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Federal Agency Needed to Take Charge of Nation’s Power Grid, Says MIT
A federal agency should have the lead role in securing the critical infrastructure, MIT researchers said, but did not state whether that agency should be Homeland Security. – A single federal agency should be in charge of defending the nation’s critical infrastructure from cyber-attacks, and not the patchwork of organizations currently in charge, according... »
MIT Smarter Electric Vehicles Systems For Smart Cities
Smart electric vehicles are a big project at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge. Electric vehicles could be delivered when drivers need the cars, rather than have cars sitting parking lots waiting for a driver. These new technology transportation systems incorporate new batteries, new electric motors, GPS, computers, and search technologies to deliver... »
MIT prof among 3 Nobel economics winners – BusinessWeek
FOXNews MIT prof among 3 Nobel economics winnersBusinessWeekA bleary-eyed Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Peter Diamond was being driven home from Logan Airport by his wife early Monday when a colleague called to congratulate him on winning the 2010 Nobel economics prize. …Nobel in economics puts Northwestern in spotlightThe Associated PressSummary Box: Diamond Wins,... »
Google fashions Android dev kit for dummies (from Scratch) – Register
NDTV.com Google fashions Android dev kit for dummies (from Scratch)RegisterGoogle has unveiled an experimental tool that lets non-developers develop applications for Android phones. This Google Labs project is known as App Inventor for Android, and it's based on platforms built at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, …Android Gets a Build-Your-Own-App AppPC WorldGoogle Encourages Mass... »
Paul A. Samuelson, Groundbreaking Economist, Dies at 94 – New York Times
AFP Paul A. Samuelson, Groundbreaking Economist, Dies at 94New York TimesThe economist Paul Samuelson discussed the implications of outsourcing in his office at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2004. By MICHAEL M. WEINSTEIN Paul A. Samuelson, the first American Nobel laureate in economics and the foremost …Economist Paul Samuelson Dies at 94Wall Street... »