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Also Known As MIT
Date 1861 - present
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Related People Vannevar Bush • Charles Stark Draper • Nicholas Negroponte • John B. Goodenough • Leonard M. Adleman • Alan Jay Perlis • Margaret Hamilton • Ivan Sutherland • 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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