The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private university locate in Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT has five schools and one college, containing 32 academic departments, with a strong emphasis on scientific and technological research. MIT is one of two private land-grant universities and is also a sea grant and space grant university.

Trivia about mit

  • This Cambridge, Massachusetts scientific university has a Gilbert & Sullivan players group
  • Spacewar, the first shoot-'em-up game, was created in the early '60s by programmers at this Mass. school
  • During World War II, this Cambridge, MA school was the center of the USA's radar research
  • It ends its cheer, "cosine, secant, tangent, sine, 3.14159; integral, radical, u dv; slipstick, slide rule...."
  • America's biggest defense contractor among universities is this New England school
  • Norbert Wiener wrote 1948's "Cybernetics" while teaching at this U.S. institute in Cambridge
  • In 1882 this Mass. univ. established the 1st curriculum for electrical engineering within its physics department