had no ...

  8. Broad Institute - Wikipedia

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    The Broad Institute evolved from a decade of research collaborations among MIT and Harvard scientists. [4] One cornerstone was the Center for Genome Research of Whitehead Institute at MIT. Founded in 1982, the Whitehead became a major center for genomics and the Human Genome Project. As early as 1995, scientists at the Whitehead started pilot ...

  9. John McCarthy (computer scientist) - Wikipedia

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    Oral history interview with Fernando J. Corbató at Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. Corbató discusses computer science research, especially time-sharing, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), including John McCarthy and research on time-sharing. National Academy of Sciences Biographical Memoir