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MIT presents at the Venice Biennale

Junot Díaz wins the Pulitzer Prize

Visible Language Workshop

Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts Established

Experimental Music Studio

Council for the Arts at MIT

Composer John Harbison joins the MIT faculty

Film/Video Section Pioneers Documentary Filmmaking

Minor White, Eminent Photographer, Appointed Visiting Professor

Herb Pomeroy Hired to Lead the Techtonians, Beginning the Formal Study of Jazz at MIT

MIT Student Steve Russell Invents Spacewar!, One of the First Computer Based Video Games

Avant-garde Photographer Berenice Abbott Develops New Ways to Document Science

Muriel Cooper Begins Her Four-Decade Career at MIT

I. M. Pei ’40 Receives a Bachelor of Architecture Degree from MIT

Harold “Doc” Edgerton, the father of modern high speed photography, begins graduate school at MIT