Massachusetts Institute of Technology
What it Might Take to Reinvent the Wheel
As part of WGBH’s “Right of Way” series, Kara Miller, host of “Innovation Hub” has been considering the future of biking and looking at new inventions and ideas that could potentially make things a whole lot safer, easier, cooler and smarter for bicyclists across the country. Miller’s reporting took her to the M.I.T. Media Lab where graduate […]
Building a Better Limb
This week, the people of Boston were faced with great tragedy. But if tragedy had to happen anywhere, the city proved that, perhap, there was no place more prepared to handle it. From surgeons and investigators to ordinary citizens, Boston rallied. And they continue to rally. Students have organized fundraisers. Restaurant staff have volunteered their […]
The Scene from MIT — and Listener Messages for Boston
Along with most of Boston, the MIT campus is on lockdown this morning after the death of campus police officer Sean Collier in a shootout with the Boston bombing suspects last night. Fotini Christia is an associate professor of political science at MIT. Ryan Borker is a student at MIT who ran the the Boston […]
Smart Programs Read Shakespeare
Patrick Winston is Principal Investigator at MIT’s Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Lab. He believes that creating better artificial intelligence is not a matter of more powerful processing: we have to teach computers how to think more like humans. “We are a symbolic species,” he explains. “We painted caves early in our modern evolution. We […]
Is the Future of Higher Education Online?
President Obama began his 2012 presidential campaign last month with a stop at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor where he addressed young, swing-state voters about the need for affordable higher education in the coming decades. The question that remains is how can public universities keep tuition costs down in a depressed economy. The […]