Massachusetts Institute Of Technology
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Games pay off for tertiary students
News Over half of students in Singapore-Massachusetts Institute of Technology program get jobs in the sector, while two games go commercial.
Tags: Games, Product development and design, Software engineering/development, Certification, Microsoft Xbox Live, Singapore, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, R&D, strategy, computer game
Technology is a 'double-edged sword'
Insight newsmaker Inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil weighs in on human vs machine intelligence, and the dangers of advanced technologies.
Tags: Supercomputing, Personal Computers, Data warehousing/business intelligence, Intelligence, Gene, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Computer, RNA, emotional intelligence, voice recognition software
Energy-aware Internet routing coming soon
News Researchers say they have developed routing algorithm that can help big Internet companies reduce their energy bills by millions of dollars.
Tags: Green IT, Energy, Cisco Systems Inc., Akamai Technologies Inc., Energy Usage, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Carnegie-Mellon University, networking company, researcher, Internet
Scientists use virus to help build battery
News Researchers have used a genetically-modified virus to assemble materials for an energy-efficient battery, which they say could be used in hybrid cars.
Tags: Components, Battery, Carbon Nanotube, Nanotube, carbon nanotube network, biology, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Power supplies, surge suppression, virus, scientist
Netbook sales keep Quanta competitive
News Netbook sales have kept Quanta afloat in the downturn. But the Taiwanese electronics maker is looking to cloud computing for new PC sales.
Tags: Cloud computing, Personal Computers, Notebooks and tablets, Acer Inc., PC Company, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Sales, Cloud computing, Inventec, Laptop Computer
MIT chips away at lithium ion barrier
News American university researchers make battery breakthrough, which could mean good news for electric automakers and impatient cell phone users.
Tags: Components, Battery, Chip, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, car battery, electric vehicle, graduate student, lithium-ion, lithium-ion battery, barrier
Why don't we want to pay our teachers more?
Blogs In March 2007, I got the opportunity to visit the Indian Institute of Technology in Mumbai. It was interesting to visit ...
Obama names science and technology team
News U.S. president-elect Barack Obama has named leaders in climate change, cancer research, and genetic research to head his science and technology team.
Tags: R&D, Defense/military, Federal Government, Politics, Science, Human Genome Project, Oregon State University, Defense/military, John Holdren, Eric Lander
Has in-flight entertainment got wings in the iPod era?
News Airlines should scrap in-flight entertainment systems because they cannot compete with the thousands of songs and scores of movies that can be stored on modern media players, according to an aviation expert.
Tags: MP3 players, Mobile platforms/communications, Smart phones, Digital media, Airline, Media Player, Storage, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, wireless Web, entertainment
Study: GPL loses ground in open source development
News At the same time, Microsoft's open source software license MS-PL, is gaining in popularity, according to study by provider of services and products for open source developers.
Tags: Open source, Business applications, Market research, Apache Software Foundation, Database, GPL, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, BSD, Microsoft .NET, GNU
Symantec's Ramzan on solving the antivirus puzzle
News From puzzles and chess to ciphers and antivirus software, Zulfikar Ramzan talks about how he got into the computer security business and where it's headed.
Tags: Security implementation/standards, App servers, IT project management, R&D, Antivirus software, Norton Co., Security, computer science, Machine, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology
How will Sixth Sense redefine your 'privacy'?
Blogs Artificial intelligence is getting more intelligent by the day. And honestly, this is something that scares me. For ...
Berners-Lee and friends promote Web science study
News The study of Web science is being promoted by a group of top academics to lay the foundations for the future development of the World Wide Web.
Tags: Web sites, Google Inc., Tim Berners-Lee, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Silicon.com, Eric Schmidt, network, professor, knowledge, technique
Google's Keyczar designed to make cryptography easier
News The open source project is meant to help developers implement secure and simple cryptography.
Tags: Authentication and encryption, Privacy, Security, Open source, Google Inc., Cryptography, OpenSSL, tagging, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, API
MIT: CIOs should focus on fewer items
News Chief information officers need to learn to cut costs and streamline IT operations so they can better present a "rock solid" business case to management.
Tags: IT project management, IT budgeting, Microsoft Corp., Asia, IT Budget, IT Services, Project, Singapore, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, auditing
