The Massachusetts Institute of Technology announced Sunday that it will launch an investigation into its role in the death of renowned Web activist Aaron Swartz, who took his own life in his Brooklyn, ...

An MIT-Microsoft research project called iCampus aims to show that Web services can help realize the promise of the Web browser: broad access to information. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer ...

MIT and Khan Academy have partnering on an initiative called MIT+K12. As part of the collaboration, which began July 2011, videos produced by students of the Cambridge, MA-based university will be ...

Hacking group Anonymous has taken over part of MIT’s website to post a tribute to Aaron Swartz and call for reforms to computer crime and intellectual property laws. “Whether or not the government ...

We'll forgive you if you failed to take MIT up on its offer take its courses for free when it rolled out its MITx online learning platform last year. However, Harvard took notice of its efforts, and ...

It's hard to find anyone who'd argue that websites load too quickly. Mobile pages constantly creak under the weight of complex visual elements and ad networks. It's led to an ad-blocking boom, ...

HID Global supports the responsible use of RFID technology so that privacy protections are considered in all applications. According to Denis Hébert, the company’s president and CEO, “We are pleased ...

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology took down a history course Web page after Chinese students complained about a 19th century wood-print image of Japanese soldiers beheading Chinese prisoners.

Canadian universities are agog after the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Wednesday announced what appears to be a world first: It is making most of its course materials available to the public ...

An online education organization backed and funded by MIT and Harvard University will use open-source technology to offer free classes over the Internet, the two schools announced Wednesday at a press ...

An MIT Media Lab robot mimicked silk worms and spiders and wove a cocoon-like structure with a little programming help from humans. Inspired by nature, the robot used yarn-like material that it placed ...