Wiesner building
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The Wiesner Building in Cambridge, Massachusetts
houses the MIT Media Lab
, the Center for Bits and Atoms
(Neil Gershenfeld
's lab), the Department of Architecture's Program in Art, Culture and Technology (ACT, formerly the Visual Arts Program) and the List Visual Arts Center. It was designed by I.M. Pei & Partners. It is named in honor of former MIT president Jerome Wiesner
and his wife Laya and was dedicated in 1985.
The Wiesner Building is known to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
community also as Building E15. The building's exterior has a tile-like look which has been the target of a number of hacks (pranks) by MIT's students. Because of the sterile look of the tile, the building is sometimes referred to as the "Pei Toilet".
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Cambridge is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States, in the Greater Boston area. It was named in honor of the University of Cambridge in England, an important center of the Puritan theology embraced by the town's founders. Cambridge is home to two of the world's most prominent...
houses the MIT Media Lab
MIT Media Lab
The MIT Media Lab is a laboratory of MIT School of Architecture and Planning. Devoted to research projects at the convergence of design, multimedia and technology, the Media Lab has been widely popularized since the 1990s by business and technology publications such as Wired and Red Herring for a...
, the Center for Bits and Atoms
Center for Bits and Atoms
The Center for Bits and Atoms was established in 2001 in the MIT Media Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The cross-disciplinary center broadly looks at the intersection of information to its physical representation....
(Neil Gershenfeld
Neil Gershenfeld
Neil Gershenfeld is a professor at MIT and the head of MIT's Center for Bits and Atoms, a sister lab spun out of the popular MIT Media Lab. His research interests are mainly in interdisciplinary studies involving physics and computer science, in such fields as quantum computing, nanotechnology,...
's lab), the Department of Architecture's Program in Art, Culture and Technology (ACT, formerly the Visual Arts Program) and the List Visual Arts Center. It was designed by I.M. Pei & Partners. It is named in honor of former MIT president Jerome Wiesner
Jerome Wiesner
Jerome Bert Wiesner was an educator, a Science Advisor to U.S. Presidents Eisenhower and Kennedy and Johnson, an advocate for arms control, and a critic of anti-ballistic-missile defense systems...
and his wife Laya and was dedicated in 1985.
The Wiesner Building is known to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT has five schools and one college, containing a total of 32 academic departments, with a strong emphasis on scientific and technological education and research.Founded in 1861 in...
community also as Building E15. The building's exterior has a tile-like look which has been the target of a number of hacks (pranks) by MIT's students. Because of the sterile look of the tile, the building is sometimes referred to as the "Pei Toilet".