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GNOME Summit 3: A post-modern affair in Building 32
2004-09-16
GNOME Summit 3
October 9 - 11, 2004
10:00 AM to 6:00 PM
Stata Center, MIT
WiFi in a building set upon a 4-ft thick concrete mat bearing on naturally deposited marine clay. Toilets that flush with collected rainwater. Such is Building 32.
Gone is Building 20 leaving a rich legacy of science and invention. In its place stands the new $300 million home of MIT's merged Artificial Intelligence Lab and the Lab for Computer Science.
Stata in the evening
It seems only fitting that a GNOME Summit take place in this newly opened Gehry structure, the Ray and Maria Stata Center.
Architect Frank Gehry has designed some unusual looking buildings - Guggenheim Museum Bilbao in Bilbao, Spain, the EMP-Experience Music Project in Seattle, a dancing "Ginger and Fred" building in Prague and the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles. It took a long time for the Disney Hall to get above ground, but more about that on another day.