 In the domain of humanities , arts , and social sciences , MIT economists have been awarded five Nobel Prizes and nine John Bates Clark Medals . Linguists Noam Chomsky and Morris Halle authored seminal texts on generative grammar and phonology . The MIT Media Lab , founded in 1985 within the School of Architecture and Planning and known for its unconventional research , has been home to influential researchers such as constructivist educator and Logo creator Seymour Papert . 
