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The Real SaaS Manifesto
Check out this white paper to learn the true definition of Software-as-a-Service, and discover what you could be missing out on.
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Yuchun Lee's journey from card counter to IBM's social media guru
The man in charge of IBM's effort to help chief marketing officers do their jobs learned how to take a chance while "Bringing Down the House" in Las Vegas.
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Inventing the future of digital media at MIT (photos)
The famed MIT Media Lab is a hotbed of ideas on how life is becoming more and more digital and how people will interact with their digitized surroundings in new ways.
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MIT's DIY wooden cell phone (photos)
MIT's Media Lab set out to use open-source design and readily available materials to make a cell phone that easy to customize. The result is somehow appealing to all aesthetics.
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Programmable 'smart sand' can assume any shape
MIT researchers are developing small magnetic cubes that can communicate with each other to auto-duplicate objects in a "sand box" using a subtractive production algorithm.
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Solar goes 3D in MIT research project
By designing solar photovoltaic panels into various tower configurations, researchers believe they can create a more predictable source of power over the entire year -- even on cloudy days.
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MIT camera grabs 3D images 'round corners (images)
Researchers in MIT's Media Lab have built a laser-powered camera that sees around corners at 1 trillion frames per second. Out of sight no longer means out of mind.
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MIT launches first free online course
MITx is now allowing students around the world to enroll in its first prototype online course.
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Enterprise architects: 'turn your company upside down'
'It's no longer enough for EAs to put a shared infrastructure in place and stand back and declare the business to be enabled.'
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Student sends MIT letter to space
A 17 year old MIT hopeful did something creative with her acceptance letter - launched it in to space.
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Enterprise architecture still a leap of faith for many companies
Before enterprise architecture, companies 'relied on individuals to do what seemed best.' That won't work in a hyper-competitive global economy, MIT researcher argues.
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MIT's Ross on how enterprise architecture and IT more than ever lead to business transformation
If you have all the money in the world, you're not forced to make tough decisions. Architecture is all about making tough decisions, understanding your tradeoffs, and recognizing that you're going...
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MIT to open up some courses to global audience -- free, online
MIT to join Stanford in offering courses for global participation. MIT says it will offer certificates for successful completion.
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MIT latest to expand online learning facilities
MIT is the latest institution to offer a wider range of free online learning resources. Will their open source software promote this idea to other institutions?
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MIT creates analogue 'brain' chip
Researchers have designed a new computer chip that mimics synaptic plasticity--how a brain's neurons adapt in response to new information.
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Bring back high-tech manufacturing to US says MIT president
The US is lacking the right investments in research and education-- the government needs to lead.
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Analytics-driven companies see competitive advantage: IBM-MIT study
New IBM-MIT study finds companies with advanced analytic capabilities accelerating ahead of their analytically challenged peers.
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Does information technology create or destroy jobs? Or is this even the right question?
The 2000s decade was a time of accelerating technology, accompanied by stagnant employment growth. This is no coincidence, MIT researchers argue. But how much technology is going to waste anyway?
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Universities foster the next big tech innovation through open source
The next big breakthrough in technology may not come from their own development teams, but from groups of students and educators collaborating through the Internet.
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$1,000 house a step closer for world's poor
MIT architects have produced the first prototype "Pinwheel House" in an effort to see if low-cost homes can be constructed for $1,000, total.
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Now, crowdsourcing can be embedded into applications
The MobileWorks API makes programmatic calls to its crowd of human beings -- thus embedding actual human intelligence into software applications, the vendor says.
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