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February 2012
Fri. 2/10	5:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. Second Fridays Jump-start your weekend at the MIT Museum during our monthly free evening. Featured Program: Spacewar! Turns 50 In 1961, Digital Equipment Corporation gave MIT a PDP-1 computer and the games began. From discussions about "interesting displays" to new lessons in interactive programming, MIT's Kludge Room became the birthplace of Spacewar! Celebrate the 50th anniversary of this momentous occasion with a larger-than-life celebration of this influential game. From 5:30 p.m., you will be able to play a new iteration of Spacewar! by the Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab on a giant mockup of the PDP-1 monitor. At 6:30 p.m. there is a panel discussion on Spacewar! and the PDP-1 computer featuring a member of "Spacewar!'s" original creative team, Martin "Slug" Graetz and members of the PDP-1 Restoration Project; Eric Smith and Mike Cheponis. Moderating this discussion will be GAMBIT's U.S. Executive Director, Philip Tan. Free admission
Mon 2/20 - Fri. 2/24	10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. February Vacation Week Programs During the Massachusetts school vacation week, students and their families can enjoy hands-on engineering challenges and exciting demonstrations by MIT students, local companies and more. See the daily schedule here. All activities are appropriate for ages 10 and up and are free with Museum admission. Vacation week activities are presented with support from the Marvin C. '51 and Joanne Grossman Fund.
Tue. 2/21	6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. Book Launch: The Technologists The MIT Museum welcomes New York Times bestselling novelist and Cambridge local Matthew Pearl, author of The Dante Club, The Poe Shadow, and The Last Dickens, for the launch of his latest historical thriller The Technologists, published by Random House. This highly anticipated new novel, set in tumultuous nineteenth century Boston, explores the rise of M.I.T. and the battle between past and present, tradition and technology. The event will include a talk and reading by Matthew, a question and answer period, and your opportunity to purchase signed copies of the book on the very first day it is available. Free admission
Sat. 2/25	1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Inaugural Marvin Grossman Vacation Week Science Special You can't come to MIT without an encounter with the physics department! Join members of MIT's Technical Services Group at the MIT Museum for a dynamic afternoon of hands-on activities and demonstrations related to kinematics, electromagnetism, and more. Free with Museum admission. Activities are presented with support from the Marvin C. '51 and Joanne Grossman Fund.
March 2012
Fri. 3/9	5:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. Second Fridays Jump-start your weekend at the MIT Museum during our monthly free evening. Free admission Featured Program: Nautical Night Celebrate MIT and the sea at MIT Museum's third annual Nautical Night. Activities and demonstrations abound as you chart your course through MIT's rich history of ocean science, technology and engineering. Featuring presentations, demonstrations and activities from MIT Sea Grant and others.
Tue. 3/20	6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. Visualizing Science: All In Your Head How do humans recognize and remember images? Can these processes be artificially created? Join MIT professors Aude Oliva, James Di Carlo, and Antonio Torralba in a lively conversation about the intersection of vision and cognition in humans and machines.
April 2012
Fri. 4/13	5:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. Second Fridays Jump-start your weekend at the MIT Museum during our monthly free evening. Free admission Featured Program: Rivers of Ice The MIT Museum welcomes to you to the public opening of the Rivers of Ice exhibition during our monthly free evening. Details to be announced
Fri. 4/20 - Sun. 4/29	Cambridge Science Festival The MIT Museum celebrates the sixth annual Cambridge Science Festival! Check out our Festival schedule for a full list of programs and events at the MIT Museum. Activities include talks, tours, demonstrations, hands-on workshops and more!
May 2012
Fri. 5/11	5:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. Second Fridays Jump-start your weekend at the MIT Museum during our monthly free evening. Free admission Featured Program: Documenting Science: Berenice Abbott at MIT Explore the art and science behind the work of photographer Berenice Abbott. Details to be announced

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Friday After Thanksgiving Chain Reaction (affectionately known as F.A.T.) is the MIT Museum's annual family event. Dozens of teams build unique, fanciful machines in the style of Rube Goldberg. At the end of the day, all the machines are linked together and set off in a giant chain reaction!

The Cambridge Science Festival, presented by the MIT Museum, is a multi-day festival during the last week of April. Activities, performances, talks, demonstrations and a carnival take place throughout the city - for all ages!

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