http://web.mit.edu/ist/news News from MIT Information Services and Technology en-us Wed, 23 April 2008 08:00:00 EST Researchers at Lincoln Lab have developed a powerful sensor that can detect airborne pathogens such as anthrax and smallpox in less than three minutes. http://www.ll.mit.edu/news/recentarticles.html#panther Tue, 01 April 2008 08:00:00 EST The organization develops Kerberos, the widely used network authentication standard. http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/040108-microsoft-signs-on-to-mit.html Thu, 27 March 2008 08:00:00 EST MIT scientists are designing a satellite-based observatory that could provide a sensitive survey of the sky to search for planets outside the solar system. http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Googling_Alien_Life_999.html Wed, 19 March 2008 08:00:00 EST MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) and Elsevier have agreed to make available figures and text selections from any of the publisher's more than 2,000 journal titles for use on OCW. http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/ocw-elsevier-tt0319.html Wed, 19 March 2008 08:00:00 EST MIT sophomore Edison Achelengwa returned to his home country of Cameroon in January to work on installing MIT's OpenCourseWare on computers in two of the country's universities. http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/itw-cameroon-tt0319.html Fri, 14 March 2008 08:00:00 EST New computer software developed by MIT researchers promises to make preferential ranking systems just as easy as traditional voting. http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/voting-tt0312.html Mon, 17 February 2008 08:00:00 EST Tomaso Poggio's lab at MIT has merged two lines of research. http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/aaas-brain-0216.html Tue, 05 February 2008 08:00:00 EST The new chip design could lead to longer-lasting, self-charging cell phones. http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/energy-chip-0205.html Fri, 25 January 2008 08:00:00 EST This semester 25 MIT students will gather in a classroom to play with Android, the first fully open mobile operating system. http://www.bizjournals.com/boston/stories/2008/01/28/story12.html Thu, 24 January 2008 08:00:00 EST A new MIT study cautions that apparent successes in teaching computers to recognize visual objects like humans may be misleading. http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/computer-vision-0124.html Tue, 22 January 2008 08:00:00 EST MIT and Singapore's NRF have announced the official launch of the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology Centre, or SMART Centre, consisting of laboratories and computational facilities in a variety of research areas. http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/smart-0122.html Wed, 19 December 2007 08:00:00 EST A group of 10 MIT cyclists put their legs to the test, powering a supercomputer calculating research on nuclear fusion for nearly 20 minutes. http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,140661-c,technology/article.html Thu, 8 November 2007 08:00:00 EST MIT students have come up with a way to recharge your laptop without plugging it in. http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2007/energy-laptop-1108.html Wed, 7 November 2007 08:00:00 EST The Lecture Search Engine is available through MIT Open Courseware. http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2007/lectures-tt1107.html Thu, 27 September 2007 08:00:00 EST The Consortium's ambitious mission is to create a universal authentication platform to protect the world's computer networks. http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2007/kerberos-0927.html Mon, 17 September 2007 08:00:00 EST The Wiki City project, run by MIT's SENSEable City Laboratory, aims to apply wiki technology to the mapmaking process. http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/09/17/Wikis-Semantic-Web-head-to-streets_1.html Mon, 10 September 2007 08:00:00 EST When it comes to computers, says MIT's Rodney Brooks, "who is us and who is them is going to become a different sort of question." http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/08/AR2007090801780.html?hpid=sec-tech Fri, 31 August 2007 08:00:00 EST MIT Media Lab researcher Tad Hirsh has created intelligent coconuts to detect noisy incoming and outgoing airplanes from Bay Area airports. http://blog.scifi.com/tech/archives/2007/08/30/electronic_coco.html Thu, 16 August 2007 08:00:00 EST An MIT research team is working to predict the variation in circuit performance and maximize the number of chips working within the chips' specifications. http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2007/circuit-0816.html Wed, 15 August 2007 08:00:00 EST The weight maintenance sociable robot project at the MIT Media Lab has one goal: to help you shed pounds. http://crave.cnet.com/8300-1_105-1-0.html?keyword=MIT+Media+Lab Wed, 25 July 2007 08:00:00 EST MIT lectures on physics, psychology, math and architecture have recently made the iTunes U top ten list. http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2007/itunesu-lewin-0725.html Tue, 17 July 2007 08:00:00 EST Professor Ronald L. Rivest helped develop one of the world's most widely used Internet security systems. http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2007/rivest-award-0717.html Tue, 10 July 2007 08:00:00 EST A digital wand-like instrument gives new meaning to "textured" sound by letting people record a noise and then brush, scrape, or tap it against objects to create effects. http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2007/07/10/soundpaint_tec.html?category=technology Mon, 09 July 2007 08:00:00 EST Tim Berners-Lee, the man who invented the World Wide Web, uses the term "semantic" when he speaks of the Internet of the future. http://www.itworld.com/Tech/4535/070709future/ Fri, 29 June 2007 08:00:00 EST TechnologyReview.com is adding videos and a mobile version for phones and other handheld devices. http://www.voanews.com/english/Science/2007-06-29-voa60.cfm Thu, 28 June 2007 08:00:00 EST The freedom to choose how you look and your abilities can transform the way people feel about themselves, according to Frank Moss, director of the MIT Media Lab. http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2007/energy-computers-0614.html Thu, 14 June 2007 08:00:00 EST The Climate Savers Computing Initiative aims to save energy and reduce greenhouse gas emissions by setting aggressive new targets for energy-efficient computers. http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2007/energy-computers-0614.html Thu, 07 June 2007 08:00:00 EST The latest technical advance out of MIT could dramatically change the drudgery of recharging portable devices: WiTricity, or wireless electricity. http://www.boston.com/business/ticker/2007/06/mit_discovery_c.html Thu, 05 April 2007 08:00:00 EST Researchers replace batteries with ultracapacitors to make long-running PCs. http://www.cio.com.au/index.php/id;1546738705 Mon, 02 April 2007 08:00:00 EST Software designed for genetics shows how materials behave under extreme loading. http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2007/atomistic.html Fri, 09 March 2007 08:00:00 EST MIT's new $3.5 million W. M. Keck Foundation Center for Extreme Quantum Information Theory enables a major push by MIT theorists in the race to determine the ultimate capabilities of quantum information systems. http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2007/quantum.html Thu, 08 March 2007 08:00:00 EST Checking email via BlackBerry gives employees a sense of control but leads to more stress, according to a study from the MIT Sloan School of Management. http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,129616-c,workplace/article.html# Thu, 01 March 2007 08:00:00 EST Contrary to prevailing notions, older adults are the leading adopters of new technology. http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2007/agelab-coughlin.html Fri, 23 February 2007 08:00:00 EST Applications include surveillance, visual search engines, biomedical imaging analysis and robots with realistic vision. http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2007/surveillance.html Wed, 14 February 2007 08:00:00 EST The Office of Educational Innovation and Technology (OEIT) has been established as part of the Office of the Dean for Undergraduate Education (DUE) as an important step toward supporting and sustaining educational innovation at MIT. http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2007/due-innovation-0214.html Thu, 16 November 2006 08:00:00 EST Recharging your laptop computer and other gadgets may one day be as convenient as surfing the web--wirelessly. http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2006/wireless.html Thu, 16 November 2006 08:00:00 EST Wharton, MIT, And Pearson will host a collaborative Web site that lets professionals and scholars edit or add to each other's work. http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=194400708 Tue, 24 October 2006 08:00:00 EST The real star at a lecture by Nicholas Negroponte was not the Media Lab co-founder but a model from his One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project. http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2006/laptop.html Mon, 16 October 2006 08:00:00 EST Its basic research question? "How can people and computers be connected so that, collectively, they act more intelligently than any individuals, groups, or computers have ever done before?" http://cci.mit.edu/ Thu, 08 June 2006 08:00:00 EST Graduating senior Eric Mibuari has started a community computer center in Laare, Kenya, the town where he grew up. http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2006/comm-profile1-0607.html Wed, 24 May 2006 08:00:00 EST Zack Anderson and R.J. Ryan, residents of East Campus, have turned an ordinary dorm room into a fully automated pad. http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2006/autodorm-0524.html Fri, 05 May 2006 08:00:00 EST Researchers in Boston hope wireless medical sensors will help make waiting in the emergency room less life threatening. http://www.technologyreview.com/read_article.aspx?id=16776&ch=infotech Fri, 21 April 2006 08:00:00 EST The Center will advance the vision of mobility while developing real-world applications. http://www.verivox.de/news/ArticleDetails.asp?aid=27640amp;pm=1 Mon, 17 April 2006 08:00:00 EST Frank Moss on smart cars, brain prostheses for the aged and other toys in the works at MIT's Media Lab. http://msnbc.msn.com/id/12223559/site/newsweek/ Tue, 04 April 2006 08:00:00 EST OCW stands as a new model for disseminating knowledge, serving as a sort of "shared intellectual commons" available to educators and learners around the globe. http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2006/ocw.html Mon, 03 April 2006 08:00:00 EST Open source lends the flexibility needed to meet disparate departmental needs. http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/04/03/76558_14FEosscasemit_1.html Tue, 14 March 2006 08:00:00 EST His new book, Programming the Universe, is a plainspoken tale of how the universe is one very large quantum computer. http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.03/play.html?pg=4 Mon, 06 March 2006 08:00:00 EST Moss, appointed last month as director of MIT's prestigious Media Lab, will try to push the Lab into new territory. http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/techinnovations/2006-03-05-mit-media-lab_x.htm?POE=TECISVA Wed, 01 March 2006 08:00:00 EST "Digital_minimal," an exhibition in the School of Architecture and Planning's Wolk Gallery, explores new directions for our digital future. http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2006/arts-digital-0301.html Mon, 06 February 2006 08:00:00 EST Members of the MIT community can now request books, articles, and other materials from academic libraries worldwide through a new web-based system. http://news-libraries.mit.edu/blog/archives/187 Thu, 02 February 2006 08:00:00 EST With MIT's help, the city hopes to provide free access to its 100,000 residents by summer. http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2006/02/02/cambridge_mit_plan_citywide_wifi/ Tue, 10 January 2006 08:00:00 EST Why have a cell phone that merely rings, beeps or squawks when you can create your own ringtone and compete for prizes while doing so? http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2006/arts-ringtone.html Mon, 9 January 2006 08:00:00 EST The next generation of space explorers will look and act more like people than probes. http://www.boston.com/news/globe/health_science/articles/2006/01/09/robonauts/ Wed, 21 December 2005 08:00:00 EST The Net's basic flaws cost firms billions, impede innovation, and threaten national security. It's time for a clean-slate approach, says MIT's David D. Clark. http://www.technologyreview.com/InfoTech/wtr_16056,258,p1.html?trk=nl Wed, 14 December 2005 08:00:00 EST Alex Pentland of the MIT Media Lab has developed Memory Glasses that function like a personal digital assistant. http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/techinnovations/2005-12-13-tech-wearable_x.htm Fri, 09 December 2005 08:00:00 EST CSAIL researcher Russ Tedrake has built a computer toddler whose programs are designed to modify the walking process continuously. http://news.ft.com/cms/s/78a95ce4-6858-11da-bfce-0000779e2340.html Wed, 30 November 2005 08:00:00 EST Cell phones have transformed the micro-culture of classrooms and may shape the macro-culture of global youth. http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2005/cellphone-1130.html Mon, 28 November 2005 08:00:00 EST Mitchell is the world's leading guru of how city life has changed in the age of wireless communication. http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1651355,00.html Wed, 09 November 2005 08:00:00 EST MIT's most powerful computer will be used to explore lattice quantum chromodynamics and other extremely demanding computational physics problems. http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2005/computer-1109.html Tue, 01 November 2005 08:00:00 EST An MIT Museum exhibition called "iSpots" features three electronic real-time maps of campus wireless use projected onto large Plexiglas rectangles. http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2005/ispots.html Thu, 27 October 2005 08:00:00 EST MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and Nokia Research Center announced a research collaboration to advance the state of the art in mobile computing and communications technologies. http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2005/nokia.html Thu, 24 October 2005 08:00:00 EST The Internet facilitates rapid cultural evolution at a speed previously unimaginable, making prediction that much harder. http://www.forbes.com/2005/10/19/jenkins-henry-internet-culture-comm05-cx_de_1024jenkins.html Thu, 29 September 2005 08:00:00 EST MIT scientists have taken inspiration from nature to create robots that can replicate themselves. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/09/0928_050928_robotcopies.html Wed, 28 September 2005 08:00:00 EST MIT Media Lab to unveil $100 hand-crank device to lift developing nations. http://www.boston.com/business/personaltech/articles/2005/09/28/for_each_poor_child_in_world_a_laptop/ Tue, 27 September 2005 08:00:00 EST A machine that can make anything sounds like the stuff of the distant future, but an MIT program is making personal fabrication a reality. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4276180.stm Mon, 26 September 2005 08:00:00 EST Researchers from MIT have developed a computer interface that enables a user to manipulate virtual shapes projected onto a screen using gestures, such as pointing, and spoken commands. http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/05/10/issue/ftl_info.2.asp Thu, 15 September 2005 08:00:00 EST An electronic paint brush developed at the Media Lab is helping children understand the world around them. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4184160.stm Wed, 17 August 2005 08:00:00 EST An Internet-based study being conducted by two MIT students may help answer that question. http://news.com.com/Is+the+affinity+for+music+innate/2100-1008_3-5836298.html Mon, 18 July 2005 08:00:00 EST MIT's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science has produced a lively 6-pound, 350-page coffee-table book to honor its first 100 years. http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2005/guttag.html Tue, 12 July 2005 08:00:00 EST Toddler the robot combines ideas from bio-mechanics, control theory, and machine learning to push the limits of today's robotic technology. http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/05/08/issue/demo.asp?p=0 Mon, 27 June 2005 08:00:00 EST After failing to plant its flag in India and Ireland, the MIT Media Lab has resumed its campaign to export innovation by striking a partnership with the most storied research lab in Taiwan. http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2005/06/27/exporting_technology/ Mon, 20 June 2005 08:00:00 EST DSpace is a long-term, searchable digital archive that creates unchanging URLs for stored materials. http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/05/07/issue/feature_mit.asp?trk=nl Fri, 8 June 2005 08:00:00 EST Neil Gershenfeld, who is the director of MIT's Center for Bits and Atoms, is interested in moving us from Personal Computing to Personal Fabrication. http://www.techcentralstation.com/060805A.html Fri, 06 May 2005 08:00:00 EST Icarus and Mostly Harmless were among the machines on hand at a robotic "petting zoo" May 5 held in honor of the inauguration of President Susan Hockfield. http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2005/inaug-robots.html Fri, 15 Apr 2005 08:00:00 EST Three MIT students doing research in the Parallel and Distributed Operating Systems Group at CSAIL wrote software that generates meaningless research papers. One of these papers was recently accepted for a conference. http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2005/paper.html Fri, 08 Apr 2005 08:00:00 EST MIT has teamed up with Quanta Computer Inc. on a five-year, $20 million joint research project designed to change the way people interact with technology. http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2005/tparty.html Tue, 29 Mar 2005 08:00:00 EST An engineer with the sensibility of an artist, Hiroshi Ishii is determined to bridge the gap between computers and people. http://web.mit.edu/giving/spectrum/fall04/tangible_technology.html Mon, 28 Mar 2005 08:00:00 EST Today, people not only live longer but they're living better, thanks in part to advances in technology, medicine, and public policy. http://alum.mit.edu/ne/opendoor/200412/ Tue, 22 Mar 2005 08:00:00 EST Students in Uganda, Tanzania and Nigeria can now perform sophisticated engineering and science experiments at MIT--without ever getting on a plane. http://www.physorg.com/news3461.html Sun, 20 Mar 2005 08:00:00 EST A new book looks at the contributions of MIT's Norbert Wiener, the inventor of cybernetics. http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/20/books/review/020THOMPS.html