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- The future of... bus stops
- Tired of wondering when your ride will arrive? ZDNet correspondent Sumi Das explains how the Eyestop could forever change that waiting game for the better. A mix of smooth steel, clear curved glass and technology, this artful creation from the minds at MIT Media Lab could make your...
- Tags: Corporate Governance, Games, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Personal Technology, MIT Media Lab, Buses
- Videos 2009-11-30
- MIT Media Lab blog survey
- MIT Media Lab blog surveyRe:MIT Media Lab blog surveyThe most recent one was administered by Cameron Marlow, also of the MIT Media Lab. If you completed the survey, did you read the consent form? The information page leading to the consent form?=========georgeSurveys
- Tags: Marketing research, blog survey, survey, MIT Media Lab, MIT Media, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, blog
- Discussion threads 2009-03-03
- Images: MIT Media Lab's expansion
- The MIT Media Lab is long on research talent but short on floor space. Expansion plans are well underway.
- Tags: talent, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT Media Lab
- Image galleries 2006-09-27
- New MIT Media Lab head roots for grassroots
- New MIT Media Lab head roots for grassrootsWow, do you mean......that the world is pulling back from the brink of patent-nightmare non-innovation to return to the sanity of market-driven, subjective-value incentives for entrepreneurship?How dare we...
- Tags: Entrepreneurship, MIT Media, MIT Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Discussion threads 2006-02-17
- MIT Media Lab co-founder steps down
- MIT Media Lab co-founder steps downIt is a "Nobel" endeavor.As part of the old Irish saying goes, "May the wind always be at his back"
- Tags: MIT Media Lab, MIT Media, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Discussion threads 2006-02-15
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- The future of... Sticky notes
- Without a doubt, sticky notes are handy, but in many ways they're stuck in the analog world. ZDNet correspondent Sumi Das introduces us to Quickies, an MIT Media Lab invention that combines sticky note convenience with PC intelligence. Think smart notes that send meeting reminders and add phone numbers to...
- Tags: Phone, Note, Telecom & Utilities, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-12-22
- The future of... Sticky notes
- Without a doubt, sticky notes are handy, but in many ways they're stuck in the analog world. ZDNet correspondent Sumi Das introduces us to Quickies, an MIT Media Lab invention that combines sticky note convenience with PC intelligence. Think smart notes that send meeting reminders and add phone numbers...
- Tags: Phone, Note, Telecom & Utilities, sticky note, Quickies, MIT, Media Lab, research, computers, Pranav Mistry, Pattie Maes, Post-it, Sumi Das, future technology
- Videos 2008-12-19
- Immersive Cocoon: The Answer for the 3-D Internet?
- As some vendors struggle to define the 3-D interface within the confines of today’s tools, visionaries are moving beyond conventional boundaries. The Immersive Cocoon  is a carbon fiber shell that surrounds the user in a 360o display.  Users enter navigate the virtual...
- Tags: Space, 3D, Immersive Cocoon, Underkoffler, NAU, Smart Phones, Keyboards, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Peripherals, Dave Greenfield
- Blog posts 2008-09-14
- More vaporware from OLPC - Here comes XO 2.0
- I'll believe it when I see it. The blogosphere has offered plenty of reports today on OLPC's latest announcement, a new version of the XO laptop unveiled today at MIT's Media Lab. It certainly looks like a good idea: take two 16:9 aspect ratio touchscreens, hook them together...
- Tags: Laptop Computer, One Laptop Per Child Project, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-05-20
- Who will win open source professor cage match?
- In this corner, the challenger, the former executive director of MIT's Media Lab, software guru, now with Sugar Labs, the champion of Linux, Walter Benderrrrr! And in this corner, the champion, the co-founder of MIT's Media Lab, best-selling author, founder and chairman of One Laptop Per Child OLPC,...
- Tags: Professor, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Hardware, One Laptop Per Child Project, Nick Negroponte, Walter Bender, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-05-19
- What One Laptop Per Child lacks
- An entrepreneur. (Read to the end for the story of this picture.) Nicholas Negroponte is a brilliant man, a futurist of high rank, an idealist, and an all-around nice guy. He is not an entrepreneur. Neither, for that matter, is Walter...
- Tags: Entrepreneur, One Laptop Per Child Project, Tycho, Entrepreneurship, Management, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-04-29
- OLPC backlash continues
- PC Magazine's John Dvorak is the latest to question the real value of One Laptop Per Child's distribution of XO laptops in developing countries. He brings up points that have been percolating in the blogosphere for some time but presents them in one heck of a rant. He...
- Tags: Food, Advertisement, John Dvorak, Laptop Computer, One Laptop Per Child Project, PC Magazine, Food & Beverage, Notebooks, Manufacturing, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2007-12-09
- The Restaurant Game 1.9.1 (Windows)
- The Restaurant Game is a multi-player simulation where players take on the role of customers and waitresses. Players are anonymously paired on-line in virtual restaurants where they can chat and interact with the environment. This game is part of a research project at the MIT Media Lab that will combine...
- Tags: Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Microsoft Windows, Restaurant Game, Games, Personal Technology
- Software downloads 2007-06-12
- openSUSE to compete with Edubuntu?
- At first blush, the new offering, with a proposed release this fall, appears to have the makings of a serious competitor. Designed as an add-on "EDU-CD" to accompany the upcoming 10.3 release of openSUSE, the so-called "SLEducator" is designed to "[ease] the installation and configuration of an educational network...
- Tags: Classroom Tech, Education Technology, Open Source
- Blog posts 2007-05-29
- The Restaurant Game 1.9.1 (Mac)
- The Restaurant Game is a restaurant simulation where you play as a customer or waitress. This game is a research project at the MIT Media Lab that will algorithmically combine the gameplay experiences of thousands of players to create a new game. In a few months, we will apply machine...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Restaurant Game, Games, Personal Technology
- Software downloads 2007-05-24
- Scratch...programming for dummies or a solid intro to object orientation?
- Probably both. Scratch is a new program from the MIT Media Lab that lets students and anyone else who wants to play with funky sprites and interesting bits of code easily create and share animations created through drag and drop programming and simple Paint-like image editing. While it...
- Tags: Education Technology
- Blog posts 2007-05-18
- EXCLUSIVE: 1995 Newsgroup posting proposing VoIP predates Verizon, Sprint patents
- EXCLUSIVE: 1995 Newsgroup posting proposing VoIP predates Verizon, Sprint patentsBetter prove itFinding this is great for Vonage. However, they better prove beyond a doubt this actually was written and posted in 1995. You know the opposing teams are going to try to poke every little hole they can...
- Tags: Telephony, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, VoIP, Verizon Communications Inc., patent, Apple iPhone, Sprint Communications
- Discussion threads 2007-04-19
- Building your own supercomputer
- Building your own supercomputerOkay I have a horse in this race but...I just came from the BARC conference (Boston area ARChitecture, dumb acronym, good little conference) last week. We always get a higher-up rep from Intel or AMD along with the folks from the Universities around Boston-- it's a...
- Tags: Semiconductors, Development tools, Parallelism, supercomputer, desktop, chip, operating system, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-02-01
- University museums focus on the new science
- In an effort to buck the trend of university science museums to be merely repositories of old artifacts, the Broad Institute, the MIT Museum and Harvards Museum of Natural History are expanding their museums to focus on changes in contemporary science, reports The Boston Globe. "Scientific institutions have a...
- Tags: museum, MIT Museum, science museum, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Blog posts 2007-01-01
- MIT Tech Review editor: IT matters most, but there are other techs to watch
- MIT Tech Review editor: IT matters most, but there are other techs to watchwhat about "accidents"?...not just intentional use?The response on the most "dangerous" is right...as far as it goes, but presumes that the technology is INTENTIONALLY implemented. There is the real possibility, and I think greater one, of...
- Tags: Nanotechnology, Strategy, IT Matters, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, media, information technology
- Discussion threads 2006-10-03
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