MIT News: November/December 2008
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Open Up and Say Eureka
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Innovation can come from anywhere when hardware designs are freely shared.
By Kate Greene
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Meet the Author
- Do It Yourself
- Christopher Kelty examines the ideas behind free software.
By Erica Naone, SM '07
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Features
- Written in Stone
- Professor Dianne Newman, PhD '98, studies rocks for clues about the origins of photosynthesis--and how chronic infections take hold.
By Katherine Bourzac, SM '04
- A Game of Telephone
- MIT's role in the device's development is often lost in the telling.
By Seth Shulman
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