Two MIT students, Jennifer Barry and Annie Holladay, have developed fresh algorithms that could help robot arms improvise.
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It also deepened its ties with the Khan Academy, as it announced that MIT students will create 5- to 10-minute videos for the Khan Academy.
Think of start-ups and the first thing that comes to mind is a couple of ill-groomed and worse smelling MIT students hunched over their computers after a night of coding.
Located in Cambridge, a neighbourhood across the Charles River from downtown Boston, the Harvard Square area is a popular gathering spot for Harvard and MIT students, with several restaurants serving up affordable, tasty grub.
As a group of MIT grad students found, one roundtrip domestic flight on one airline can yield tens of millions of different possibilities for routes and fares.
The company's founders - Maxim Lobovsky, David Cranor, and Natan Linder - met as graduate students at MIT in 2009.
D. students at MIT who developed WiFi technology that made it easy for small businesses to install and bypass traditional landline networks.
Marjorie and Cheh met when they were both students at MIT.
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Hoffman says his students at MIT are "champing at the bit" to get to Mars, where human beings could learn much more about the geology of planets than any robot could.
Collier had become active with the MIT Outing Club, joining students skiing and hiking.
They are PhD students at the MIT Media Lab and have an all-star record related to other cool tech projects like the Scratch programming language.
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After nearly three years of experimental work, the team -- especially postdoctoral associate Andreas Velten and MIT professor Moungi Bawendi, many students, and several collaborators -- cobbled together pieces of the puzzle and built a software program to create a first demonstration of looking around corners.
As a graduate from MIT, I am very passionate about students pursuing technical subjects in the STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) fields.
Initiatives like the ED-X partnership between Harvard and MIT promise to give non-traditional students elements of a world-class education online, and for free.
The two students were eventually accepted to MIT and Harvard, respectively.
We are working with multiple police departments in order to ensure the safety of the MIT campus: the safety of our students and others on our campus is our highest priority.
The academic institutions with the smartest students in the Lumosity study were MIT (1), Harvard (2) and Stanford (3).
Students from participating universities such as MIT, Harvard, Caltech and UCLA can submit their proposals and compete for cash prizes.
Online joint projects, offered by some of the world's leading universities, including Harvard, Stanford and MIT, have attracted registrations from millions of students.
About 300 of the roughly 46, 000 students who took the class with an MIT professor filed into test-taking centers around the world in the hopes of earning a "proctored honor certificate" from the class signed by the professor.
Coursera, set up by Stanford academics, and edX, set up by Harvard and MIT, have registered more than 3.5 million students within a year of launching.
"This accuracy will change how you interact with indoor environments, " co-founder Anand Atreya, one of the former Stanford University students who started WiFiSLAM, told the MIT Technology Review in 2011.
MIT, along with other academic shrines, may do all this while preserving the value of what it really sells: spots in the lecture hall and dorm rooms, the chance to interact face-to-face with a prestigious faculty and like-minded students and, a golden credential, the MIT diploma.
After he's made sure that all his students have places to go, his lab at MIT's Whitehead will close.
The site allows staff, students past and present and their parents to submit questions to MIT's investigation team.
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The students, who were selected to be a 2012 Lemelson-MIT program InvenTeam, built the device with the goal of reducing the number of drowning deaths due to rip currents in the Great Lakes.
Following his death an appeal was launched to raise money for a memorial at Runnymede and for a scholarship scheme to enable British students to study at Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
For example, an MIT professor found it to be a useful tool for using peer pressure to help students agree on dates for exams and deadlines for projects.
Maroe expresses some lofty ideas about democratizing the hiring process, comparing Evisors to massive open online courses where students can take free classes from top-flight professors at schools like MIT and Princeton.
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Leading universities including Duke, Yale, Cambridge, MIT and Oxford continue to extend their reach by enrolling more than 100, 000 students in single iTunes U courses, with Stanford University and The Open University each surpassing 60 million content downloads.
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