MIT News: Jan/Feb 2012
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One of the nation´s foremost computer scientists, exasperated by the unfriendliness of today´s computer systems, suggests what designers can do to make machines serve human needs—rather than the other way around.
During total eclipses of the sun, at least one ancient culture performed mass human sacrifice to placate the gods. While our understanding of these celestial phenomena has grown, the author rediscovers the scientific curiosity they engender.
A variety of high-tech bomb detectors are under study, but certification, cost, and privacy dilemmas could keep them from your local airport.
Water may seem to be everywhere, but for a rising portion of the world´s population, there may soon be hardly a drop to drink -or to use for growing food, supporting industries and cities, and preserving life-giving ecosystems.
A recent photography exhibit goes behind the closed doors of major laboratories to shed fascinating light on the research shaping modern life.
Technologists and storytellers: Can´t we all just get along?
An inside look at research at MIT.
The computer and the human brainwork differently. Instead of trying to force one to emulate the other, designers would do better to ensure complementarity.
Digitized memorabilia such as home videos and family photograph albums can last forever. But they may well drown our descendents in accumulated megabytes
From Seattle to Newark, nonprofit community-based organizations are now teaming up with high-tech companies to reinvigorate inner-city economic life.
Escape Velocity: Cyberculture at the End of the Century
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