Toward batteries that pack twice as much energy per pound
A method for stabilizing the interfaces in solid-state lithium-ion batteries opens new possibilities.
Devavrat Shah appointed faculty director of the Deshpande Center
In his new role, Shah will help students and faculty bring innovative technologies from the lab to the marketplace.
New maps show airplane contrails over the U.S. dropped steeply in 2020
The computer-vision technique behind these maps could help avoid contrail production, reducing aviation’s climate impact.
Q&A: Climate Grand Challenges finalists on building equity and fairness into climate solutions
Faculty leaders discuss the opportunities and obstacles in developing, scaling, and implementing their work rapidly.
MIT engineering design and rapid prototyping course gets a refresh
Gordon Engineering Leadership Program revamps IAP course, with focus on building products and systems, working in diverse teams, testing to requirements, and competing for contracts and market share.
Unlocking new doors to artificial intelligence
MEng graduate students engage with IBM to develop their research skills and solutions to real-world problems.
Fostering research and mentorship in materials science
Online MICRO internship program brings remote opportunities to undergrads.
Launchpad for health care entrepreneurs
MIT Sandbox inspires highly sought health care innovations with its new Independent Activities Period program.
New book celebrates trailblazing MIT physicist Mildred Dresselhaus
“Carbon Queen” explores how the Institute Professor transformed our understanding of the physical world and made science and engineering more accessible to all.
A new resource for teaching responsible technology development
The Social and Ethical Responsibilities of Computing publishes a collection of original pedagogical materials developed for instructional use on MIT OpenCourseWare.
How to help humans understand robots
Theories from cognitive science and psychology could help humans learn to collaborate with robots faster and more effectively, scientists find.
The benefits of peripheral vision for machines
Researchers find similarities between how some computer-vision systems process images and how humans see out of the corners of our eyes.
Study examines how machine learning boosts manufacturing
Researchers surveyed 100 high-performing companies to determine which of them are leading adopters of machine intelligence and data analytics, and how they succeed.
Injecting fairness into machine-learning models
A new technique boosts models’ ability to reduce bias, even if the dataset used to train the model is unbalanced.
Four from MIT named Meta Fellows for 2022
The honorees include four MIT graduate students in electrical engineering and computer science, economics, and media arts and sciences.