The 50 Best Robots Ever
“They’re exploring the deep sea and distant planets. They’re saving lives in the operating room and on the battlefield. They’re transforming factory floors and filmmaking. They’re – oh c’mon, they’re...
View ArticleiCampus Selects Final Recipients of Funding
By Benjamin P. Gleitzman ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR In its last year of funding, projects funded by iCampus, a $25 million partnership between MIT and Microsoft Research, are going international. If...
View ArticleMi Lab Es Su Lab
A bleary eyed Massachusetts Institute of Technology student roaming the ground floor of Building 1 in the wee hours might hear a rumbling coming from the “shake table” lab, where researchers simulate...
View ArticleTech’ing it to the Next Level – a new MIT Museum exhibit
“Opening Tuesday, May 23 is an MIT Museum exhibit designed to make teachers rethink the way they teach. Whether in a physics laboratory, a literature classroom, or a physical therapy session,...
View ArticleOnline methods share insider tricks
“Replicating controversial lab results or tricky methods could become easier, thanks to a new breed of websites where scientists share and edit each other’s laboratory techniques…..” Nature, Published...
View ArticleMISTI helps bring iLabs to China
June 12, 2006 Undergraduates are at the forefront of MIT’s latest efforts to share educational technology with China. On Tuesday, June 13, students will join MIT faculty at the first Asian MIT-iCampus...
View ArticleRobotic bears can monitor sick kids – MIT’s device packed with sensors
By Christopher Rowland, Globe Staff | July 31, 2006 SIGGRAPH 2006: From idea to image It’s an academic conference. It’s a digital art exhibit. It’s drawing 25,000 people to Boston this week to see...
View ArticleNew center to focus on synthetic biology
August 3, 2006 Five MIT researchers are among the pioneers behind a new research center in synthetic biology, a precocious field whose primary long-term goal is to make it easier to design and build...
View ArticlePrime ad space. In space. MIT students would put slogans on satellite to...
By Jenn Abelson, Globe Staff | November 3, 2006 Now on sale: Ads in space. In a novel bid to raise money to send a research satellite into space, a group of students at the Massachusetts Institute of...
View Article‘Learning Without Barriers’: the MIT-Microsoft iCampus connection celebrates...
Robin H. Ray, News Office Correspondent December 8, 2006 Learning Without Barriers Symposium The seven-year, $25 million iCampus partnership between MIT and Microsoft, which has borne fruit across the...
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