MIT Media Lab

interdisciplinary research laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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MIT Media Lab

Summary

MIT Media Lab is a faculty[1]. It ranks in the top 0.46% of faculty entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (308 views/month, #1 of 217).[2]

Key Facts

  • MIT Media Lab is in the country of United States[3].
  • MIT Media Lab's image is recorded as MIT Media Lab.jpg[4].
  • MIT Media Lab's instance of is recorded as faculty[5].
  • MIT Media Lab's instance of is recorded as university research group[6].
  • MIT Media Lab's founder is recorded as Nicholas Negroponte[7].
  • MIT Media Lab's founder is recorded as Jerome Wiesner[8].
  • MIT Media Lab's logo image is recorded as MIT Media Lab logo.svg[9].
  • MIT Media Lab's ISNI is recorded as 0000000121809560[10].
  • MIT Media Lab's VIAF cluster ID is recorded as 148478464[11].
  • MIT Media Lab's GND ID is recorded as 5083167-7[12].
  • MIT Media Lab's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as n86031018[13].
  • MIT Media Lab's Union List of Artist Names ID is recorded as 500239877[14].
  • MIT Media Lab's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 12271788n[15].
  • MIT Media Lab's IdRef ID is recorded as 085945242[16].
  • MIT Media Lab's NACSIS-CAT author ID is recorded as DA10716993[17].
  • MIT Media Lab's NDL Authority ID is recorded as 00843970[18].
  • MIT Media Lab's part of is recorded as Massachusetts Institute of Technology[19].
  • MIT Media Lab's part of is recorded as MIT School of Architecture and Planning[20].
  • MIT Media Lab's Commons category is recorded as MIT Media Lab[21].
  • +1985-00-00T00:00:00Z marks the founding of MIT Media Lab[22].
  • MIT Media Lab's coordinate location is recorded as {'lat': 42.3608, 'lon': -71.08768}[23].
  • MIT Media Lab's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/02281x[24].
  • MIT Media Lab's official website is recorded as https://media.mit.edu[25].
  • MIT Media Lab's topic's main category is recorded as Category:MIT Media Lab[26].
  • MIT Media Lab's web feed URL is recorded as https://media.mit.edu/feed.rss[27].

Body

Founding

Founders include Nicholas Negroponte[7] and Jerome Wiesner[8]. +1985-00-00T00:00:00Z marks the founding of MIT Media Lab[22].

Identity

Part of include Massachusetts Institute of Technology[19], a university[28], in United States[29], founded in 1861[30], headquartered in Cambridge[31] and MIT School of Architecture and Planning[20], an architecture school[32], in United States[33], founded in 1868[34].

Leadership

MIT Media Lab's director / manager is recorded as Dava Newman[35].

Why It Matters

MIT Media Lab ranks in the top 0.46% of faculty entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (308 views/month, #1 of 217).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 19 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[36] It is known by 15 alternative names across languages and contexts.[37]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . libraries.mit.edu. libraries.mit.edu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . libraries.mit.edu. libraries.mit.edu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
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  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . CiNii Research. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.
  26. [35] . news.mit.edu. Retrieved . news.mit.edu. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [28] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [29] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [30] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [31] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [32] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  6. [33] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  7. [34] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [36] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [37] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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