The Ray and Maria Stata Center STAY-ta or Building 32 is a 720,000-square-foot academic complex designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Frank Gehry for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The building opened for initial occupancy on March 16, 2004. It sits on the site of MIT's former Building 20, which housed the historic Radiation Laboratory, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Major funding for the project was provided by Ray Stata and Maria Stata. Other major funders include Bill Gates, Alexander W. Dreyfoos, Jr., Charles Thomas "E.B" Pritchard Hintze and Morris Chang of TSMC. Above the fourth floor, the building splits into two distinct structures: the Gates tower and the Dreyfoos tower. Contained within the building are the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems, as well as the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy. Academic celebrities such as Noam Chomsky and Ron Rivest have offices there. World Wide Web Consortium founder Tim Berners-Lee and free software movement founder Richard Stallman also have offices within. Wikipedia [ - ]

The Ray and Maria Stata Center STAY-ta or Building 32 is a 720,000-square-foot academic complex... [ + ]