Building better trust between humans and machines
MIT-SUTD researchers are creating improved interfaces to help machines and humans work together to complete tasks.
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Aeronautical and astronautical engineering
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Making cities smarter
MIT researchers are creating tools that synthesize and collect data so that urban planners can vastly improve the quality of urban life.
Julie Shah, Sandy Alexandre receive campus houseteam appointments
Shah named head of house after serving as Sidney Pacific associate housemaster; Alexandre joins East Campus as associate head of house.
MIT, Lockheed Martin launch long-term research collaboration
Initial focus will be on transformative technologies, autonomy, and robotics.
Run, jump, fly: Student aviators to compete in national Flugtag competition
AeroAstro grad students are building a human-powered aircraft that will (hopefully) fly over the Charles River.
Apollo 13 commander James Lovell: “Crises don’t bother me anymore”
Astronaut’s visit to MIT draws capacity crowd as he recounts lunar mission’s “successful failure.”
Self-driving cars, meet rubber duckies
“Duckietown” class at Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab teaches autonomy, aims to become global research platform.
For stronger, lighter, cheaper materials, scroll up
Researchers create perfect nanoscrolls from graphene’s imperfect form.
QS World University Rankings rates MIT No. 1 in 12 subjects for 2016
MIT ranked within the top 5 globally for 19 of 42 subject areas.
Ideas in orbit
From MIT to the moon, and on campus, senior Raichelle Aniceto builds new connections.
Four from MIT named to Aviation Week's "20 Twenties"
Lincoln Laboratory engineers and Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics undergraduates honored as engineering leaders of tomorrow.
Startup bringing driverless taxi service to Singapore
Fleet of autonomous vehicles will serve as convenient form of public transit while reducing emissions.