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MIT crowned regional champs in battle of brains

A team of MIT students was named regional champions--and placed second overall--in an annual competition, sponsored by IBM, that challenged students to solve a semester's worth of computer programming problems in just five hours. April 11, 2008

Microsoft joins MIT Kerberos Consortium

MIT today announced that Microsoft joined the MIT Kerberos Consortium as a Founding Sponsor. Slava Kavsan, Director of Development for Windows Core Security at Microsoft, will take a seat on the Executive Board. March 31, 2008

EECS in Asia

Markus Zahn and Hsiao-Wuen Hon sign an agreement to send EECS students to the Beijing-based Microsoft Research Asia. March 19, 2008

OCW, Elsevier offer free journal content

In a move to encourage open education, 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. March 19, 2008

Bringing a bit of MIT to Africa

Armed with a grant from the MIT Public Service Center, sophomore Edison Achelengwa returned to his home country of Cameroon during January to work on installing MIT's OpenCourseWare on computers in two of the country's universities. March 19, 2008

Digitalk: Where IT's at

News from MIT Information Services and Technology. March 12, 2008

Joseph Weizenbaum, professor emeritus, 85

Joseph Weizenbaum, professor emeritus of computer science at MIT who grew skeptical of artificial intelligence after creating a program that made many users feel like they were speaking with an empathic psychologist, died March 5 in Berlin. March 10, 2008

No easy answers in evolution of human language

The evolution of human speech was far more complex than is implied by some recent attempts to link it to a specific gene, says MIT Professor Robert Berwick, who will discuss his work Feb. 17 at the AAAS Annual Meeting in Boston. February 17, 2008

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