Making Web applications more efficient
A new system that automatically streamlines database access patterns can make large Web applications up to three times as fast.
Making it easier to build secure Web applications
New programming tools handle security checks automatically but should prove much more intuitive than their predecessors.
CourseRoad, Dormbase win 2012 iCampus Student Prizes
CourseRoad named grand prize winner; Dormbase named runner-up
Disruptive innovation — in education
For Anant Agarwal, MITx, the Institute’s new online-learning initiative, isn’t just a means of democratizing education. It’s a way to reinvent it.
Reif, Grimson: MITx aims to enhance on-campus education
New online courses add value to MIT’s residential program, provost and chancellor tell students.
First course offered by MITx begins
More than 90,000 people have registered for 6.002x: Circuits and Electronics
MIT faculty speak at the World Economic Forum in Davos
Talks explore the mind/machine interface and the science of predicting the economy, among other topics.
In the World: Fostering entrepreneurship in developing nations
In 11 years, MIT’s Accelerating Information Technology Innovation (AITI) program has trained more than 1,500 budding entrepreneurs in seven countries.
Participants give kudos to online registration pilot
The paper-based process underwent a sea change this fall.
IS&T renews its contract with lynda.com
MIT faculty, staff, and students can continue to freely access lynda.com’s catalog of 900-plus courses.
Sharing wisdom, teacher to teacher
MIT math instructors have developed a tool to help educators get to ‘best practices’ and preserve them for posterity.
You can take it with you
A new system lets you transfer open applications between a computer and a cellphone simply by pointing the phone’s camera at the computer’s screen.
IS&T's DCAD team enhances its service model
DCAD can help you in all aspects of your website project, from needs analysis, design and development, to project management and support.