“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Friday, Aug. 16…” Tech Talk, August 28, 2002 Original Link: http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/tt/2002/aug28/robots2.html (No longer active)
Continue reading...Pass Rate on FEE hits 3 of 4
“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…” […]
Continue reading...MIT robot contest draws students from around the world
“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 […]
Continue reading...iCampus funds student technology projects
“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….” Tech Talk, May 22, 2002 Original Link: http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/tt/2002/may22/icampus.html (No longer active)
Continue reading...Heat exchange machine can be controlled from the Internet
Elizabeth A. Thomson, News Office 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 […]
Continue reading...The Innovation Bubble
“It has been 30 years since MIT last saw such a groundswell of educational innovation, and it’s beginning to transform the classroom experience…” Read More Technology Review, May 2002
Continue reading...TEAL: Technology Enabled Active Learning
“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 […]
Continue reading...StudioMIT: A Digital Academic Village
“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…” Micronews, Microsoft Research Current Research, April 2002 Original Link: http://research.microsoft.com/features/StudioMIT.asp (No longer active)
Continue reading...Sensors atop flagpole measure movement
“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 […]
Continue reading...iLab: A High-Tech Learning Solution
“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 …” Micronews, Microsoft Research Current Research, March 2002 Original […]
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