Evident by the smell of masala chai and the smooth jazz rendition of “Sweet Caroline” filling the air near the Kendall/MIT Open Space, Oct. 5 marked the third year of Fall Party, an annual autumnal ...

Open source makes the technology world go ’round, forming as much as 90% of the modern software stack via frameworks; libraries; databases; operating systems; and countless stand-alone applications.

A decade after MIT began to put its teaching materials and lectures online via the OpenCourseWare platform, the university has announced that it will leverage these materials to provide an online ...

The storied tech institution launches MITx, an initiative to create an open-source online-learning software platform that can be used by other schools and complement its OpenCourseWare content. Martin ...

Do you enjoy online poker and dream of an education from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology? That’s now possible after the prestigious university recently announced two poker courses offered as ...

For the final installment of Filmmaker and the MIT Open Documentary Lab’s interview project with the foremost thinkers on transmedia, IDFA DocLab’s Caspar Sonnen answers our questions. Sonnen is the ...

In 1999–which may as well be 5,000 BC in internet years–the Laboratory for Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology buried a time capsule. The package, which was designed by ...

As part of an initiative to expand its online course offerings, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology plans to release as open source the software it will use to manage student online learning, ...