Detecting emotions with wireless signals
Measuring your heartbeat and breath, CSAIL device can tell if you’re excited, happy, angry, or sad.
Project Sandcastle
Five MIT engineering students take their startups to San Francisco for a summer of innovation.
Calculating the financial risks of renewable energy
Financial-modeling software for sustainable-infrastructure projects could boost investment in sector.
Startups show promise, progress at Demo Day
Capstone event for MIT’s summer accelerator showcases businesses with significant early growth.
New applications for ultracapacitors
Startup’s energy-storage devices find uses in drilling operations, aerospace applications, electric vehicles.
The teacher becomes the student
Ten Tunisian professors take part in MIT-Educator’s inaugural program to examine their higher-ed practices.
Hacking microbes
Startup’s engineered yeast helps clients produce fragrances and flavors more efficiently.
Solving network congestion
MegaMIMO system from the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab speeds data transfer by coordinating multiple routers at the same time.
D-Lab appoints Bob Nanes to new position of executive director
Nanes brings to D-Lab 30 years of experience on four continents in technology, innovation, supply chains, and microfinance.
Taking on gender gaps in health care and technology
Graduate student Alicia Chong Rodriguez uses her engineering skills to empower women.
Summer in the Sandbox
Students in a new innovation program are using the summer, their new connections, and their funding to move their ideas forward.
Doubling battery power of consumer electronics
New lithium metal batteries could make smartphones, drones, and electric cars last twice as long.
J-WAFS Solutions program awards $750,000 in commercialization grants
Four new projects and one renewal receive $150,000 in funding for 2016-2017.
When to get your head out of the game
Wearable sensor for athletes detects potential head injuries, gathers data on hard hits.