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  1. Added Dec 20, 2007 by schwangr and 1 other
    A collection of photos taken by some very excited person as he/she opens and boots up their $100/$200 laptop from the one laptop per child program for the first time.
  2. Added Dec 19, 2007 by schwangr
    CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Walter H. G. Lewin, 71, a physics professor, has long had a cult following at M.I.T. And he has now emerged as an international Internet guru, thanks to the global classroom the institute created to spread knowledge through cyberspace.
  3. Added Nov 27, 2007 by schwangr and 2 others
    Researchers at MIT have released a video and audio search tool that solves one of the most challenging problems in the field: how to break up a lengthy academic lecture into manageable chunks, pinpoint the location of keywords, and direct the user to them.
  4. Added Nov 19, 2007 by schwangr and 1 other
    You may not have the grades, the money or even the means to get to a physics class with one of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology?s best lecturers. But if you have an Internet connection anywhere in the world, you can watch a video of the Dutch-born physics professor, Walter Lewin, swinging on a cable across the front of a lecture hall in his "Classical Mechanics" course to demonstrate that weight doesn?t affect the time it takes a pendulum to complete a cycle of motion.
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