Stata Center

The Ray and Maria Stata Center or Building 32 is an academic complex designed by Pritzker Prize–winning architect Frank Gehry for MIT. 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. Contained within the building […]

Research

Professor Berwick and his research group investigate computational models of language acquisition, language processing, and language change, within the context of machine learning, modern grammatical theory, and mathematical models of dynamical systems. In the area of machine learning and language, the lab uses the minimum description length (MDL) proposal, updated to incorporate Vapnik’s notion of […]