Ray and Maria Stata Center
The Ray and Maria Stata Center (/steɪtə/ STAY-ta) or Building 32 is a 720,000-square-foot (67,000 m2) academic complex designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Frank Gehry for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The building opened for initial occupancy on March 16, 2004. It sits on the site of MIT's former Building 20, which had housed the historic Radiation Laboratory, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The building's address is 32 Vassar Street.
Description
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). 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.
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. 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. Academic celebrities such as Noam Chomsky and Ron Rivest, World Wide Web Consortium founder Tim Berners-Lee, and free software movement founder Richard Stallman also have offices in the building.
Podcasts:
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by Red Hot Chili Peppers
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by Bad Religion
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by Blue System
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by Remedy
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by Oxymoron
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by Jeff Scott Soto
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by Imperial Teen
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by Locksley
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by Hurrah!
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by Youssou N'dour
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by One-way Mirror
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by Plunkett
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by Weekend Players
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by Tim Christensen
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by Rhema
21st Century
by: Red Hot Chili PeppersAll the creatures on the beaches
Making waves in a motion picture
Won't you keep this in between us
Search and seizure wake up venus
The dollar bill will mentally ill bill
Mom and dad take your don't be sad pill
Turn the screw and twist my language
Don't forsake me I'm contaigious
There's a reason
For the 21st century
Not too sure
But I know that it's meant to be
And that it's meant to be
It's my favourite combination
Coming down with the favoured nations
Deep rotation
Mutilation
Learn to give and take dictation
Oh, oh oh, oh oh, like the cain and able
Oh, oh oh, oh oh it's time to run this table
There's a reason
For the 21st century
Not too sure
But I know that it's meant to be
And that it's meant to be
Read me your scripture and
Read me your scripture
Read me your scripture and I will twist it
Show me your wrist and I
Show me your wrist and
Show me your wrist and I'll kiss it kiss it
Oh, oh oh, oh oh, Like the cain and able
Oh, oh oh, oh oh, it's time to run this table
Simple soldier
Hand it over
Stop and read what you just wrote her
Strangulation
Altercation
all the sex and bird migration
There's a reason
For the 21st century
Not too sure
But I know that it's meant to be
And that it's meant to be
There's a reason
For the 21st century
Not too sure
But I know that it's meant to be