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Media Lab
Downloads Media Lab is a stable and user-friendly tool for cataloguing, editing, converting and annotating images. It has a new array of features that include image viewing, management, editing and annotating. Its innovative and intuitive interface provides...
[September 24, 2009, 17:46]
The $100 laptop: A well intentioned waste of time?
News While the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) initiative from the Media Lab at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is laudable, it is unlikely to succeed without suitable support mechanisms to help the developing world exploit the technology.
[November 22, 2005, 10:55]
Motorola and MIT to create thinking chips
News Motorola Inc.is donating $5m (£3m) to the Media Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to help develop things that think. MIT's Media Lab is hoping to provide that vision. The donation will fund a new lab, dubbed the Motorola Digital DNA...
[March 16, 1999, 13:12]
Why India said no to the $100 laptop
Leader As with MIT Media Lab Europe, which set up shop in Dublin in 2000 only to close its shutters in 2005, MIT Media Lab Asia (Mumbai, 2001-5) attracted government funding, criticism and then the bum's rush.
[July 27, 2006, 17:05]
Jane Wakefield: Uncovering the heart of technology
News BT has also been drawn by the MIT magnet and has invested a huge sum in sponsoring the Disruptive Technology Lab at MIT's famous Media Lab. Making tech invisible finds its zenith with the work being done at MIT by Professor Hiroshi Ishii, head of...
[June 27, 2001, 16:44]
Negroponte brings wireless meshing to Greek island
News Negroponte's MIT Media Lab then went on to look at ways of bringing broadband web access to Patmos and eventually settled on wireless-mesh networking technology as the best solution. The wireless Patmos network — due to launch this summer — has...
[July 25, 2008, 11:06]
Beijing Olympics IT on track
News The integration testing started before the end of 2006 in the Integration Testing Lab, located in Beijing. In this lab, there are more than 100 people testing the key systems, and this testing process will take almost two years.
[July 17, 2007, 15:05]
$100 PC project will 'invigorate Linux desktop push'
News Originally a research project at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab, the project aims to put a cheap lap top in the hands of students around the world particularly those in developing countries.
[January 31, 2006, 9:30]
IT Forum: Europe can be No. 1 in e-commerce
News For e-Europe to succeed some specific problems need to be overcome and Professor Nicholas Negroponte, Director of the Media Lab at MIT, urged European governments to do something about phone pricing. Media Lab graduates can get funding in 24 hours...
[September 13, 1999, 11:51]
Media and technology 'won't merge'
News Andrew Lippman, a senior research scientist at MIT's Media Lab, believes the key issue is whether the distinction between the "creators" and "inventors" of media can be broken down. Media and technology will remain separate industries, experts...
[February 10, 2006, 10:55]
PSD2FLA
Downloads If you are familiar with Media Lab's other Photoshop importing and conversion products then you know the hours of time these products save you. For many Director and web developers PhotoCaster and PhotoWebber eliminate their single biggest...
[July 10, 2003, 6:20]
UK charity builds Linux network on a shoestring
Talkback I *AM* the IT department at a small school as well as being the digital media lab teacher (6 courses / 4 curricula, including a very demanding video tech class) & I'm using Linux more and more. I don't have time for hard-to-use Linux distros, so I...
[March 30, 2005, 5:36]
MIT urges Brazil towards Linux
Talkback And shame on the Media Lab for using the word 'better' without qualification, if they didn't, and shame on ZD if they were quoted out of context. Right. Because there's no Microsoft developer community.
[March 18, 2005, 16:23]
The Restaurant Game
Downloads This game is a research project at the MIT Media Lab that will algorithmically combine the gameplay experiences of thousands of players to create a new game. The Restaurant Game is a restaurant simulation where you play as a customer or waitress.
[May 24, 2007, 8:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Easter is notoriously quiet on the tech news front, so what better time for MIT's Media Lab to coyly unveil Clocky - an alarm clock that runs away from you as it spouts its unwelcome news of morning. Tuesday 29/3/2005
[April 1, 2005, 19:35]
Intel planning portable media device
News Intel's Emerging Platforms Lab will announce hardware and software that will help manufacturers design a device that can store and play digital media, according to sources familiar with the company's plans.
[July 24, 2002, 7:19]
In pictures: One Laptop Per Child review
Reviews When Nicholas Negroponte (above, right) of the MIT Media Lab showed off a prototype OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) at NetEvents in Hong Kong, ZDNet UK's Rupert Goodwins was there with his camera. Nicholas Negroponte: founder of MIT Media Labs, Wired...
[December 6, 2006, 9:37]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Keen to let the world know that it's not just another company with a silly name, HGST has decided to throw open the doors of its customer support lab to the massed media -- in this case, myself and a bloke from What Laptop And Handheld Gizmo.
[September 26, 2003, 18:40]
New Technology Focus: Computers that know you're upset!
News The Affective Computing Department at the MIT Media Lab in Cambridge, Mass.is trying to use computers to detect people's emotions. If it does something that drives you nuts it doesn't always have to do that," said Rosalind Picard, an associate...
[July 28, 1998, 6:33]
Microsoft settles Google lawsuit over executive hire
News Microsoft has settled its lawsuit with rival Google over the hiring of Kai-Fu Lee, an expert in speech recognition technology and the man who founded Microsoft's China research lab in the late 1990s. Google announced in July its planned to hire Lee...
[December 23, 2005, 9:50]
