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Photos: The happy robot sat-nav
Photo The project to develop Aida is a collaboration between the Personal Robots Group at the MIT Media Lab, MIT's SENSEable City Lab and the Volkswagen Group of America's Electronics Research Lab. In the... [11 Nov 2009]
Cash won't cut it: Time to get creative in attracting skilled workers
Comment As career analyst and author Dan Pink pointed out at July's TED Global conference in Oxford, economists as far afield as MIT and the London School of Economics have shown increased financial rewards actually make people... [13 Oct 2009]
Tim Berners-Lee
AS Profile Berners-Lee continues to head up the Web Science Research Initiative with colleagues from MIT in the US and the University of Southampton in the UK to promote the study of web science and help lay the foundations for the... [30 Sep 2009]
Nicholas Negroponte
AS Profile He is currently on leave from MIT, where he was co-founder and director of the MIT Media Laboratory, and the Jerome B Wiesner Professor of Media Technology. Nicholas Negroponte, the man behind the XO -... [30 Sep 2009]
Michael A Cusumano
AS Profile He's also a professor at MIT's Sloan School of Management, where he teaches the next generation of software gurus about strategy, product development and entrepreneurship in the industry. Michael Cusumano has quite... [30 Sep 2009]
Apple tablet, Windows 7, Nokia mini laptop, 3D printers and future mobiles
Photo Photo credit: MIT August saw this futuristic-looking machine, the ULTra personal rapid transit (PRT) vehicle, on display at London's Science Museum. The driverless ULTra will take passengers to Heathrow Airport's... [02 Sep 2009]
Photos: The robot fish that swim like the real thing
Photo Photo credit: MIT The fish's power is drawn from an external source - the wires can be seen above - but in future the MIT engineers hope to equip the robots with an internal battery. Photo credit:... [26 Aug 2009]
Microsoft 'White-Fi' to solve interference worries in white space
News The researchers presented their ideas this week at the ACM SIGCOMM 2009, a communications conference held in Barcelona, Spain, according to an article published on MIT's Technology Review website. Microsoft researchers... [20 Aug 2009]
Photos: Five mobiles of the future unveiled
Photo Another future mobile comes courtesy of MIT Media Lab that demonstrated a wearable device called SixthSense earlier this year. This concept device breaks out several of the components you might find inside a mobile today... [19 Aug 2009]
Could new internet routing chop 40 per cent off Google's electricity bill?
News Researchers have come up with a new way to route internet traffic that could save big internet companies like Google millions on their electricity bills, according to an article published by MIT's Technology Review. [19 Aug 2009]
Business in the 21st century: Stay tuned for brave new world
Comment As Professor Erik Brynjolfsson of the MIT Sloan School of Management has pointed out, when electricity was introduced to industry in the 19th century, it took more than 50 years before the technology (and people's... [11 Aug 2009]
Has in-flight entertainment got wings in the iPod era?
News The pace at which airlines can update the selection of film, music, games and technology offered to passengers is being outstripped by constant advances in storage and functionality on media players, according to professor John Hansman,... [03 Jul 2009]
Photos: Inside HP's garage - the Silicon Valley birthplace
Photo In 1938, after returning from stints at General Electric and MIT, respectively, David Packard and William Hewlett, with the encouragement of their former Stanford University professor, Fred Terman, went looking for a... [29 Jun 2009]
Dear Google: 'Better protection please in Google Apps'
News Some of the security experts endorsing the document include Bruce Schneier, chief security technology officer of BT Group; Peter Neumann, principal scientist at SRI International; encryption pioneer Ron Rivest of MIT;... [17 Jun 2009]
Leading Beer Distributor Improves Driver Productivity With Windows Mobile-Based Solutions
White Paper By complimenting a sales force automation solution from MiT Systems, Inc.a Microsoft Certified Partner, with inventory management software from MiT, the company saw an immediate reduction of the rate of... [30 May 2009]
