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Jeopardy Smackdown: MIT sophomore enters College Championship finals
Trevor Walker on the Jeopardy set. If you’ve been watching this week’s College Championship on Jeopardy, you know that MIT Computer Science and Engineering sophomore Trevor Walker has already won the...
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Mobile Gaming Jam Captures Network Data
Tiffany Chen and Ravi Netravali at the Stata Center. What did MIT students do last weekend? Some of them hosted a game jam. Research students in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence...
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Google Glass: Inspired by Terminator
Thad Starner As a student at MIT, Thad Starner ’91, SM ’95, PhD ’99 longed for cyborg eyes like the Terminator had—but only to make studying easier. Now, Starner is the technical lead and manager on...
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Fire Hose Games Releases Go Home Dinosaurs
From left to right: Ethan Fenn, Eitan Glinert, and Sharat Bhat of Fire Hose Games. You may know the family-friendly video games Slam Bolt Scrappers for the PlayStation Network and the PC, or a new iPad...
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Training Tomorrow’s Leaders: John Kotter’s Keynote Speech at the Annual AILG...
John P. Kotter ’68 SM ’70 If you asked Professor John P. Kotter ’68, SM ’70 about his personal hero, he wouldn’t hesitate: Nelson Mandela. Kotter opened his keynote speech at the Association of...
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Unlocking the Mystery of MOOCs: MIT hosts the LINC 2013 Conference
Cecilia d’Oliveira ’77, SM ’79, the Executive Director of MIT OpenCourseWare MITx’s first offer of an online MIT course back in December 2011 received a huge turn-out of almost 155,000...
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SunKalp Brings Solar Tech to “Forgotten Villages” in India
Villagers in Gulabganj, India Gulabganj, India has not had electricity for 25 years, and Kanika Khanna MNG ’08 is on a mission to change that. Khanna’s company, SunKalp, brings solar technology to what...
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Mending Boston: Join the Memorial Quilting Project at the MIT Museum
Local artist Clara Wainwright leading a quilting session. Photo: Patrick Rosso The night that MIT Police Officer Sean Collier was killed, artist and Cambridge resident Clara Wainwright was nearby,...
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Tech Consultant Kickstarts a Film Career
Lila French ’99 lives an impressive double life; by night, she’s the lead actress, director, and producer of a Kickstarter-funded independent film adaptation of Leonard Melfi’s 1965 play Birdbath. By...
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Biochemical Engineer Founds “Smarter” Skincare Line
Jasmina Aganovic ’09 Most 16-year-olds worry about their skin, but Jasmina Aganovic ’09 turned her youthful experiments with skincare into a lifelong research project. When teen-aged Aganovic tried...
View ArticlePresident of edX Appears on The Colbert Report, Explains MOOCs
Anant Agarwal told Slice of MIT last January that edX had “attracted more than half a million unique users from around the world”; at present, edX.org has registered “over a million students from...
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Alum Helps Kids Learn to Code Online, but Questions Tech-Enabled Learning
Dr. Mitchel Resnick SM ’88, PhD ’92 Dr. Mitchel Resnick SM ’88, PhD ’92, who worked with the MIT Media Lab to create Scratch, a simple computer programming language designed to “democratize digital...
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Building a Robot Brain: Alumni Compete in DARPA Robotics Challenge
Artist’s concept of the DARPA Robotics Challenge, via DARPA.mil Boston Dynamics has built a robot named Atlas that is strong enough to save your life—but does it know what to do in an emergency? The...
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Alum’s Dental Scanner Startup Helps Dentists Go Digital
Nobody likes a dental procedure, especially one that requires moldable silicone impressions; the process feels uncomfortable, and worse, it can sometimes yield inaccurate results. Professor Douglas P....
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In Case You Missed It: Five Summer Slice of MIT Picks
This summer at Slice of MIT, we’ve covered more than a few compelling alumni stories. Did you miss any of our favorites over the past few months? Tyler Hague SM ’00. Photo courtesy NASA. Meet NASA’s...
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Wear Your MBTA Pass as a Ring
What if you never had to dig through a bag in search of a T pass again? Chris Benson ’10, SM 12 and his co-founders at Ring Theory have created a solution: wear your T pass on your finger. The Sesame...
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MIT to Host the Boston Festival of Indie Games 2013
Via Boston FIG. Next Saturday, the Stratton Student Center will host a one-day celebration of video game creators, researchers, and fans—including noted MIT alumni, faculty, and students. The Boston...
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Holderness School Exhibit Explores Intersection of Art, Math and Science
This piece incorporates elephant hide paper and hand-blown glass. Photo: Erik and Martin Demaine. MIT’s father-son team of math artists—computer science professor Dr. Erik Demaine and...
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Sociologist Examines the World of Professional Video Gaming
T.L. Taylor’s latest book. T.L. Taylor studies the world of sports—specifically, the world of esports, which refers to the competitive gaming scene, from computer games like StarCraft II to video games...
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Alum Encourages Candy Artistry with 3D Chocolate Printer
Levi Lalla ’05 of piq Chocolates designed a Slice of MIT chocolate for us. Levi Lalla ’05′s dream to create a 3D chocolate printer began while he was an undergrad. “I wanted to use chocolate as a...
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