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Femto-photography: one trillion frames per second
What is femto-photography? According to Ramesh Raskar, it's "a new imaging technique so fast that it creates slow motion video...
Google takes on online MBA programs, MIT and the mainstream education system
Google, New York City, Cornell University and Technion-Israel Institute of Technology join forces to form a school offering classes in...
The last ROFLcon
Had I known it was going to be the last ROFLcon, I would have made it my first. Unfortunately for...
MIT develops “superhydrophobic” glass that repels fog, water, glare, and zombies
Leave it to the brains at MIT to improve something that most of us take for granted: glass. Their "Fog-free...
Making the internet more open… in education
Over the past few decades starting with the computer revolution and continuing through the digital age, the Massachusetts Institute of...
MIT makes solar-cell technology go viral. Literally.
Researchers at MIT have genetically modified a virus that helps carbon nanotubes self-assemble along solar cells to improve efficiency of...
Alan Kay Notebook Guru Takes Scratch To Apple
He may have predicted that Apple’s iPad would ‘rule the world’, but the man who invented the notebook concept isn’t...