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The plan was drafted by William Barton Rogers and was for a scientific and polytechnic school.
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The Massachusetts legislature approves MIT’s charter and also awards a Back Bay property lot to MIT and Boston Society of Natural History.
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The "government" at MIT had held their very first meeting.
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The first student was enrolled and his name was Eli Forbes.
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The first classes for MIT had started and they were held in the "Mercantile Building"
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The Alumni association was founded for the graduate class of 1968 and was started by Robert Richards.
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There was a plan drafted for a technology campus. They had also purchased 50 acres of land for this campus. It had cost $500,000 and was donated from a student named Thomas Coleman duPont.
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There was a program called the Navy V-12 program and the Army Specialized Training Program that had helped military officers learn technical skills.
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They had created a research laboratory for electronics. This was a created to be a "peacetime sequel to the Radiation Lab"
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Music was an added subject to the MIT curriculum and was started by Klaus Liepmann.
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In 1963 they had started the MAC project, which had a focus on timesharing computers. Later, in 1975, the name was changed to the Laboratory for Computer Science.
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The program for the computer called Sketchpad was created. This allows you to create graphic images on the computer screen instead of having to type code to create the graphics.
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The computer program, MACSYMA, was created by Joel Moses. This program was manipulating "algebraic quantities and performs symbolic integration and differentiation."
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In 1970, Artificial Intelligence became its own program. It had previously been a part of the MAC program.
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They created a compact linear predictive coding vocoder. This helped digital signal processing chips to help with predictive coding. They were inexpensive and would analyze the speech using certain parameters to suggest coding.
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The school had launched this project to experiment educationally so they are able to improve their teaching and learning.
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Nicholas Negroponte, who was a professor at MIT, had founded the media lab. This lab was for designing and inventing technology to help transform everyday life.
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A program for electrical engineering and computer science was approved for a 5-year program that would get you both a masters degree and bachelors degree.
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MIT had created the Lincoln Laboratory Microelectronics Laboratory that was for semiconductor research and a fabrication facility. This supported many different programs including Photon-counting avalanche photodiode arrays and flight-quality gigapixel charge-coupled device imager focal planes.
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The Nanomechanical technology laboratory was opened and it is to be used for the study of mechanical properties in surfaces and devices that contain the same molecular and atomic scales.
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Here is a link to a lot more events that have happened throughout the history of MIT: https://mitstory.mit.edu/mit-highlights-timeline
