MIT Schwarzman College of Computing

This article is about the college at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. For the residential college building at Tsinghua University, see Schwarzman College.
MIT Stephen A. Schwarzman College of Computing
TypePrivate computing college
EstablishedJanuary 1, 2020[1]
Parent institution
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Budget$1.1 billion
DeanDaniel P. Huttenlocher
Location
Cambridge
,
Massachusetts
,
United States
Websitecomputing.mit.edu

The MIT Stephen A. Schwarzman College of Computing is the computing college at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Announced in 2018 to address the growing applications of computing technology, the college is an Institute-wide academic unit that works alongside MIT's five Schools of Architecture and Planning, Engineering, Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, Science, and Management. The college emphasizes artificial intelligence research, interdisciplinary applications of computing, and social and ethical responsibilities of computing.[2] It aims to be an interdisciplinary hub for work in artificial intelligence, computer science, data science, and related fields. Its creation was the first significant change to MIT's academic structure since the early 1950s.[3]

The MIT Schwarzman College of Computing is named after The Blackstone Group chairman Stephen A. Schwarzman, who donated $350 million of the college's $1.1 billion funding commitment.[1] The college's funding sources were met with criticism, with students and staff contrasting MIT's stated emphasis on ethics against Schwarzman's controversial business practices[4][5] and support for Donald Trump.[6][7][8]

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  3. ^ "MIT reshapes itself to shape the future". MIT News. Archived from the original on 7 September 2020. Retrieved 15 September 2020.
  4. ^ Kary, Tiffany (18 February 2019). "Schwarzman College at MIT Spurs Outcry by Students, Faculty". Bloomberg. Archived from the original on 2020-06-14. Retrieved 2020-06-14.
  5. ^ Sheill, Zoe; Zhang, Whitney (7 March 2019). "Protesters gather against College of Computing celebration". The Tech. Archived from the original on 14 June 2020. Retrieved 14 June 2020.
  6. ^ "Celebrating war criminals at MIT's 'ethical' College of Computing". The Tech. Retrieved 2021-01-21.
  7. ^ "Group at MIT wants a celebration for a new college canceled". AP NEWS. 2019-02-19. Retrieved 2021-01-21.
  8. ^ Kelly, Kate (2021-01-19). "In Trump, Stephen Schwarzman Found a Chance to Burnish His Legacy". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-01-21.