Topic: Massachusetts Institute of Technology

First Annual E-Commerce Awards

MIT honors Web commerce luminaries with a speed-of-light ceremony.READ»

An Early Ethics Lesson

MIT's Sloan School of Management, Harvard Business School, and Carnegie Mellon said they would reject the applications of the prospective students who hacked into a Web site to find out if they had been admitted before being ...READ»

Over Clocking?

This morning, I woke up at 8:15 a.m. only to wonder whether I'd slept through my alarm clock. Nope. I'd mistakenly set it for 8 p.m. before going to bed. This happens to me all the time, and if I don't set my alarm incorrectly, ...READ»

Phantom Traffic Jams Explained

A team of MIT mathematicians has developed a model that describes how and under what conditions such jams form, which could help road designers minimize the odds of their formation.READ»

Products We Love, Products That Bite

I had a mortifying experience last week at the MIT Media Lab. There I was, earnestly discussing the important research of a learned professor when my new cellphone starting ringing. I reached down to shift it to vibrate, but the ...READ»

War and Peace (Sponsored by Northrop Grumman)

Another sign of the crumbling wall between traditional media and advertising... MIT's Branding Cultures blog reports on a Russian advertising firm that sells product placement in pulp fiction and sci-fi novels. The firm keeps a ...READ»

New Invention Means Future Cellphones To Charge in Seconds

We've talked a lot about future battery technology, but generally the innovations are for products that we won't see for years. Perhaps not so with a new invention from MIT since it's a modification of already ubiquitous lithium-ion ...READ»

MIT Develops Electronic Tags to Track Waste

Just as barcoding trees could help save forests, electronically tagging trash could limit waste. That's the thinking behind MIT's Trash Track program, that will use electronic tags to track waste in its trip through the ...READ»

MIT Advances the Model for Retinal Implants

Several institutions have developed models for retinal implants--some companies, such as California-based Second Sight, have even started developing them commercially. But, while cochlear implants, for example, can impart fairly ...READ»

The Greenhouse Gamble: We Still Have a Chance to Stop Climate Change

Here's some news to brighten up your weekend: there's still a 50/50 chance that our planet's temperature won't rise more than two degrees Celsius, and we won't have to suffer the consequences of flooding, starvation, and animal ...READ»

Where's My iPod Made? SourceMap Has the Answer

MIT's Media Lab has designed a way to help you understand the economic and ecological implications behind different products you buy--it's an interactive map that displays where each component came from.READ»

Lost in the Funhouse

The battle between starchitect Frank Gehry and MIT reveals the widening chasm between design and down-to-earth craft.READ»

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3 Women, 3 Paths

Ten years ago, The New York Times profiled three female MIT graduates who were working in high technology. In 1993, women accounted for 15 percent of the information technology field. A decade later, the percentage has grown a measly ...READ»

Bus Stops of the Future: Are They Realistic?

Bus stations are generally information-poor, displaying little more than the time of the next bus arrival. But MIT's SENSEable City Lab envisions a richer bus station experience that could, according to MIT's Carlo Ratti, ...READ»

Clean Rooms

A paint-on coating that kills microbes on contact.READ»

Your Future Home's Roof Will Be Eco-Friendly Too

Scientists at MIT have invented a smart roofing material that takes a new thermal-management approach to eco-design. It's a different approach to previous efforts, of which there are many. We've rounded them up for you, starting with ...READ»

Act on CO2 TV Advert

Scary bedtime StoryDo you find this bedtime story scary?Act on CO2 is an innitiative to dramatically raise awareness of the impact theat ever increasing carbon dioxide emissions are having on climate changeIncredibly the tv advert has ...READ»

Why Online Branded Entertainment Should Study Soap Operas

With so many companies in the past few years talking about producing online video and other forms of "branded entertainment," I'm amazed by how people often talk about these trends as if they are new. Radio and early television was ...READ»

Uniloc's EdgeID Imagine a World Without Passwords

Passwords are the bane of our computing lives. But do we really want PCs that can log themselves into our systems without us? Uniloc, a California security company, has launched a product that allows computers and smartphones to ...READ»

Fish-on-Friday: Drug-Making, No-Stop Toll Booths, China Flights & More

A Friday sampler of innovation and business news from beyond the normal biznews channels. MIT Wants to Modernize Drug Making Medicine these days is made much the way Merlin would have — with ingredients and steps batched in a ...READ»

Is Our Future Filled With Robotic Farmers Tending to Sensor-Equipped Vegetables?

Farming is time-intensive, back-breaking, tiring work--so why not leave it to the robots? A group of MIT students are doing just that with a cluster of tomato plants placed on artificial turf. The students' "precision ...READ»

MIT Students Engineer Pedal-Powered Washing Machine

A group of enterprising MIT students has come up with a novel way for developing countries to gain access to washing machines: pedal power.   MIT's pedal-powered washing machine, the product of four years of research, is made up ...READ»

Outbreaks Near Me iPhone App Tracks Swine Flu Progression

While we wait for scientists to perfect a vaccine for the H1N1 virus, researchers at Children's Hospital Boston and the MIT Media Lab have offered up a helpful tool in our arsenal against the flu: the Outbreaks Near Me iPhone app, ...READ»

Shock Absorbers Go Alt-Fuel Green Thanks to MIT

"Regenerative" is one hot technology buzzword at the moment, with even Formula 1 race cars using regenerative braking to bring some eco-friendliness to the sport. And MIT researchers have worked out a new way to include regeneration ...READ»

My Favorite Bookmarks - Sherry Turkle

Picks from MIT professor Sherry Turkle.READ»