STATA CENTER PLUS

Materials change wherever you look: brick, mirror-surface steel, brushed aluminum, brightly colored paint, corrugated metal. Walls teeter, swerve, and collide in random curves and angles. It also looks as if it's about to collapse. According to Campbell, 'the Stata is always going to look unfinished. Robert Campbell, architecture columnist for The Boston Globe, wrote a glowing appraisal of the building on April 25, 2004. It is kind of messy, but by God it is procreative!' Architectural criticism Lettvin once quipped, 'You might regard it as the womb of the Institute. The building also provided permanent rooms for official Institute clubs and groups, including the Tech Model Railroad Club and the Electronic Research Society. Over the course of 55 years, its 'temporary' nature allowed research groups to have more space, and to make more creative use of that space, than was possible in more respectable buildings. Building 20 was erected hastily during World War II as a temporary building to house the historic Radiation Laboratory. The Stata Center is located on the site of the former Building 20, demolished in 1998. (MIT class of 1954), Charles Thomas 'E.B.' Pritchard Hintze (an MIT graduate, and of JD Edwards, now Oracle Corporation), Morris Chang of TSMC. Other major funders included Bill Gates, Alexander W. Major funding for the Stata Center was provided by Ray Stata (MIT class of 1957) and Maria Stata.

STATA CENTER PLUS

In the ground floor elevator lobby of the Dreyfoos Tower are located a large time capsule box plus informational panels describing MIT's historic Building 20, which the Stata Center has replaced. A few selected larger relics of past hacks (student pranks) are now on semi-permanent display, including a 'fire hose' drinking fountain, a giant slide rule, and full-size replicas of a cow and a police car which had been placed atop the Great Dome (though not at the same time). The MIT Museum maintains some historic displays on the ground floor of the Stata Center. The Forbes Family Cafe is located at the eastern end, and serves coffee and lunch to the public during office hours. One of five MIT Technology Childcare Centers (TCC) is located at the western end of the ground floor.

The monthly 'Choose to Re-use' community recycling swap fest, and a weekly fresh produce market are other events regularly held in the Stata Center. The Student Street is often used as a more-spacious substitute or extension for the Memorial Lobby located in Building 10 on the Infinite Corridor. Vest Student Street, in honor of the former MIT president who died in December 2013. Academic celebrities such as Noam Chomsky, Ron Rivest, and World Wide Web Consortium founder Tim Berners-Lee also have offices in the building.ДЄ wide main passage running the length of the building on the ground floor is called the Charles M. Research labs and offices of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS), as well as the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy (Course 24) occupy the upper floors. The building has a number of small auditoriums and classrooms used by the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department (EECS, Course 6), as well as other departments and on-campus groups. Above the fourth floor, the building splits into two distinct structures: the Gates Tower and the Dreyfoos Tower, often called 'G Tower' and 'D Tower' respectively. In contrast to the MIT custom of referring to buildings by their numbers rather than their official names, the complex is usually referred to as 'Stata' or 'the Stata Center' (though the building number is still essential in identifying rooms at MIT).

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