Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The only jobs that won’t be taken over by robots require understanding of human behavior

Posted on October 6, 2013 by timbatchelder

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 good way …

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Iceland’s cars could soon run on volcano power (grist.org)
Eight ways robots stole our jobs in 2013 (washingtonpost.com)
Japanese Team Dominates Competition to Create Rescue Robots (nytimes.com)
Are Robots Taking Our Jobs, or Making Them? (robotonomics.wordpress.com)

Jason Pontin, Editor in Chief and Publisher of MIT Technology Review

Posted on January 17, 2013 by timbatchelder

I’m Jason Pontin, Editor in Chief and Publisher of MIT Technology Review, and This Is How I Work
Tessa Miller, lifehacker.com

Since 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 100-year-old…

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Are Native Apps a Bust for News and Magazines? (getelastic.com)
New Media’s Movers & Shakers (forbes.com)
The Odd Role of the Publisher/Editor (digiday.com)
Technology – so much more than social media! (cientifica.com)

Funf: computational social science in your pocket

Posted on December 19, 2012 by timbatchelder

Open-source Funf platform taps into Android’s huge knowledge about you
By Daniel Cossins, wired.co.uk

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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…

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Why Google just hired the Behavio Team (glass-apps.org)
Silicon Alley Insider: Google Just Bought A Cool SXSW Startup, Behavio (GOOG) (businessinsider.com)
Knight Foundation-Backed Mobile Sensor Startup Behavio Shuts Down As Founders Join Google (rosevilleitconsult.wordpress.com)

The Fab Academy is a six-month long digital fabrication program

Posted on November 25, 2012 by timbatchelder

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…

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Congratulations, Your iPhone Has Been Unlocked (makezine.com)
NASA To Use Google And MIT Backed Satellite For Finding New Planets (ubergizmo.com)
Printing Custom Lego-Compatible Beams (makezine.com)

Intelligent.ly: New startups aim to meet tech knowledge needs of working professionals

Posted on May 1, 2012 by timbatchelder

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.

Startup Watch: 5 to follow (Jan. 29-Feb. 5) (bizjournals.com)
Businesses hope to bring startups to Hopkinton (metrowestdailynews.com)
New ed tech startup accelerator, LearnLaunchX, planned for Boston area (bizjournals.com)
Boston’s Hardware Startups Need an Identity (xconomy.com)
Will Google Glass Create an Omni-Web? (edrodpov.com)
Young Forex Startup ITM Financial Unearths Next Generation Neural FX Risk Management (prweb.com)
The Gift of Career Rebirth: Boston Startup School Graduates 60 New Students (bostinno.com)
Ed-Tech Tidbits: Launch Academy, LearnLaunch Step Out (xconomy.com)
[Study] Whose time is worth more: @Jason’s or @Dharmesh’s? (priceintelligently.web11.hubspot.com)
Investors make a $27M bet in ad-tech startup DataXu (venturebeat.com)

Stanford’s Online High School Raises the Bar

Posted on August 23, 2011 by timbatchelder

Stanford’s Online High School Raises the Bar – NYTimes.com.

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 audacity of Udacity: Google’s Sebastian Thrun vs. elite university diplomas. (radicalsocialentreps.org)
New study links LA Unified’s new schools to elementary student performance benefits (newscenter.berkeley.edu)
As K-12 goes high-tech, colleges get more virtual (msnbc.msn.com)
As Techies Flock to Stanford, MIT, Even Penn, Crimson Goes Green With Envy (betabeat.com)
Stanford/Intel study details power of new chip to diagnose disease, analyze protein interactions (eurekalert.org)

MIT Media Lab: Reality Mining

Posted on September 7, 2010 by timbatchelder

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.