MIT students win US Department of Energy Better Buildings Challenge
Winning streak continues for third straight year in nation-wide contest to develop energy-efficient solutions.
Azra Akšamija: Creating community amid conflict
Exhibit explores how art and architecture can act as vehicles for community making in contexts of conflict and crisis.
Social media’s ‘law’ of short messages
Study shows a regular decline in length of social media messaging during public events as the volume of messages increases.
3 Questions: JoAnn Carmin on helping cities plan for climate change
MIT professor is studying, and reporting on, the challenges facing a cross-section of global cities as they brace for the future.
Olafur Eliasson at MIT for 2014 Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts at MIT
Award includes artist residency, public events, $100,000 prize and gala
Mapping the New York fashion scene, minute by minute
A new study uses social media to show how New York’s fashion industry still centers on just a few blocks of Manhattan.
Media Lab’s Neri Oxman awarded Vilcek Prize
Architect and designer recognized for leading-edge design inspired by biology
Adèle Naudé Santos, dean of the School of Architecture and Planning, to step down
Ten-year tenure marked by an invigorated faculty, consolidated space, increased applications; Reif applauds ‘her remarkable eye for talent’
Marvin Minsky honored for lifetime achievements in artificial intelligence
The MIT professor emeritus earns the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award for his pioneering work and mentoring role in the field of artificial intelligence.
Power (of electronics) to the people
Alumna Ayah Bdeir’s fast-growing startup littleBits, which sells connectable electronic modules, is helping people understand and build creatively with electronics.
SA+P receives $1 million grant from Mellon Foundation
The grant will help create a Global Architecture History Teaching Collaborative.
3 Questions: Arindam Dutta on MIT and architectural modernism
New book, edited by MIT architectural historian, examines the evolution of modernism during its postwar heyday at the Institute.
Catching (radio) waves
ThingMagic, founded by five MIT alumni, helped bring radio-frequency identification technology to the supply chain.
Telecommunications data show civic dividing lines in major countries
New study uses network data to show communication patterns and divisions in many major nations.
Study finds piece-by-piece approach to emissions policies can be effective
New analysis shows that policies addressing energy consumption and technology choices individually can play an important part in reducing emissions.