Short answers, pulled from the story.
William Barton Rogers signed the charter for Massachusetts Institute of Technology on the 10th of April 1861. The institution opened its doors two years later in a cramped building called the Mercantile Building in Boston.
The Cambridge campus spans roughly one mile along the north side of the Charles River basin. Key structures include the neoclassical Maclaurin buildings completed in 1916, Baker House designed by Alvar Aalto in 1947, and the Stata Center built by Frank Gehry opening in 2004.
One hundred five Nobel laureates twenty-six Turing Award winners eight Fields Medalists and fifty-eight National Medal Science recipients have been affiliated with Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni faculty and researchers collectively.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology operates on a unique four-one-four academic calendar system beginning fall semester after Labor Day ending mid-December. Four-week Independent Activities Period occurs monthly January offering hundreds of optional classes lectures demonstrations activities throughout month.
Richard Stallman founded the GNU Project at the Artificial Intelligence Lab during mid-1985. The Free Software Foundation emerged shortly thereafter to promote open-source software principles worldwide.