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MIT's Stata Center Dedicated

Posted by ryuzaki0 on 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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  1. Classic Gehry by nate+nice · · Score: 4, Informative

    He's one of the great modern archetects and now the Boston area is blessed with another fabtastic looking building. They have a really cool I.M. Pei building around there as well I believe and now they just need a Calatrava.

    Gehry is rather unique in his designs as you can probably see. Let's see if form and function are one with this building, heh. Gehry actually paved his kitchen with asphault, to get an idea of this mans madness/greatness.

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  2. Re:Just what does RMS need MIT for anyway? by paroneayea · · Score: 4, Informative

    A lot of RMS' past is based in MIT... especially the MIT AI hacker lab. I suggest you read "Free as in Freedom"... it is an interesting book.

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