Developing tech for, and with, people with disabilities
Sixth annual Assistive Technologies Hackathon paired students with client co-designers to create innovative solutions to the everyday problems they face.
Lincoln Laboratory
Supercomputers can spot cyber threats
Lincoln Laboratory researchers have developed a technique to compress hours of internet traffic into a bundle that can be analyzed for suspicious behavior.
Twenty-five ways in which MIT has transformed computing
From digital circuits to ingestible robots, the Institute has helped spearhead key innovations in the technology revolution.
Workshop explores national security repercussions of climate change
Experts assess potential global destabilization caused by climate change impacts on water supplies, land use, and migration.
Six MIT researchers elected to the National Academy of Engineering for 2019
Members have made advances in molecular processes, rheology, computer networking, nanocrystalline metals, affective computing, and semiconductor tech.
Three graduate students named 2019 Aviation Week “20 Twenties”
Casey Evans, Stewart Isaacs, and Jessica Zhu are honored for outstanding academic performance, civic contributions, and research.
SuperUROP: Showcasing students' research work in progress
Undergraduate researchers discussed their projects at a well-attended poster session.
MIT’s REXIS and Bennu’s watery surface
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx sample-return spacecraft, carrying MIT instrument, arrived at asteroid in December; now begins the science to select a sampling location.
Q&A: The talent shortage in quantum computing
William Oliver says a lack of available quantum scientists and engineers may be an inhibitor of the technology’s growth.
Physicists record “lifetime” of graphene qubits
First measurement of its kind could provide stepping stone to practical quantum computing.
Lidar accelerates hurricane recovery in the Carolinas
Lincoln Laboratory's lidar data, processed quickly with support from the organization MCNC, helped FEMA assess flooding and damages caused by Hurricane Florence.
MIT Lincoln Laboratory wins 10 R&D 100 Awards
Technologies ranging from a hurricane-evacuation decision platform to algorithms that compare DNA samples honored as some of the world's best inventions of 2018.
Remembering Professor Emeritus Alan McWhorter, 1930-2018
Long-time EECS professor and Lincoln Laboratory division head is best known for research on transistors, lasers, and masers.
Using electricity and water, a new kind of motor can slide microrobots into motion
Microhydraulic actuators, thinner than one-third the width of human hair, are proving to be the most powerful and efficient motors at the microscale.
For collecting weather data, tiny satellites measure up to billion-dollar cousins
Study finds shoebox-sized CubeSats gather weather data comparably to data collected by larger satellites.