
This is serious business: sports, game shows, games of chance, schoolyard games, board games, role playing, and digital games. This course looks at the history and evolution of games and game mechanics...

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MIT President Emeritus Paul Gray has been awarded the IEEE Founders Medal in recognition of his "exemplary career of leadership in education, research and public policy." Gray has been at MIT for more than half a century in a range of teaching, advising and administrative roles...

An MIT team has claimed a $40,000 prize by taking less than nine hours to find 10 weather balloons placed randomly in public places as part of the most recent DARPA Challenge...

MIT mechanical engineers Anette "Peko" Hosoi and Amos Winter have designed robots modeled after razor clams, which they call "the Ferrari of underwater diggers," in the hope of one day using the robots to detonate underwater mines.Winter is no stranger to solving complex problems with practical...

As President Obama announces the new federal Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) education initiative, MIT OpenCourseWare’s own STEM initiative, Highlights for High School, celebrates its one millionth visit. Watch a new video overview of the site.

Students from the Fall 2009 session of Community Growth and Land-Use met last week with the Lower Highlands Neighborhood Association in Lowell, Massachusetts to present their recommendations for housing and business opportunities in the area, as well as strategies to reuse vacant buildings and lots...

Musical composition is an art, not a science; sometimes the best choice of harmony or melodic detail is the freshest and least predictable. Writing in Tonal Forms I gives students an opportunity to explore the materials of tonal composition in the context of their own original compositions...

Scientists at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) have circulated beams of protons in opposite directions at the same time, causing the first particle collisions in the Large Hadron Collider.If you're a little rusty on Quantum Mechanics, give yourself a refresher with Prof...

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Believe it or not, computer games can be educational. Prof. Eric Klopfer's Computer Games and Simulations for Investigation and Education is a project-based look at how we learn from interactive computer environments. Be sure to check out the student projects in the Projects section.

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MIT Professor Ron Rivest has helped develop a cryptographic voting system that could ensure accurate vote counts. Prof. Rivest covers cryptography in Network and Computer Security on OCW.

Embarking on a project? Check out Project Management, which covers basic tools, skills and the knowledge necessary to manage a project from inception to completion.
























