Information Servers around MIT

MIT has many World Wide Web servers up and running. Various labs, student groups, and even students at home have set up machines for you to browse through. Below are a few of those servers.

The MIT Web Server

• The MIT web server is run by MIT's Information Systems. It provides academic and administrative information about MIT and its departments, research centers, and labs; how to apply, how to contact MIT offices, how to get PGP, and other useful information.
  Email: web-request@mit.edu

MIT Services

• The MIT EECS Educational Computer Facility is a private Athena cluster on the third floor of building 38, available to all EECS students.
  Email: bug-www@eddie.mit.edu
• The H.I.R.E.S. interactive career information service is offered by the MIT Office of Career Placement and Preprofessional Advising to students and alumni on the MIT Campus. (MIT Only)
  Email: webmaster@hires.org
• The MIT Microcomputing Help Line
  Email: micro-www@mit.edu
• The Operations and Systems (O&S) department maintains MIT's Data Center and provides centrally managed computer resources.

MIT Departments

• The Mechanical Engineering Department (Course 2)
  Email: webmaster@me.mit.edu
• The Department of Materials Science and Engineering (Course 3)
  Email: dmseweb@mit.edu
• The Department of Architecture (Course 4)
  Email: plan-news@mit.edu
• The Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (Course 6)
  Email: webmasters@eecs.mit.edu
• The Department of Urban Studies and Planning (Course 11)
  Email: plan-news@mit.edu
• The Sloan School of Management (Course 15)
  Email: janice@mit.edu
• The Department of Political Science (Course 17)
  Email: afung@mit.edu, lking@mit.edu

MIT Laboratories

• The MIT Laboratory for Nuclear Science
  Email: www@marie.mit.edu
• The MIT Microwave Subnode of NASA's Planetary Data System, at the Center for Space Research, is a subsidiary of the Geosciences Node of NASA's Planetary Data System.
  Email: pds-requests@space.mit.edu
• The MIT Earth Resources Laboratory is part of the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences at MIT.
  Email: matarese@mit.edu
• The MIT Research Laboratory for Electronics (RLE)
  Email: bpassero@rle.mit.edu
  One of the RLE Groups has its own server:
  • The RLE VLSI-CAD Group
    Email: lms@rle-vlsi.mit.edu
• The MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
  Email: webmaster@ai.mit.edu
• The MIT Laboratory for Computer Science (LCS) is an interdepartmental laboratory whose principal goal is research in computer science and engineering.
  Email: webmaster@lcs.mit.edu
  There are several other servers at LCS:
  • The National Consortium for High Performance Computing server has information such as meetings, conferences, workshops, and a list of relevant High Performance Computing courses offered by member institutions.
    Email: ncadmin@info.lcs.mit.edu
  • The Telemedia, Networks, and Systems Group researches topics in distributed multimedia systems.
    Email: webmaster@www.tns.lcs.mit.edu
  • The Clinical Decision-Making Group is an LCS research group that works on medical applications of computer science and AI.
    Email: webmaster@medg.lcs.mit.edu
  • Switzerland (Project MAC), associated with both the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab and the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science, builds a wide spectrum of intelligent computational tools to help scientists and engineers understand mathematical models of physical processes.
    Email: www-request@www-swiss.ai.mit.edu
  • The LCS News Index Gateway
    Email: mcharity@lcs.mit.edu
  • The LCS/AI Reading Room
    Email: reading-room@lcs.mit.edu
  • The Programming Methodology Group
    Email: qyz@lcs.mit.edu
  • The Information Mechanics Group
    Email: webmaster@im.lcs.mit.edu
• The MIT Microsystems Technology Laboratories
  Email: boning@mtl.mit.edu, mbm@mtl.mit.edu
• The MIT Precision Engineering Research Group
• The MIT Weather Radar Laboratory
• The MIT Computational Aerospace Sciences Laboratory
  Email: ellis@mit.edu
• The MIT Plasma Fusion Center is recognized as one of the leading university research laboratories in the physics and engineering aspects of magnetic confinement fusion.
  Email: twf@pfc.mit.edu
• The MIT/Whitehead Center for Genome Research
  Email: lstein@genome.wi.mit.edu
• The MIT/Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research
  Email: webmaster@wi.mit.edu
• The Intelligent Engineering Systems Lab studies the application of Information Technology to large scale engineering problems in Civil Engineering.
• The MIT Media Lab
  Email: webmaster@media.mit.edu
• Sloan Automotive Laboratories is part of the Mechanical Engineering Department and concentrates on combustion, internal combustion engines, and air pollution.
• The MIT Center for Coordination Science is part of the Sloan School of Management.
  Email: sbuckley@mit.edu
• The Mechanical Engineering Hypermedia Project [MEHP] is dedicated to create Hypermedia Engineering Curricula for mechanical engineering department.
  Email: nish@hyperweb.mit.edu
• The MIT Center for Advanced Engineering Study
• The Center for Educational Computing Initiatives
  Email: webmaster@ceci.mit.edu
• The MIT Laboratory for Information and Decsion Systems

Student Groups

• The MIT Student Information Processing Board maintains the primary student-run WWW server, which includes MIT user home pages, an extensive list of WWW servers at MIT (this document), MIT Activities, some useful gateways, and more.
  Email: webmaster@mit.edu
• The Tech is MIT's oldest and largest newspaper. Their server contains past issues of The Tech, including comics, and general information.

Miscellaneous Servers

• The Cambridge Town Crier is a non-profit community information newswire.
  Email: jaltobello@civicnet.org
• The Globewide Network Academy is a non-profit corporation affiliated with the Usenet University project.
  Email: gna@mcmuse.mc.maricopa.edu
• The main MIT Gopher server
  Email: gopher@mit.edu
• The Earth Resources Lab's Gopher server
  Email: webmaster@sunda.mit.edu
• MIT Techinfo
  Email: techinfo@mit.edu
• The Digital Information Infrastructure Guide (DIIG) is a collection of projects and other information related to the development of the national information infrastructure (NII).
  Email: rpcp@farnsworth.mit.edu
• The MIT Press's on-line catalogues, ordering information, and forms
  Email: webmistress@mitpress.mit.edu
• The Research Program in Communications Policy (RPCP)
  Email: rpcp@farnsworth.mit.edu
• The Defense and Arms Control Studies program at the Center for International Studies

In early 1994, MIT completed networking its dorms and independent living groups. Here is a list of Web servers maintained by MIT students, at home.

• starry-night.mit.edu, nocturne@mit.edu (Eric Mumpower)
• foundation.mit.edu, nygren@mit.edu (Erik Nygren)
• deskfish.cs.titech.ac.jp, xiphmont@cs.titech.ac.jp (Monty Montgomery)
• red-branch.mit.edu, fihsu@mit.edu (Francis Hsu)
• da-bronx.mit.edu, efgilmou@mit.edu (Eric Gilmour)
• slipper.mit.edu, clavius@mit.edu (Josh Kramer)
• snafu.mit.edu, fubob@mit.edu (Kevin Fu)
• coldfish.mit.edu, gentile@mit.edu (Greg Gentile)
• sandman.mit.edu, joanna@mit.edu (Joanna Yun)
• goody-budda.mit.edu, lopes@mit.edu (Chris Lopes)
• trailhead.mit.edu, bwporter@mit.edu (Brad Porter)
• webnet.mit.edu, candea@mit.edu (George M. Candea)
• live.mit.edu, schou@mit.edu (Sally Chou)
• bermuda.mit.edu, decouto@mit.edu (Douglas De Couto)
• raptor.mit.edu, goblin@mit.edu (Stuart Lin)
• asdf.mit.edu, charatc@mit.edu (Charatpong Chotigavanich)