Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology today are launching a nonprofit, open source joint online learning venture called EdX, with the first courses to start in the fall of this year.
New location-sharing apps promise to provide more value to users than ever — but they will surely teeter awfully close to the edge of creepy for many people.
Stanford and Google’s Sebastian Thrun announced on stage that he is giving up his tenured professorship to teach free online courses at a new start-up he’s founded, called Udacity.
On Dec. 12, 1991, Paul Kunz set up a Web interface based on a Web server to search a popular database of particle physics literature, and sent an email to Tim Berners-Lee about it.