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Tag Archives: MIT
Harvard And MIT Join Forces To Become Juggernaut Of Free Online Education
Online education is witnessing its own Avengers-like uniting of superhero forces as Harvard University and MIT recently announced “edX”, a combined $60 [...]
Posted in Computer Interfaces
Tagged Harvard, MIT, MITx, online courses, online education, OpenCourseWare
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On-Demand Robots From A 3D Printer
We’ve seen 3D printers churn out toys, bone models, chocolate, even human tissue. Now scientists at MIT want to print [...]
Posted in AI, Gadgets, Robots, Singularity, Video Central
Tagged 3d printing, ai, MIT, robot, telepresence, telerobot
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Drug Delivery Microchip Implanted in Patients, Passes Human Trial
A remote drug delivery system has successfully been tested in a human trial. A microchip was implanted in 8 women [...]
Posted in Gadgets, Longevity And Health, Singularity
Tagged drug delivery, Michael Cima, microchip, microchips inc., MIT, robert langer, telemedicine
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Can A Free Online Education Land You A Job? The Era Of Online Education Dawns
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) recently announced an initiative to create a learning platform for online education. Preliminarily dubbed [...]
Posted in Art, Computer Interfaces, Longevity And Health
Tagged free classes, free education, MIT, OpenCourseWare
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Google’s Eric Schmidt On Collective Intelligence: “In God We Trust…But All Others Bring Data”
There are few people in the world with a resume like Eric Schmidt. Just finishing his decade long run as [...]
Posted in Computer Interfaces, Video Central
Tagged collective intelligence, Eric Schmidt, MIT, Thomas Malone
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MIT Unravels the Secrets Behind Collective Intelligence – Hint: IQ Not So Important
When it comes to a successful group, the easiest way to ensure victory may be placing women on the team. [...]
Are Nations Less Important Than Phone Calls? New MIT Map Redraws The U.S. According to Communication
Who we talk to may be a better measure of how to draw our maps than the arbitrary lines laid [...]
Posted in Computer Interfaces, Singularity, Video Central
Tagged Connected States of America, digital maps, maps, MIT, senseable city lab
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War to Free Information Continues: Thousands of Academic JSTOR Documents Uploaded to Pirate Bay
Greg Maxwell is just the latest soldier to emerge from the “hacktivist” camp in the battle for open information–or, maybe [...]
Posted in Singularity
Tagged aaron swartz, greg maxwell, hacking, JSTOR, MIT, open government
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Scientist Records 230,000 Hours of Son’s Childhood: What It Means and What’s Next
The unexamined life is not worth living. – Socrates When Deb Roy’s son invites his girlfriend over for dinner with his [...]
Posted in Singularity
Tagged Bluefin Labs, Child Linguistics, Deb Roy, lifelogging, MIT, MIT Media Lab, social media, ted
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Nanotech Implant Monitors for Cancer and Now Heart Attacks, Too
Heart attacks and cancer account for nearly half of all deaths in the United States – they’re the two biggest [...]
Posted in Cyborg, Longevity And Health
Tagged biomarkers, body monitoring, cancer, chtristophoros vassiliou, heart attack, implant, Michael Cima, MIT, monitor, nanoparticles, nanotechnology
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Sirtuins Can Prevent Alzheimer’s…In Mice. Good News for Resveratrol?
New research from MIT shows that sirtuins may be able to prevent or suppress Alzheimer’s Disease. Sirtuins are a class [...]
Posted in AI
Tagged a-beta peptide, ADAM10, Alzheimer's Disease, MIT, resveratrol, SIRT1, sirtuins, transgenic mice
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Rodney Brooks Leaves MIT, Is Heartland Robotics About To Take Off?
Rodney Brooks is one of the founders of iRobot, and an influential figure in the world of robotics. For the [...]
Posted in Robots
Tagged csail, Heartland Robotics, irobot, MIT, obrero robot, Rodney Brooks
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MIT’s Robot Lamp with Augmented Reality (video)
MIT has created its own version of a magic lamp. Nathan Linder of the Fluid Interfaces Group at MIT Media [...]
Posted in Computer Interfaces
Tagged AR, augmented reality, Fluid Interfaces Group, LuminAR, LuminAR Bulb, LuminAR Lamp, MIT, MIT Media Lab, Nathan Linder, Pattie Maes, robot
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Nanotechnology ‘Tattoos’ To Help Diabetics Track Glucose Levels
Scientists are developing special tattoos which may allow those with diabetes to more accurately and quickly monitor their glucose levels. [...]
Posted in Longevity And Health
Tagged blood sugar, diabetes, Draper Labs, glucose, health monitoring, Heather Clark, Michael Strano, MIT, nano-beads, single walled nanotubes
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MIT’s Flyfire – Miniature Helicopters Turn Sky into Digital Screen (video)
Robots may be taking your place on the factory floor, but they’re also aiming for higher goals: replacing fireworks and [...]
Posted in Robots
Tagged 3D display, ARES lab, firefly, fireworks, flyfire, MIT, public displays, senseable city lab, swarm robotics
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Get More Magnesium, Get Smarter
Those crazy scientists, they keep finding ways to make rats smarter. Brainy rodents, however, may lead to the creation of [...]
Posted in AI, Longevity And Health
Tagged Beijing, Guosong Liu, Magnesium, magnesium-l-threonate, MgT, MIT, smart rats, Tsinghua University, University of Toronto
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Kurzweil Discusses the Future of Brain Computer Interfaces (Video)
Offering money as a prize for scientific endeavors has a long history of success. That’s how we got a clock [...]
Posted in AI
Tagged bci, brain comptuer interfaces, brain modeling, brain simulation, MIT, ray kurzweil, X Prize, x prize lab
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Igniting a Brain-Computer Interface Revolution – BCI X PRIZE
This is a guest post written by entrepreneur, Singularity University alumnus and teaching fellow Rod Furlan. He is an independent [...]
Posted in AI, Cyborg, Singularity
Tagged bci, brain-computer interface, diamandis, furlan, kurzweil, MIT, X Prize, xprize
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iWalk Presents World’s First Actively Powered Foot and Ankle
Someday soon, amputees will have more powerful limbs than those with their natural bodies. iWalk, a prosthetics company formed in [...]
Posted in Cyborg
Tagged biomechatronics, hugh herr, iwalk, lower limb, MIT, Ossur, powerfoot one, prostheses, Prosthesis, prosthetics
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4 Great Teams From iGEM 2009 (Videos)
iGEM harnesses two of the most potentially powerful resources on our planet: synthetic biology and youth. The International Genetically Engineered [...]
Posted in Genetics
Tagged BCCS, bristol, cambridge, city college san francisco, daisy ginsberg, e chromi, iGEM, james king, Mac Cowell, MIT, university of virginia
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Mine-Detecting Bacteria Not Quite Ready for Prime Time (Video)
Synthetic biology and students are mixing with explosive results. Remember the international Genetically Engineered Machine competition we told you was [...]
Posted in Genetics
Tagged bacteria, Biobricks, Edinburgh, genetically engineered, iGEM, land mine, MIT
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SixthSense Augmented Reality Device Goes Open Source
Have you ever looked at an object in a display window and wondered how much it cost? Or have you [...]
Posted in Computer Interfaces
Tagged augmented reality, MIT, Pattie Maes, Pranav Mistry, sixthsense
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MIT’s Retinal Implant is Moving Forward, But Its No Argus II
Way back at the beginning of the year we told you about the Argus II, an artificial retina that was [...]
Posted in Cyborg, Longevity And Health
Tagged argus II, electrode array, John Wyatt, MIT, retinal implant, Retinal Implant Research Group
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iGEM 2009: Synthetic Biology Competition Bigger than Ever this Halloween
Like some Frankenstein monster composed of space camp, graduate school, and science fair, iGEM is ready to spring to life [...]
Posted in Genetics
Tagged competition, DIYbio, genetic engineering, Halloween, iGEM, iGEM 2009, Mac Cowell, MIT, synthetic biology
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