History of MIT

Frank Urbanowski, director of the MIT Press, will retire after 27 years this January.

Director of MIT Press to retire in January

October 9, 2002

Dornbusch's writings now on display

October 2, 2002

We are the engineers

September 18, 2002

MIT Museum displays 1975 WTC model

September 11, 2002

CIS plans 50th celebration

May 8, 2002

In the aftermath of the most memorable event of 2001, a student displays the American flag at a gathering of thousands of MIT communtiy members on Killian Court the day after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

Looking back at 2001

January 9, 2002

No honorary degrees is an MIT tradition going back to ... Thomas Jefferson

June 8, 2001

Black and white photo of a young Claude Shannon with his desktop mouse maze

Professor Emeritus Claude Shannon, founder of digital communications, dies at 84

Longtime MIT professor of electrical engineering pioneered information theory and helped lay the foundations for modern computing, cryptography, and artificial intelligence.

February 27, 2001

Technology and the Dream portrays black experience as students, faculty at MIT

February 12, 2001

The cover page of the 1685 Algonquin Bible in MIT's rare books collection.

MIT Bible dates from early Thanksgiving era

November 22, 2000

Jamie Hsu (center), executive director of technology management and technology intelligence for General Motors, presented two historic lead-salt diode lasers to the MIT Museum's Science and Technology Collection. Elizabeth Lo (left), wife of the late GM scientist Wayne Lo who developed these lasers, looks on as Jane Pickering (right), director of the MIT Museum, takes a close look at the tiny lase...

GM donates historic lasers to MIT

November 15, 2000

MIT offers 24-room Georgian mansion on Coolidge Estate for $6.5M

October 19, 2000

School of Humanities celebrates its 50th birthday

September 20, 2000

MIT Humanities School adds 'Arts' to its name

Special Oct. 6 showcase concert to celebrate School's 50th anniversary

September 13, 2000

Times have changed since graduation of last century class

May 31, 2000

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