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Slain MIT Officer To Be Honored With Beer

Posted 05.17.2013 | College

A Cambridge, Mass., brewery is producing a beer for Sean Collier, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus officer who was shot and killed sho...

Previously Sealed Documents To Be Released In Swartz Case

Reuters | Posted 05.14.2013 | Politics

BOSTON (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Monday ordered the release of previously sealed documents in the criminal hacking case against deceased Internet ac...

The Boston Tragedy: After The Nonsense

Robert M. Randolph | Posted 05.06.2013 | Religion
Robert M. Randolph

Eight thousand police from around world came to campus to honor the fallen officer. The day dawned rainy, but it cleared and the sun gave many their first blush of color this spring. The MIT community was surrounded by caring men and women in blue. For students it was a once in a lifetime experience.

Personalizing Learning Is the Key to Engagement and Achievement

Eric Sheninger | Posted 05.03.2013 | Technology
Eric Sheninger

NMHS seniors enrolled in one of the "Academies @ NMHS," a program of concentrated studies in three well-defined, career-focused areas directly connected to university majors and workforce need: the Academy of Arts & Letters, the STEM Academy and the Academy for Global Leadership.

Getting Back to Life at MIT and Kendall Square

Heidi Legg | Posted 04.25.2013 | Business
Heidi Legg

I am happy to have a story of building and innovation as we try to get back to normal and celebrate what we do best in this great City - rejuvenate and innovate.

Thousands Gather To Honor Slain MIT Officer (PHOTOS)

AP | RODRIQUE NGOWI | Posted 04.24.2013 | Crime

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Rob Rogers said Wednesday's memorial service for slain Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer Sean Collier capt...

Fear Shuts Down Boston

David Ropeik | Posted 04.19.2013 | Politics
David Ropeik

Our responses may not make intellectual sense tomorrow, or whenever this calms down (hopefully with no or minimal additional violence), when we can look back at things in the cool calm of rational hindsight, but they make emotional sense now. Because we are afraid.

A Night Locked Down at MIT

David Larson | Posted 04.22.2013 | College
David Larson

MIT students are perhaps some of the best people at dealing with stress. Our environment is all about being pushed beyond our comfort level. It's hard to destabilize MIT. But the loss of one of our own -- that's how you destabilize us. Upon hearing that phrase, "MIT officer dead," the night changed.

Timeline Of the Boston Shootouts

Posted 04.19.2013 | Crime

Events unfolded quickly on Thursday night as a deadly shootout erupted shortly after the FBI released photos of two suspects in the Boston Marathon bo...

MIT Police Officer Slain By Suspects

Posted 04.19.2013 | Crime

Sean Collier, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer, was shot and killed late Thursday night during a confrontation with the two Bost...

If We Cannot Teach, You Can Keep Your Online Revolution

Robert E. Johnson | Posted 04.12.2013 | College
Robert E. Johnson

Yes, colleges must explore the power of online learning, but it is not enough to build Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs) and declare victory.

Essay Grading Software is Insulting

Steve Nelson | Posted 04.08.2013 | College
Steve Nelson

There is an exciting new development of essay-grading software. This innovation, coming courtesy of the EdX people from Harvard and MIT, may have finally closed the diminishing gap between "educational reform" and parody. The only possible response is, "Are you kidding me?"

Study Shows Minorities Faced Longer Wait Times To Vote

The Huffington Post | Nick Wing | Posted 04.09.2013 | Politics

A new report by Charles Stewart III, a professor of political science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, shows that non-white voters faced ...

Computers Cannot Read, Write or Grade Papers

Robert David Jaffee | Posted 04.05.2013 | Technology
Robert David Jaffee

I can imagine Shakespeare laughing at all of us today, as we enslave ourselves to technology. When will this all stop? When will we take a moment and realize that originality, which resides in every human being, cannot be measured on a scale of 1 to 100?

The Last Pictures: An Interview With Trevor Paglen

Jane Harris | Posted 03.26.2013 | Arts
Jane Harris

Paglen's The Last Pictures is a generation of 100 images nano-etched into a thin, silicon wafer sent to space, and built to last eons such that it will "explain to somebody in the future what happened to all of the people who built the dead spaceships in orbit around the earth."

Gerry Smith

MIT Officials Have Faced Harassment, Personal Threats Since Aaron Swartz's Death

HuffingtonPost.com | Gerry Smith | Posted 03.19.2013 | Technology

Officials at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have faced harassment and personal threats since the death of well-known Internet activist Aaro...

LOOK: MIT Media Lab's Raunchy SXSW Wristbands

Posted 03.12.2013 | College

MIT Media Lab had a party on Saturday in Austin, Texas, at the South by Southwest festival to "showcase exciting media innovation projects" along with...

Moniz: A Pro-Nuclear, Pro-Fracking U.S. Energy Secretary

Karl Grossman | Posted 05.06.2013 | Green
Karl Grossman

Moniz, a physicist and director of the MIT Energy Initiative, heavily financed by energy industry giants including BP and Chevron, has long advocated nuclear power.

WATCH: Amazing World Of 'Invisible Motion'

The Huffington Post | Jacqueline Howard | Posted 03.05.2013 | Science

The human eye certainly sees a lot, but it's not very good at detecting what researchers are calling the "invisible motion" all around us -- the way a...

The 6 Habits of Highly Effective Mentors

John Dearborn | Posted 04.28.2013 | Business
John Dearborn

An effective mentoring program takes a commitment of time, resources and energy from community leadership to get it right -- and helping strong leaders become successful mentors isn't as easy as it would seem.

Scene Clear After Gunman Reported On MIT Campus (UPDATE)

Posted 04.25.2013 | Crime

A man with a long rifle and body armor was reportedly spotted in a building at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, CBS News and other outlets r...

Coursera, edX Announce Major Expansions

AP | TERENCE CHEA | Posted 02.21.2013 | College

SAN FRANCISCO -- More of the world's elite universities are joining the rush to offer "massive open online courses" that are broadening access to high...

LOOK: The World's Top 10 Computer Science Colleges

Posted 02.26.2013 | Science

Opinions differ, of course, but an annual ranking by The Academic Ranking Of World Universities of 200 universities around the globe indicates that ni...

Celebrating Darwin: Religion And Science Are Closer Than You Think

Max Tegmark | Posted 04.14.2013 | Religion
Max Tegmark

Is there a conflict between science and religion? The religious organizations representing most Americans clearly don't think so. Interestingly, the science organizations representing most American scientists don't think so either.

Complacency in AIDS Fundraising?

Mike Smith | Posted 04.01.2013 | Arts
Mike Smith

Dancers Find their Voice at DRA Broadway Cares Event The "Dance from the Heart" event in New York this week, a program of Broadway Cares/Equity Fight...