Book Review: Cracking the Cube

Explore why the Rubik's Cube, invented in the 1970s by a professor of architecture, continues to test the wits of college students, engineering professors, math wizards and 'speedcubers'

AI success: Fast.ai's online deep learning courses are popular in India

Since its inception the San Francisco-based education nonprofit has attracted more than 100,000 students, scattered around the globe from India to China.

Top 6 International Courses to Study Smart Cities

Can a course help you get smart with smart cities? Universities, both online and offline, are impacting the smart city evolution with some game changing courses for the new-age student.

Studying Engineering Design

Matthew Karau, an electronics engineer who specializes in designing interactive systems, teaches Engineering Design at New York University, Abu Dhabi. He got his Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT. He has taught in European universities, provided consulting services to several companies, and worked in interdisciplinary research organizations such as MIT Media Lab and Media Lab Europe. He is also a certified Cordon Bleu chef. Here he talks about Engineering Design and offers advice to students interested in it.

Free Online Learning: Best 5 Websites

Looking for some preparation before going to University, or just an additional boost for your current academic life? Look no further than some of the best of the free online websites available now.

MIT Tata Center searches for solutions to India′s air pollution crisis

The Tata Center offers several courses as a part of MIT's catalog with particular applicability to engineering skills for the developing world

US government takes back ruling hostile to international students

Over 200 universities and 17 states had signed court briefings backing Harvard and MIT as they challenged ICE.

Indian-origin academic, Anantha P Chandrakasan, named Dean of MITs School of Engineering

MIT, one of the world’s best schools, has named an Indian-origin academic as dean of its School of Engineering.

New York University Launches Blockchain Major for Undergraduates

NYU’s Stern School of Business was early to market with an MBA course on Bitcoin and blockchain that snowballed in popularity thrusting the professor teaching the course to lecture to a packed auditorium.

Elite cyborg universities will corner education in post pandemic world, says marketing pundit Scott Galloway

Big tech giants like Apple, Google and Microsoft likely to enter education and health care in a big way, not because they want to but because they have to