Billion Prices Project: Introducing real-time economics
MIT Sloan faculty project to track inflation in real time collects prices from hundreds of worldwide online retailers on a daily basis.
Why telecom regulation needs to change
Research suggests that the approach that worked with a few large companies with aligned interests needs revisiting in the Internet age.
Broadband picture may not be so bleak
A new study disputes the claim that Internet data rates in the U.S. are only half as high as advertised; study’s authors call for better data.
An Internet 100 times as fast
A new network design that avoids the need to convert optical signals into electrical ones could boost capacity while reducing power consumption.
Toward the Semantic Web
A new standard from the World Wide Web Consortium brings the Web a step closer to realizing the vision of its inventor, Tim Berners-Lee.
Bill Porter in conversation with Howard Anderson
Presented by MIT Sloan School of Management Dean's Innovative Leader Series
LINC 2010 engages and inspires
Conference focuses on the present and future of technology-enabled learning worldwide
3 Questions: Mitchel Resnick
Creator of the popular Scratch programming language discusses Apple’s decision to disallow Scratch viewer for iPhones and iPads.
Guerrilla reporting in ‘difficult places’
Activists describe their experiences using new technology to build free media networks in countries with scant resources or oppressive regimes.
McGovern Institute for Brain Research launches new web site
Redesign comes as institute nears its 10th anniversary
Akamai Technologies' Paul Sagan on leading through adversity
Presented by MIT Sloan School of Management Dean's Innovative Leader Series
FCC's Eugene Huang on a National Broadband Policy
Presented by the Center for Future Civic Media and the MIT Communications Forum