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• Harvard, MIT online learning portal to help Web, classroom learning

  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 conference.

• MIT takes aim at secure, self-healing cloud

  What if a cloud computing infrastructure could recognize a cyberattack, eliminate it, and never stop working while all that is being done? That's what researchers at MIT, with help from the federal government, are investigating the feasibility of.

• MIT Sloan seeking innovative CIOs, startups for May symposium

  The MIT Sloan CIO Symposium is seeking nominations for its annual CIO innovations award as well as applications from startups that would like to grab some face time with CIOs at the annual event.

• MIT researchers build wireless 'pharmacy on a chip'

  Researchers at MIT have developed what they're hoping will be something of a pharmacy on a chip.

• 9 "university researcher approved" tips for awesome Tweeting

  Researchers from Carnegie Mellon, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Georgia Tech have issued a list of 9 tips for better tweeting based on a study of Twitter usefulness (see "Most tweets are useless, Twitter users say").

• Most tweets are garbage: Twitter users

  Twitter has been celebrated for its ubiquity and impact on world events from natural disaster recovery to political uprisings. But researchers from a group of big time universities have found that useful tweets are few and far between.

• MIT opens new Media Lab Complex, expands research space

  MIT has expanded the footprint of its Media Lab with a new US$90 million, 163,000-square-foot modern building.

• MIT creates picture-driven programming for the masses

  Computer users with rudimentary skills will be able to program via screen shots rather than lines of code with a new graphical scripting language called Sikuli that was devised at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

• Nanotech used to build batteries out of paper

  Researchers at Stanford University have used nanotechnology to create lightweight and even bendable batteries out of paper.

• MIT rsearchers developing robotic driving companion

  Ever wish you had someone to accompany you on a long drive -- a companion that knows you well, can help you avoid traffic jams, maybe even help find the cheapest gas along the route home from work?

• Nanotech used to build cancer-detecting microchip

  University researchers have used nanomaterials to develop a microchip they say has enough sensitivity to detect early stage cancer when it is most treatable.

• MIT creating microchip that could restore vision

  Researchers at MIT have developed a microchip that could enable blind people to regain some level of vision.

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  Flying car passes its test flight program

  A US company today announced that its flying car has has successfully completed its initial flight testing program.

• MIT: Cloud computing to reshape IT

  A panel of experts yesterday said that more companies would look to cloud computing in the near future because of its potential cost savings and its ability to deliver flexible scaling.

• MIT: Nanotech targets and kills cancerous tumors

  Scientists have long known that heat is an effective weapon against cancerous tumors. The problem, though, has been how to heat the tumors to the point that it kills them without damaging surrounding tissue.