| Over in the USA, if you say you're studying at Cambridge, you are wearing black jeans, an old 'Dilbert' T-shirt and some coffee stains and you have that 'just showered last month' scent wafting around you, people will probably assume you are from MIT. So be warned, students of that other University of Cambridge, perhaps natural or computer scientists who may also match that description, be prepared to prove that you do at least know how to spell 'colour' and that your personal organiser of choice (nay, evangelism) is really the Psion and not the Palm.
The 'Dome' at MIT MIT is the doyen of technical institutions in the US. Way back in 1991, students could be observed wandering around campus, even shopping, with primitive virtual-reality net links projected into their eyes through duct-tape-affixed headsets wired up somehow to vital neural information. Only here is the main function of a 'meal plan' card really the logging of network printing credits. And does the myriad of Web sites follow an impossible-to-navigate route since it's structured logically from the root outwards: [usefuldescriptivebit].mit.edu , not www.mit.edu/[usefuldescriptivebit]. But then MIT is allowed to do things differently on the Web, since much of its inspiration came from MIT and its alumni. Now it has become the centre of the USA's second-hottest technology powerhouse, with venture capitalists and MBA students flocking in to the Boston area to grab technical talent for the next worldbeating startup companies. For an interactive map of the campus, with some superbly amusing comments during redraw waits, follow http://whereis.mit.edu/ (yes, see, strange address with no 'www' in it...) In more general terms, 'whereis' Cambridge? Just over the river from Boston, on the North East Coast of the USA. Just wait until there's some MapInfo technology on h2g2, then you'll be able to see a map of every location in this guide! Click here for the homepage of MapInfo's great mapping stuff for the Web.
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