meaning of massachusetts institute of technology
1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT An independent, coeducational university located in Cambridge, MA, USA. Its best-known computer-related labs are the Artificial Intelligence Lab, the Lab for Computer Science and the Media Lab. It is also known for its hacks or practical jokes, such as The Great Dome Police Car Hack http://the-tech. mit. edu/Bulletins/hack. html. Resident computer hackers include Richard Stallman, Gerald Sussman and Tom Knight. See also 6. 001. http://web. mit. edu/. massage Vague term used to describe "smooth" transformations of a data set into a different form, especially transformations that do not lose information. Connotes less pain than munch or crunch. "He wrote a program that massages X bitmap files into GIF format. " Compare slurp. [Jargon File] Massey Hope
2. an engineering university in Cambridge
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