The Machine That Changed the World: Based on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology 5 Million Dollar, 5 Year Study on the Future of Technology
Smartmobs (Free subscription) | 29/11/2009
The Mobile Experience Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology focuses on creative and radical designs to recapture connections between people, information, and physical places, using cutting-edge information technology to improve peoples’ lives through meaningful experiences. With a multidisciplinary team, the Mobile Experience Lab researches and designs new technologies and explore...
Sobering Thoughts (Free subscription) | yesterday
'The climate science isn't settled'Richard S. Lindzen, a professor of meteorology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology -- a scientist, writes in the Wall Street Journal about climate change science and how what we know (and don't know) cannot justify a massive re-ordering of society to give meaning the lives of climate change worriers. The op-ed is entitled "The Climate Science...
Crooks and Liars (Free subscription) | 30/11/2009
Republicans have been flogging the notion that if we have health care reform, your premiums will go up. They have no data to back up the claim, but they repeat it endlessly. Here's a new report that throws cold water on their heads. Will this new report get the attention it deserves by the media? Jonathan Gruber, an economist at th e Massachusetts Institute of Technology provides the information...
Right Mind (Free subscription) | yesterday
Mr. Lindzen is professor of meteorology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. From the Wall Street Journal : Is there a reason to be alarmed by the prospect of global warming? Consider that the measurement used, the globally averaged temperature anomaly (GATA), is always changing. Sometimes it goes up, sometimes down, and occasionally-such as for the last dozen years or so-it does little...
National Review Online (Free subscription) | yesterday
... Over the weekend, they gave heavy coverage to the work of Jonathan Gruber, an economist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Obamacare supporter who believes that Reid’s bill will actually make individual premiums more affordable. These media reports typically neglected to mention the other analysts whose results squared with the CBO’s. With the Lewin Group reporting...
TechGeer (Free subscription) | 01/12/2009
A team of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) graduates recently picked up the third annual MIT MADMEC (Making and Designing Materials Engineering Contest) thanks to their efforts in creating the Thermeleon prototype roof tiles - a thermally-activated, color-changing, roofing material. Relying on these phase-change polymer gel-filled tiles, light energy transmission ...
Mobile Tech Today (Free subscription) | yesterday
... at Children's Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School. He and colleagues developed the app at Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab. H1N1, popularly known as swine flu, has infected an estimated 22 million Americans this year from April to October, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC has linked the outbreak to almost 4,000 deaths, including...
übergizmo (Free subscription) | 30/11/2009
A team of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) graduates recently picked up the third annual MIT MADMEC (Making and Designing Materials Engineering Contest) thanks to their efforts in creating the Thermeleon prototype roof tiles - a thermally-activated, color-changing, roofing material. Relying on these phase-change polymer gel-filled tiles, light energy transmission properties of the...
Judiciary Report (Free subscription) | 30/11/2009
In a technologically caring and savvy move, MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) has developed a GPS cane for the blind called BlindAid. Brilliant! It's great to read about scientists creating positive innovations to help society. It's better than spending money on war and bombs. On another note, don't you just love their architecture: MIT develops BlindAid, robotic digital cane for...
Coolest Gadgets (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
... to make sure there is still a green earth to be handed down to our kids in the future. A team of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) graduates have certainly weighed in with their part, where their Thermelon contribution picked up the third annual MIT MADMEC (Making and Designing Materials Engineering Contest) – by virtue of being a thermally-activated, color-changing, roofing material....
IntelliBriefs (Free subscription) | 29/11/2009
HEATHER TIMMONS http://www.telegraphindia.com/1091129/jsp/foreign/story_11799128.jsp New Delhi, Nov. 28: When seven-year-old Shiva Ayyadurai left Mumbai with his family nearly 40 years ago, he promised himself he would return to India someday to help his country. In June, Ayyadurai, now 45, moved from Boston to New Delhi hoping to make good on that promise. An entrepreneur and lecturer at the ...
The Web Scene (Free subscription) | 28/11/2009
BlindAid, a new device developed at Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT’s) Touch Lab, enables visually impaired users to “feel” their way around a virtual model of a room or building, making it possible to familiarize themselves with the layout before going someplace new. Touch Lab director Mandayam Srinivasan is working with the Carroll Center for [...]
Tom Nelson (Free subscription) | 28/11/2009
... earlier work remains relatively respected, we chose to profile Richard Lindzen, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, as well. ... [Isaac Held] says he could join a car pool but prizes his freedom. World's top climate scientists interviewed on global warming | MNN - Mother Nature Network And in sure-fire, contrarian fashion, global warming skeptic Richard Lindzen of MIT...
ChattahBox (Free subscription) | 29/11/2009
... but would also provide Americans more bang for their buck. Jonathan Gruber, an economist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, based his report on the data released by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO). And Gruber found that consumers purchasing non-group coverage under the proposed Senate reforms would pay less for better coverage. Under the Senate bill, Americans purchasing...
Times Online (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
... underlay the development of long-range navigation systems. He taught for more than 50 years at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and also lectured at Harvard, and founded a law school in New Hampshire. In his spare time he wrote music for ten or so theatrical productions, some on Broadway. He was a man of astonishing energy.
