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Because of our emphasis on groundbreaking uses for educational technology, iCampus innovations attract intense media attention around the globe:

'Learning Without Barriers': the MIT-Microsoft iCampus connection celebrates innovation MIT News Office, December 8, 2006.
"The seven-year, $25 million iCampus partnership between MIT and Microsoft, which has borne fruit across the globe, was celebrated with a symposium at the Tang Center Dec. 1 and 2..."

Prime ad space. In space. MIT students would put slogans on satellite to raise funds Boston Globe, November 3, 2006.
"Now on sale: Ads in space. This week, MIT's Mars Gravity Biosatellite Program launched a website, YourNameIntoSpace.org , and created a group on Facebook.com -- "I'm Sending My Name into Space and You Should Too!" -- that will sell space on the satellite where cosmic marketers can place their logos, slogans, photos, and other images..."

New center to focus on synthetic biology MIT News Office, August 3, 2006.
"Five MIT researchers are among the pioneers behind a new research center in synthetic biology, a precocious field whose primary long-term goal is to make it easier to design and build useful organisms...."

Robotic bears can monitor sick kids - MIT's device packed with sensors Boston.com, July 31, 2006.
"SIGGRAPH 2006: From idea to image. It’s an academic conference. It’s a digital art exhibit. It’s drawing 25,000 people to Boston this week to see how emerging technologies are being used to educate, entertain, and study everything from the sea ?oor to the human body...."

MISTI helps bring iLabs to China MIT News Office, June 12, 2006.
"Undergraduates are at the forefront of MIT's latest efforts to share educational technology with China. On Tuesday, June 13, students will join MIT faculty at the first Asian MIT-iCampus Conference in Beijing...."

Online methods share insider tricks Nature, Published online: 7 June 2006.
"Replicating controversial lab results or tricky methods could become easier, thanks to a new breed of websites where scientists share and edit each other's laboratory techniques....."

Tech'ing it to the Next Level - a new MIT Museum exhibit MIT Museum Press Release, May 31, 2006.
"Opening Tuesday, May 23 is an MIT Museum exhibit designed to make teachers rethink the way they teach. Whether in a physics laboratory, a literature classroom, or a physical therapy session, educational technologies are radically changing how people learn and interact with one another...."

Becoming Part of the Solution --- Students Join Record Industry to Curb Illegal File-Sharing. Wall Street Journal, April 6, 2006.
"THE RECORD INDUSTRY'S nearly three-year effort to clamp down on illegal file-sharing among college students has done little to stop the practice on campuses. Now, in an unusual reversal, a handful of students themselves are joining the fight against copyright abuse by their peers..."

Mi Lab Es Su Lab Inside Higher Ed News, 03/24/06.
"A bleary eyed Massachusetts Institute of Technology student roaming the ground floor of Building 1 in the wee hours might hear a rumbling coming from the “shake table” lab, where researchers simulate earthquakes..."

iCampus Selects Final Recipients of Funding The Tech, Volume 125, Number 64, Wednesday, January 25, 2006.
"In its last year of funding, projects funded by iCampus, a $25 million partnership between MIT and Microsoft Research, are going international...."

The 50 Best Robots Ever Wired Magazome, Issue 14.01 - January 2006.
"They're exploring the deep sea and distant planets. They're saving lives in the operating room and on the battlefield. They're transforming factory floors and filmmaking. They're - oh c'mon, they're just plain cool!..."

Command performances: Controlling organisms withbiological circuits, opens up a world of possibilities and dangers San Diego Union Tribune - United States, December 14, 2005
"...Leaders in the field convened the intercollegiate Genetically Engineered Machine, or iGEM, competition at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge last month...."

Students race bacteria in MIT competition Penn State Digital Collegian - University Park, PA, USA, Thursday, Dec. 8, 2005
"When thinking of a relay race, the first thing that comes to mind is a swim meet or a track and field event. But for the students of the 2005 iGEM project, what comes to mind is E. coli...."

Davidson Students Are Standouts at MIT Synthetic Biology Competition Collegenews.org - Washington, D.C., USA, DAVIDSON, N.C., November 29, 2005
"Six Davidson students claimed standout status this fall as the only liberal arts undergraduates to present their work at the Intercollegiate Genetically Engineered Machines (iGEM) competition at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)...."

Foundations for engineering biology Nature - Reviews, Vol 438| November 25, 2005
"...Foundational technologies that make routine the engineering of biology are needed. Vibrant, open research communities and strategic leadership are necessary to ensure that the development and application of biological technologies remains overwhelmingly constructive. Please complete one of the following projects in the next hour:..."

Developing Future Leaders (Harel Williams, Domeview presentation) MITWorld, volume 5 | number 11 | November 23, 2005
"The MIT Leadership Center features short presentations from 4 students whose work exemplifies leadership on a global scale. Afterwards, Flowers discusses the need to cultivate students who are both technologically literate and philosophically grounded."

iGEM 2005: Synthetic Biology’s FutureBio-ITWorld, Tuesday November 8, 2005
"Before plunging too deeply into iGEM 2005 – the intercollegiate Genetically Engineered Machine competition, held at MIT last weekend, consider a few of the awards: Best Use of Transmogrified Smiley Faces (Caltech), Best Confession (U Texas), Most Modest Goal (MIT), Best Uniform (University of Cambridge, U.K.) My favorite was Best “Hail Mary” Cloning (Oklahoma)."

Teams gather for genetic engineering competition MIT News Office, Thursday November 3, 2005
"More than 150 students and instructors from 13 universities across North America and Europe will convene at MIT this weekend to unveil their biological designs at the 2005 International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) competition."

Future of the Learning Space: Breaking Out of the Box EDUCAUSE r e v i e w July/August 2005
"For many people, the public image of higher education is the classroom: faculty talking, with students intently listening and taking notes... Many educators, however, increasingly argue that such classrooms are largely ineffective as learning environments and that they should not continue to be built. But what should take their place?..."

Learning Space Design in Action EDUCAUSE r e v i e w July/August 2005
"Introductory science courses need to merge lectures, recitations, and hands-on laboratory experience into a technologically and collaboratively rich experience for incoming freshmen. This mix of technology, pedagogy, and classroom design results in better learning. Technology Enabled Active Learning (TEAL) at MIT (http://icampus.mit.edu/teal) is the latest iteration of this effective strategy."

Magnanti offers Congress views on education MIT News Office, Monday July 25, 2005
"The United States needs to find new ways to excite today's schoolchildren about the possibilities that math, science and engineering can hold for them, the dean of MIT's School of Engineering recently testified during a congressional hearing on "Challenges to American Competitiveness in Math and Science."

Microsoft Research Names First Winners of New Faculty Fellowship Awards, Fueling Innovative Research in Computer Science. New Program Steps up Microsoft's Engagement With Academia by Providing Creative Freedom and Collaboration Opportunities to Today's Most Promising Young Professors PR Newswire, May 25, 2005
""Microsoft Research today announced the first five recipients of its New Faculty Fellowship Awards, a new program that honors early-career university professors who demonstrate exceptional talent for novel research and thought leadership in their discipline.

Gates Cites Hiring Woes, Criticizes Visa Restrictions Washington Post, April 28, 2005
""Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates said yesterday the software giant is having enormous difficulty filling computer jobs in the United States as a result of tight visa restrictions on foreign workers and a declining interest among U.S. students in computer science.

ShuttleTrack Running Again Though Problems Remain The Tech, Friday, April 22, 2005
""ShuttleTrack, a service that is designed to show real-time locations of MIT vans from a Web site, is running again after having been out of service since at least last summer.

MIT builds bridges to black engineers; Helps make NSBE convention a success MIT News Office - March 29, 2005
"Thousands of people from across the country flocked to Boston last week for the 31st annual National Society of Black Engineers Convention. Among the more than 10,000 conference attendees packed into Hynes Convention Center were dozens of MIT students, alumni, faculty and staff who dedicated their time and energy to the five-day event, which was themed "Empowering the World...One Engineer at a Time." See also on cover of TechTalk 3/30/05

MIT expands remote labs to Africa EETimes Online - March 21, 2005
"MIT's iLAbs has expanded its remote laboratory program to include three African universities for students to perform real engineering and science experiments over the Internet.

African students get web link to MIT labs MIT News Office - March 21, 2005
"Students in Uganda, Tanzania and Nigeria can now perform sophisticated engineering and science experiments at MIT--without ever getting on a plane. "If you can't come to the lab, the lab will come to you," said Jesus del Alamo, co-principal investigator on the Africa project and a professor in MIT's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. See also on cover of TechTalk 3/30/05

101 Redefined New York Times, Education Life Supplement, January 16, 2005
"SEMICIRCULAR rows of benches face the front of the room. A raised platform faces the benches. Anyone who has ever attended college will recognize the setting at once: a lecture hall.

Life, Reinvented Wired Magazine, Issue 13.01 - January 2005
"A group of MIT engineers wanted to model the biological world. But, damn, some of nature's designs were complicated! So they started rebuilding from the ground up - and gave birth to synthetic biology.

Visualizing Physics: Technology-Enabled Active Learning at MIT ; MIT Museum Presents an Insider's View into MIT Course 8.02 - Renewing the MIT tradition of educational innovation
MIT Museum - EXHIBITIONS & GALLERIES - Main Gallery, December 15, 2004 - June 5, 2005
Opening Reception, Wednesday, February 9th, 4 - 6pm
"Technology-enabled active learning merges lectures, cutting-edge visualizations and simulations, and hands-on desktop experiments to create a rich collaborative learning experience. Through stunning visualizations of complex physical phenomena and their related desktop experiments, Visualizing Physics: Technology-Enabled Active Learning at MIT follows the progression of the MIT undergraduate course, "Introduction to Electricity and Magnetism" (8.02) through three phases.

TEAL Teaching - Technology Enabled Active Learning (TEAL) is transforming physics education MIT Spectrum, Winter 2004
"The scene: the d'Arbeloff Studio Classroom at MIT, which instead of standard-issue academic seating features 13 round tables with chairs. At the tables, first-year students are looking on as lecturer Peter Dourmashkin, a physicist, puts up equations and diagrams on one of the room's white boards...

Big tech on campus CNET News.com, September 6, 2004
"MIT has used part of a $25 million grant from Microsoft to help build a remote-laboratory program over the Internet, which it calls iLab. Using a standard Web browser, students can access laboratory facilities at any time of day. Experiments range from manipulating electrical circuitry on a microprocessor chip to simulating an earthquake on a $50,000 "shake table" to see how well the structure holds up.

"Doing experiments is a key part of the learning process," said Jesus del Alamo, a professor of electrical engineering at MIT. "But before iLabs, we were never able to do these kinds of experiments with our graduate students, let alone our undergraduates, because it was too expensive."...

"Once you start using wireless, you can't go back," said Harel Williams, a senior this fall at MIT. "I think people just assume it's going to be there now...."

Sine Language Wired Magazine, Issue 12.09 - September 2004
"Abstract art can be tough to interpret, but this particular piece is easy to explain. It's a visual expression of the function g(x,y) = (ln(sin(x)))^3*(tan(y)), h(x,y) = (ln(cos(y)))^3*(tan(x)). (Also see: Sine Language )

When Gadgets Get in the Way New York Times, Technology/Circuits section, Back-to-School Issue, Thursday Aug.19, 2004
"NOW that computers are a staple in schools around the country, perhaps the machines should come with a warning label for teachers: "Beware: Students may no longer hear a word you say..."

Higher Education Researchers Meet at Microsoft Summit Syllabus Magazine, Wed., Aug. 18, 2004
"Bill Gates gave the opening keynote Monday at Microsoft Research's 6th annual Faculty Summit, and participated in an exclusive Q&A along with Rick Rashid, senior VP of Microsoft Research and Sailesh Chutani, director of Microsoft University Relations. Nearly 400 faculty invited from 135 higher education institutions in 20 countries met on Microsoft1s Redmond campus for the full event August 2-5..."'

Microsoft DemoFest offers look at latest university research Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Business section, Wed.,, August 4, 2004
"Students at the University of California-San Diego who want to find their friends or professors on campus need look no farther than their portable computers or hand-held devices...."'

Dorms Go Digital Technology Review (MIT News/77 Mass Ave section), July/August 2004 issue
"Lost or stolen packages, missing DVD rentals, and misplaced ping-pong paddles are common problems in MIT dormitories. A Web-based software system for front-desk workers funded with $30,000 from the MIT-Microsoft iCampus partnership could help end these dorm-life quandaries..."'

Education Arcade Technology Review (MIT News section), June 2004 issue
"MIT researchers are creating academically driven computer games that rival commercial products and make learning fun..."'

MIT students make computer biking a fun exercise The Boston Globe, May 5, 2004
"The hot-air balloon was too low, much too low. A mountain loomed ahead, its granite wall reaching out to smash the fragile basket..."'

Interactive Engagement in MIT Introductory Physics Forum on Education of the American Physical Society, Spring 2004 (PAGE 4)
"Over the last three years, the MIT Physics Department has been introducing major changes in the way that Mechanics I, 8.01, and Electromagnetism I, 8.02, are taught. These cases are the result of the TEAL (Technology Enhanced Active Learning) Project..."'

Scientific Teaching Science Magazine (Policy Forum, Education), April 23, 2004
"Since publication of the AAAS 1989 report “Science for all Americans” (1), commissions, panels, and working groups have agreed that reform in science education should be founded on “scientific teaching,” in which teaching is approached with the same rigor as science at its best (2). Scientific teaching involves active learning strategies to engage students in the process of science and teaching methods that have been systematically tested and shown to reach diverse students (3)..."'

Microsoft's East Coast Alliance The Boston Globe, March 22, 2004
"Microsoft Research hasn't located any of its cutting-edge labs in the Boston area. But when Rick Rashid spent a couple of days here last week, he was visiting the closest thing to a Microsoft lab on the East Coast: the Massachusetts Institute of Technology..."

Turning Energy Into Pretty Things Wired Magazine, March 17, 2004
"Physics students usually can't see the forces between matter that they calculate during homework assignments. But in 1993, two computer scientists devised a Java applet (PDF) to make energy fields not only visible, but really rad-looking. Each year, John Belcher at MIT holds the "Weird Fields" contest among his physics students to see who can use the program to create the most aesthetically pleasing image by writing simple formulas for electromagnetism..."

'''Most iCampus Projects Successful''' The Tech, February 17, 2004
"The five 2003 MIT-Microsoft iCampus partnership projects, each given $30,000 of support, concluded its year of funding with positive results....."

Presenting the X Campus - Syllabus, February 1, 2004
"Web services represent the Internet mapped onto real, dynamic business processes. They are the Internet come of age. If you draw a blank when presented with the term, "Web Services," you are probably not a technology bellwether on campus. On the other hand, if you think Web services are old hat, your office is likely to be pretty high up in the ivory tower—or maybe just over in electrical engineering...."

iCampus Funds Four New Student Projects - The Tech, January 28, 2004
"The MIT-Microsoft iCampus partnership has awarded its fifth round of funding for student projects. Four groups will receive $30,000 for the next 12 months, working on software to help dormitory desk workers, TV screens to display campus news around MIT, GPS receivers to track MIT’s sailboats, and computer-aided molecule models...."

Academia gets creative with Web services - CNET News.com, October 27, 2003
"A Web service can help you catch a bus. Or test an electronic circuit from a dorm room. Or even take English writing tests in a new way...."

MIT Explores Options for Legal Downloads - Tech Talk, September 10, 2003
"MIT is exploring a range of services that would allow legal access to digital music, according to Professor James D. Bruce, vice president of information systems..."

Microsoft's Big Role on Campus - Washington Post, August 25, 2003
"Bearing gifts of cash, sofware and computers worth $25 million, Microsoft Corp. came to the Massachusetts Institue of Technology in 1999,..."

Microsoft to Tout New Academic Wares, Programs - Microsoft Watch, July 21, 2003
"Company's annual Faculty Summit will highlight e-Learning programs and projects...."

MIT's Tablet Tech Gets a Look-See From Microsoft - Mass High Tech, July 21, 2003
"For Randall Davis, a professor of engineering and computer science at MIT, one of the worst accidents ever..."

Report From Redmond - Interview With Doug Leland - I.T. Link - Course Technology, July 17, 2003
"At a time when many companies are curtailing their contributions to academic institutions for basic computer science research, Microsoft is doing the opposite..."

iCampus Includes iQuarium - Tech Talk, May 14, 2003
"iCampus projects this year include the first interactive ocean engineering lab accessible to the public, and games that can be played while pedaling a stationary bike"

Broadcasting the Bard in Bits and Bytes - Tech Talk, May 7, 2003
"Shakespeare set the stage for a high-tech revolution in an MIT curriculum—an irony not lost on Peter Donaldson, principal investigator on the Shakespeare new media projects."

SafeRide Tracking Project Nears end of Beta Testing - The Tech, April 25, 2003
"The Shuttletrack project, which provides real-time tracking of the locations of SafeRide and Tech Shuttle on the Internet, is nearing the end of its beta testing..."

Learning and Design Join In New Spaces - The Tech, March 11, 2003
"Five principles—community, intensity, variety, flexibility, and ubiquity—underlie MIT's changing approach to architecture and learning, said Dean of the School of Architecture and Planning William J. Mitchell..."

iCampus Projects Close to Done - The Tech, March 7, 2003
"SafeRide tracking system and free on-demand music through MIT Cable are two programs that will soon be available to the MIT community, thanks to the iCampus program..."

Swimming with MIT's Virtual Fish - Wired, March 7, 2003
"Visitors to MIT will soon have more to see than lab equipment and students snoozing through afternoon lectures. They'll also be able to gawk at—and even manipulate—fish as they swim alongside the pedestrians in MIT's famous one-sixth-mile-long Infinite Corridor..."

Virtual Reality System on its Way to Z-Center - The Tech, January 15, 2003
"Imagine yourself running at a steady pace on a steep slope only to be outrun by a runner to your left. Suddenly, a mass of runners passes by you. Shocked, disgusted, and being a competitive member of the MIT community, you quicken your pace. No, this scenario is not happening on your local neighborhood hill—it is all occurring in the comfortable confines of the new Zesiger Sports and Fitness Center, courtesy of CycleScore..."

Interactive Workout, Aquarium Funded by iCampus - The Tech, January 15, 2003
"Cyclescore, a creation that transforms exercise on a stationary bicycle into a competitive race with other gym participants, is among the winning project proposals receiving $30,000 from the Microsoft/MIT iCampus alliance..."

Students Give Rave Reviews to Online Critic - Tech Talk, December 18, 2002
"Thank-you notes so rarely follow exams that Leslie Perelman, director of Writing Across the Curriculum in the Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies, has to repeat himself when he describes this unexpected measure of success for MIT's Online Assessment Tool, known as iMOAT..."

Scholarly Communication in a Digital World: A Thought Provoking Symposium To Celebrate the World-Wide Launch of DSpace (Video lecture) MITWorld - DSpace series, Lecture on November 4, 2002
"ABOUT THE LECTURE: MIT Libraries Director Ann Wolpert defines Dspace and explains that "solving the digital problem" is central to the mission of libraries and librarians. She also announces plans for a federation with other research based universities, and explains the critical role of the H-P MIT Alliance.

Hal Abelson discusses the dangers of massive "propertization" in academic environments. He offers some chilling, real-world examples of what can happen if all content in academic discourse is seen as "property", and how a student's class notes can become a derivative work, with restrictions on sharing. He argues that universities need a "seat at the table" as new models for scientific publishing take shape.

SafeRide Replaces Vans, Online Tracking Expected - The Tech, November 1, 2002
"SafeRide, MIT's nighttime transportation service, has replaced some of its vans with buses on busier routes and may soon implement the new Web Global Positioning Satellite I-Campus project..."

Pass Rate on FEE hits 3 of 4 - The Tech, August 28, 2002
"Three out of four freshmen who took this year's Freshman Essay Evaluation received passing grades, up from 59 percent last year. In addition to the MIT freshmen who took the test, students from several other colleges took the online essay evaluation this year, as the result of a project sponsored by the MIT-Microsoft iCampus Alliance..."

Team One is No. 1 in global robot contest - Tech Talk, August 28, 2002
"Team One's whirring, spring-action robot triumphed over machines built by seven other teams as the two-week International Design Contest concluded with a bang on Friday, Aug. 16..."

MIT robot contest draws students from around the world - Tech Talk, August 14, 2002
"They're off! Like racers from the starting gate, 42 students from seven countries are plunging into the 13th annual running of the International Design Contest, which is being held this year at MIT. The contest's final phase, open to the community and the public, erupts on Friday, Aug. 16 from 1 to 4 p.m. in Room 26-100..."

Robot Competitions Finding a Place in Pop Culture - Boston Globe, August 12, 2002
"You may have heard the chatter about designing golf courses differently to loosen Tiger Woods's tight grip on the game. But did you know they've already changed the rules of robotics competitions not once, but twice, to level the field that Martin Jonikas's machines play on? The French-born Jonikas will be a junior at MIT this fall, studying aerospace engineering. In the spring, he won the Institute's whimsically-named 2.007 robotics contest..."

Students piece together robots, cultural challenge - Mass High Tech, August 12, 2002
"What can you do with a rubber band, a windshield wiper motor and a laptop? Build a robot, say the organizers of the International Design Contest. Nearly 42 students from seven countries have spent the last two weeks at MIT in Cambridge trying to build a robot using a kit of various objects provided by the organizers..."

Q&A: Tablet PCs Aid Design Collaboration in International Robot Competition - Microsoft PressPass, August 12, 2002
"The task: from a standard box of parts, build a shoebox-sized robot. This robot's goal: move around on a designated surface, swing a weighted pendulum, and/or pick up objects and put them into a bin..."

How Videogames Can Educate - TechTV, July 17, 2002
"How should we teach kids Newtonian physics? Simple. Have them play computer games..."

iCampus funds student technology projects - Tech Talk, May 22, 2002
"Six student teams presented progress reports last week on iCampus projects ranging from tracking the campus shuttle bus to bringing technology to impoverished young adults in India...."

Heat exchange machine can be controlled from the Internet - Tech Talk, May 22, 2002
"When Clark Colton wrote a proposal to make a complicated heat exchanger accessible to students by remote control over the web, his only goal was to see whether it would be useful for one of his courses. He never envisioned that the machine would quickly find applications in two additional MIT courses and one at the University of Texas at Austin..."

The Innovation Bubble - Technology Review, May 2002
"It has been 30 years since MIT last saw such a groundswell of educational innovation, and it's beginning to transform the classroom experience..."

More cost-effective GPS tracking system being developed by MIT students - digitalMass at Boston.com, May 2002
"Waiting in the cold at the bus stop for what seems an eternity is not the way most people envision their dream commute. Traffic and unreliable drivers can make schedules unreliable and can subject riders to packed buses and inevitable tardiness...."

TEAL: Technology Enabled Active Learning - Micronews, Microsoft Research Current Research, May 2002
"Students and professors everywhere know the dangers of large lecture halls. Back of the room boredom. Half-glimpsed equations seen across a crowded room. Attention spans designed to last between one commercial break and the next. The natives get restless. Move in their seats, beam notes to each other by PDA, doodle in the margins of their textbooks or clack busily on laptop computers, pretending to be taking notes..."

Sensors atop flagpole measure movement - Tech Talk, April 3, 2002
"On a breezy day, a flag can take a real beating as it blows around at the top of a flagpole. Now there's a way to know just what conditions are like on that pole, thanks to a project that placed sensors at the top of one campus flagpole to transmit data to a web site in real time..."

StudioMIT: A Digital Academic Village - Micronews, Microsoft Research Current Research, April 2002
"Compare a crowded urban mall and a crowded college campus. The mall has designer clothes, the smell of fast food, and roving groups of young people. The campus has classrooms, the smell of fast food, and roving groups of young people..."

iLab: A High-Tech Learning Solution - Micronews, Microsoft Research Current Research, March 2002
"Jesus del Alamo, a professor at MIT, is a rare resource. He's a natural teacher who gets excited about finding new ways for his students to learn. Now he has the resources to help students learn about microelectronics from anywhere in the world via the Web ..."

The Future Comes Apace: MIT and MSR Play with Shakespeare - Micronews, Microsoft Research Current Research, February 2002
"Shakespeare's word processing program was an ink well, his keyboard was a quill and his save button was a hand full of sand. Even with these limited tools, his detractors accused him of producing plays too quickly..."

iCampus: The Education Revolution - Micronews, Microsoft Research Current Research, January 2002
"MSR-MIT Project Shows How Web Services Can Help Teach; A strategic Partnership between Microsoft and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) called iCampus has become a driving force in transforming higher education with technology...."

iCampus gives $60K grants to six students for spring projects - Tech Talk, January 9, 2002
"The iCampus program, a research collaboration between MIT and Microsoft now in its third semester, has funded six new student projects for the spring. The program has funded 28 projects to date..."

Environmental field work gets high-tech boost - Denise Brehm, MIT News Office, Tech Talk, January 9, 2002
"Environmental researchers may soon find that their field work is getting easier, thanks to a group of students who dreamed up a software application that records environmental data in the field, then transmits it wirelessly to a remote server for display on the Internet...."

First-year physics course being transformed through experiment - Denise Brehm, MIT News Office, Tech Talk, December 19, 2001
"A new course in introductory physics this term promises to affect the freshman experience of almost every student who enters 77 Massachusetts Ave. in the next decade or so...."

New classrooms offer high-tech education in physics, mechanical engineering - Denise Brehm, MIT News Office, Tech Talk, December 12, 2001
"Three newly renovated classrooms are making it possible for faculty to teach classic courses in modern ways, using high-tech communications equipment, desktop experiments and even innovative seating arrangements to encourage students both here and abroad to take more active roles in the learning process...."

TEAL Project a Success; May Expand Next Year - Vincent Chen, Staff Reporter, The Tech, October 26, 2001
"Despite a contentious initial argument over the program's location, the Technology Enabled Active Learning Studio Physics Project (TEAL) is proving thus far to be quite a success, according to students and faculty. 'Our overall goal is to teach freshman physics better, so it's more palatable,' said Professor of Physics John W. Belcher, Principal Investigator on the TEAL project at MIT...."

Students make, test new tools for environmental field sampling - Civil and Environmental Engineering at MIT, November 2001
"Field engineers, scientists and mobile workers generally rely on pencils and notebooks to collect and record data on location, although they have yearned for more efficient methods to handle this important information...."

MIT pioneers online microelectronics lab - Rachel Bredemeier, EECS Department, March 14, 2001
"MIT students can now test and probe fragile, microscopic electronic structures using a novel online lab that can be accessed from dorm rooms and other convenient locations 24 hours a day...."

Students Make Rush CD-ROM - Siobhan Walsh, The Tech, February 23, 2001
"In the hope of giving incoming students more information about the Institute's residence system, students entering MIT's Class of 2005 will receive a CD-ROM this summer...."

Physics Reading Room Likely to House TEAL - Pey-Hua Hwang, Staff Reporter, The Tech, February 16, 2001
"MIT administrators have indicated that the physics reading room will probably house the upcoming Technology Enabled Active Learning (TEAL) project...."

Institute solicits proposals to improve undergrad education - Denise Brehm, MIT News Office, January 10, 2001
"The Council on Educational Technology (CET), in collaboration with the Committee on the Undergraduate Program (CUP), has set a January 22 deadline for submission of preliminary proposals on projects that will enhance the educational experience of MIT students..."

Project aims to encourage lecture questions - Denise Brehm, Tech Talk, MIT News Office, December 13, 2000
"Graduate student Eric Brittain is designing a system to make it easier for students in classrooms to communicate in real time with their instructors during lectures. Using a small, wireless device..."

I-Campus Proposals Selected - Naveen Sunkavally, The Tech, February 2, 2000
"A portable mobile workstation the size of a PalmPilot and a cryptographically secure MIT Card are among the six proposals that have been chosen by the MIT/Microsoft I-Campus Joint Steering Committee for further funding consideration. Twenty proposals were submitted...."

I-Campus Soliciting Student Proposals - Dana Levine, The Tech, November 23, 1999
"The MIT/Microsoft alliance began accepting research proposals Monday to distribute the up to $25 million in research funds associated with project I-Campus..."

Project I-Campus accepting proposals for funding - Rebecca Bisbee, iCampus Project Administrator, Tech Talk, November 24, 1999
"Project I-Campus, the MIT-Microsoft alliance for research in educational technology, has begun issuing calls for proposals from the MIT community..."

I-Campus To Accept Research Proposals - Karen Robinson and Rima Arnaout, The Tech, November 3, 1999
"As the next step in the Microsoft/MIT I-Campus Alliance, the Microsoft/MIT Joint Steering Committee will be asking for proposals from faculty and students in early December, said Project I-Campus Codirector Harold Abelson PhD '73, professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science..."

MIT, Microsoft Join in I-Campus Alliance - Rima Arnaout, The Tech, October 10, 1999
"MIT shocked the community with the announcement of an industrial partnership with Microsoft Corporation Wednesday. The initiative, called I-Campus, involves a 25 million contribution from Microsoft over the next five years. In return, MIT offers access to its faculty and research facilities...."

MIT and Microsoft announce Project I-Campus - Tech Talk, October 6, 1999
"MIT and Microsoft Corp. have unveiled an ambitious alliance to enhance university education through information technology...."

Microsoft and MIT Develop Partnership to Improve Higher Education Using Computer Technology - Microsoft Press Pass, October 5, 1999
"By now, it's no surprise that information technology is a major part of college life. Professors are making their course materials easily accessible to students by posting them on the Internet. Students are e-mailing their teachers to obtain quick answers to questions while they study. And numerous universities are attracting more students by offering entire programs and degrees over the Web...."

MIT and Microsoft announce long-term collaboration for innovation in higher education - MIT News Office, October 5, 1999
"The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Microsoft Corp. today unveiled an ambitious alliance to conduct research and create new technologies that will improve information technology-enabled teaching models and educational tools for university education...."