Vivian HuÁ€”The Tech
A young boy plays a video game still in its beta stages of testing at the Boston Festival of Indie Games on Saturday in the Johnson Athletic CenterÁ€™s indoor track. The event, created to Á€œcelebrate independent game development in New England and neighboring regions,Á€« featured everything from card games to video games and included panels explaining the process behind creating many of these games.
NEWS EDITOR
September 16, 2014
MITÁ€™s primary investment pool generated a return of 19.2 percent in the 2014 fiscal year, during which the InstituteÁ€™s endowment rose to $12.4 billion, the MIT Investment Management Company announced last Friday.
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September 16, 2014
Lawyers representing Dzhokar Tsarnaev, on trial for allegedly detonating two bombs at the 2013 Boston Marathon and later killing MIT Police officer Sean Collier, called for charges against him to be dismissed on the grounds that grand and trial juries in Massachusetts do not fairly represent the population, violating a constitutional requirement.
September 16, 2014
MIT recently joined the network-access service eduroam and began broadcasting the Á€œeduroamÁ€« SSID on Aug. 19, adding to the more familiar Á€œMIT,Á€« Á€œMIT GUEST,Á€« and Á€œMIT SECURE,Á€« according to a news article on MIT IS&TÁ€™s website.
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