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Building 10, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge.
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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 • Ellen Swallow Richards • John M. Deutch • David Baltimore • Ben Bernanke • Robert C. Merton • Robert J. Shiller • Simon Johnson • Peter A. Diamond • Jean Tirole • Paul Krugman • Henry Way Kendall • Henry Kendall • Louis Sullivan • Benjamin Netanyahu • Robert Burns Woodward • Kofi Annan • Danny Hillis • I.M. Pei • Ray Kurzweil • George Shultz • Carly Fiorina • David Miliband • Mario Draghi • Murray Gell-Mann • Lawrence Roberts • Jay Wright Forrester • Alfred P. Sloan, Jr. • Sidney Altman • Stanley Tigerman • Leslie Lamport • Buzz Aldrin • Daniel Chester French • Morris Chang • James E. Rothman • Robert B. Laughlin • Paul Modrich • Robert A. Mundell • Chung Mong-Joon • David Scott • William Nordhaus • Esther Duflo • Jasmin Moghbeli • Shirley Ann Jackson • Lydia Villa-Komaroff • Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala • Paul Romer • Alex Padilla • David Julius • Michael Rosbash • Andrea Ghez • Steven D. Levitt • Song Binbin • Raja Chari • Rainer Weiss • Sam Bankman-Fried • Victor Ambros • Andrew Z. Fire • Robert Thirsk • Edward Durell Stone • William B. Shockley • Adam Riess • Lucas Papademos • Tachikawa Keiji • Oliver E. Williamson • Lawrence R. Klein • Cornelia Maria Clapp • Joseph E. Stiglitz • Fernando Corbató • Robert J. Aumann • Les Aspin • Edgar Mitchell • George A. Akerlof • William D. Phillips • Charles J. Pedersen • Leland H. Hartwell • Robert Sanderson Mulliken • F.C. Kohli • Ray Tomlinson • Franklin Chang-Díaz • John Robert Schrieffer • Raymond M. Hood • Eric A. Cornell • Burton Richter • David Koch • Charles Koch • Jane Luu
Related People Vannevar Bush • Charles Stark Draper • Nicholas Negroponte • John B. Goodenough • Leonard M. Adleman • Alan Jay Perlis • Ivan Sutherland • Margaret Hamilton • Isadore Singer • Adi Shamir • Edward Lorenz • Karl Taylor Compton • James Rhyne Killian, Jr. • Joseph Weizenbaum • 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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