[Techtaffy Newsdesk] MIT has received a $1 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to support edX, MIT’s new partnership in online education with Harvard University. Through edX, the two institutions are collaborating to build a global community…
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MIT To Host Intel’s Big Data ISTC
May 31, 2012
[Techtaffy Newsdesk] MIT has won a national search to become the newest Intel Science and Technology Center (ISTC) for Big Data, which will be hosted by MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). Justin Rattner (Chief technology officer, Intel): We are…
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MIT Sloan CIO Symposium Winners
May 22, 2012
[Techtaffy Newsdesk] The 9th Annual MIT Sloan CIO Symposium announced two winners of the MIT Sloan CIO Symposium 2012 Award for Innovation Leadership. Catherine Bruno, VP and CIO of non-profit Eastern Maine Healthcare Systems and Chris Perretta, EVP and CIO of State Street Corporation were…
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MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition Winners Announced
May 18, 2012
[Techtaffy Newsdesk] CloudTop, a startup that enables developers of Web applications to integrate users’ online content, was awarded the Robert P. Goldberg $100,000 prize after beating out seven other finalist teams during the MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition finale held on…
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Researchers Develop Robots To Record Neurons In Living Brain
May 7, 2012
[Techtaffy Newsdesk] Researchers at MIT and Georgia Tech have developed a way to automate the process of finding and recording information from neurons in the living brain. The researchers have shown that a robotic arm guided by a cell-detecting computer…
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MIT Tech Review Identifies Top 10 Emerging Technologies
April 27, 2012
[Techtaffy Newsdesk] The editors of MIT’s Technology Review have announced their annual list of the 10 emerging technologies. These innovations promise fundamental shifts in areas including energy, health care, computing, and communications. The ultimare criterion is straightforward says the Technology Review - is…
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Locu Raises $4M Series A Round
April 23, 2012
[Techtaffy Newsdesk] Locu, a data-focused startup launched from Sir Tim Berners-Lee’s lab at MIT has raised a $4 Million Series A round of venture capital led by General Catalyst Partners, with participation from Chris Sacca’s Lowercase Capital, Lightbank and SV Angel.…
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MIT Establishes Center For Art, Science & Technology
April 13, 2012
[Techtaffy Newsdesk] MIT has received $1.5 million from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support a new Center for Art, Science & Technology (CAST). A joint initiative of the Office of the Provost and the Schools of Architecture and Planning…
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NSF Grants $10M For Printed Robots Project
April 9, 2012
[Techtaffy Newsdesk] A project to reinvent how robots are designed and produced is being funded by a $10-million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). A team of researchers from MIT, Harvard, and the University of Pennsylvania aims to develop a…
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MIT Scientists Working On Self-Healing Clouds
March 15, 2012
[Techtaffy Newsdesk] With funding from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), researchers from the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) aim to develop a new system that would help the cloud identify and recover from an attack…
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