MIT develops holographic, glasses-free 3D TV

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The masterful engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) are busy working on a type of 3D display capable of presenting that elusive third dimension without any eye gear. We say “elusive” because what you’ve been presented at your local cinema (with 3D glasses) or on your Nintendo 3DS console (with your naked eye) pales in comparison to what these guys and gals are trying to develop: a truly immersive 3D experience, not unlike a hologram, that changes perspective as you move around.

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MIT Kids Think They've Solved How To Get Rid Of Nuclear Waste

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The House voted yesterday to restore funding to Nevada's Yucca Mountain nuclear waste storage facility, the latest chapter in the decades-long debate over how to dispose of used fuel rods.

But a couple of grad students at MIT, along with a third MIT alum-turned VC, may have a viable solution to getting rid of nuclear waste.

Last fall, Leslie Dewan and Mark Massie unveiled their vision, called the Waste-Annihilating Molten Salt Reactor, at a TED-sponsored talk.

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Harvard, MIT partner to offer free online courses

Harvard University's prestige makes the plan a significant development, according to one expert. (Kelvin Ma, Bloomberg / June 21, 2011)

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In a move that heightened competition in online education and brought more prestige to the still-fledgling field, Harvard University and MIT announced a partnership Wednesday to offer the public mainly free Internet classes.

Harvard and MIT are each donating $30 million to create a nonprofit organization, to be called "edX" that will develop an Internet platform for the classes and design new ways to teach and learn with technology, according to the two Cambridge, Mass., schools. They will join an emerging arena in which other research universities, Stanford among them, and private ventures around the world are trying to stake out territory.

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MIT And Harvard Announce edX : The Best Education Is Now Available To You Online [Video]

 

Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) today announced edX, a transformational new partnership in online education. Through edX, the two institutions will collaborate to enhance campus-based teaching and learning and build a global community of online learners. EdX will build on both universities’ experience in offering online instructional content. The technological platform recently established by MITx, which will serve as the foundation for the new learning system, was designed to offer online versions of MIT courses featuring video lesson segments, embedded quizzes, immediate feedback, student-ranked questions and answers, online laboratories, and student paced learning. Certificates of mastery will be available for those motivated and able to demonstrate their knowledge of the course material.

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MIT Students Play Tetris with a Building! - Video

Students of MIT took over building 54 on campus (also called The “Green Building“) for the Earth and Planetary Sciences department last Friday to turn the building into a playable Tetris game. They even used a console with controls to be able to move, rotate, and drop blocks.

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MIT Genius Stuffs 100 Processors Into Single Chip

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WESTBOROUGH, Massachusetts — Call Anant Agarwal’s work crazy, and you’ve made him a happy man.

Agarwal directs the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s vaunted Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, or CSAIL. The lab is housed in the university’s Stata Center, a Dr. Seussian hodgepodge of forms and angles that nicely reflects the unhindered-by-reality visionary research that goes on inside.

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MIT creates imaging system that captures images at one trillion frames per second

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If you were excited about the speed of the Canon 1D X, expect to be blown out of the water. The MIT Media Lab’s Camera Culture Group have created a faster-than-fast imaging system—which actually is being coined “the world’s slowest fastest camera.”

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9 MIT Media Lab Ideas That Are Changing Lives (or Will Soon)

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We may not know what the future holds, but we can take a pretty good guess where it will come from: MIT's Media Lab. The renowned Cambridge workspace throws imaginative people of different disciplines together and encourages them to learn by building, tinkering, and designing. The new issue of The Atlantic has a feature illustrating the unusual design of the Media Lab's building, and online we've got an interview with the Lab's new head, Joi Ito, talking about science, art, and the Lab's collaborative ethos.

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