http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/topic/computers.html Computer science and technology headlines from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology News Office. en-us http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/www/mitlogo-rss.jpg http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/topic/computers.html 88 31 Mon, 12 May 2008 00:00:00 EST http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/google-android-0512.html Four MIT undergraduates shared a $25,000 prize as round one winners in Google's Android Developer Challenge, a worldwide open competition for software developers based off Google's Android software stack for mobile applications. Mon, 12 May 2008 00:00:00 EST http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/google-android-0512.html http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/brains-0411.html 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. Fri, 11 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EST http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/brains-0411.html http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/kerberos-microsoft-0331.html 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. Mon, 31 Mar 2008 00:00:00 EST http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/kerberos-microsoft-0331.html http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/itw-cameroon-tt0319.html 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. Wed, 19 Mar 2008 00:00:00 EST http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/itw-cameroon-tt0319.html http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/ocw-elsevier-tt0319.html 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. Wed, 19 Mar 2008 00:00:00 EST http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/ocw-elsevier-tt0319.html http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/eecs-asia-tt0319.html Markus Zahn and Hsiao-Wuen Hon sign an agreement to send EECS students to the Beijing-based Microsoft Research Asia. Wed, 19 Mar 2008 00:00:00 EST http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/eecs-asia-tt0319.html http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/digitalk-tt0312.html News from MIT Information Services and Technology. Wed, 12 Mar 2008 00:00:00 EST http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/digitalk-tt0312.html http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/obit-weizenbaum-0310.html 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. Mon, 10 Mar 2008 00:00:00 EST http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/obit-weizenbaum-0310.html