MIT launches Laboratory for Social Machines with major Twitter investment
Program aims to develop collaborative technologies to tackle complex social problems.
Soft design for a sustainable world
Sheila Kennedy pioneers soft design techniques and materials to meet pressing global challenges in housing and energy.
3 Questions: Calestous Juma on African development
MIT event spotlights new approaches to economic growth on the continent.
Sheila Kennedy awarded $100K Berkeley-Rupp Prize
Second major award in two months for the Professor of the Practice in MIT's Department of Architecture
Media Lab to launch wellness initiative with $1 million Robert Wood Johnson Foundation grant
New program, Advancing Wellness, combines academics with on-the-ground initiatives to promote better health at MIT and beyond.
Manual control
Oblong Industries brings gesture-control technology from Hollywood to corporate conference rooms.
Ride-sharing could cut cabs’ road time by 30 percent
A new analytic framework enables analysis of GPS data on 150 million cab rides in New York City.
Our connection to content
Using neuroscience tools, Innerscope Research explores the connections between consumers and media.
Sheila Kennedy honored for design innovation
Exploring intersections of architecture, digital networks and public space
Planning differently
Inspired by Los Angeles, graduate student John Arroyo takes a new approach to urban planning.
Vision-correcting displays
Technology could lead to e-readers, smartphones, and displays that let users dispense with glasses.
A market for emotions
With emotion-tracking software, Affectiva attracts big-name clients, aims for “mood-aware” Internet.
ScratchJr: Coding for kindergarten
With a new app, young children learn important skills as they program stories and games.
Otto Piene, leading figure in kinetic and technology-based art, dies at 86
Professor emeritus of visual design directed MIT’s Center for Advanced Visual Studies from 1974 to 1994.