MIT Schwarzman College of Computing

The MIT Stephen A. Schwarzman College of Computing is a college at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Announced in 2018 to address the growing applications of computing technology, the college is an Institute-wide academic unit that works alongside MIT's five Schools of Architecture and Planning, Engineering, Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, Science, and Management. The college emphasizes artificial intelligence research, interdisciplinary applications of computing, and social and ethical responsibilities of computing. It aims to be an interdisciplinary hub for work in artificial intelligence, computer science, data science, and related fields. Its creation was the first significant change to MIT's academic structure since the early 1950s.

This article is about the college at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. For the residential college building at Tsinghua University, see Schwarzman College.
MIT Stephen A. Schwarzman College of Computing
TypePrivate
EstablishedJanuary 1, 2020
Parent institution
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Budget$1.1 billion
DeanDaniel P. Huttenlocher
Location
Cambridge
,
Massachusetts
,
United States
Websitecomputing.mit.edu

The MIT Schwarzman College of Computing is named after The Blackstone Group chairman Stephen A. Schwarzman, who donated $350 million of the college's $1.1 billion funding commitment. The college's funding sources were met with criticism, with students and staff contrasting MIT's stated emphasis on ethics against Schwarzman's controversial business practices and support for Donald Trump.

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