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Actually, I think this is a linguistic corner case in whether you ought to use the word "the", and some speakers/dialects will fall on either side. Consider:
She works at the institute.
* She works at institute.
She works at SingInst.
* She works at the SingInst.
? She works at the Singularity Institute
? She works at Singularity Institute
(* denotes a sentence that is incorrect to all speakers and ? denotes a sentence that is incorrect to some speakers but not all.)
If Singularity Institute parses as a modified noun, then it should have an article. If it parses as a name, then it shouldn't. You can force it to be a name by either compressing it into something that isn't a regular word (SingInst), or by adding something that's incompatible with regular words. Compare:
He will attend the Singularity Summit.
? He will attend Singularity Summit.
He will attend Singularity Summit 2012.
* He will attend the Singularity Summit 2012.
And that's the entire fact of the matter. From a linguistics perspective, whether a sentence is grammatically correct or incorrect depends solely on the intuition of native speakers; and if native speakers disagree, then it must be a dialect difference. Arguing what is "correct" in a speaker-independent sense is meaningless and unproductive.