Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Make A Controller Out Of Almost Anything!

The Huffington Post | Andres Jauregui | Posted 05.18.2012

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A pair of graduate students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab have launched MaKey MaKey, a Kickstarter project with a noble goal ...

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WATCH: App Lets You Swipe Stuff From One Device To Another

The Huffington Post | Courteney Palis | Posted 05.08.2012

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Forget transferring files via email, flash drives or services like Dropbox. Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) are working...

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Video: Why Publishers Don't Like Apps -- MIT's Technology Review Editor Pontin: "We're Going to Kill" Ours

Andy Plesser | Posted 05.21.2012

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Like the the Financial Times which has totally left the Apps platform for an enhance HTML mobile Web scenario, MIT's Technology Review has abandoned ...

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Beyond Information Transfer: An Initiation Into Lifelong Learning

Michael Roth | Posted 05.04.2012

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Our campuses should be places where diversity leads to learning as students come to see differences among people as a deep resource for solving problems and seeking opportunities. Online education can complement this educational environment. But it does not replace the need for it.

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5 Ideas for EdX, Harvard and MIT's New Online Initiative

Margaret Weigel | Posted 05.03.2012

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While MIT has offered free access to course materials through its OpenCourseWare project for over a decade, Harvard's participation suggests that this model of free pedagogical content is finally a mainstream endeavor.

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Harvard, MIT Announce Online Learning Project

AP | DENISE LAVOIE | Posted 05.02.2012

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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have joined forces to offer free online courses in a project aimed at a...

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Harvard, MIT Announce Free Online Courses

Reuters | Posted 05.03.2012

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By Svea Herbst-Bayliss BOSTON, May 2 (Reuters) - Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, both academic heavyweights and...

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Inquiring Minds Want to Know! Attending the 2012 Cambridge Science Festival

Zoe P. Strassfield | Posted 04.30.2012

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While I'm incredibly sore that I couldn't be in New York today to see the Space Shuttle Enterprise arrive aboard NASA's carrier jet, living in Boston has allowed me to enjoy some first-rate experiences. The single luckiest event so far would have to be the Cambridge Science Festival.

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WATCH: MIT Building Gets Turned Into Giant Tetris Game

The Huffington Post | Tyler Kingkade | Posted 04.25.2012

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Hackers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology brought Soviet-styled 80's fun to the Boston skyline, when they turned the facade of the school's...

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(Video) MIT's Jason Pontin: Tablets Must be Based on Open Standards to Succeed

Andy Plesser | Posted 04.14.2012

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The "feckless infatuation" of magazine publishers in creating closed-garden Apps to replicate their publications has proven to be a disappointment, s...

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Numbers Game: America's Struggle To Make Math Fun

Reuters | Posted 04.12.2012

By Stephanie Simon April 11 (Reuters) - Pity poor math. In the American drive to boost science and math education, it's...

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25 Universities With The Best Internet Buzz

The Huffington Post | Tyler Kingkade | Posted 04.05.2012

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Which university has the best Internet brand equity? The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has the best Internet buzz , according to the Global...

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(video) MIT's Jason Pontin: Media "Platform Agnosticism" is Dead, Long Live "Platform Committed"

Andy Plesser | Posted 05.28.2012

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VIEQUES, PR -- For media companies to succeed, they need to operate on the platforms they know best, not distribute content on places which are not t...

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Third Student Found Dead At MIT

Posted 02.23.2012

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Police are investigating the third student death at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology this academic year. The 21-year-old MIT student, Bria...

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Venture Capitalist: If Tech CEOs Any Younger We'd 'Be Invested In Preschool'

Reuters | Sarah McBride | Posted 04.21.2012

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By Sarah McBride SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Josh Buckley, chief executive of an online gaming start-up, is looking forward to next month...

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Which University Won the Intercollegiate Programming Championship?

David Thielen | Posted 04.13.2012

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Each team wrote the A.I. for a computer game. The contest is then the A.I.s from each team fighting each other where one will reign victorious over the others on the field of battle.

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Turning Entrepreneurship Into Businesses

Adam Borelli | Posted 04.14.2012

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The mission of the new contest, called ACCELERATE, is for teams to build demos of their idea, whether that be a hardware prototype, a beta service, or experimental data for a promising new drug.

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Twenty-One Books And No Answers

NPR | Jacob Goldstein | Posted 02.07.2012

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A while back, the MIT economist Andrew Lo set out to review a couple books about the financial crisis. Those books led to a couple more books, which l...

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Young Blood Dwindles For Science, Technology, Engineering Jobs

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 01.25.2012

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Though President Barack Obama's State of the Union Address stressed the need for a competitive workforce, especially in more technical fields such as ...

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Want To Study At MIT?

AP | JUSTIN POPE | Posted 02.19.2012

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Think you can hack it at MIT? If so, the world-renowned university is willing to give you a new kind of credential to prove it. Not a full-fledged ...

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The National Intercollegiate Programming Championships

David Thielen | Posted 02.08.2012

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This upcoming January will see the first intercollegiate programming code war, with multiple teams competing from most of the top computer science colleges in the country.

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Dummy Caught Faking Ivy League Credentials -- Again

AP | By DENISE LAVOIE | Posted 01.09.2012

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WOBURN, Mass. -- A Delaware man convicted of fraud for faking his way into Harvard was ordered held without bail Wednesday after admitting he violated...

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How 20-Something Researchers 'Understand What It's Like To Be Old'

Second Act | Posted 01.02.2012

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Plastic bands that restrict movement. Glasses that make vision dull and yellowed. Shoes that throw the wearer off balance. Harnesses that make the bod...

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Can This Startup Make Local Search Smarter?

HuffingtonPost.com | Nate C. Hindman | Posted 12.27.2011

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In the not too distant future, Internet search engines and social networks will have access to data that will allow users to see in real-time the item...

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In Global Education Race, U.S. Is Falling Behind

Justin Snider | Posted 12.17.2011

For America to avert catastrophe and regain both its educational edge and economic dominance, how -- and how urgently -- must must U.S. higher education change?

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