Talk:Massachusetts Institute of Technology

MIT alumni who died in the September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack:

David M. Berray[?] (SM 2000, Course 15) MIT tribute (http://alumweb.mit.edu/are-you-ok/berray.shtml)
Charles E. Jones[?] (SM 1980, Course 16) MIT tribute (http://alumweb.mit.edu/are-you-ok/jones.shtml)
Frederick Kuo[?] (SM 1970, Course 2) MIT tribute (http://alumweb.mit.edu/are-you-ok/kuo.shtml)
Daniel M. Lewin (SM 1998, Course 6) MIT tribute (http://alumweb.mit.edu/are-you-ok/lewin.shtml)
Donald A. Peterson (SB 1957, Course 6) MIT tribute (http://alumweb.mit.edu/are-you-ok/peterson.shtml)
Thomas F. Theurkauf[?] (SB 1979, Course 14) MIT tribute (http://alumweb.mit.edu/are-you-ok/theurkauf.shtml)
John J. Wenckus (SB 1977, Course 2) MIT tribute (http://alumweb.mit.edu/are-you-ok/wenckus.shtml)

Source: alumweb.mit.edu/are-you-ok/list.shtml (http://alumweb.mit.edu/are-you-ok/list.shtml), 20 Oct 2001

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Removed this statement

This pressure contributes to MIT's suicide rate, one of the highest among American universities.

Need some statistics. After every suicide, the campus administration always mentions in the Tech that MIT's suicide rate is not actually particularly high among colleges. One factor to consider is that because MIT is small and relatively tight knit, the administration and the medical department intervenes *very* quickly and efficiently in response to students who are in danger of suicide. (They are very quickly sent off to Maclean's).

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I do not think the name "Boston Tech" ever had any official status, since I have seen copies of founding documents on MIT's web site saying the official name has never changed. (The original MIT campus was in Boston where Copley Square is now; it moved across the river to Cambridge in 1916. So the name "Boston Tech" was appropriate if unofficial.) -- Mike Hardy

And now I've confirmed it: See <http://libraries.mit.edu/archives/mithistory/charter#incorporate>;. MIT was always MIT, never "Boston Tech", even if the latter phrase has some colloquial currency. -- Mike Hardy

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I have deleted the unjust "parking garage" simile. The old building that not-quite-surrounds Killian Court has great charm, and from my Neutral Point of View, I hereby sentence the author of the "parking garage" simile to Cruel and Unusual Punishment. Michael Hardy 21:44 Feb 10, 2003 (UTC)

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I notice "Muses" points to the a greek mythology thing, not a group.. —User:Mulad

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Other beliefs that are strongly held by people within the school are that information should be widely disseminated and not held secret

I'm not sure this is accurate. While it was true in the early 1960s, the movement of MIT, and particular the AI Lab, away from this "open information" model to one dominated by proprietary corporate development was in fact one of the main reasons for the foundation of the Free Software Foundation as an opposing force. The article currently makes it sound like RMS was in harmony with the ethos at MIT, which he most decidedly was not. Today, the MIT AI Lab has a somewhat poor reputation in some scientific circles for taking big-money contracts and keeping important portions of their results secret to allow for later commercial development. Not changing yet though, pending someone else commenting. Delirium 05:37 1 Jul 2003 (UTC)