Topics: Outreach

Grad student Solomon Assefa co-founded the MIT Africa Internet Technology Initiative (AITI), a student-run program that sends MIT students to teach Internet skills to African students and teachers. The program has sent 30 MIT students to Kenya, Ethiopia, and Ghana over the past five years and reached about 500 students and 30 teachers in Africa. Photo: Ed Quinn
Spring 2004

Teaching Technology

Grad student Solomon Assefa co-founded a group that teaches Internet technology to students in Africa.

Dr. Joseph Coughlin, director of MIT's new AgeLab, studies ways technology can improve mobility for older people. He got interested in aging in childhood when he shared an interest in amateur radio with a circle of elderly friends. Photo: Ed Quinn
Fall 1999

Senior Travel

Dr. Joseph Coughlin, director of MIT’s new AgeLab, studies how technology can improve mobility for older people.

Senior Researcher Walter Bender heads a group developing a dramatic TV series about MIT, which aims to humanize technology and make it interesting to a mass audience. Photo: Ed Quinn
Spring 1999

‘Science Is Drama’

Senior Research Scientist Walter Bender of the Media Lab creates a pilot for a one-hour TV series about MIT.