Hello everyone – I’m Miho, an undergraduate senior majoring in Mechanical Engineering with the concentration in Biomedical Applications and International Development. My interest lies on product development, user-interface design and capacity building. I’m pretty heavily involved in D-lab (http://d-lab.mit.edu/) – where we design appropriate technologies needed in developing countries – […]
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I am currently a research assistant at the Center for Civic Media. Being a foreigner to both MIT and the country in general, it has been a great learning experience. Prior to joining the lab, I worked at the Nation, the leading media house based in Kenya, developing tools to […]
The Changing Places group runs the City Science lecture series. Today they are hosting Nigel Jacob (Co-Chair), Chris Osgood (Co-Chair), and Michael Evans (Developer) from the Office of New Urban Mechanics for the City of Boston. Ryan Chin (Managing Director, City Science) introduces the three speakers as the key people […]
It’s early September and a new crew of master’s students are starting work at Center for Civic Media. If you’re interested in becoming part of next year’s team, this is a great time to start working on your application, and you likely have some questions about how one gets accepted […]
Spike Lee joins Zach Braff and Rob Ford’s Veronica Mars on the list of celebrities to turn to Kickstarter to fund a project. It now seems that no star is too big — or too cool — to crowdfund. But what does the arrival of big names mean for the future of crowdfunding? With […]