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Vassar Street elevation, showing forms over main entry with passage to the inner court; With the construction company, Skanska USA Building Inc. The Ray and Maria Stata Center is a 430,000-ft sq. ft. academic complex designed by 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, MA. Major funding for this project was provided by Ray Stata (MIT class of 1957) and Maria Stata. Other major funders include Bill Gates, Alexander W. Dreyfoos, Jr. (MIT class of 1954), 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. Source: Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page (accessed 1/16/2008)