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Canonical's Open Documentation Academy aims to help newcomers participate in the open source community, offering mentorship and…
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Professor emeritus Rodney Brooks gained fame in the 1990s for co-founding iRobot, an MIT spinoff that brought the world the Roomba and other innovative, helpful...MIT News Office From ACM Opinion | August 9, 2013
While studying physics and electrical engineering as an MIT undergraduate in the late 1990s, Mehmet Fatih Yanik managed to avoid taking any biology classes until...MIT News Office From ACM Careers | July 31, 2013
An array that tracks motor vibrations through the skin may help engineers design wearable tactile displays that use the skin as a medium of communication. MIT News From ACM Careers | June 14, 2013
If you walk the halls at MIT, you may notice a lot of students wearing T-shirts bearing the Dropbox logo. It's a simple design—an opened box—but one that carries...MIT News Office From ACM Opinion | June 6, 2013
One of the many promising applications of quantum mechanics in the information sciences is quantum key distribution (QKD) in which the counterintuitive behavior...MIT News Office From ACM News | May 22, 2013
"If there was a Ph.D. in learning everything, I would do that," the always-enthusiastic Sal Khan '98, MEng '98 said in a talk Wednesday at MIT's Kresge Auditorium...MIT News Office From ACM Opinion | May 10, 2013
Vehicles, robots, and other autonomous devices could soon collaborate with humans in ways that analyze their needs and determine the best way to achieve their goals...MIT News From ACM Careers | May 3, 2013
MIT's "Neurotechnology Ventures" class offers students a chance to create businesses based on their study of the brain, psychology, artificial intelligence, neurobiology...MIT News From ACM Careers | April 2, 2013
MIT's third annual Diversity Summit, held last week at Kresge Auditorium, reflected the growing importance of inclusion at the Institute: From 70 attendees at the...MIT News Office From ACM Careers | February 4, 2013
To understand the progression of complex diseases such as cancer, scientists have had to tease out the interactions between cells at progressively finer scales—from...MIT News Office From ACM Careers | January 8, 2013
Since NASA's Curiosity rover made its extraordinary Aug. 6 touchdown on Mars, it has been roving the Martian landscape, returning startling images.MIT News Office From ACM Opinion | October 16, 2012
A semiautonomous safety system developed at MIT monitors a driver's performance and takes control only when the driver's actions are unsafe. MIT News Office From ACM Careers | July 13, 2012
MIT has been selected from among 55 institutions that submitted 157 proposals to host a new Intel research center that will concentrate on what's come to be called...MIT News Office From ACM Careers | June 13, 2012
Daniela Rus, a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, has been named the next director of MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial...MIT News Office From ACM Careers | May 23, 2012
When industrial robots were first introduced in the early 1960s initially on automobile assembly lines—computers were still in their infancy, so the robots were...MIT News Office From ACM News | April 25, 2012
Basketball dominates the American sports landscape in March. So perhaps it’s fitting that the sixth annual MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, held last week...MIT News Office From ACM News | March 9, 2012
In December, MIT announced the launch of an online learning initiative called "MITx." Starting this week, interested learners can now enroll for free in the initiative’s...MIT News Office From ACM Careers | February 13, 2012