In the World: A long haul to bring clean water to developing nations
MIT’s Susan Murcott expands ceramic-filter production to three continents, bringing jobs and curbing disease.
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Procter & Gamble joins MIT Forum Technology Advisory Board
P&G, one of world’s major consumer goods companies, will collaborate with the board on industry challenges and opportunities.
Achieving an innovation nation
MIT report emphasizes need to turn U.S. innovation strengths into growth.
MITx introduces ‘XSeries’ course-sequence certificates on edX
EdX also introduces new ID verification service.
U.S. News ranks MIT seventh overall among U.S. universities
Institute’s undergraduate engineering program is again ranked No. 1; undergraduate business program is No. 2.
In The World: Mapping the logistics of megacities
New open-source online maps generated by MIT students provide details of urban supply chains.
Solar-cell manufacturing costs: innovation could level the field
Study shows that factors other than wages dominate trends in photovoltaic costs, raising the prospect of competitive manufacturing anywhere.
Chairman of McEwen Mining to speak at MIT big data conference
Rob McEwen will discuss how big data and the Internet led to a major gold strike, transforming the mining industry.
MIT professor Erik Brynjolfsson to deliver keynote at big data conference
The MIT Forum for Supply Chain Innovation and the Accenture and MIT Alliance in Business Analytics will host the conference at the Cambridge Marriott.
MIT Forum for Supply Chain Innovation releases risk report
Research study conducted with PricewaterhouseCoopers suggests performance indicators dropped by 3 percent or more because of supply chain disruptions.
Diversifying your online world
In 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.’
Putting a price on adaptation
Researchers use new method to calculate the impacts and adaptation costs of climate change