Better glasses-free 3-D
A fundamentally new approach to glasses-free 3-D displays could save power, widen the viewing angle and make 3-D illusions more realistic.
Thousands spend Saturday at MIT
‘Under the Dome’ showcases discovery and innovation; first open house in decades.
Joichi Ito named director of MIT Media Lab
Technology entrepreneur and Internet freedom advocate succeeds Frank Moss.
Design for the 21st century Minneapolis riverfront
A winning competition entry from Sheila Kennedy and colleagues
Seeing the light
Optogenetic technology restores visual behavior in mice, holds promise for treating human blindness.
Hood appointed first Taylor Fellow
Visiting professor is an award-winning landscape architect and urban designer
Pioneering filmmaker Richard Leacock, former MIT professor, dies at age 89
Inventive MIT filmmaker helped create cinéma vérité style with path-breaking documentaries
Success stories aplenty from the MIT Center for Future Civic Media
Update from Center Director Chris Csikszentmihályi
Chinese property tycoon encourages entrepreneurship
During talk at MIT Sloan, Zhang Xin details how she helped bring 'color to Beijing'
Four professors named MacVicar fellows
Sanyal, Schuh, Verghese and Winston honored for undergraduate teaching excellence
Chicago hope
Ambitious attempt to help the city’s poor by moving them out of troubled housing projects is having mixed results, MIT study finds.
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.