### Meet the Agents at USV: Arthur, Ellie, Sally, and Friends

There’s a great story in Stewart Brand’s *How Buildings Learn* about how a temporary wooden structure left over from World War II became one of the most loved buildings at MIT. During the war, MIT needed a new building to house the urgent classified development of radar technology. They hastily built a three story wood structure to fit the thousands of additional researchers: You know those time lapse photographs they make of construction of skyscrapers? Well Building 20 went up like that – alm...

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