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On Sunday, members of the MIT community reflected on the 10th anniversary of 9/11. Hackers installed lights on the Green Building and hung a flag, shot here in high dynamic range, on the pillars of Building 10. The MI...

Students sit atop a plinth in the corner of Lobby 7 as pedestrians walk past on Nov. 5, 2009. The Class of 1954 is sponsoring a student contest for designs to sit atop the pedestals, which were left unfinished after L...

Aeronautics and Astronautics Professor Ian A. Waitz will become MIT’s sixteenth Dean of the School of Engineering on February 7. He succeeds Subra Suresh, whom President Obama nominated to head the National Science Fo...

In order to print full color pages, the paper must pass through four separate presses, with cyan, magenta, yellow, and black layers aligning to produce images.

Workers at Mass Web adjust levers on each color press so ink is fed onto rollers such that each page receives sufficient but not excessive amounts of ink across the span of the printing plate.

Robert D. Allen, Sales Manager at Mass Web Printing Co., displays a freshly-printed and folded black ink plate. Each plate contains the pattern for one color of ink for four pages of The Tech.

A machine adds inserts to the inside of complete, folded papers.

Papers are printed on continuous rolls of newsprint, which are later cut and folded in order.

Professor Donald Sadoway toasts to his last day of 3.091, Dec. 8.

Julie B. Norman, director of the Office of Undergraduate Advising and Academic Programming and Senior Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education, speaks at an emergency meeting of the Undergraduate Association yesterd...

In celebration of Wikipedia’s tenth birthday, hackers installed a suspended globe of puzzle pieces, modeled after the online encyclopedia’s logo, in Lobby 7. Wikipedia’s logo, used since 2003, is an incomplete puzzle ...

The wreckage of the 2010 Baker House Piano Drop is displayed at the MIT Museum as a part of the MIT 150 exhibit.

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A scale model of the MIT Media Lab’s CityCar is displayed at the MIT 150 exhibit at the MIT Museum.

A glass of Intel’s first commercially available chip, the Intel 4004, sits on display at the MIT Museum. Intel was co-founded by Robert Noyce, MIT PhD and inventor of the integrated circuit.

The “Minsky Arm,” developed by MIT AI Laboratory co-founder Marvin Minsky, rests in a display case at the MIT 150 exhibit at the MIT Museum.

Deborah Douglas, curator of Science and Technology at the MIT Museum, places a model biplane atop the force balance from MIT’s first wind tunnel.

Members of the Media Lab CityCar project lift a scale prototype of their electric vehicle onto a display at the MIT Museum. The museum is featuring a year-long exhibit for MIT’s 150th anniversary, highlighting 150 ob...

Materials Science Professor Donald R. Sadoway removes the foil on a bottle of Champagne Wednesday in his final lecture for 3.091, the solid-state chemistry GIR class he has taught for 16 years. Following a lecture on ...

Professor David R. Wallace PhD ’95 welcomes the Silver Team, which developed a sushi-ferrying robot, to the stage at 2.009 presentations yesterday. The course required students to design and build a solution to an iss...

New Assistant Dean Leah Flynn speaks at the UA Senate meeting yesterday. Flynn will coordinate Student Involvement and Leadership, and will meet weekly with UA President and Vice President Vrajesh Y. Modi ‘11 and Samm...

Eric Schmidt, Chairman and CEO of Google, talks about global challenges on Friday at the Media Lab’s 25th Anniversary Celebration in front of hundreds of spectators. Schmidt spoke about the challenges facing innovato...

Construction crews broke ground for the installation of a new sculpture in front of W20. The piece, by Jaume Plensa, is scheduled to be installed in November.

Provost L. Rafael Reif speaks during the question and answer phase of Wednesday’s State of the Institute address. During the annual summary of the Institute’s financial and strategic positions, administrators emphasi...

Phillip L. Clay PhD ‘75 speaks during the question and answer phase of the State of the Institute address on Wednesday. During the annual summary of the Institute’s financial and strategic positions, administrators e...

President Susan Hockfield delivers opening remarks at Wednesday’s State of the Institute address. During the annual summary of the Institute’s financial and strategic positions, administrators emphasized the stabilit...

Cynthia Barnhart PhD ’88 is acting as the dean of the School of Engineering while the United States Senate decides whether to confirm Subra Suresh ScD ’81, the current dean, as the next director of the National Scienc...

St. Joseph Lighthouse, in Michigan, at sunset

Henry Moore (United Kingdom, 1898 – 1986), Three-Piecde Reclining Figure, Draped. Bronze. Killian Court. Gift of the Eugene McDermott Family and Other Friends of MIT.

Anish Kapoor (India, 1954 - ), Untitled (Sculpture for TSMC Lobby). Stainless steel. TSMC Lobby, Stata Center (Bldg, 32G). Commissioned with MIT Percent for Art Fund. Kapoor’s sculpture is MIT’s newest addition to it’...

Frank Stella (Malden, Massachusetts, 1936- ) Loohooloo. Acrylic on fiberglass. (Bldg. 7, 3rd floor), Wolk Gallery. Gift of Elliot K. Wolk, MIT Class of 1957.

Jacques Lipchitz (Lithuania, 1891 – 1973, Italy), Birth of the Muses. Bronze. Hayden Library (Bldg. 14W), west plaza. Gift of Yulia Lipchitz in Memory of Dr. Jerome B. Wisener.

Auguste Rodin (France, 1840 – 1917), Large Head of Iris (Grosse Tête d’Iris). Bronze. Hayden Library, 2nd floor (Bldg. 14S), Humanities Library. Rodin best known for his mastery of the human form, as in his famous sc...

Sol LeWitt (Hartford, Connecticut), Bar of Color within Squares. Terrazzo floor. Green Center for Physics (Bldg. 6C). Commissioned with MIT Percent for Art Fund.

Harry Bertoia (Italy, 1915 - 1978, Barto, Pennsylvania), Altarpiece for MIT Chapel). Brazed steel. MIT Chapel (Bldg. W15).

Edwin H. Blashfield (Brooklyn, New York, 1848 – 1936), Walker Memorial Mural. Painting. Walker Memorial (Bldg. 50).

The untitled stainless steel sculpture, by Anish Kapoor (India, b.1954), is the latest addition to MIT’s public art collection.

Alexander Calder (Piladelphia, Pennsylvania, 1898 – 1976, New York, New York), La Grande Voile (The Big Sail). Painted steel. McDermott Court. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene McDermott. Standing at a soaring height of 40 ...

MIT President Emeritus Paul E. Gray ’54 speaks Friday at the inauguration of the Lobby 7 Design Contest. The competition, jointly organized by the MIT Class of ’54 and the School of Architecture and Planning, asks MI...

Junior Randall M. Briggs’s robot keels over in a fierce game of tug-of-war to win yesterday’s 2.007 competition in Johnson Athletic Center. The design and manufacturing class culminated in the annual two-day robotics ...

Underground tunnels: Much of the MIT campus is connected by a subterranean network of tunnels, including the Stata Center and MIT Medical. Try taking an “alternate” mode of transportation down this long ramp in Buildi...

Colored walkway: The spectacular walkway between Buildings 6C and 8 reflects colors in the afternoon. Building 6C was completed in 2007. It houses physics and materials science labs.

Jungle mural: A variety of tropical animals greet visitors to MIT’s Hayden Memorial Library in Building 14.

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The Media Lab: The $90 million extension to MIT’s world-famous research center was designed by Pritzker Prize-winner Fumihiko Maki, and is a definite sight to see — and see through!

After a weekend of non-stop rain, large puddles and waterlogged debris have turned the machine shop at East Campus into a soggy mess. See article, page 13.

William Lark G from the Media Lab’s Smart Cities Group shows visitors a scale model of the foldable CityCar. The Media Lab extension (E14) can display larger models than the old Media Lab (E15) could accommodate.

Professor Hiroshi Ishii, Associate Director of the Media Lab and head of the Tangible Media Group, returns a volley in a game of table tennis during opening-day tours of the Media Lab extension. The table is equipped...

Members of the MIT Sailing Team (sail 3) exit a turn behind Boston College (sail 13) during the Erwin Schell Trophy on Nov. 1 on the Charles River. The sailing competition featured 20 collegiate and military teams fro...

Workers began grinding the marble chunk-infused floor of the Media Lab extension’s central atrium on Nov. 2, which is now polished to a glossy finish. The expanse of interconnected airspaces surrounding the atrium nec...

Students sit atop a plinth in the corner of Lobby 7 as pedestrians walk past on Nov. 5. The Class of ’54 will be holding a student contest for designs to sit atop the pedestals, which were left unfinished after Lobby ...

The Media Lab Extension construction site is seen at night from the eastern parallel of East Campus in this high dynamic range image compilation.

Multicolored staircases visibly connect the floors of E14, the Media Lab extension. Architect Fumihiko Maki designed the building with many spiral staircases, straight staircases, and elevators to encourage movement a...

Workers begin grinding the marble chunk-infused floor of the Media Lab extension’s central atrium, which will be polished to a glossy finish. The expanse of interconnected airspaces surrounding the atrium necessitated...

Members of the MIT Sailing Team (sail 3) exit a turn behind Boston College (sail 13) during the Erwin Schell Trophy on Sunday on the Charles River. The sailing competition featured 20 collegiate and military teams fro...

President Barack Obama speaks about his administration’s energy policy and MIT’s Energy Initiative at Kresge Auditorium on Friday. The President started his speech jovially mentioning that MIT hackers had placed his m...

Photographers and video crews pack up supplies after President Obama’s address on Friday in Kresge.

Members of MIT Crew approach the starting line at the Head of the Charles Sunday during the Women’s Lightweight Eight event. The two-day rowing competition is one of the sport’s most celebrated.

President Barack Obama waves to the cheering crowd in Kresge Auditorium after his introduction by Prof. Ernest J. Moniz, Director of the MIT Energy Initiative, on Friday. The President visited MIT to view laboratories...

Members of the MIT Lightweight Men’s Varsity Crew launch from Pierce Boathouse Sunday before competing in the Head of the Charles. The two-day rowing event is one of the sport’s most celebrated.

Picketers from the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers stand outside Lobby 7 on Wednesday afternoon. Members of the electricians’ union have been protesting MIT’s contracting practices for over five weeks.

Provost L. Rafael Reif, left, explains the process used to pre-select questions the administrators answer at Wednesday’s State of the Institute forum in Kresge Auditorium. Executive Vice President Theresa M. Stone SM ...