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    • The MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, the Institute's largest academic department, reorganizes with new leadership as part of the formation of the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing. Restructuring the MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
    • ADEPT, an artificial intelligence model developed by MIT researchers, demonstrates an understanding of some basic “intuitive physics” by registering a surprise signal when objects in a scene violate assumed reality, similarly to how human infants and adults would register surprise. Helping machines perceive some laws of physics
    • Mining materials from the sea floor could help secure a low-carbon future, but researchers at MIT and beyond are racing to understand the environmental effects. Understanding the impact of deep-sea mining
    • Researchers at MIT and Massachusetts General Hospital have devised a potential new treatment that could make passing kidney stones faster and less painful, and eliminate surgery. They identified a combination of two drugs that relax the lining of the ureter and can be delivered directly with a catheter-like instrument. New treatment could ease the passage of kidney stones
    • MIT Dining, in collaboration with the MIT Office of Sustainability, has been selected as one of six recipients of the 2019 Henry P. Kendall Foundation New England Food Vision Prize. MIT Dining wins the New England Food Vision Prize
    • To help optimize microbes’ ability to produce useful compounds but also maintain their own growth, MIT chemical engineers have devised a way to induce bacteria to switch between different metabolic pathways at different times. A new way to control microbial metabolism
    • Scientists from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) can reconstruct hidden video from just the subtle shadows and reflections on an observed pile of clutter. Using computers to view the unseen
    • Two MIT professors named 2019 fellows of the National Academy of Inventors
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    • Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL)
      • Scientists from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) can reconstruct hidden video from just the subtle shadows and reflections on an observed pile of clutter. Using computers to view the unseen
      • The MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, the Institute's largest academic department, reorganizes with new leadership as part of the formation of the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing. Restructuring the MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
      • ADEPT, an artificial intelligence model developed by MIT researchers, demonstrates an understanding of some basic “intuitive physics” by registering a surprise signal when objects in a scene violate assumed reality, similarly to how human infants and adults would register surprise. Helping machines perceive some laws of physics
      • Dean Dan Huttenlocher has been working on developing the organizational structure of the new MIT Stephen A. Schwarzman College of Computing. He answers three questions about building the college and offers a glimpse into the new college headquarters. 3 Questions: Dan Huttenlocher on the formation of the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing
    • Computer vision
      • Scientists from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) can reconstruct hidden video from just the subtle shadows and reflections on an observed pile of clutter. Using computers to view the unseen
      • ADEPT, an artificial intelligence model developed by MIT researchers, demonstrates an understanding of some basic “intuitive physics” by registering a surprise signal when objects in a scene violate assumed reality, similarly to how human infants and adults would register surprise. Helping machines perceive some laws of physics
      • A team led by researchers at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) has been exploring whether self-driving cars can be programmed to classify the social personalities of other drivers, so that they can better predict what different cars will do. Predicting people's driving personalities
      • MIT researchers have developed a trajectory-planning model that helps drones fly more safely at high speeds through previously unexplored areas, which could aid search-and-rescue missions. System prevents speedy drones from crashing in unfamiliar areas
    • Electrical Engineering & Computer Science (eecs)
      • The MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, the Institute's largest academic department, reorganizes with new leadership as part of the formation of the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing. Restructuring the MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
      • Three MIT seniors, Mariam Dogar, Adedoyin Olateru-Olagbegi, and Jessica Quaye, are recipients of this year’s Schwarzman Scholarship distinguished fellowship. Jessica Wang ’16, MEng ’17 and another alumna were also named. Three MIT seniors to join 2021 class of Schwarzman Scholars
      • ADEPT, an artificial intelligence model developed by MIT researchers, demonstrates an understanding of some basic “intuitive physics” by registering a surprise signal when objects in a scene violate assumed reality, similarly to how human infants and adults would register surprise. Helping machines perceive some laws of physics
      • MIT researchers developed a circuit that uses a nanometer-thin magnetic domain wall in magnetic material to enable precise control of computing binary bits with magnetic spin waves. This advance could make practical “spintronics” devices that compute more efficiently than electronics. Toward more efficient computing, with magnetic waves
    • Imaging
      • An MIT team developed a machine-learning method for building brain scan templates that represent given patient populations. These “atlases” can serve as a reference to guide disease diagnosis. Producing better guides for medical-image analysis
      • Researchers at the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology have discovered a way to study the properties of a nanoparticle without damaging it. The advance paves the way for researchers across different sectors to push current limits on nanoparticle research. SMART discovers nondisruptive way to characterize the surface of nanoparticles
      • Among the winners of the 2019 R&D 100 Awards are 10 technologies developed in whole or in part by researchers at MIT Lincoln Laboratory. These 10 inventions bring to 58 the number of R&D 100 Awards presented to Lincoln Laboratory since 2010. Ten Lincoln Laboratory technologies earn 2019 R&D 100 Awards
      • MIT chemists have come up with a way to make certain drug-delivery polymers more readily degradable by adding a novel type of building block to the polymer backbone. New synthesis method yields degradable polymers
    • Research
      • Scientists from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) can reconstruct hidden video from just the subtle shadows and reflections on an observed pile of clutter. Using computers to view the unseen
      • Mining materials from the sea floor could help secure a low-carbon future, but researchers at MIT and beyond are racing to understand the environmental effects. Understanding the impact of deep-sea mining
      • A new MIT-developed “squeezer” technology cuts down on LIGO’s quantum noise, enabling weekly detections of gravitational waves. New instrument extends LIGO’s reach
      • MIT researchers are developing an oral contraceptive that only has to be taken once a month, which could reduce unintended pregnancies that result from forgetting to take a daily dose. Monthly birth control pill could replace daily doses
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  • By School

    • School of Architecture + Planning
      • Consider 4D printed materials that transform underwater, or fibers that snap into a particular shape when they are cut out of a flat panel, or coaxing shifting sands in the ocean into building artificial islands, and you will understand the breadth of research that MIT Professor Skylar Tibbits pursues.
Transformation by design
      • How will dancers perform in space? How will artists pursue crafting in zero gravity? How can exercise, gastronomy, and other human endeavors be reimagined for space? Such questions drive 14 projects aboard the MIT Media Lab Space Exploration Initiative’s second parabolic research flight. Designing humanity’s future in space
      • Artist and educator Zach Lieberman has been appointed an adjunct associate professor of media arts and sciences at the MIT Media Lab. He is teaching courses and working on projects at the lab under the aegis of his newly founded research group, Future Sketches. Zach Lieberman joins MIT Media Lab
      • A study co-authored by MIT researchers shows how much human movement — especially commuting — affects the spread of illness in urban settings. Tracking contagion in cities, using mobile phone data
    • School of Engineering
      • MIT course 8.02 (Electricity and Magnetism) is a blend of science and engineering, where magical experiments bring rigorous mathematics to life. Two of the innovators making this happen are Pushpaleela "Pushpa" Prabakar and Alex Shvonski. Schools of Science and Engineering join hands to transform learning
      • Cake, at startup co-founded by MIT alumna Suelin Chen, helps people plan for the end of life and share those plans — spanning everything from funeral arrangements to managing online profiles — with their loved ones. Planning for death, as a way to improve life
      • Scientists from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) can reconstruct hidden video from just the subtle shadows and reflections on an observed pile of clutter. Using computers to view the unseen
      • Mining materials from the sea floor could help secure a low-carbon future, but researchers at MIT and beyond are racing to understand the environmental effects. Understanding the impact of deep-sea mining
    • School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences
      • A love of languages led PhD student Timothy Loh nearly around the world to study, and then to MIT, where he is a sociocultural and medical anthropologist-in-training. He focuses on the confluence of deafness, sign language, and technology.
Uncovering the role of technology and medicine in deaf and signing worlds
      • How will dancers perform in space? How will artists pursue crafting in zero gravity? How can exercise, gastronomy, and other human endeavors be reimagined for space? Such questions drive 14 projects aboard the MIT Media Lab Space Exploration Initiative’s second parabolic research flight. Designing humanity’s future in space
      • Dean Dan Huttenlocher has been working on developing the organizational structure of the new MIT Stephen A. Schwarzman College of Computing. He answers three questions about building the college and offers a glimpse into the new college headquarters. 3 Questions: Dan Huttenlocher on the formation of the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing
      • Six MIT faculty members — Arthur Baggeroer, Suzanne Flynn, Wesley Harris, Eric Klopfer, Douglas Lauffenburger, and John Leonard — have been elected as 2019 fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Six MIT faculty elected 2019 AAAS Fellows
    • Sloan School of Management
      • Patrick Collison, CEO of internet payment company Stripe, spoke in November to students at the MIT School of Engineering and the MIT Sloan School of Management about entrepreneurship and innovation. The impatient pursuit of progress
      • MIT Phd student George Lordos and his brother Alexandros combined their shared passion for space with their professional expertise to develop Star City, a concept for a human city on Mars. Their design won first place at the Mars Colony Prize Design contest sponsored by the Mars Society. Interdisciplinary team takes top prize in Mars colony design competition
      • MIT’s 2019 Inclusive Innovation Challenge awarded $1.6 million to startups working to ensure technological disruption to the economy brings greater — and shared — prosperity. Inclusive Innovation Challenge recognizes startups improving the future of work
      • At MIT’s day-long AI and the Work of the Future Congress, a series of expert panels focused on preparing workers for the era of artificial intelligence. MIT conference focuses on preparing workers for the era of artificial intelligence
    • School of Science
      • MIT course 8.02 (Electricity and Magnetism) is a blend of science and engineering, where magical experiments bring rigorous mathematics to life. Two of the innovators making this happen are Pushpaleela "Pushpa" Prabakar and Alex Shvonski. Schools of Science and Engineering join hands to transform learning
      • A new MIT-developed “squeezer” technology cuts down on LIGO’s quantum noise, enabling weekly detections of gravitational waves. New instrument extends LIGO’s reach
      • K. Guadalupe Cruz’s path into neuroscience began with storytelling. “For me, it was always interesting that we are capable of keeping knowledge over so many generations,” says Cruz, a PhD student in MIT's Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences. Fueled by the power of stories
      • Functional, intelligent robots the size of a single cell are within reach, Cornell University Professor Paul McEuen said at the inaugural Mildred S. Dresselhaus Lecture in his talk entitled “Cell-sized Sensors and Robots.” Paul McEuen delivers inaugural Dresselhaus Lecture on cell-sized robots
  • By Department

    • Business
      • MIT’s Task Force on the Work of the Future has released a preliminary report about the ways technology is affecting jobs in the U.S. — and what steps can help create better jobs in the future. MIT report examines how to make technology work for society
      • QS World University Rankings has rated MIT No. 1 in 11 subjects for 2019. The Institute ranks within the top 2 in 17 of 48 subject areas. QS World University Rankings rates MIT No. 1 in 11 subjects for 2019
      • Students prepare for real-world product development through hands-on collaboration
      • Chinese entrepreneurs visit MIT Sloan
    • Economics
      • At MIT’s day-long AI and the Work of the Future Congress, a series of expert panels focused on preparing workers for the era of artificial intelligence. MIT conference focuses on preparing workers for the era of artificial intelligence
      • Teams from 23 schools gathered at MIT on Nov. 16 to compete in the first-ever MIT Science Bowl Invitational — an informal, fast-paced quiz-style event for high school students. Pop-up pop quiz bowl
      • MIT has launched the MIT School Access and Quality Fellowship Program to engage the leaders of America’s largest school districts, state agencies, and education nonprofits, equipping them with the latest tools to improve school performance and enrollment policies. New MIT fellowship program aims to improve student access to quality schools
      • J-PAL North America has partnered with TalkingPoints and the Behavioral Insights and Parenting Lab at the University of Chicago to evaluate the TalkingPoints multilingual family engagement platform. The platform will be assessed through a year-long randomized evaluation. New research partnership evaluates innovation in family engagement
    • Management
      • Will the future be humane and livable? Will it be fair and just? What values can guide us? MIT faculty offer practical, inspiring, clear-eyed views in a new series on "Ethics, Computing, and AI." Ethics, computing, and AI: Perspectives from MIT
      • Hair and identity
      • MIT has placed third in U.S. News and World Report’s annual rankings of the nation’s best colleges and universities, sharing the No. 3 spot with Columbia University, the University of Chicago, and Yale University. MIT named No. 3 university by US News for 2019
      • MIT Institute Professor Thomas Magnanti has been honored as one of Singapore’s National Day Award recipients, bestowed for his long-term work developing higher education in Singapore. Thomas Magnanti honored with Singapore’s National Day Award
    • Aeronautics and Astronautics
      • A new MIT-developed “squeezer” technology cuts down on LIGO’s quantum noise, enabling weekly detections of gravitational waves. New instrument extends LIGO’s reach
      • A childhood love of airplanes and space travel has led to lofty career ambitions for MIT senior and AeroAstro major Humberto Caldelas. There’s excitement in the air for Humberto Caldelas
      • How will dancers perform in space? How will artists pursue crafting in zero gravity? How can exercise, gastronomy, and other human endeavors be reimagined for space? Such questions drive 14 projects aboard the MIT Media Lab Space Exploration Initiative’s second parabolic research flight. Designing humanity’s future in space
      • Six MIT faculty members — Arthur Baggeroer, Suzanne Flynn, Wesley Harris, Eric Klopfer, Douglas Lauffenburger, and John Leonard — have been elected as 2019 fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Six MIT faculty elected 2019 AAAS Fellows
    • Physics
      • MIT course 8.02 (Electricity and Magnetism) is a blend of science and engineering, where magical experiments bring rigorous mathematics to life. Two of the innovators making this happen are Pushpaleela "Pushpa" Prabakar and Alex Shvonski. Schools of Science and Engineering join hands to transform learning
      • A new MIT-developed “squeezer” technology cuts down on LIGO’s quantum noise, enabling weekly detections of gravitational waves. New instrument extends LIGO’s reach
      • Functional, intelligent robots the size of a single cell are within reach, Cornell University Professor Paul McEuen said at the inaugural Mildred S. Dresselhaus Lecture in his talk entitled “Cell-sized Sensors and Robots.” Paul McEuen delivers inaugural Dresselhaus Lecture on cell-sized robots
      • Ali Daher, Claire Halloran, Francisca Vasconcelos, Billy Anderson Woltz, and Megan Yamoah have been selected for the 2020 cohort of the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship program. They will begin fully funded postgraduate studies at Oxford University in the U.K. next fall. Five MIT students named 2020 Rhodes Scholars
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  • By Center, Lab, & Program

    • Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL)
      • Scientists from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) can reconstruct hidden video from just the subtle shadows and reflections on an observed pile of clutter. Using computers to view the unseen
      • ADEPT, an artificial intelligence model developed by MIT researchers, demonstrates an understanding of some basic “intuitive physics” by registering a surprise signal when objects in a scene violate assumed reality, similarly to how human infants and adults would register surprise. Helping machines perceive some laws of physics
      • Dean Dan Huttenlocher has been working on developing the organizational structure of the new MIT Stephen A. Schwarzman College of Computing. He answers three questions about building the college and offers a glimpse into the new college headquarters. 3 Questions: Dan Huttenlocher on the formation of the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing
      • An MIT team developed a machine-learning method for building brain scan templates that represent given patient populations. These “atlases” can serve as a reference to guide disease diagnosis. Producing better guides for medical-image analysis
    • Research Laboratory of Electronics
      • MIT researchers developed a circuit that uses a nanometer-thin magnetic domain wall in magnetic material to enable precise control of computing binary bits with magnetic spin waves. This advance could make practical “spintronics” devices that compute more efficiently than electronics. Toward more efficient computing, with magnetic waves
      • The MIT.nano “Perspectives in Nanotechnology” seminar series wrapped up with a conversation with physicist Don Eigler, Kavli Laureate and former fellow of the IBM Almaden Research Center.

Fireside chat with Don Eigler wraps up MIT.nano “Perspectives in Nanotechnology” seminars
      • A new ultrathin coating developed by MIT researchers could open up many applications for 2D materials in electronic, photonic, or optoelectronic devices. A new way to corrosion-proof thin atomic sheets
      • MIT.nano has announced the first recipients of NCSOFT seed grants to foster hardware and software innovations in gaming technology. The grants are part of the new MIT.nano Immersion Lab Gaming program. MIT.nano awards inaugural NCSOFT seed grants for gaming technologies
    • Biomimetics Robotics Lab
      • Blind ambition: MIT’s Cheetah 3 robot can climb stairs littered with obstacles, without the help of cameras or visual sensors “Blind” Cheetah 3 robot can climb stairs littered with obstacles
      • Inspired by creatures from geckos to cheetahs, MIT mechanical engineering professor Sangbae Kim builds animal-like robots for use in disaster response.  
Taking a leap in bioinspired robotics
      • The MIT School of Engineering has announced that seven members of its faculty have been granted tenure. They are: Steven Barrett, Mark Bathe, Paola Cappellaro, Sangbae Kim, Jesse Kroll, Youssef Marzouk, and Armando Solar-Lezama. The tenured engineers of 2016
      • Bound for robotic glory
    • Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL)
      • Scientists from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) can reconstruct hidden video from just the subtle shadows and reflections on an observed pile of clutter. Using computers to view the unseen
      • ADEPT, an artificial intelligence model developed by MIT researchers, demonstrates an understanding of some basic “intuitive physics” by registering a surprise signal when objects in a scene violate assumed reality, similarly to how human infants and adults would register surprise. Helping machines perceive some laws of physics
      • Dean Dan Huttenlocher has been working on developing the organizational structure of the new MIT Stephen A. Schwarzman College of Computing. He answers three questions about building the college and offers a glimpse into the new college headquarters. 3 Questions: Dan Huttenlocher on the formation of the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing
      • An MIT team developed a machine-learning method for building brain scan templates that represent given patient populations. These “atlases” can serve as a reference to guide disease diagnosis. Producing better guides for medical-image analysis
    • Technology and Policy Program
      • The student-run MIT Policy Hackathon gathered data analysts, engineers, scientists, domain experts, and policy specialists to look for creative, data-driven solutions to major issues in climate, health, artificial intelligence (AI) and ethics, urban planning, and the future of work. MIT Policy Hackathon connects data-driven problem solvers
      • Civil and environmental engineering graduate student Tiziana Smith models how much food China can grow, to better understand the country’s changing agricultural habits. How many people can China feed?
      • Using data science to improve public policy
      • MIT researchers are working with the Mexican government on carbon pricing options to meet the country’s climate goals under the Paris Agreement. Helping Mexico design an effective climate policy
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  • An RLE timeline

    October 30, 1996
  • Research Laboratory of Electronics marks 50th anniversary

    October 30, 1996
  • RadLab evolves into modern RLE

    October 30, 1996
  • Retirees recall the old and the new

    September 25, 1996
  • Museum plans new book on hacks

    May 1, 1996
  • Goldblith book brings life to food science history at MIT

    November 8, 1995
  • MIT Women's League documents its heritage

    October 25, 1995
  • Planes Over Charles to Recognize MIT WWII Contributions

    June 16, 1995
  • Tech Day, Including Fly-By, Honors MIT WWII Contributions

    June 16, 1995
  • Task force finds fernald research had no significant health effects

    May 11, 1994
  • MIT reviews Fernald nutrition studies; Vest expresses concern

    January 12, 1994
  • MIT archives opens files to media

    January 5, 1994
  • US News Rates MIT Fourth

    September 29, 1993
  • Building 20 dig yields artifacts

    May 5, 1993
  • Team Policing Begins On MIT Campus

    December 9, 1992
  • Safe Ride Expands

    December 9, 1992
  • Rollerblades Banned in Buildings

    December 2, 1992
  • Interdisciplinary Team Locates Sunken Plane

    December 2, 1992
  • Resolution Reached in Wolff Suit

    November 18, 1992
  • $1.7-$4K MIT Subsidy Pays 86-44% of Health Costs

    November 18, 1992

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