Glossary - M

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• M.A.A. — Master in Architecture Advanced Studies (degree)
• M.A.E. — Materials Engineer (degree)
• M.Arch. — Master of Architecture (degree)
• M.B.A. — Master of Business Administration (degree)
• M.C.P. — Master in City Planning (degree)
• M.E. — Mechanical Engineer (degree)
• M.E.B.E. — Master of Engineering in Biomedical Engineering (degree)
• M.M.E. — Marine Mechanical Engineer (degree)
• M.P.H. — Master in Public Health (degree)
• MAC — Multi-Level Access Computer or Machine-Aided Cognition
• MAC (Media Access Control) Address — A unique identifier on a network interface card; on most wireless cards, this is the 12 character (hexadecimal) string printed on the card.
• MacG — MacGregor House
• MADMEC — MIT and Dow Materials Engineering Contest
• MAES — Mexican American Engineers and Scientists, Society of
• Malware — Malicious software that infects a device
• MAP — Midcareer Acceleration Program (taught on the MIT campus with internships at company sites)
• MARC — MARC Records Management System
• MAS — Media Arts and Sciences (and the degree program)
• MASCO — Medical Area Service Corporation
• MASCOT — MIT Astronomical Spectrometer Camera for Optical Telescopes
• MAS Lab — Mobile Autonomous Systems Laboratory
• MassDTI — Massachusetts Defense Technology Initiative
• Master Data — Data Warehouse term: Information describing characteristics of information such as cost collectors, customers, or vendors.
• MBL — Marine Biological Laboratory (Woods Hole)
• MBTA — Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority. Also known as the "T".
• MCAT — Medical College Admissions Test
• MCC — MIT Computer Connection
• MCIL — Marine Computation and Instrumentation Laboratory
• MDS — Managed Desktop Services (Information Systems & Technology)
• MechE — (Department of) Mechanical Engineering
• Media — Any portable data storage method such as paper hard copies, external USB hard drives, CDs/DVDs, etc.
• MEET — Middle East Education through Technology (program)
• MEGA Women — Mechanical Engineering Graduate Association of Women
• MEMP — Medical Engineering and Medical Physics
• MEMS — Microelectromechanical Systems
• Metadata — Data Warehouse term: Data (information) about data. Term which describes the data.
• MGH — Massachusetts General Hospital
• MGH-HMS CNSR — Massachusetts General Hospital-Harvard Medical School Center for Nervous System Repair
• MHEC — Massachusetts Higher Education Consortium
• MI — Medical Informatics
• MIBR — McGovern Institute for Brain Research
• MIDAS — MIT's Information Distribution and Access System
• MIG (1) — Microsystems Industrial Group
• MIG (2) — Minority Interest Group
• MIME — MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) is an encoding method designed for exchanging binary files over the Internet (particularly via email messages) in a standardized, platform-independent form using a coding scheme called base64. A MIME-encoded message can contain several parts, each of which can be a different type of file: ASCII text, pictures, video, sound, or any other type of binary data.
• MIND — Mental Illness and Neuroscience Discovery (Institute)
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• MISTI — MIT International Science and Technology Initiatives Program
• MITAA — MIT Athletic Association
• MITAC — MIT Activities Committee
• MIT Alert — the Institute's emergency notification program, designed to provide information and advisories via a number of communication channels
• MITBSU — MIT Black Student Union
• MITCET — MIT Council on Educational Technology
• MITCO — MIT Chamber Orchestra
• MITCRC — MIT Community Running Club
• MITCRE — MIT's Center for Real Estate
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• MITEI — MIT Energy Initiative
• MIT E-News — Replace this text with one or more definitions for this term. Remember to use a pair of {excerpt} tags to contain the text you want displayed on the glossary index pages.
• MITERS — MIT Electronic Research Society
• MITES — Minority Introduction to Engineering and Science
• MITFCU — Replace this text with one or more definitions for this term. Remember to use a pair of {excerpt} tags to contain the text you want displayed on the glossary index pages.
• MITHAS — MIT Heritage of the Art of South Asia
• MITILAC — MIT Information Laboratory Automatic Coding
• MITIMCo — Massachusetts Institute of Technology Investment Management Company
• MIT IQ — MIT Information Quality program
• MITnet — the short name for the MIT campus network.
• MITOC — MIT Outing Club
• MITP — MIT Press
• MITPAY — Not an acronym, MITPAY is the electronic presentation of the student account bill
• MITR — MIT Research Reactor
• MITSFS — MIT Science Fiction Society
• MITSI — MIT Students for Israel
• MITSIM — Microscopic Traffic Simulator
• MITSIS — MIT Student Information System (also known as WebSIS)
• MITSO — MIT Symphony Orchestra
• MIT TechTV — MIT Television
• MITTwA — MIT Tiddlywinks Association
• MITWE — MIT Wind Ensemble
• MKI — MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research
• MLK Leadership Awards — Martin Luther King Leadership Awards (given at MIT)
• MLN — Museum Loan Network
• MLOG — Master of Engineering in Logistics (degree)
• MMITT — Molecular Mechanics Interactive Teaching Tool (a student project funded by iCampus)
• MMRRI — Mining and Minerals Resources Research Institute
• MMSA — Material and Manufacturing Systems Analysis, a collaborative research laboratory between the General Motors Corp. and MIT.
• moira — A large database and API containing user, machine, list, filesystem, and other essential information to manage the MITnet, MIT Email, and Athena infrastructures.
• moira list — a mailing list, group list, or mail alias managed through MIT's moira central database.
• MOSE — Modulo Sperimentale Elettromeccanico (or Experimental Electromechanical Module, an MIT-affiliated flood-control project in Venice)
• MOT — Management of Technology Program
• MPC — Materials Processing Center
• MREM — Mineral Resources Engineering and Management (Program)
• MRG — Microsystems Research Group
• MRL — Microreproduction Laboratory (Libraries)
• MRS — MIT Rocket Society
• MRSEC — Materials Research Science and Engineering Centers. (MIT's Center for Materials Science and Engineering, CMSE, has been part of the MRSEC program since 1994.)
• MS — Military Science (subject)
• MSA — Mexican Students Association (also known as ClubMex)
• MSE — Department of Materials Science and Engineering
• MSID — The Master Subject ID for a class. This is generally the course number used in the registrar's system and to register Stellar sites. For subjects that are cross-listed (e.g. 2.003/1.053), the MSID is only one of the numbers listed.
• MSKCC — Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
• MSL — Materials Systems Laboratory
• MSMR — Massachusetts Society for Medical Research
• MTA — Material transfer agreement
• MTC — Massachusetts Technology Collaborative
• MTDC — Modified Total Direct Cost, a Federal government term used in contracts.
• MTG — Musical Theater Guild
• MTL — Microsystems Technology Laboratories
• Multics — Computer system used at MIT until 1988
• MURJ — MIT Undergraduate Research Journal
• MUSIC — MIT-U.S. Geological Survey's Science Impact Collaborative program
• MVL — Man-Vehicle Laboratory
• MVP&DT — MIT Video Productions and Digital Technologies