Microsoft's Big Role on Campus
Ariana Eunjung Cha,
Washington Post,
Aug 26, 2003
Four years ago Microsoft donated $25 million worth of technology to MIT. Was the result, as some critics predicted, the Microsoft Institute of Technology? The software has become pervasive. "Aeronautical design classes now use Microsoft's Flight Simulator computer program. Electrical engineering and computer science professors are putting their courses online using Microsoft's PowerPoint presentation software. The university's educational computer network is being overhauled to use Microsoft's .Net architecture. Video games, hardly an MIT priority but a strong commercial interest of Microsoft's, have suddenly become a subject of scholarly inquiry."
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