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From left, Clarel Jerome of Haiti, a participant in MIT's International Development Design Summit; Gwyndaf Jones, a bicycle expert from the U.S., and Carlos MarroquÃn, a participant and Native American from Guatemala, are using a pedal-powered device to mill corn for the participants to cook. <a onclick="MM_openBrWindow('summit-4-enlarged.html','','width=509, height=583')">
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Innovators at MIT to present workable solutions for developing world

August 7, 2007

Amy Smith displays a bag, designed in part by one of her students, that is used in a simple water disinfection process. The bag is patented, but can be distributed free in Third World countries.

Local materials, low cost and good science add up to technology for developing nations

May 14, 2007

Neurologist and author Oliver Sacks gave the keynote speech at an MIT Media Lab conference on May 9 that examined the scope of human ability. Sacks gave vivid examples of the brain's amazing adaptability. <a onclick="MM_openBrWindow('h20-sacks-enlarged.html','','width=509, height=583')">
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Creative technology meets quiet humanity in Media Lab's adaptive device event

Mission is 'hacking the human,' says director Frank Moss

May 11, 2007

Systems biology, in search of a metaphor, tries out language of machines, intestines

May 2, 2007

Math of elections says voters win with 'winner take all'

April 10, 2007

Melissa Mazmanian is researching how BlackBerry users balance the efficiency and lifestyle effects of their gadgets.

MIT Sloan study asks: Does BlackBerry equal 'CrackBerry' or career essential?

March 21, 2007

As opinions flow through blogs and Internet, political power relocates, diffusely

March 14, 2007

Prof compares business models' impact on economic development

POES, FOES and SOES dial for dollars

March 13, 2007

Joseph F. Coughlin, founder and director of the MIT AgeLab, explains how older adults are the leading adopters of new technology during a lecture on Feb. 26.

AgeLab founder outlines new lives for elders

Boomers' whining already brings huge changes

March 1, 2007

Miranda Knutson, who graduated from the history program at MIT last spring, pins a hood being fitted for Tim Abbott, a senior in mathematics and electrical engineering and computer science. The two were participants in an MIT IAP class on the technology of medieval clothes creation. <a onclick="MM_openBrWindow('medieval-hood-enlarged.html','','width=509, height=583')">
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IAP 'Distaff Arts' students learn production, politics of medieval wool clothing

January 30, 2007

Postdoctoral associate Dae-Hyun Kim, left, and Professor JesÃºs del Alamo look at a cross-section of the new transistor they have been developing. Behind them is the test equipment used to measure its characteristics.

Beyond silicon: New transistor technology may power next microelectronic devices

December 12, 2006

Humans grieve for the 'given' world

December 6, 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

Sherry Turkle worries the 'killer app' of sociable robots is that they elicit human care.

Robotic pets may be bad medicine for melancholy

Sherry Turkle finds human-machine love unsettling

November 29, 2006

New media, fan muscle will mold TV future

November 22, 2006

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