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MIT project eyes print-your-own robots

MIT project eyes print-your-own robots

...The Massachusetts Institute of Technology announced on Tuesday a five-year research initiative to... Read more

4 April, 2012 by Martin LaMonica

MIT develops smartphone clip-on to detect cataracts

...Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are working on an inexpensive way to use smartphones... Read more

6 July, 2011 by Tim Hornyak

Start-up sets sights on probability chip

...data applications, such as web search, bid analysis or genome sequencing. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) spin-off said on Tuesday that it is... Read more

18 August, 2010 by Jack Clark
MIT shows off paper-thin solar cells

MIT shows off paper-thin solar cells

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology in association with Italian oil company Eni has presented... Read more

19 October, 2010 by Martin LaMonica
Dennis Ritchie, father of Unix and C, dies

Dennis Ritchie, father of Unix and C, dies

...lecture on Univac 1 that captured his imagination. He moved to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where the first shifts away from the mainframe to... Read more

13 October, 2011 by Rupert Goodwins
Behind the scenes at MIT's nuclear reactor

Behind the scenes at MIT's nuclear reactor

...The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has been operating the Nuclear Research Reactor on... Read more

16 February, 2011 by Martin LaMonica

Android apps get bigger and easier to create

...each major release," Google said. App Inventor tool Meanwhile, on Sunday the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) released an 'open beta preview' of its App... Read more

6 March, 2012

Photos: Print-at-home chocolate to robot snakes - 10 weirdest items made by 3D printers

...could be constructed out of materials built by 3D printers. Students from Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab have developed a way of printing... Read more

1 October, 2011 by Nick Heath

Reddit co-founder charged with hacking MIT

...has been indicted on charges of stealing millions of documents from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The charges, filed by the United States Attorney for... Read more

19 July, 2011

Android and iPhone ride to ISS on Atlantis

...final shuttle mission for an experiment involving miniature satellites developed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In the experiment, the smartphone will be attached to... Read more

11 July, 2011 by Jack Clark

IBM to collaborate with universities on Watson's QA tech

...universities signed up to advance Watson's question-answering (QA) technology include: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and its Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab... Read more

11 February, 2011 by Larry Dignan

Quantum computing: Could your computer collapse into a black hole?

...Scott Aaronson, associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), told silicon.com. "So far that belief has... Read more

24 November, 2010 by Natasha Lomas

Quantum computing: Beyond computing's final frontier

...Scott Aaronson, associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Most types of future computing that have been... Read more

24 November, 2010 by Natasha Lomas

iOS 4 upgrade conflicts prompt iPhone user complaints

...Exchange and the new version of the iPhone operating system, leading the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and others to warn against the upgrade. On Thursday... Read more

28 June, 2010 by David Meyer

Photos: Robots through the ages: From lunar explorers to emotional machines

...MIT showcases decades of robotic research For more than two decades the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has been at the forefront of robotics and... Read more

2 June, 2010 by Nick Heath

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