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.
Can telecom data help redraw political boundaries?
By analyzing one of the world’s largest databases of phone data, researchers partition Great Britain into densely interconnected regions.
Two MIT teams design winning solutions for New Orleans
DUSP and architecture graduate students claim top prizes in the Chase Community Development Competition.
When the playroom is the computer
A block-shaped robot that seems to roll onto a computer screen is part of an educational-media system that gets kids out of their chairs.
Illuminating research
MIT study finds potential for significant energy savings through user-controlled efficient lighting systems.
Chancellor Phillip L. Clay to step down
Hailed by President Hockfield as ‘an exceptional leader,’ he leaves a remarkable record of achievement.