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“In health care, there’s this gigantic world of unstructured data that needs to be translated into useable information,” says Paul Nemirovsky, who co-founded dMetrics with Ariadna Quattoni.

Detecting consumer decisions within messy data

Software analyzes online chatter to predict health care consumers’ behavior.

December 21, 2015

MIT graduate student Fernanda Sánchez Attolini

Fernanda Sánchez Attolini wins inaugural real estate scholarship

Graduate student awarded first Scholarship for Real Estate Excellence from the Society of Industrial and Office Realtors and the MIT Center for Real Estate

December 14, 2015

Gen9's BioFab process, now being used by dozens of researchers and companies, cuts costs and accelerates the creation and testing of genes.

Scaling up synthetic-biology innovation

MIT professor’s startup makes synthesizing genes many times more cost effective.

December 10, 2015

Water management in a changing environment

MIT Water Summit presents insights, innovations, and solutions to protect our world’s most abundant natural resource.

December 4, 2015

Kevin Esvelt to join the MIT Media Lab

December 4, 2015

New PBS KIDS ScratchJr app launches

Developed in collaboration with the MIT Media Lab and Tufts University, the PBS KIDS ScratchJr app helps children ages 5-8 learn coding concepts.

December 3, 2015

By combining the information from the Kinect depth frame in (a) with polarized photographs, MIT researchers reconstructed the 3-D surface shown in (c). Polarization cues can allow coarse depth sensors like Kinect to achieve laser scan quality (b).

Making 3-D imaging 1,000 times better

Algorithms exploiting light’s polarization boost resolution of commercial depth sensors 1,000-fold.

December 1, 2015

Rethinking urban life beyond the central city

Associate professor of architecture and urbanism Rafi Segal envisions “dispersed cities” designed to provide greater sociability and sustainability.

November 24, 2015

MIT researchers have developed a new biomedical imaging system that harnesses an off-the-shelf depth sensor such as Microsoft’s Kinect. The coloration of these images depicts the phase information contained in six of the 50 light frequencies the system analyzes.

Biomedical imaging at one-thousandth the cost

Mathematical modeling enables $100 depth sensor to approximate the measurements of a $100,000 piece of lab equipment.

November 23, 2015

Illuminating urban planning

Jennifer Light studies how Cold War military analysis and New Deal resource analysis shaped cities.

November 23, 2015

The team poses at a waterworks in Maharashtra, India, with local partners.

Envisioning the future of water for 900 million people

Research from an MIT Tata Center team led by Professor James Wescoat is making strategic planning of India's rural water systems possible for the first time.

November 20, 2015

Björn Sparrman, a graduate student in the MIT Program in Art, Culture, and Technology, performs at the Institute for Contemporary Art in Boston.

A school as a classroom

Students in the Program in Art, Culture and Technology perform at Boston's Institute of Contemporary Art.

November 17, 2015

Buildings from the institutional investor perspective

Center for Real Estate hosts architects and engineers from the National Association for Real Estate Investment Managers.

November 13, 2015

Wheelchair user Serafin Kangad from Mindanao, Philippines. CITE plans to conduct a wheelchair evaluation in 2016 to understand technical performance, reliability, durability, maintenance, repair, and user experience.

MIT faculty and students to lead technology evaluations in developing countries

November 9, 2015

MIT named No. 1 university worldwide for social sciences

Times Higher Education ranks MIT’s social sciences the best in the world.