Junior Geek of the Month: Nigel Barnett will pursue engineering at MIT, and later, his astronaut dream Nigel Barnett has spent his childhood designing, building, destroying and tinkering. He started with LEGOs, moved on to DC motors… Read More
MIT computer scientists troll Donald Trump over tweet about planes becoming ‘too complex to fly’ In the wake of Sunday’s fatal Boeing 737 MAX airplane crash in Ethiopia, President Donald Trump took computer scientists to… Read More
TLDR: Self-flying planes, Cat celeb Lil Bub lends poop to biotech startup, Facebook tool that tracks your time in the app Today’s featured stories Boeing to open research center in Boston area, focusing on autonomous aircraft Cat celebrity Lil Bub lends… Read More
Boeing to open research center in Boston area, focusing on autonomous aircraft Boeing says it’ll be moving into a 100,000-square-foot research and lab space in Cambridge, Mass., that will focus on the… Read More
Scary or reassuring? This vision-free robot can feel its way through dark danger zones Boston Dynamics’ scary-smart robots make use of sophisticated computer vision, but MIT is following a different strategy with its Cheetah… Read More
MIT student wows ’60 Minutes’ by surfing the internet and ordering pizza — with his mind If getting away from your laptop or smartphone any other internet-connected device is your last hope for getting lost in… Read More
MIT and Commonwealth startup add a new twist to the commercial fusion race A new entrant in the race to commercialize fusion energy, Commonwealth Fusion Systems, aims to capitalize on superconductor technology from… Read More
MIT President Rafael Reif believes that tech, science and students can change the world Can a better understanding of human intelligence make for smarter machines? Rafael Reif thinks so. He’s an internationally renowned electrical… Read More
Podcast GeekWire Podcast: MIT’s president on human intelligence and the quest for smarter machines Can a better understanding of human intelligence make for smarter machines? We explored that topic this week with Rafael Reif,… Read More
IBM makes a 10-year, $240M investment in artificial intelligence research at MIT IBM is making a 10-year, $240 million investment in artificial intelligence research through a new lab it’s creating in partnership… Read More
In their latest edition of terrifying robotic creatures, MIT researchers create invisible fish-hunting bot Here’s a fish tale that really is about the one that got away — with video to prove it. A new… Read More
Secrets of sports analytics: Top athletes, coaches, execs explain importance of analyzing data It started inside a MIT classroom a decade ago, with Daryl Morey and Jessica Gelman teaching a small group of students about… Read More
Live from Boston: Follow GeekWire’s coverage at the MIT sports analytics conference For the first time, GeekWire will be reporting live from the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference (SSAC) — also known… Read More
MIT spinoff Tenacity raises $1.5M to improve workplace productivity with ‘social physics’ Tenacity is raising money to help companies improve worker productivity. The MIT spinoff, which relocated to Seattle in 2014, today… Read More
Study: Entrepreneurs with direct flight access to venture capital backers are more likely to succeed A new study from MIT discovered that startups are more likely to succeed when their venture capital backers are connected to… Read More
X-ray vision devices coming soon, thanks to MIT researchers It’s one superpower that’s been envied throughout the ages, but a new spin-off company of MIT researchers might be bringing… Read More
Why MIT writing prof and author Junot Diaz makes his students watch ‘Star Wars’ If you don’t know who Junot Diaz is, you should learn now. Not only is he a badass author,… Read More
Forget self-driving cars, Toyota investing $50M in A.I. to develop ‘intelligent’ vehicles Today, Toyota announced a $50 million, five-year collaboration with Stanford and MIT to develop “intelligent” cars. As the New York Times… Read More
Drug-delivering microchips one step closer to market, thanks in part to Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation A biotech company that received some of its first major funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has announced… Read More
Sorry, Shatner: MIT water project wins award, becomes viable option for world’s water woes William Shatner made massive headlines with his scheme to build a pipeline from Seattle to California to solve the state’s… Read More
Size matters: MIT study finds that tech companies with shorter names do better Keeping it simple pays off, at least when it comes to naming your tech company. A new study by MIT… Read More
MIT study analyzes deceptive online reviews written by loyal customers “Cyber-shilling” is already well-known in the online review space, when people are paid to write faux reviews for products or… Read More
Impressions of Seattle: Thoughts on Microsoft, Amazon and Adobe Although I’m a tech geek, I haven’t actually worked for a tech company yet. My background is in finance, so… Read More
The inside story of how a Seattle angel investor discovered Swype Guest commentary from Bill Bryant: I have been in the software business for more than 20 years now, spanning some… Read More
A Twitter crime thriller, and why laptop tracking could save you some heartache I got hooked tonight on an amazing Twitter drama, watching in real time as Sean Power live Tweeted about his… Read More
