Imagine technology that lets you pay for products by waving your cell phone over a reader. ...more

January 28, 2009

A Harvard Business School alumnus has given the university its largest individual donation ever - $125 million to start a bioengineering institute, the school announced Tuesday. ...more

October 7, 2008

1986: The University of South Florida hires Sami Al-Arian to teach computer science. ...more

September 3, 2008

I must confess I'm no great fan of George Will's writings, but in his column "Immigration Fuels American Innovation" (Other Views, June 26), I can see his point that the United States should relax its immigration laws to allow more educated people into this country. When Will sounds the clarion call to the world to "send us your Ph. D.s" (but keep your peasants home), it validates and reinforces my opinion. The point is brought into focus when one considers companies like Google, Yahoo and Intel, whose founders or co-founders include a Russian, a Chinese and a Hungarian Jew. ...more

June 28, 2008

Throughout most of his life, Lloyd Johnson was more interested in mathematics and science than art. ...more

June 14, 2008

Throughout most of his life, Lloyd Johnson was more interested in mathematics and science than art. ...more

June 7, 2008

State troopers arrested an MIT student at gunpoint Friday after she walked into Logan International Airport wearing a computer circuit board and wiring on her sweatshirt. Authorities call it a fake bomb; she called it art. ...more

September 22, 2007