Internet

Diversifying your online worldIn a new book, MIT’s Ethan Zuckerman asserts that we need to overcome the Internet’s sorting tendencies and create tools to make ourselves ‘digital cosmopolitans.’

The big picture: using images in social mediaGuidelines for social media success

Faculty describe experiments with digital learning on MacVicar DayParticipants discuss how they are 'reimagining the MIT classroom.'

Berners-Lee wins first Queen Elizabeth Prize for EngineeringHonored for inventing the World Wide Web

Daniel Weitzner receives IAPP Privacy Leadership AwardLauded for work and leadership in the development of Internet public policy

Office of Educational Innovation and Technology joins the Office of Digital Learning

IS&T addresses concerns about MIT’s networkInformation Services & Technology sheds light on recent service interruptions, as well as steps taken to mitigate risks to the MIT network.

When it comes to fostering innovation, student group says 'Do it!'Lady Gaga collaborator and Interscope executive highlights do.it@MIT’s wide-ranging approach.

3 Questions: A Web for everyoneJudy Brewer leads the Web Accessibility Initiative, which developed standards that help make the Web accessible to people with disabilities.

It's time to renew your MIT personal certificatesAs happens each year around this time, MIT's personal web certificates will soon require renewal. Certificates obtained in the past year are set to expire on July 31.

Glen Urban, former MIT Sloan dean, retires to focus on research; leaves behind $1 million giftEstablishes a PhD marketing fellowship at the school

MITx: What the students thinkFrom Buenos Aires to Honolulu to Montreal, a virtual community grows up around the online initiative’s prototype course.

Disruptive innovation — in educationFor Anant Agarwal, MITx, the Institute’s new online-learning initiative, isn’t just a means of democratizing education. It’s a way to reinvent it.

First course offered by MITx beginsMore than 90,000 people have registered for 6.002x: Circuits and Electronics

MIT iPhone and Android apps provide access to many Libraries' servicesDownload the free MIT Mobile Android or Mobile iPhone app and gain access to many MIT services, including several offered by the Libraries.

In the World: Fostering entrepreneurship in developing nationsIn 11 years, MIT’s Accelerating Information Technology Innovation (AITI) program has trained more than 1,500 budding entrepreneurs in seven countries.

David Clark awarded Lifetime Achievement Award by Oxford Internet Institute

Remembering Danny Lewin

Quantum computing with lightA switch that lets one photon alter the quantum state of another could point the way to both practical quantum computers and a quantum Internet.

A conversation with Joichi ItoNew Media Lab director touches on his work, his hobbies, and what he's learned from swimming with sharks.

Joichi Ito named director of MIT Media LabTechnology entrepreneur and Internet freedom advocate succeeds Frank Moss.

Billion Prices Project: Introducing real-time economicsMIT Sloan faculty project to track inflation in real time collects prices from hundreds of worldwide online retailers on a daily basis.

Why telecom regulation needs to changeResearch suggests that the approach that worked with a few large companies with aligned interests needs revisiting in the Internet age.

Broadband picture may not be so bleakA new study disputes the claim that Internet data rates in the U.S. are only half as high as advertised; study’s authors call for better data.

An Internet 100 times as fastA new network design that avoids the need to convert optical signals into electrical ones could boost capacity while reducing power consumption.

Toward the Semantic WebA new standard from the World Wide Web Consortium brings the Web a step closer to realizing the vision of its inventor, Tim Berners-Lee.