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Nonprofit laptop maker forced to cut staff
Date: 1/8/2009 6:29:10 PM
(10 hours ago)
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.— In another sign of the growing financial strain on nonprofit groups, the One Laptop Per Child program is paring its staff in half. The project, a spinoff from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology that sells durable, green-and ...
Hundred-Dollar-Laptop Project Slashes Staff
Date: 1/8/2009 9:56:46 PM
(6 hours ago)
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — In another sign of the growing financial strain on nonprofit groups, the One Laptop Per Child program is paring its staff in half. The project, a spinoff from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology that sells durable, green ...
Engineers efficiently create hybrid cells
Date: 1/5/2009 9:10:13 PM
(1/5/2009)
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Jan. 5 (UPI) -- Massachusetts Institute of Technology engineers say they've developed an efficient way of pairing up cells so they can be fused together into a hybrid cell. The new technique should make it much easier for scientists ...
Delta expands cargo service
Date: 1/5/2009 3:05:09 PM
(1/5/2009)
Bill Swelbar, an industry analyst and research engineer for the Airline Data Project at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Mass., said ancillary revenues provide important cushions for airlines in times of difficult-to-manage ...
What can we do to save our planet?
Date: 1/1/2009 11:59:36 PM
(1/1/2009)
Professor Kerry Emanuel, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge While a geoengineering solution is bound to be less than desirable, the probability of getting global agreement on emissions reductions before it is to late is very small. Paul ...
Genetic mutation causes familial susceptibility for degenerative brain ...
Date: 1/6/2009 5:34:17 PM
(1/6/2009)
Broad Institute of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University, Cambridge, Ma.; Center for Neurologic Disease, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston. Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center is one of America's top three ...
Dead Exploded Star Resurrected in 3-D
Date: 1/8/2009 9:42:27 PM
(6 hours ago)
... we see in two dimensions fit together with each other in real life," said Tracey Delaney of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ... has been amazing," said astronomer Daniel Patnaude of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge ...
The EntreTech Forum Presents 'Going to the Gym - Web-Media & Search' G ...
Date: 1/6/2009 11:53:40 PM
(1/6/2009)
... technology giants, Google, Yahoo and Microsoft, have established their dominant presence in theBoston/Cambridge ... Computer Architecture Research Laboratory Neena Buck, Massachusetts Institute of Technology ...
Satori Pharmaceuticals Raises $22M; Names Former Senior Pfizer ...
Date: 1/8/2009 1:57:10 PM
(14 hours ago)
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Jan. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Satori Pharmaceuticals Incorporated, a privately held developer of ... Jonathan King, Ph.D. , Professor of Biology at Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Marlene Cohen, Ph.D. , former Research Fellow at Eli ...
Hedge funds' year is worst ever, and fall may continue
Date: 1/5/2009 11:54:51 PM
(1/5/2009)
... with the existing legal, regulatory and investment infrastructure," said Andrew Lo, director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's ... of multiple hedge funds, said David Shukis, director of hedge fund research and consulting for Cambridge ...
At Your Service
Date: 1/5/2009 11:54:51 PM
(1/5/2009)
Howard Anderson, the founder of The Yankee Group, a prominent research firm, who’s now the managing director of Yankeetek, a Cambridge, Mass. "venture incubator." Anderson, who’s also a lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, knows ...
Cassiopeia A Comes Alive Across Time And Space
Date: 1/8/2009 3:51:42 PM
(12 hours ago)
... far the show has been amazing," said Daniel Patnaude of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge ... the pieces we see in two dimensions fit together with each other in real life," said DeLaney of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
US teens feel prepared for careers in science, tech, engineering, math ...
Date: 1/7/2009 1:36:52 PM
(1/7/2009)
Cambridge, Mass., January 7, 2009 American teens are embracing the subjects of science, technology ... S. history's most prolific inventors, and his wife Dorothy founded the Lemelson-MIT Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in ...
Ira Goldstein, 80, was a pioneer in computer programming
Date: 1/4/2009 12:57:29 PM
(1/4/2009)
SAGE was a Cold War project developed at Massachusetts Institute of Technology to enable the Air Force to defend the country from long ... In the late 1960s, Goldstein left the SAGE project to work for Bolt, Beranek and Newman in Cambridge, Mass ...
Learn about the World Biochips Market
Date: 1/6/2009 12:05:00 PM
(1/6/2009)
... to Launch AmpliChip in Japan II-40 Caliper Life Sciences Unveils Desktop Profiler II-40 Massachusetts Institute of Technology ... GeneChip Technology to Aid Neurological Disease Detection II-71 Affymetrix, ParAllele and Cambridge ...
All Planets Possible
Date: 1/6/2009 10:27:46 PM
(1/6/2009)
Sara Seager, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass.; Marc Kuchner, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.; Catherine Hier-Majumder, Carnegie Institution of Washington, (deceased); and Burkhard Militzer, Carnegie, have ...
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Date: 1/5/2009 7:15:41 PM
(1/5/2009)
... in Computing Systems CHI '97, Atlanta, March 1997, ACM Press, pp. 234-241. Work by Dan Roy on cross platform gaming: D. Roy, "Mastery and the Mobile Future of Massively Multiplayer Games," M.S. thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge ...
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Date: 1/2/2009 11:58:25 PM
(1/2/2009)
Negroponte, a professor on leave from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, hopscotched the world collecting pledges from developing ... At a meeting this month in Cambridge, Mass., with representatives of Macedonia's government, Mr. Negroponte ...
What companies in Washington state are the best employers for 50-plus ...
Date: 12/31/2008 11:53:38 PM
(12/31/2008)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass. 15. Atlantic Health, Morristown, N.J. 16. TriHealth Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio 17. Mercy Health System, Janesville, Wis. 18. Adecco Group North America, Melville, N.Y. 19. Beaumont Hospitals, Royal Oak ...
Gene by gene, scientists dig for the triggers
Date: 1/1/2009 11:59:36 PM
(1/1/2009)
A few miles away, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology had taken up the challenge. So had two of his former students ... Evans, now at the University of Cambridge. In the summer of 1981, Martin opened the journal Nature to find a new ...