Great article. I like it. To add some data points in terms of MIT contribution to Internet, if not the 'Internet industry'. MIT hosts WWW consortium, http://www.w3.org/, where the 'father' of HTML, Tim Berners-Lee, directs. He is also a faculty member at MIT EECS department. RSA algorithm was described in 1977 by Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir and Len Adleman, at MIT. It was patented in 1983 by MIT. MIT was the leading one among the institutions who worked together and brought forth the ARPANET in the late 60's and early 70's. ...... The three 'words' to describe MIT are "Innovation", "Learning by action" and "Impact". BTW, "The world's first university-based executive education program — the Sloan Fellows — was created in 1931 at MIT under the sponsorship of Sloan." "A Sloan Foundation grant established the MIT School of Industrial Management in 1952 with the charge of educating the "ideal manager", and the school was renamed in Sloan's honor as the Alfred P. Sloan School of Management, one of the world's premier business schools. " "A second grant established a Sloan Fellows Program at Stanford Graduate School of Business in 1957. The program became the Stanford Sloan Master's Program in 1976, awarding the degree of Master of Science in Management." |
Stanford Dream