News

• September 7, 2011:Locu Raises $600K from Boston Angels to Boost Local Search(Founded out of MIT, Startup from 6.898 Fall 2010 raises $600K seed round )
• September 7, 2011:Local Business Data Provider Locu Raises Seed Round (Linked Data Ventures, Startup from 6.898 Fall 2010)
• September 7, 2011Locu, Formerly Goodplates, Raises Seed Funding to Pursue Online Menu Platform(Linked Data Ventures, Startup from 6.898 Fall 2010)
• August 19, 2011: Tim Berners-Lee voted most inspirational person in their 50s
• August 17, 2011: App Inventor gets a new take on life thanks to MIT, AndroidPress.com (Hal Abelson App Inventor)
• August 16, 2011: MIT Launches New Center for Mobile Learning, MIT Press (Hal Abelson quoted)
• August 16, 2011: MIT gets Google gift for new Center for Mobile Learning, Mass High Tech (Hal Abelson)
• June 6, 2011: Ben Barenblat awarded Paul E. Gray Fund for UROP (Summer 2011)
• June 3, 2011: The ascendance of App Inventor, O'Reilly Radar (Hal Abelson App Inventor)
• June 2, 2011: Obama Administration Tries ‘Carrot and Stick’ on Web Privacy, The Wall Street Journal (quotes Daniel Weitzner)
• May 25, 2011: Web Science - helping ensure the healthy development of the future Web, U. OF Southampton ECS News (Quotes Tim)
• May 19, 2011: Google Celebrates MIT’s 150th Anniversary,Search Engine Journal (Hal Abelson helped create App Inventor)
• May 2, 2011: Oshani Seneviratne Selected For Yahoo! Key Scientific Challenges Program
• April 21, 2011: Web creator, Sir Tim Berners-Lee calls on governments to preserve net neutrality, The Economic Times
• April 18, 2011: Tim Berners-Lee warns over threats to online freedom , BBC News
• March 24, 2011: Patchwork of Laws Means Company Headaches , International Association of Privacy Professionals (quotes Daniel Weitzner)
• March 23, 2011: Google, Internet Companies Face Too Many Privacy Rules, U.S. Official Says, Bloomberg (quotes Daniel Weitzner)
• March 10, 2011: Daniel Weitzner is the new White House deputy CTO for Internet policy, gov20.govfresh
• December 2010: Fuming Shih winner of the 2010 Roberto Padovani Scholarship, Qualcomm, Inc.
• November 2010: The Web is threatened in CNET about Tim's Scientific American article
• November 2010: K. Waterman and Sam Wang win Best Paper Award at IEEE Homeland Security Conference 2010
• October 2010: W3C and DIG organize a workshop on Privacy and data usage control
• September 2010: Our new course titled Linked Data Ventures is aimed at teaching students about Semantic Web technology and about building a working prototype and producing a viable business pitch.
• July 2010: Google’s Do-It-Yourself App Creation Software a NYT article about Hal's App Inventor work at Google
• June 2010: Summer UROP openings are available. DIG has three UROP projects.
• 22 December 2009: Register for the Linked Data Product Development Lab offered by DIG CSAIL and MIT Entrepreneurship Center during IAP 2010.
• 2 April 2009: MIT Undergraduates - summer UROP openings are available for CSAIL Hacker Heaven. DIG has five UROP projects: "Advanced Open Social Microblogging", "Advanced Web Application: Tabulator", " Online Data Integration Using Semantic Web technologies", "Policy Assurance for Database Queries", and "Policy-Based Reasoning for Information Handling Control in Decentralized (Web) Environments".
• 21 March 2008: Daniel Weitzner is interviewed in an NPR Science Friday broadcast on Online Privacy.
• 25 February 2008: Daniel Weitzner testifies at US Federal Communications Commission hearing on Net Neutrality and Broadband Network Management. [slides][webcast]
• 1 March 2007: Tim Berners-Lee offers testimony to the United States House of Representatives Internet and Telecommunications Subcommittee hearing on the Future of the World Wide Web.
• 8-12 January 2007: Semantic Web Bootcamp, and MIT IAP course taught by Tim Berners-Lee with special guests Jim Hendler, m c schraefel and Daniel Weitzner.
• 28 August 2006: Report on TAMI/Portia Workshop on Privacy and Accountability published. (See Feigenbaum and Weitzner (eds.), "Report on the 2006 TAMI/Portia Workshop on Privacy and Accountability.")
• PORTIA-TAMI sponsored Workshop on Privacy and Accountability: 28-29 June 2006 at MIT CSAIL