In spite of ever rising tuition and ballooning student loan debts, a large majority of students still desire to attend college. Traditional notions are deeply engrained in the public's mind. College is considered the path to a better, higher paying job, the best way to make connections and propel a career, and a status symbol, especially for those who go to elite universities.
It sounds like something out of a sci-fi movie: A patient visits a doctor's office and, after a brief surgical procedure, walks away with a microchip under her skin that delivers medication in precisely timed and measured doses.
Arrest warrants have been issued for Turkey's former intelligence chief, his deputy and two other intelligence agents, the semi-official Anatolian Agency reported Friday.
Of all the schools to rise to the summit of small-college basketball, they're surely two of the unlikeliest.
Every time you watch a Lady Gaga video on YouTube or get driving directions on Google Maps, a server farm somewhere is heating up. The more you do online and the faster it happens, the more energy it takes. Data centers now consume about 2% to 3% of all electricity generated annually in the U.S. That's the same amount it takes to power the state of New York -- and demand keeps climbing.
Successful entrepreneurs often donate generously to their favorite causes, but here's a new twist: Amar Bose is essentially donating his company to his alma mater.
Let's say you live in a really dry area and you don't have much drinking water. Meanwhile, you wake up every morning to the sight of fog floating by. Instead of walking miles and miles to get water from a faraway river, what if you could just extract drinking water from those low-hanging clouds?
It's probably not great for your image if your astronaut buddies can see your boxer briefs through your stretchy space suit.
Manonamission.blogspot.com has a great collection of corporate mission statements. I recently used its search function to find examples of companies that prominently and publicly state something close to "people are our most important asset."
Hundreds of people packed an upstate New York auditorium Monday, many of them fearful of new natural gas drilling that's spreading to states around the country.
Hundreds of people are expected to pack an upstate New York auditorium Monday as the federal government enters the fray over a controversial technique for natural gas production.
Here's a new way of looking at oil spill clean-up: Forget the big ships, massive work crews and hefty price tags.
If you're in need of inspiration for a design project you might traditionally peruse a textbook, or perhaps visit a local design exhibition.
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have unveiled designs for two new aircraft which they say could usher in a cleaner and quieter era of civil aviation.
Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have successfully coated paper with a solar cell, part of a suite of research projects aimed at energy breakthroughs.
For almost 30 years I've been organizing, advising, and just hanging with leaders of the world's top growth firms. Dubbed "gazelles," these companies continue to hire even as the economy stumbles.
It's so tiny, you can't see it with the naked eye.
A team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology won $40,000 in a high-tech scavenger hunt on Saturday by discovering the location of 10 red weather balloons.
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HLN's Melissa Long talks to MIT's Riley Crane about a high-tech scavenger hunt.
updated: Sat Nov 28 2009 07:49:00
Researchers and volunteers are tracking trash, one piece at a time. CNN's Patrick Oppmann reports.
The plastic Ziploc bag thrown in the trash in Seattle, Washington, spent a week traveling 300 miles to an Oregon landfill. The old Apple iBook that was recycled is a month into its journey. And a pair of worn Asics running shoes is still logging miles even after being dropped in a bin for used shoes.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has long been known worldwide for its engineering programs, and a symposium at MIT this week will draw scientists from around the globe to focus on a hot facet of the field -- climate engineering.
Electronics such as phones and laptops may start shedding their power cords within a year.
updated: Mon Oct 05 2009 10:29:00
MIT students Justin Lee and Oliver Yeh talk about the pictures they are getting from space.
Oliver Yeh is the kind of guy who cooks up ideas so kooky, so out-of-this-world, that even his fellow MIT students tend to roll their eyes when they hear them.
A chip inside the eye that can help blind people see again is moving closer to reality as researchers at MIT work on a retinal implant that can bypass damaged cells and directly offer visual input to the brain.
Schools of robotic fish could one day map the ocean floor, detect pollution or inspect and survey submerged boats or oil and gas pipelines, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology say.
Before you jump all over me, let me remind you that this isn't The Ethicists. I'm a behavioral economist. And so I ask not: Is it morally right to bribe your kid to get him to do the stuff you want him to do? I instead ask: Does bribing your kid work? And if so, how does it work best?
White contrails crisscrossing the sky over every major metropolis are a constant visual reminder of the fundamental role of airplanes in modern life.
It may seem like common sense to wait until there is proof of the damage of global warming before taking action. But by then it will be too late -- so scientists must do a better job of explaining the dangers now
As university residence halls seek to transition into more homey environments -- with additions like full kitchens and single-stall bathrooms -- pet ownership is still forbidden for the majority of dorm residents.
Your phone may be keeping you awake - and not because it's ringing.
The USC fellows were invited to join 1,000 or so others at an incredible ceremony and event held by the Deshpande family for their son, a graduate of MIT.
Lizards with hairy feet are the inspiration for a new medical product that could help surgical patients heal better and might even replace sutures some day.
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CNN's Miles O'Brien says geckos' sticky feet are the inspiration for a revolutionary new bandage.
Using high-speed video technology, researchers have unmasked how rats use their whiskers to feed sensory information to their brains.
Massachusetts State Police arrested a 19-year-old MIT student Friday at Boston's Logan International Airport after receiving a report that a woman had what appeared to be a bomb strapped to her chest.
The vaunted "$100 laptop" that Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers dreamed up for international schoolchildren is becoming a slightly more distant concept.
Sometimes you get what you don't pay for. Here are nearly two dozen of the best freebies and -- most important -- how to score them
The dean of admissions at one of America's most prestigious schools resigned on Thursday after the university discovered she had lied about her academic credentials.
From micro-tags in bags to vibrating vests, computing is moving from our desktops and portable gadgets to a more integrated relationship with our lives -- through our clothes.
The concept cars shown at the Paris motor show this week might be a glimpse of the shape of things to come, but across the Atlantic a car is being developed that is radically reimagining the automobile and could also transform our perception of how we use it in the city.
Even without sailing to distant lands, modern-day scientists and researchers are charting new territory.
Yes, assuming you don't blow all your cash on helping the poor.
In a breakthrough that brings the technology of futuristic film "The Matrix" closer to reality, scientists say they have cracked part of the brain's own computer code.
Let's face it: Your best customers, as a collective, are probably better informed than you are. In the time it takes you to organize a meeting about a new product, they can devour enough informatio...
"... In the great expansion of the metropolitan areas the subdivisions of one city are beginning to meet up with the subdivisions of another." New development near San Francisco, from "Urban Sprawl...
MIT scientists are hoping to create a "workout area" for stroke sufferers that incorporates smart therapeutic robots to help patients regain movement of their bodies.
If you are not a morning person and find it difficult to get out of bed, then "Clocky" might be the thing to improve the start of your day.
Future explorers on the Moon and Mars could be outfitted in lightweight, high-tech spacesuits that offer far more flexibility than the bulky suits that have been used for spacewalks in the 1960s.
A global hotel chain was stunned to discover a perverse consequence of its customer-centric Six Sigma quality initiative. Apparently guests were mildly pleased by the chain's sincere efforts to pro...
Last winter Stanford's new e-commerce elective was the hottest thing on the business school's campus, with 28 students using their single "silver bullet" to secure one of the 66 available spots. Th...
We've all read the headlines: A blue-chip manufacturer announces 53,000 layoffs worldwide. A leading financial institution plans to shed 8,000 jobs. A Big Three automaker cuts 1,200 positions at a ...
Ann Owed Two the Spelling Checker
Stop me if you've heard this one before: In Heaven, the cooks are French, the police are English, the mechanics are German, the lovers are Italian, and the bankers are Swiss. But in Hell, the cooks...
You're looking at light going through an experimental "omniguide"---a tube that reflects light with no signal loss. Developed in 1998 by a team of researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Tech...
Sherry Turkle is a professor of the sociology of science at MIT. A clinical psychologist who has studied people's relationships with technology, she is the author of The Second Self: Computers and ...
University Park Hotel @ MIT
When I first heard that MIT's business school was teaching its entrepreneurs cocktail-party skills, I called up Ken Morse, the managing director of MIT's Entrepreneurship Center, and asked him whet...
What makes a company worthless?
Charlie Tillett remembers the year he entered MIT's business plan competition. It was 1991, and the second-year business student counted himself among the 50 or so active members of the school's Ne...
During seminal historical moments, like the dawn of a new millennium, it is often tempting to imagine how our lives might be different ten, 20, even 50 years hence. It is a natural urge, and one ea...
Here's a business-school case study for class discussion: What happens when all the MBA students ditch school to seek their fortunes on the Web?
Investing mistakes, like most things we do, have both immediate causes and more fundamental ones. Didn't do your homework on a stock that tanked soon after you bought it? Your more fundamental erro...
As men age, they lose their brain cells at rates up to three times faster than women. Then again, men typically have more brain cells to lose. Please keep those biologically uncontested facts in mi...
Janet Baker founded Dragon Systems, which makes speech-recognition software, with her husband, Jim, in 1982. Baker, who is CEO of the Newton, Mass., company, has a Ph.D. in computer sciences from C...
Getting the entrepreneurial bug, are you? Tired of reading about all these pubescent little CEOs who did nothing more clever than sell books or airline tickets over the Internet and made a billion?...
At four on a recent afternoon, Michael Saylor sat down to explain the history of MicroStrategy, his nine-year-old software company. By 7 P.M., the 34-year-old CEO had spun his company's story over ...
Over the full sweep of time, mutual funds have shown that they are probably the greatest contribution to financial democracy ever devised.
Blackmail is such an ugly word. But it's the best description of what happens when the passionate cooings of knowledge-management gurus get translated into the harsh realpolitik of today's corporat...
Our Valentine's Day getaway didn't quite work out as planned. Like thousands of other Americans, my wife and I were victims of the sickout by American Airlines pilots. I've been stranded by strikes...
Economists rule the world. This is not a new phenomenon. "The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly un...
Ever since modern manufacturing began in the 19th century, the biggest delaying factor in getting new products to market has been the industrial counterpart of astronomy's black hole--the so-called...
Imagine: a dress plays music while you dance. A sensor programs songs according to your emotional state. LCD screens beam information across your prescription lenses. A gossamer evening gown's meta...
There had been limit-shattering paradigmatic breakthroughs in life extension during the 2060s and 2070s. As for the 2050s, the stunts they'd been calling "medicine" back then (which had seemed trem...
The job landscape facing the class of '93 is bleak, even for engineering majors, who command average starting salaries of up to $39,793 a year, the highest for new grads. But those engineers at top...
Parents of students looking for financial aid from colleges may now be able to get hundreds or even thousands of dollars more than just a few years ago. Reason: a September federal court ruling tha...
If you haven't already, sit down before you read this column. When chief of reporters Holly Wheelwright enrolled at Sarah Lawrence 31 years ago, tuition, room and board cost her parents $2,800 a ye...
''The hassle of the hub and spoke is a major negative,'' says air passenger Frank Shrontz. Though he happens to be CEO of the world's largest aircraft manufacturer, Boeing, plenty of ordinary passe...
BRAINPOWER has always been an essential asset. It is, after all, why Homo sapiens rules the roost. But it has never before been so important for business. Every company depends increasingly on know...
The autumn of 1990 finds Detroit's Big Three racing to catch up with Japan's premier automakers. General Motors is pushing out the first models made by Saturn, its seven-year, $3 billion effort to ...
ARE AMERICAN corporations ready for the New Age? Michael Murphy, founder of the Esalen Institute, thinks so. Next year Murphy, 60, hopes to start luring business groups to Esalen, the Big Sur spa w...
On the wall of the ladies' room of a bar in upstate New York, a plaintive graffito recites a loser's litany for our times: ''No BMW, no condo, no MBA.'' As an antidote to hopelessness, the car or t...
EXPORTS ARE BOOMING, manufacturing productivity is advancing smartly, and in 1988 the FORTUNE 500 had their most profitable year ever. Why, then, is a high-powered commission of MIT professors warn...
And now we come to an item that has everything. It has sex. In fact it has safe sex. It has culture, and not only tired old Western culture -- this one also has Third World and feminist culture. It...
PETER DRUCKER, 77, management guru: ''You have no idea how much I learn teaching. It forces me to listen to myself. All the things I don't realize I have been thinking about until I hear myself say...
Most managerial types appear to have skipped the movie Dune, a sci-fi epic that bombed in 1984. No fools they. In its clunky way, however, the film did present one notion that may tantalize goal-or...
IN A DIMLY LIT ROOM crammed with piles of black boxes and tangles of colored wires, a young scientist is talking to his computer screen in a loud voice as if it were a slightly deaf friend. Into hi...
QUESTION: What is the hardest program to get into at Massachusetts Institute of Technology? Answer: The new one that turns out masters of science in real estate development (MSREDs). The 35 student...
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