2. Categories

      Data Center Design: Construction, Container, Data Center Outages, Monitoring, Power and Cooling
      Policy: Cap and Trade, Carbon Footprint, Carbon Reduction Commitment, Carbon Tax, Emissions
      Power: Biomass, Fossil Fuel, Fuel Cell, Geothermal, Hydro, Nuclear, Solar, Wind
      Application: Cloud Computing, Grid Computing
      Technology: Microblogging, Networking, Servers, Storage, Supercomputer

  3. About MIT

    The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT has five schools and one college, containing 32 academic departments, with a strong emphasis on scientific and technological research. MIT is one of two private land-grant universities and is also a sea grant and space grant university.

    MIT was founded by William Barton Rogers in the year 1861 in response to the increasing industrialization of the United States. Although based upon German and French polytechnic models of an institute of technology, MIT's founding philosophy of "learning by doing" made it an early pioneer in the use of laboratory instruction, undergraduate research, and progressive architectural styles. As a federally funded research and development center during World War II, MIT scientists developed defense-related technologies that would later become integral to computers, radar, and inertial guidance. After the war, MIT's reputation expanded beyond its core competencies in science and engineering into the social sciences including economics, linguistics, political science, and management.

    MIT's endowment and annual research expenditures are among the largest of any American university. MIT graduates and faculty are noted for their technical acumen (72 affiliated Nobel Laureates, 47 National Medal of Science recipients, and 29 MacArthur Fellows), entrepreneurial spirit (a 1997 report claimed that the aggregated revenues of companies founded by MIT affiliates would make it the twenty-fourth largest economy in the world), and irreverence (the popular practice of constructing elaborate pranks, or hacking, often has anti-authoritarian overtones).

  1. MIT

    0 Comments Leave a Comment

    1-15 of 21 // 1 2 »

    1. Mentioned In 21 Articles

    2. Top 10 Phat Startups of 2012

      Explore GigaOM (May 8 2012) Wind

      Top 10 Phat Startups of 2012 ...idge affiliated companies and they’ve been designated with NBVP.) 1. Heartland Robotics: iRobot and MIT alum Rodney Brooks’ Heartland Robotics is making robots flexible and cheap enough to do manual task... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Google   MIT

    3. 2011 – the year Ireland became ‘home of the cloud’

      Explore siliconrepublic.com (Dec 22 2011) Cloud Computing

      2011 – the year Ireland became ‘home of the cloud’ ...r and new RTÉ 'Dragon' Sean O'Sullivan was recognised by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Technology Review as being the co-creator - along with George Favaloro - of the term 'cloud comput... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Amazon.com   Europe   Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    4. Google’s Greener Energy, Products & Scrapbook

      Explore Technorati (Dec 21 2011) Construction , Emissions

      Google’s Greener Energy, Products & Scrapbook ...e your Top Green Searches for 2011? As a Fortune 500 and startup executive, Ed Valdez leverages his MIT background to provide wireless and eco-tech insights. He is Chief Eco Officer of Ecotech Ventures, ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Google   MIT

    5. Can We Build Tomorrow's Breakthroughs?

      Explore Technology Review (Dec 19 2011) Solar

      Can We Build Tomorrow's Breakthroughs? ...quent strategy these days for early-stage energy startups. Gerbrand Ceder, a materials scientist at MIT, initiated a "materials genome project" several years ago that uses computers to analyze and predic... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Intel   Carnegie Mellon University   General Electric

    6. Looking forward: energy efficiency from the computer to the cloud

      Explore Scientific American Blog Network (Oct 16 2011) Cloud Computing

      Looking forward: energy efficiency from the computer to the cloud ...______________________ ____________________________________________________________ Send Last month MIT’s Technology Review reported on a new development that the energy efficiency of computers doubles r... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Intel   Google   Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

    7. Facebook Turns to A Little Solar For Its Data Center

      Explore GigaOM (Apr 17 2011) Solar

      Facebook Turns to A Little Solar For Its Data Center ...rison’s sake (these aren’t apples to apples, but just to give you an indicator) according to a 2009 MIT study, 16,000 servers used by eBay are thought to use 60,000 MWh per year. Forty thousand servers u... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Greenpeace   Google   Yahoo

    8. GE Completes Lineage Power Deal

      Explore peHUB (Mar 2 2011) Cloud Computing

      GE Completes Lineage Power Deal ... phone address book may well be the answer. Gary Halliwell was joined in constructing this piece by MIT associate professor of comparative media studies Ian Condry. The proposed “do not track” bill being... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Amazon.com   Google   Cisco

    9. MIT: Light speed now a bottleneck in fastest networks

      Explore Business Technology Leadership (Dec 6 2010)

      MIT: Light speed now a bottleneck in fastest networks ...portunities quickly," said study co-author Alexander Wissner-Gross, who a research affiliate of the MIT Media Laboratory and the founder of the Enernetics research consultancy. As a result, the researche... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   MIT

    10. Big Data Is Big Business

      Explore Data Center Knowledge (Oct 19 2010) Cloud Computing

      Big Data Is Big Business ... and development behind the casino card counting systems, taking in data from all sources including MIT grads featured in the book titled Bringing Down the House and later the movie, 21. Jonas shares som... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Google   Oracle   Data Center Knowledge

    11. A First Day Look at the Philomathia Foundation Symposium at Berkeley: Pathways to a Sustainable Energy Future

      Explore Berkeley Lab News Center (Oct 6 2010) Emissions , Fossil Fuel , Nuclear , Wind

      A First Day Look at the Philomathia Foundation Symposium at Berkeley: Pathways to a Sustainable Energy Future ...e (MEWT) to the FloDesign Wind Turbine Corporation, and for a grid-level electric storage system to MIT. “At ARPA-E we are looking for new technologies, devices and prototype systems that do not exist ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   United Kingdom   Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory   MIT

    12. Iron, Power, and Cloud Computing: Let's Get Real

      Explore Home | SYS-CON MEDIA (Sep 29 2010) Carbon Footprint , Fossil Fuel , Solar , Wind , Cloud Computing

      Iron, Power, and Cloud Computing: Let's Get Real ... from the Commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard. He is a former Publisher at IDG and Guest Lecturer at MIT. He's an orchestral trumpet player. He splits most of his time between Silicon Valley and Southeast... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Greenpeace   Sun Microsystems   MIT

    13. Does Google Instant Mean More Energy Use?

      Explore Salon.com (Sep 10 2010) Carbon Footprint

      Does Google Instant Mean More Energy Use? ...ware and software will mean in terms of energy costs. According to last year’s research report from MIT, Carnegie Mellon and Akamai, Google spends over $38 million per year for electricity to power its i... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Google   MIT

    14. Will Thermoelectric Servers Power Greener Data Centers?

      Explore Earth2Tech (Aug 17 2010) Servers

      Will Thermoelectric Servers Power Greener Data Centers? ...ectric materials that conduct electricity but not heat. In March, researchers at Boston College and MIT announced that they had achieved a major thermoelectric efficiency increase in bismuth telluride b... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Data Center Knowledge   Pike Research   MIT

    15. As network speeds increase optical switching research increases with green and energy efficient benefits

      Explore greenm3.com (Jul 8 2010) Networking

      As network speeds increase optical switching research increases with green and energy efficient benefits Initially, I saw MIT's news announcing 100 times faster with less energy consumption, and dismissed the news. An Interne... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   MIT

    16. Tuning the energy innovation engine at MIT

      Explore Technology News (Mar 8 2010) Emissions , Fossil Fuel , Nuclear , Solar , Wind

      Tuning the energy innovation engine at MIT ...inancing gaps, government policy, nuclear and natural gas, and, of course, science experiments. The MIT Energy Conference on Saturday had a little bit of everything, as entrepreneurs, business people, an... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   InfoWorld   MIT

    17. 1-15 of 21 // 1 2 »