3 Questions: Lawrence Vale on rebuilding Haiti
An MIT urban design expert explains why devastated cities are nearly always rebuilt — but why Haiti faces special challenges to reconstruction.
SA+P plays key role in 'World Building of the Year’
Use of ancient tile vaulting technique led by faculty and alumni
Silencing the brain with light
MIT neuroengineers find a new way to quickly and reversibly shut off neurons with multiple colors of light, which could lead to new treatments for epilepsy and chronic pain.
GAMBIT Game Lab to build new video games in 48-hour marathon
The Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab will play host to Boston's developer community for the 2010 Global Game Jam.
MIT’s big wheel in Copenhagen
New bicycle wheel not only boosts power, but also can keep track of friends, fitness, smog and traffic
Computing with a wave of the hand
A new Media Lab system turns LCD displays into giant cameras that provide gestural control of objects on-screen. And that’s just for starters.
A social network that ballooned
An MIT team’s savvy use of social media to locate weather balloons as part of a $40,000 DARPA contest may shed light on how to mobilize resources during emergencies.
SA+P team wins major urban design competition
Interdisciplinary proposal awarded top prize of $50,000
What’s new at the MIT Center for Future Civic Media?
Chris Csikszentmihályi, director of the Center for Future Civic Media, hosts this presentation by the MIT Communications Forum and the Center for Future Civic Media
SA+P wins a third of MIT’s Fulbright scholarships
Students will travel to Mexico, Syria and Switzerland
Planning students sweep affordable housing awards
Take first-, second- and third-place honors as well as honorable mention
Reporter’s Notebook: Game Theory
At the Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab, researchers examine what makes video games click with players — or what doesn't.