Think You’re Special? A Robot Could Do Your Job fastcoexist.com Technology is advancing so fast that half of all jobs that exist today might be taken over by bots and computers in the next 20 years. Find out if your job is on the list. Is your job safe from our new computer-programmed overlords? A … Continue reading The only jobs that won’t be taken over by robots require understanding of human behavior
Bye bye Codecademy, MIT shows off a way to program using natural language — Tech News and Analysis. Related articles Bye bye Codecademy, MIT shows off a way to program using natural language (familycoding.com) Sanskrit an Unambiguous Natural Language on the Planet- NASA (mobilepunditsblog.wordpress.com) Boston is the New Hot Hunting Grounds for Big Data Understanding … Continue reading MIT shows off a way to program using natural language — Tech News and Analysis
I’m Jason Pontin, Editor in Chief and Publisher of MIT Technology Review, and This Is How I Work Tessa Miller, lifehacker.comSince 2004, Jason Pontin has been editor in chief of MIT Technology Review, and publisher since 2005. With dual titles, Jason oversees everything from editorial direction to business strategy. Under his guidance, the more than … Continue reading Jason Pontin, Editor in Chief and Publisher of MIT Technology Review
Infographic: MIT illustrates how the world uses its mobile phones By Madhumita Venkataramanan, wired.co.uk Magazine This article was taken from the January 2013 issue of Wired magazine. Be the first to read Wired’s articles in print before they’re posted online, and get your hands on loads of additional content by subscribing… http://flip.it/kl0pp Related articles The … Continue reading MIT illustrates how the world uses its mobile phones
Open-source Funf platform taps into Android’s huge knowledge about you By Daniel Cossins, wired.co.uk Magazine This article was taken from the November 2012 issue of Wired magazine. Be the first to read Wired’s articles in print before they’re posted online, and get your hands on loads of additional content by subscribing… http://flip.it/FiWXt Related articles Why … Continue reading Funf: computational social science in your pocket
Providence, RI Fab Academy Now Accepting Applications for 2013 By Brian Jepson, makezine.com The Fab Academy is a six-month long digital fabrication program directed by MIT’s Neil Gershenfeld, and based on his rapid prototyping course How to Make (Almost) Anything. The Fab Academy started as an MIT outreach program, an… http://flpbd.it/dNjyn Related articles Congratulations, Your … Continue reading The Fab Academy is a six-month long digital fabrication program
A slew of new ventures is springing up in the Boston and NYC area aiming to fill the need for job based, tech training for working professionals. This includes Intelligent.ly, Boston Startup School, General Assembly, and well known companies such as Skillshare. Catching a new wave of courses - Page 2 - Boston.com. Related articles Startup Watch: … Continue reading Intelligent.ly: New startups aim to meet tech knowledge needs of working professionals
Following on the growing number of engineering schools offering online or blended education, MIT is now taking the next logical step by expanding their open courseware to provide unrestricted access and credentials for students as well as a new custom developed, video based open source learning management system which can be used by educators. M.I.T. … Continue reading Finally, MIT courses in my underwear: MITx
Stanford’s Online High School Raises the Bar - NYTimes.com. Related articles StartX, Stanford's nonprofit accelerator, nabs $800,000 funding grant (venturebeat.com) Inside Stanford's creativity factory (management.fortune.cnn.com) The Way of the Future: Coursera (jaypgreene.com) Home Schooling As the 21st Century Model for Public Schools? (etcjournal.com) Dear Candice, I'm Sorry About The Internet - LockerGnome (lockergnome.com) The … Continue reading Stanford’s Online High School Raises the Bar
MIT Media Lab: Reality Mining This new center, part of the MIT Human Dynamics group, studies the ways we can use millions of sensors in portable devices already in common use to actually measure human behavior in real time. So, the end of psychology, the beginning of digital anthropology. Related articles Social Robots May Gain … Continue reading MIT Media Lab: Reality Mining
About COLLISIONcollective | COLLISIONcollective. Related articles The Art of Science - Berenice Abbott at MIT (thefinchandpea.com) MIT Students Develop Self-Guided Flying Robot Bird (devicemag.com) How MIT's Strengthening Their Alumni Connection Through Crowdsourcing (bostinno.com) MIT Creates Car That Avoids Crashes, But Doesn't Otherwise Interfere (dailytech.com) Researchers at MIT to Produce Tiny, Foldable, Electric Car in 2013 … Continue reading COLLISIONcollective: the collision of art and technology
A new study from MIT uncovers a fascinating fact: the connections we make, groups we join and information we contribute, even minimally, to online networking tools like Facebook can reveal very detailed, personal information about our identities by using statistical, computational methods. Related articles Alumni Surveys on Entrepreneurship (kauffman.org) MIT Builds An Open-Source Platform For … Continue reading MIT Social Network Analysis: Can Social Media Reveal our Identities?
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MIT OpenCourseWare | Anthropology | 21A.215 Medical Anthropology, Fall 2004 | Readings. Related articles Free Online Course Materials | Resource Home | MIT OpenCourseWare (anthonyvenable110.wordpress.com) Participate in the Extreme and Informal Learning Survey (saylor.org) New Year's Resolution: MIT OpenCourseWare (ritholtz.com) Introduction to Psychology now available in MIT OpenCourseWare's innovative OCW Scholar format (web.mit.edu) Invtitation … Continue reading MIT OpenCourseWare 21A.215 Medical Anthropology
Increasingly new information schools are cropping up with combine engineering, social science and technology studies. School of Information. Related articles Yale Braunstein, professor of information, dies at 67 (ischool.berkeley.edu) Syracuse University's School of Information Studies Offers Certificate of Advanced Study in Data Science (digital-scholarship.org) UC Davis tops Sierra magazine's green rankings (universityofcalifornia.edu) UC Berkeley … Continue reading UC Berkeley School of Information: Birth of the iSchool
The Transparent City - Brainiac. This writer in a recent article on mega cities in Metropolis describes the skyrise office as a "factory for making to do lists". Hilarious! Related articles The High Rise Slums of Venezuela (neatorama.com) Man climbs Chicago skyscraper with bionic leg - Houston Chronicle (chron.com) Talking … Continue reading The Transparent City: The Sky-rise office as a “to do list” factory
A trio of MIT grads and design wunderkinds at Sosolimited tracks speech patterns and eye blinks, analyze body language and word choices, and run reams of statistics of the presidential debates. Related articles MIT grads' technology gauges Olympic mood (bostonglobe.com) MIT Uses Social Media Tech To Gauge Olympic Fervor (sporttechie.com) Twitter Sentiment to Light Up London's Ferris … Continue reading Sosolimited tracks linguistics of debates
MIT Media Lab: Reality Mining. Related articles Electric car that that folds itself launches in Spain (reviews.cnet.com) MIT's Media Lab Brings Watching Movies at Home to a Whole New, Immersive Level [Video] (bostinno.com) New MIT Media Lab's invention promises more immersive TV viewing (InnovationToronto.com) A camera that can see around corners (cnn.com) MIT Media Lab's … Continue reading MIT Media Lab: Reality Mining
Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Meta - Technology Review. Natural language self writing programming software Related articles An App that Could Stop Traffic - Technology Review - StumbleUpon (chimac.net) You Will Want Google Goggles - Technology Review (studentdigitalus.wordpress.com) Natural Language in Voice Search (googleresearch.blogspot.com) Web Semantics: POETICON: Robots Need Language (wired.com) Automated … Continue reading Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Meta
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