Attention: Light Tunnel Ahead!
FAST installations transform the campus; new site notes when construction will be taking place.
In the World: Turning old oil into new mileage
Brazilian waste pickers gain an inexpensive way to fuel their vehicles using leftover cooking oil.
I'm still here
World-renowned architect I. M. Pei '40 — whose work can be seen across campus — is still designing buildings in Europe, the Far East and the Middle East, following the sun and an inner light.
MIT Museum acquires archives of Kallmann, McKinnell & Wood Architects
Designers of the 'sixth greatest building in American history'
Why do some countries’ economies grow faster?
One of the Media Lab’s newest faculty members is adapting the mathematical tools of statistical physics to study development economics.
Turning reviews into ratings
A new system automatically combs through online reviews to provide recommendations according to unusual criteria.
A foundation for building
How MIT’s first African-American graduate, Robert Taylor, became a prominent architect and brought the MIT philosophy across regional and racial barriers.
How a simple phone call could provide Haitians with work
Media Lab students deploy trial of free phone service in Port-Au-Prince to match Haiti's unemployed with reconstruction jobs.
3-D TV? How about holographic TV?
Using a single Xbox Kinect and standard graphics chips, MIT researchers demonstrate the highest frame rate yet for streaming holographic video.
The surprising usefulness of sloppy arithmetic
A computer chip that performs imprecise calculations could process some types of data thousands of times more efficiently than existing chips.
CIS's Précis examines research, student work
Late fall edition of the biannual publication now available.
Remembering Omar Khalidi
The longtime MIT research librarian is remembered as a colleague, scholar and champion of social justice for Indian Muslims.
Tech support?
Contrasting views on display as MIT researchers debate how technology can curb global poverty.