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Documentation Academy Aims to Empower Open Source Newcomers
Canonical's Open Documentation Academy aims to help newcomers participate in the open source community, offering mentorship and…
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High Potential
In 2006, when Tomás Palacios completed his PhD in electrical and computer engineering at the University of California at Santa Barbara, he was torn between taking...
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Opening Dropbox
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...
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Making Quantum Encryption Practical
One of the many promising applications of quantum mechanics in the information sciences is quantum key distribution (QKD) in which the counterintuitive behavior...
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Sal Khan: 'i Love Learning'
"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...
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Sports Analytics: A Real Game-Changer
As 2,700 people settled into their seats on Friday morning at the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, author Michael Lewis surveyed the scene from the dais and...
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Nate Silver Presents Forecasting Work as Antidote to 'terrible' Political Pundits
Celebrated political forecaster Nate Silver has shot to fame by letting the data speak loudly about elections.
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Addressing the Complexities of Meritocracy
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...
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Tiny Tools Help Advance Medical Discoveries
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...
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Driving Drones Can Be a Drag
Study shows distractions may alleviate boredom and improve drone operators' performance.
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MIT Alums Recount Their Martian Experiences
Since NASA's Curiosity rover made its extraordinary Aug. 6 touchdown on Mars, it has been roving the Martian landscape, returning startling images.
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'invisibility' Could Be a Key to Better Electronics
An MIT team applies technology developed for visual "cloaking" to enable particles to "hide" from passing electrons, which could lead to more efficient thermoelectric...
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What Number Is Halfway Between 1 and 9? Is It 5 — or 3?
A new information-theoretical model of human sensory perception and memory sheds light on some peculiarities of the nervous system.
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Innovation in the Classroom
MIT's 'Future of Education' symposium examined the evolution of teaching and learning.
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Nasa-Jpl Director Charles Elachi Talks About Latest Mars Mission
The car-sized Mars rover Curiosity, which landed on the Red Planet last month, is the biggest, most expensive and most ambitious planetary mission in many years...
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Explained: Femtoseconds and Attoseconds
As electronic and optical devices get ever faster, terms for ever-smaller increments of time are coming into wider use.
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Making Web Applications More Efficient
A new system that automatically streamlines database access patterns can make large Web applications up to three times as fast.
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Researchers Engineer Light-Activated Skeletal Muscle
Scientists have genetically engineered muscle cells that flex in response to light, which could be used to build highly articulated robots or to test drugs for...
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Writing Graphics Software Gets Much Easier
A new programming language for image-processing algorithms yields code that's much shorter and clearer — but also faster.
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Ten-Year-Old Problem in Theoretical Computer Science Falls
Computer scientists have finally answered the question of whether whether shared entanglement between the provers in multiprover interactive proof systems weaken...
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Autonomous Robot Scans Ship Hulls For Mines
Scientists have enabled MIT's HAUV robot to navigate and view propellers, complex structures, and underwater environments, with a goal of rivaling divers in speed...
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