Friday May 7, 2004 was the official opening of the “Stata Center”:http://web.mit.edu/evolving/stata/index.html, the amazing new building that houses the MIT Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, my place of work. Of course, our department is dwarfed by the other occupants of the building, 900+ “computer scientists”:http://www.csail.mit.edu/events/news/stata.html.

There are some good articles appearing about our building, which was designed by Frank Gehry. Here are two I liked:

• Wired Magazine: “Frank Gehry’s Geek Palace”:http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.05/mit.html
• Technology Review: “Stata’s Symbols”:http://techreview.com/articles/print_version/vandre0504.asp

Update: See now also this NY Times article:

• NY Times: “Frank Gehry Gives M.I.T. Its Newest Experiment”:http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/13/arts/design/13MIT.html?ex=1399780800&en=17b644e0af004e14&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND

We will be hosting the 2005 LSA Summer Institute, showing off our brand-new geek palace to the world of linguistics. See you there!