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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1861 in response to the increasing industrialization of the United States, MIT adopted a European polytechnic university model and stressed laboratory instruction in applied science and engineering. Wikipedia*

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology has hosted 23 events in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first program was a 1988 Speech. The year with the most events was 1997 with six events. The year with the highest average number of views per video was 2013 with an average of 2,779 views per video. Most appearances with Noam Chomsky (3), Steven Pinker (2). Most common tags: About Books, Commencement, American Perspectives.

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