In the "Fallout" games, MIT is known as the "Commonwealth Institute of Technology". As nuclear war began, researchers from the university hid below the main building and continued with their research without making contact with other survivors. Eventually after many years, they took on the title of simply "The Institute", and became well known as a shady organization with extraordinary technology and the ability to create androids. The institute is featured as a major faction in the 2015 title, "Fallout 4".