Tag: Media Lab
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Ireland counts the cost of MIT Media Lab fiasco
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Andrew Orlowski
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$40m down the bog The Irish government invested $40m of taxpayers’ money in MIT’s Media’s Lab Europe – and has bugger all to show for it. A report by the Republic’s public auditor-general also reveals that Media Lab executives awarded themselves large severance pay-offs when the money was running out, and refused to refund public…
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MIT invents computer that runs away
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Andrew Orlowski
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MIT has taken the unfriendly computer interface to its natural conclusion: and created a computer that runs away from you. We’ve all had experiences with user interface elements that run away from us: toolbars in Windows, or the drive icons on the Mac OS X desktop, for example. But “Clocky” goes all the way –…