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Haynes R. Miller

Three named MacVicar Fellows

March 9, 2005

'Toddler,' a walking robot developed at MIT, takes a step.

Teams build robots that walk like humans

February 17, 2005

Women in math, engineering and science: Drawing on our country's entire talent pool

February 12, 2005

January session brings remote students to campus for a month

February 9, 2005

The fifth ball is still halfway up the Archimedes screw when this picture was taken. "We knew it took a little over 20 seconds to lift a ball up, so we programmed the robot to remember the last time it picked up a ball and not leave the goal until 30 seconds after this time, if it docked early," said team member Andrew Spann. "The robot docked with about a minute of time remaining, then waited unt...

A robot high for Archimedes Pi

February 1, 2005

Ed Markowitz

Alumnus finds solutions for 'CSI,' 'The Real World'

January 26, 2005

"Cookie Monster": One of the puzzle clues in the 2005 IAP Mystery Hunt, by Marcy Levey, Brian Tivol, and Roger Barkan. SOLUTION: First: Recognize the various cookies used to make the cookie monster. Second: Count how many of each cookie is used in the picture. Third: Turn the cookies at the bottom of the picture into letters. If a cookie appears N times in the monster, then replace it with its Nt...

Sleepless in Cambridge, they hunt the mystery coin

January 24, 2005

Mihai Patrascu

Junior math major wins national award from computing organization

January 21, 2005

Frank Levy

Computers won't replace human capacity for problem-solving in workplace, authors write

January 19, 2005

Awards and Honors

December 15, 2004

Sloan graduate students (left to right) Patrick Laney, Filippo Beretta, Carlos Alimurung and Alonzo Garza look at a map of the Bosnian region where hypothetical refugees need their help during a simulation designed to develop their leadership skills.

Crisis simulation sharpens business leadership techniques

December 8, 2004

Ceasar McDowell

Report cites racial identity as positive force in community building

November 19, 2004

William Fischer

Dean Fischer hopes to use peer mediation to solve student conflicts

November 17, 2004

Erik Demaine, assistant professor of computer science, folds the tail of a duck form during the beginner's origami workshop offered by visiting artist Robert Lang on Nov. 13. Lang was on campus to work with Demaine on an algorithm for origami.

Folding, folding, folded: Origami creates beauty from repetition

November 15, 2004

The entire ENGhana Team. MIT student Tim Heidel is on the right and MIT student Kathleen Connolly is in the center.

Students work to engineer solutions in Ghana

November 5, 2004