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• Govt joins Atlassian and MiT in regional IT skills push

  The Federal Government takes IT skills push to the region through a partnership with Atlasssian and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

• Deep learning algorithm's learn how to frighten us

  ​Just in time for Halloween, researchers at Data61 and MIT Media lab have created a deep learning algorithm to generate disturbing imagery.

• MIT uses 4D maps to help robot teams navigate moving obstacles

  It's one thing to keep robots from crashing into fixed obstacles like walls or furniture, but preventing collisions with other moving things is a much tougher challenge.

• MIT proves flash is as fast as RAM, and cheaper, for big data

  When it comes to high-speed data processing, RAM has always been the go-to memory for computers because it's tens of thousands of times faster than disk drives and many times faster than NAND flash.

• MIT alums celebrate 10th anniversary of bogus CompSci paper generator with cheeky new tool

  Three MIT grads this week are celebrating the 10th anniversary of their clever <a href="http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/scigen/">SCIgen</a> program, which randomly generates computer science papers realistic enough to get accepted by sketchy technical conferences and publishers, with a brand new tool designed to poke even more fun at such outfits.

• Happy Pi Day! MIT to break admissions news at exactly 3/14/15/9:26

  How disappointing it would have been if MIT hadn't come up with a clever way to recognize this most special of Pi Days: 3/14/15/9:26:53... or 3.141592653 for you purists.

• These CompSci programs deliver most bang for buck, report finds

  The computer science programs at Stanford University, the University of California at Berkeley and MIT offer students the best return on investment, according to a new report by salary watcher PayScale.

• MIT researchers building chips to prevent leaky Internet of Things

  MIT researchers this week are demonstrating a design for new radio chips that could be used to efficiently power the Internet of Things.

• MIT names U.S. CTO Megan Smith as 2015 commencement speaker

  The <a href="http://newsoffice.mit.edu/2014/us-cto-megan-smith-commencement-speaker-1209">Massachusetts Institute of Technology</a> is getting a seriously early jump on its 2015 commencement exercises, naming U.S. CTO and MIT alum Megan Smith as its speaker for the June 5 event.

• Ford enlists MIT, Stanford to drive automated cars

  Ford is enlisting top U.S. universities to make self-driving cars a reality, announcing Wednesday that it hopes researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology can come up with advanced algorithms to help vehicles learn where pedestrians and other automobiles will be located.

• Researchers use nanotech to battle cancer

  Two universities this week announced that researchers in the schools have made advances in fighting cancer by using nanotechnology.

• "Hammered asinine requirements": Now there’s a secure password

  You’re best off forgetting your grammar lessons when it comes to creating passphrases, according to new research out of Carnegie Mellon University and MIT.

• Meet Baxter, the huggable industrial robot

  MIT kicked off this year's EmTech conference Wednesday with a presentation in which Rodney Brooks, the founder, chairman and CTO of Rethink Robotics, welcomed attendees to an interactive hug from its safe manufacturing robot called Baxter.

• MIT opens new Media Lab Complex, expands research space

  MIT has expanded the footprint of its Media Lab with a new US$90 million, 163,000-square-foot modern building.

• MIT creates picture-driven programming for the masses

  Computer users with rudimentary skills will be able to program via screen shots rather than lines of code with a new graphical scripting language called Sikuli that was devised at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.