Sports, math share stage at MIT event
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The Celtics are selling more tickets than last season despite an abysmal record; the Toronto Blue Jays want Major League Baseball to expand its draft to include players from overseas; and the kids at MIT, well, they're into analyzing the numbers behind it all.
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CAMBRIDGE -- At a sponsors' meeting of MIT Sloan School's Center for Information Systems Research this week, there was a new project on the research agenda: outsourcing.
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MIT researchers develop an authentication system that's not so easily revealed to prying eyes.
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Nicholas Negroponte, co-founder of both the MIT Media Lab and the nonprofit One Laptop Per Child, delivers the last keynote at the American Academy for the Advancement of Sciences annual meeting, focusing on the groundbreaking work of the OLPC, which has delivered thousands of laptops to children in the developing world. Alexis Madrigal reports from Boston.
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AMHERST -- When the Commonwealth Classic was born, it more than lived up to its name. In 1995, the occasional basketball battles between Boston College and the University of Massachusetts were codified into a yearly series. On a snowy December day, 18,974 people, paying $35 or $50 a ticket, packed the newly christened FleetCenter to watch a Final Four-bound UMass ...
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A tiny picture of Cambridge University's crest demonstrates the emerging power of nanotechnology.
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MIT scientists perfect the use of light beams as a tweezer-like tool for manipulating microscopic objects.
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The most promising young innovators studying information technology (IT) from around the globe will gather on March 12-16, 2007 in Tokyo for the 31st annual World Finals of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC), sponsored by IBM.
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The matchup is already on the calendar, a Feb. 28 affair at Matthews Arena, which will give the Northeastern Huskies some time to figure out Boston University goaltender John Curry .
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BATON ROUGE â Subhash Kak, Delaune Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at LSU, recently resolved the twin paradox, known as one of the most enduring puzzles of modern-day physics.
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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- On a spring Saturday, about 90 students from Stanford and as many from the University of California at Berkeley converged on Google's corporate campus for a day of spirited team competition over mind-bending puzzles, Lego building problems, and video games.
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By Joe Bauman Deseret Morning News  A University of Utah physicist and his team have made a breakthrough that could pave the way to quantum computing, in which computers can calculate many billions of times faster than they do now.
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Finalists display innovations and compete for $100,000 scholarships at the nation's top high school science event.
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Usually at sporting events, people know who wins and who loses or who comes in first, second, third and so forth by the score. In fact, there is no other way to run athletic competitions; most would agree
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When it comes to hatching new biotechnology ideas, who's number one? It's Harvard. No wait, it's MIT.
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Sudbury's Betty Zheng, a senior assistant captain on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology women's ice hockey team, will always remember MIT's Dec. 3 game against Chatham (Pa.) College.
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A Boston exhibition of Greek art reflects both ancient athletic games, and modern moments of Olympic spirit.