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MIT is going to put cellphone trackers in 3,000 pieces of trash, to track where it ends up (including in Seattle).

Quoted: Project Trash Track will use location-aware smart tags to visualize trash's amazing urban journey, from the side of the curb to the landfill and beyond

I see MIT is not teaching intro to CS using Python! Wow (so long having been Lisp/Scheme based).

Looks like a fun course, and you can do most of it online here with access to lecture notes and assignments.

Quoted: This subject is aimed at students with little or no programming experience. It aims to provide students with an understanding of the role computation can play in solving problems. It also aims to help students, regardless of their major, to feel justifiably confident of their ability to write small programs that allow them to accomplish useful goals. The class will use the Python programming language.

MIT trend in teaching CS toward more practical classes - like this one in building an Android application.

Unfortunately, MIT does not have it's introductory courses online in video format. But, my FAVORITE class at MIT is up here - and in my mind the CORE course for computer science.

The only drawback - it's Real Media video format so you have to download their spammy player.

Not to be outdone by Stanford, MIT has been sharing their online course material on the web for YEARS.... this page has all the CS and EE courses.

(well, they are kind of being outdown by Standford, whose online courses include the introductory ones on video, AND they are in multiple video formats including YouTube).

John Torode's company makes and LED lighting controller!

Quoted: EZ-Color?High-Brightness LED Controller Revolutionizing Lighting Design. Design with no C or Assembly code with PSoC Express? Control up to 16 LED Channels with up to 32-bits of resolution. Flexible Analog and Digital resources allow you to go beyond just color mixing design. PrISM Modulation Technology.

An oldie, but I never Faved it...

Quoted: Free Lecture Notes, Syllabus, Tutorials, Audio & Video from MIT professors. All Free. No registration. | MIT OpenCourseWare | ocw.mit.edu