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- Our big carbon footprints
- A class of MIT students in mechanical engineering has studied the carbon footprints of different lifestyles, from the homeless to multimillionaires. And the results are both fascinating and frightening. According to the study, even the people with the lowest incomes in the U.S. emit twice more carbon than the average...
- Tags: U.S., Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Carbon, Carbon Footprint, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-04-29
- "Science 2.0" is good for all of us
- Scientific American is running an article on "Science 2.0," examining the such initiatives as MIT's OpenWetWare that allow researchers to post all results, successes, failures, etc., on the Web as they happen. This is in contrast to the nearly secretive nature in which research has been conducted before the...
- Tags: Web, Researcher, Science, Knowledge, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Wiki, Web 2.0, Channel Management, Strategy, Online Communications, Internet, Marketing, Management, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-04-22
- Photos: MIT Energy Conference talks money, coal, and 'Enertech'
- The third MIT Energy Conference attracts heavyweights in energy, while nurturing green-tech start-ups and students. by CNET News.com
- Tags: Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Photograph, Conference, Energy, CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2008-04-16
- Explaining science with drawings
- A recent news release from the US National Science Foundation NSF mentions a project it helped to fund, 'Picturing to Learn.' For this project, college students have to create pencil drawings to explain scientific concepts to high school students. As says Felice Frankel, a Harvard University researcher who is leading...
- Tags: National Science Foundation, Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Student, Web Site Development, Productivity, Investment, Web Technology, Internet, Finance, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-04-12
- Smart badges? We don't need no stinkin' smart badges. Or do we?
- MIT's Human Dynamics Lab is working on a form of social networking as old as humanity itself: Face-to-face introductions and subsequent chit-chat. Users wear badges that calculate how far apart people are standing (a good indicator of their reactions to one another, perhaps); record their conversation; and track their movements....
- Tags: Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Norm, Internet, Ed Gottsman
- Blog posts 2008-03-07
- MIT Podcast: How Enterprise Software Drives Higher Productivity Efficiency
- If you are a small business or midsize company currently thinking about investing in IT, you might be wondering if it is even worth it. Download this MIT Podcast, featuring an interview with Dr. Sinan Aral of MIT and NYU, to hear about the results of his...
- Tags: Enterprise Software, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, SAP AG, Podcasts, Internet
- Download resources 2008-01-01
- MIT students at it again: bike-powered supercomputers
- MIT students at it again: bike-powered supercomputerspedal power.Do you have a source for parts and blueprints?
- Tags: supercomputer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Discussion threads 2007-12-22
- MIT students at it again: bike-powered supercomputers
- 10 MIT students rode bicycles attached to dynamos and powered a Linux-based supercomputer for 20 minutes, according to an article in Computerworld. The effort, designed to both win a place in the Guinness Book of World Records and to win a prize from Google, also highlighted low-power computer designs...
- Tags: Supercomputer, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2007-12-20
- MIT Scratch (exe)
- Scratch is a multimedia utility designed for children. Using Scratch they can create animated stories, clips and even interactive games. Because of its simple graphical interface anyone can use it with no problem. Scratch is a new programming language that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, animations,...
- Tags: Multimedia, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Games, Personal Technology
- Software downloads 2007-12-11
- New oil-repelling material from MIT
- MIT researchers have developed flexible surface coatings that repel oils. According to the research team, this is the first material able to do it. They say that these findings could have applications in aviation, space travel and hazardous waste cleanup. Their oil-repelling, or 'oleophobic' material, is using specially prepared microfibers,...
- Tags: Surface, Droplet, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Polymer, Molecule, Fiber, Network Technology, Networking, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2007-12-09
- Will educational software ever be fun?
- MIT's Technology Review recently published an article on a $250,000 research project at Indiana University. The project was designed to create an online virtual world in which researchers could test economic theories: by manipulating the rules of the game, [Indiana University professor Edward Castranova] hoped...
- Tags: Game, Software, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Games, Personal Technology, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2007-12-05
- Building 3-D particles with light
- Engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT have used ultraviolet light to create mass-producing 3-D microparticles that could be used for medical diagnostics and tissue engineering. 'For example, they could be designed to act as probes to detect certain molecules, such as DNA, or to release drugs or nutrients.'...
- Tags: 3D, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Particle, Biotechnology, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2007-12-04
- New tool from MIT makes online lectures genuinely useful
- New tool from MIT makes online lectures genuinely usefulThat's fantasticHow I wish I could have filtered my university lectures for content! Imagine the tool this could be for specific research. Not to mention the ease of tuning out any waffle for which you're paying a premium to listen!Anyone recording lectures...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, lecture, K12, tool, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Discussion threads 2007-11-27
- New tool from MIT makes online lectures genuinely useful
- While it is becoming increasingly common and easy for lectures to be placed online as videos or podcasts, such media can often be very limited in their utility. For example, I missed a lecture last week for my numerical analysis class. Fortunately, the professor always posts his lectures...
- Tags: Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Tool, Lecture, Speech Recognition, Productivity, Emerging Technologies, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2007-11-26
- MIT offers City Car for the masses
- MIT offers City Car for the massesAdded ExtraThis concept would be made better by city engineers designing special roadbeds for this type of vehicle.
- Tags: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Discussion threads 2007-11-05
- Images: MIT's stackable electric car
- The City Car is a proposed two-seater powered by lithium-ion batteries that would stack much like a grocery cart. by CNET News.com
- Tags: Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Grocery, City Car, Food & Beverage, Engineering, Manufacturing, CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2007-11-05
- So simple even an MIT-educated rocket scientist can do it
- There was a movie a couple of years back in which one of the main characters thought everything and anything could be cured with Windex. Perhaps Ajax is a better cure-all. Geek & Poke's Oliver Widder was inspired by recent posts from Michael Krigman and myself,...
- Tags: Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Geek & Poke, AJAX, Recruitment & Selection, Internet, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Web 2.0, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2007-10-28
- Singularity Summit 2007: iPod of the future
- Rodney Brooks is the Panasonic Professor of Robotics at MIT and CTO of iRobot. From 1997 - 2003 and from 2003 - 2007, respectively, he was Director of the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab and Director of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. He knows a lot about robots, AI...
- Tags: Professor, Apple iPod, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Rodney Brooks, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-09-08
- Toward safer gene therapy?
- Gene therapy has been used in more than 1,000 clinical trials during the last 20 years. But the U.S. Food and Drug Administration FDA has never approved a single application. The reason is simple: the former trials were using viruses to deliver genes to fight diseases like cancer. And viruses...
- Tags: DNA, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Polymer, Therapy, Gene Therapy, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2007-09-08
- Optimizing chip manufacturing at MIT
- According to MIT researchers, computer chips used inside high-speed communication devices have become so small that tiny variations that appear during chip fabrication can make a big difference in performance.' So they've developed a model to predict variation in circuit performance and maximize the number of chips working within the...
- Tags: Transistor, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Variation, Chip, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2007-08-19
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