Neowin News Feed for: Harvard

Harvard unknowingly paid just over $27 for a real "Magna Carta" from centuries ago

Sayan Sen — Mon, 19 May 2025 22:16:01 +0000

Harvard Law School has revealed how it determined that the Magna Carta, which it had paid under $28 for, was the real deal. Read more...

Microsoft and OpenAI announce support for the new Institutional Data Initiative (IDI)

Pradeep Viswanathan — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 16:44:01 +0000

Harvard Law School Library launched the Institutional Data Initiative (IDI) with support from Microsoft and OpenAI to publish its collections as data for various purposes. Read more...

Researchers probe into RNA using deep learning to develop sensors for a COVID-19 diagnostic

Ather Fawaz — Wed, 07 Oct 2020 09:00:01 +0000

Two teams at the Wyss Institute have demonstrated the use of NLP and CV techniques to optimize RNA sequences to develop improved sensors for the SARS-CoV-2 genome that is responsible for COVID-19. Read more...

Microsoft and Harvard launch an open source platform for differential privacy

Hamza Jawad — Wed, 24 Jun 2020 19:32:01 +0000

Dubbed the "first of its kind", the open source platform has been developed as part of a collaboration with Harvard, with Microsoft utilizing the research university's OpenDP Initiative. Read more...

Researchers have developed a platform that could potentially enable optical computing

Ather Fawaz — Wed, 05 Feb 2020 17:22:01 +0000

A team of researchers at the Wyss Insitute at Harvard University have created a material that uses reversible swelling under a hydrogel that uses low-powered lasers to make optical logic gates. Read more...

Researchers have prototyped a technique that will quicken 3D printing significantly

Ather Fawaz — Wed, 13 Nov 2019 18:00:01 +0000

With multimaterial multinozzle 3D printing, a team at the Wyss Institute at Harvard reduced the time required to print complex shapes and objects to a fraction of the time required currently. Read more...

Harvard researchers have found a way to make 3D-printed organs more viable

Ather Fawaz — Sat, 07 Sep 2019 06:14:01 +0000

A new technique called SWIFT was used to 3D-print a synthetic perfusable cardiac tissue complete with a faux blood vessel network that could beat synchronously for a period of seven days. Read more...

Check out Harvard's thousand-robot flash mob

Vlad Dudau — Mon, 18 Aug 2014 08:25:44 +0000

Researchers from Harvard have created a robot swarm. Consisting of over 1000 'kilobots' the swarm can assemble itself and achieve tasks without the need for human intervention. Read more...

Former Windows head Steven Sinofsky to teach at Harvard

John Callaham — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 18:33:02 +0000

Steven Sinofsky, who left Microsoft after heading its Windows division in November, has confirmed on his Twitter page he will start teaching classes at Harvard Business School this spring. Read more...

RIAA is using illegal evidence, says Harvard Law professor

Brad Sams — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 13:11:04 +0000

The ever so popular group, the RIAA, is about to be handed a class action lawsuit for those who have been sued, settled, or fined by the organization for copyright infringement. How is all... Read more...

Bill Gates to Receive Honorary Harvard Degree in June

Sat, 24 Mar 2007 02:57:28 +0000

Deciding that becoming the world's richest man in the world was more important than graduating in 1977, Microsoft Corporation chairman Bill Gates dropped out of Harvard College (the wealthiest school in the U.S.) in 1975.... Read more...

Harvard Cyberposium highlights hot trends

Mon, 11 Feb 2002 10:07:09 +0000

Security Technologies, Artificial intelligence (AI), third-generation (3G) networking products and services, voice over Internet protocol and all things wireless are the hot technology areas and trends that IT executives who spoke over the weekend at... Read more...