MIT's Stata Center Dedicated

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Posted by ryuzaki0 on Sunday May 9, 2004 @10:53AM from the toys-to-work-inside dept.

AJL writes "On Friday, the long-in-coming, $280M Stata Center was dedicated at MIT. Featuring some pretty cool technology (including a row of Linux computers proclaiming 'Welcome to the William H. Gates Building' by Tux, the Linux Penguin), amazing design, and some pretty neat use of space, Stata is among the first of some high-budget, high-tech buildings being put on campuses these days. See some Pictures or go to the Main Stata Site for more details. Richard Stallman is now less than pleased that he has to work in the Gates Building, as well as having some other problems with his new office in general."

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Re:Sigh by caramelcarrot · 2004-05-09 10:58 · Score: 5, Funny

As RMS' RFID card is blocked from the security system after he was found eating cheetos under a cluster, the entire MIT technical staff breathes a collective sigh of relief as the nightmare of getting all that beard fluff out of keyboards ends.
What a piece of shit! by lushman · 2004-05-09 11:00 · Score: 5, Funny

Take a look at that building! It looks like its half falling down. It seriously looks like something from "The Nightmare Before Christmas".

This is what happens when you give case modders the job of designing a building!
1. Re:What a piece of shit! by psst · 2004-05-09 11:14 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  I believe the unusual architectural style of the building serves largely antiterrorist goals:
  
  1ST TERRORIST: Hey, let's explode a bomb in that weird building!
  2ND TERRORIST: Umm ... I think somebody beat us to it.
Re:RMS raises a stink as always by nighty5 · 2004-05-09 11:07 · Score: 5, Funny

In other news Stallman leaves MIT, in a huff over the privacy debarcle.

Research facilities all over the US and the world unite to install new RFID access devices.

Stallman ends up staying at home.
Postmodernism is freaky by BillLeeLee · 2004-05-09 11:17 · Score: 5, Funny

I can imagine the crack parties going on at universities when their board of trustees decide that they want some hip and edgy building.

Trustee 1: "Hey, how can we waste a lot of money really fast?"
Trustee 2: "We can hire a famous postmodern architect. Their buildings always go overbudget and run into schedule delays"
Trustee 3: "A toast to postmodernism!"
All: "Huzzah!"

I've seen other pomo style buildings. MIT also has that weird dorm building that looks like a cross between a sponge and a retarded sponge. Harvard has some other dorm that looks a little more normal, but still not that appealing to me.

Postmodernism: a synonym for "We like to throw legos around and see what we can make"

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