The exhibition outlines the development of the school over the last 50 years. The shapes and contours of our 'genealogy' reveal the many bridges that connect the academic and administrative units within the school, with the rest of the Institute and with the outside world. Three basic service units in existence at the founding of the school have evolved into more than a dozen distinguished academic units and programs today. This picture, worth at least a thousand words, could not have been predicted 50 years ago. Hours for the Compton Gallery exhibit are weekdays 9am-5pm.
Admission is free.
Admission is free and the public is invited. The main concert at 8pm features the MIT Symphony Orchestra, the MIT Concert Choir and Chamber Chorus and acclaimed pianist David Deveau in Beethoven's Choral Fantasy, under the direction of Dante Anzolini. Also featured on the program will be the MIT Wind Ensemble, the MIT Festival Jazz Ensemble and members of the MIT Chamber Music Society. A reception will follow on the Kresge Oval. Over an intensive two-day period, a group of distinguished faculty and scholars from MIT and other institutions will discuss some of the fundamental questions that have occupied the attention of the school from its inception and that continue to animate the school's intellectual life.