Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1861 in response to the increasing industrialization of the United States, MIT adopted a European polytechnic university model and stressed laboratory instruction in applied science and engineering.

Links

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachusetts_Institute_of_Technology
• http://web.mit.edu/
• http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm