Boston: Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, both academic heavyweights and often neighborly rivals, are joining hands in a new partnership to offer courses online and for free. The two schools, located near each other in Cambridge, Massachusetts, are teaming up on an initiative called edX only five months after MIT rolled out MITx, its online learning system which allows students to earn certificates for completing course work from...
10:09 AM, May 03, 2012
New Delhi: Meet a 28-year-old computer wizard who's set up his own software company, raising $35 million dollars in investment. Sachin Dev Duggal has designed software for businesses around the world and he hopes his own company will be the next big thing in computers. At 14, he was a businessman, making pocket money by assembling computers. Sachin Dev Duggal, says, "I messed up my mom's computer by accident and...
10:39 AM, Apr 17, 2012
New Delhi: At fourteen, he was a businessman, making pocket money out of assembling computers. "I messed up my mom's computer by accident and she insisted I fix it. I read a few books and got it running again. Then I began assembling computers for acquaintances. Profits were almost 100 per cent and I earned close to ten thousand pounds, " says Sachin Dev Duggal. At seventeen, he was writing...
11:47 AM, Apr 04, 2012
New Delhi: A hundred rupee lens attachment and some special software turn your smart phone into an eye doctor. One you can use anytime, anywhere to check if family members are developing the first signs of Cataract. Ramesh Raskar, Associate Professor, MIT Media Lab said, "Catra is like a radar for your eye. A radar will scan the sky and depict clouds on a weather map. Similarly, CATRA scans every...
08:59 AM, Jul 07, 2011
Boston: A letter following a chance meeting with Albert Einstein and 1930s research on the perfect cup of coffee are two artifacts in an exhibit to mark the 150th anniversary of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The coffee research, which helped to reshape the food industry, and mathematician Norbert Wiener's letter are among 150 items on display at the MIT Museum. They encompass the scientific, engineering and technological achievements of...
11:10 AM, Jan 11, 2011
New York: Flying in the developing world is 13 times more dangerous than flying in the United States or other first world countries, according to a new study. Arnold Barnett, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Sloan School of Management and a researcher on aviation safety, calculated that the odds of dying on a scheduled flight in first world countries such as Canada and Japan are one in...
03:31 PM, Sep 04, 2010
Boston: Harvard University has occupied the numero uno rank among national universities across the US, beating its Ivy League rival Princeton University by a single point in the US News and World Report's influential Best Colleges 2011 rankings. Last year, Harvard had shared the top position with Princeton University. Princeton scored 99 points and dropped to the second position in the 2011 rankings of US' large, research-oriented institutions. Harvard scores...
01:57 PM, Aug 17, 2010
Indian researchers at the MIT in US are using a mobile phone and a small piece of plastic to check eyes. ...
10:19 AM, Jul 01, 2010
Indians have increasingly popped up on MIT's
Technology Review magazine. ...
08:50 PM, Mar 04, 2009
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