"For us, it's an opportunity to express the enormous amount of gratitude to MIT for what it's meant to our lives and means to us today," said Ray Stata (S.B. and a life member of the MIT Corporation. Dreyfoos, who holds 10 patents, is now chairman of the Dreyfoos Group/Photo Electronics Corp. 1954), for whom one tower of the center is named, said the tower is his thanks to MIT and to Professor of Physics Arthur Hardy "for being a great mentor and for being there for me at a difficult time in my life." Dreyfoos' father died on Thanksgiving eve of his sophomore year at MIT and Hardy took him under his wing. On a more serious note, Alex Dreyfoos (S.B.
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And it said, 'The second wall is not parallel to the first wall.' Then the voice went on to say I must wait for the next software upgrade," Chan said to much laughter, before thanking the "administration for having the courage to authorize the building." "So I tried it on a window and then on the back wall. A nice voice said, 'Go to outside wall and place in four corners.' I did that and the voice said, 'We cannot do the test. He told me to follow the instructions on the system. "Many times I would go to the bathroom and it would take me a very long time to get back to my office. One wall of Chan's office slants at a 30 degree angle. The building consists of two C-shaped towers with lower buildings connecting them, many open spaces and atria, but few, if any, traditional corridors. "I was lost many times," said Vincent Chan, director of the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems, who moved into the Stata Center in April. "It stands as an economic anchor of this community." He confessed, however, that the first time he saw a model of the new building he commented, "It looks like my kids took a hammer to your model." "The angles and curves of this building represent our ability to solve problems," Cambridge Mayor Michael Sullivan said. Brown said, "When you round the corner and see the Stata Center, you will know you're at MIT." In his remarks, Institute Professor Morris Halle of linguistics and philosophy described his new office, Dreyfoos A208-which stands nearly exactly over the spot of his old office in Building 20 (20B-201)-as "the best I've ever had in all the 50 years I've been here."ĭescribing the Stata Center's role as a new face for the northeast edge of campus, Provost Robert A. "Frank," he said to Gehry, "you exceeded every possible dream we had."
I knew that everything would be well," said Vest, giving voice to the relief of a project completed after five years of difficult decisions and sleepless nights since Building 20 was demolished.
"As Becky and I left this building last evening, a student was asleep on a couch and another stared into a computer screen. Only Frank Gehry's were warm, as Bob Brown held them closer to the fire." The towers started to rise and so did steel prices," Vest told the audience in Kirsch Auditorium, poetically voicing a bit of angst from the construction phase. "Computers and ways of thinking and crumpled paper and ideas slowly became a design. The May 7 dedication ceremonies for the Ray and Maria Stata Center for Computer, Information and Intelligence Sciences at MIT included upbeat speakers, tours of the whimsical new building, and demonstrations of some of the research projects it now houses, followed by outdoor music and dance performances in the amphitheater named after the late Michael Dertouzos, longtime director of the Laboratory for Computer Science. Vest's courage to humorous anecdote at Friday's dedication for the Stata Center, where the mood was celebratory and sweet the dream had been realized. The speeches ranged from a paean to Frank Gehry's design to admiration for President Charles M.
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