Glossary - B

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• B.E. — Building Engineer (degree)
• BAGI — Bay Area Glass Institute
• BAMIT — Black Alumni of MIT
• Barton — MIT Libraries Online Catalogue
• Base Station — A hardware device or a computer's software that acts as a communication hub for users of a wireless device to connect to a wired LAN. APs are important for providing heightened wireless security and for extending the physical range of service to which a wireless user has access.
• BASICS — Brief Alcohol Screening and Intervention for College Students (program)
• BC — Burton-Conner House
• BCS — Brain and Cognitive Sciences (Course 9)
• BE — Biological Engineering, Department of
• BEAM — Building Energy Audit and Modification (Program)
• Beaver — The MIT mascot, chosen because it is nature's engineer.
• Beta — Beta Theta Pi
• BFSG — Budget and Finance Steering Group
• BGALA — Bisexual, Gay and Lesbian Alumni of MIT
• BGSA — Black Graduate Student Association
• BI — Broad Institute
• BICSO — Boston Intercollegiate Service Organization
• BIG — Bioinformatics and Integrative Genomics
• BLC — Boston Library Consortium
• BLT — Business Liaison Team
• BMES — Biomedical Engineering Society
• BOMA — Building Owners and Managers Association
• BosMUN — Boston Invitational Model United Nations
• BPEC — Biotechnology Process Engineering Center
• BSAD — Bachelor of Science in Art and Design
• BSU — Black Students Union
• BT — Building Technology (program in the Department of Architecture)
• BTP — Beta Theta Pi
• BUG — Biology Undergraduate Journal
• Business Area — Data Warehouse Explorer term which groups information in the Warehouse according to data type. e.g. Financial, General, Student, Human Resources.