Why innovation thrives in cities
Double a city’s population and its economic productivity goes up 130 percent. MIT researchers think they know why.
Media Lab
U.S. Ambassador Allan J. Katz visits MIT
Ambassador to Portugal led a Business Development Road Show that included a stop at the MIT Media Lab.
MIT hosts American Junior Academy of Science delegates
The Institution provides day’s worth of activities for more than 200 conference attendees.
The robotic equivalent of a Swiss army knife
Reconfigurable robot a step toward something that can become almost anything.
New books on the shelf from SA+P
Recent publishing news from School of Architecture + Planning faculty and alumni
Watch ‘The Story and the Algorithm’ live
Civic Media Conference to be broadcast and liveblogged at knightfoundation.org/live.
Finding good music in noisy online markets
MIT researchers revisit data from a seminal online experiment but draw more encouraging conclusions.
Is that smile real or fake?
A computerized system developed at MIT can tell the difference between smiles of joy and smiles of frustration.
Robert Lepage dazzles MIT community during spectacular campus residency April 24-26, 2012
Robert Lepage dazzles MIT community during spectacular campus residency April 24-26.
Gauging seizures’ severity
Simple wrist sensors let neurologists collect better data about patients with epilepsy — and could alert patients that they need to seek medical care.