Computer science and technology

Tim Berners-Lee receives Draper Prize

January 5, 2007

Francois Proulx, a visiting student from Montreal and an iFIND project leader, displays an iFIND map showing where his friends are on campus.

SENSEable City reveals 'friendspotting,' new MIT social networking form

December 13, 2006

From left, Ray Kurzweil, Rodney Brooks and David Gelernter speak at 'Creativity: The mind, machines and mathematics' held at MIT Nov. 30.

Hard drives will evolve into soft hearts ... or not

CSAIL debate on machine consciousness ends in a draw

December 5, 2006

CSAIL hosts debate on robotic 'nature' and future

Event will celebrate Turing's 'Computable Numbers' paper

November 28, 2006

MIT chemist studies how electrons behave

New spin on electrons could improve lights, other devices

November 17, 2006

The building blocks of healthy collagen, above, begin with one-nanometer-sized amino acids, which form the universal 300-nanometer tropocollagen strands. Fibrils composed of those strands, in turn, make up the steel-cable-like collagen fibers.

Math model may aid study of collagen ailments

Tensile loading reveals nature's economy

November 14, 2006

MIT and University of Southampton launch World Wide Web research collaboration

Initiative will analyze and shape web's evolution

November 2, 2006

Model of One Laptop Per Child computer. MIT Media Lab co-founder Nicholas Negroponte gave a talk Oct. 19 on the inexpensive laptop he hopes to make available to children in developing countries.

Laptops will link global learners

Negroponte shares vision for children

October 24, 2006

MIT junior sells high-school social networking site

October 18, 2006

Jonathan How, a professor in aeronautics and astronautics, joins graduate students Brett Bethke, center, and Mario Valenti, right, in demonstrating their "hands-off" technique of simultaneously controlling four fully-autonomous flying vehicles using a PC.

MIT's intelligent aircraft fly, cooperate autonomously

September 26, 2006

Epilepsy breakthrough on horizon

MIT developing device to detect oncoming seizures

August 31, 2006

Handheld computers make light work of economics, science

With titles like Hip Hop Tycoon and Sick at South Beach, what's not to like?

August 23, 2006

Professor Gerbrand Ceder holds up a model of a perovskite crystal. Ceder and his team of researchers have used data about such crystals to come up with a method for predicting the structure of materials.

Sales method pays off for materials scientists

Data mining used to predict crystal structures

July 19, 2006

MEET to graduate first class in Jerusalem

July 11, 2006

Alan Kotok, 64, created joystick

June 13, 2006

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