New system allows robots to continuously map their environment
Algorithm to build 3-D maps requires a low-cost camera, no human input.
Paola Cappellaro wins AFOSR Young Investigator Award
Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering assistant professor is investigating a bottom-up approach to quantum information devices.
Microchips’ optical future
To keep energy consumption under control, future chips may need to move data using light instead of electricity — and the technical expertise to build them may reside in the United States.
Moving past trial and error
Richard Braatz applies math to design new materials and processes for drug manufacturing.
MIT team promotes prostate cancer prognosis tool
Group is a semifinalist in MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition
Liquid batteries could level the load
MIT team makes progress toward goal of inexpensive grid-scale batteries that could help make intermittent renewable energy sources viable.
MITx prototype course opens for enrollment
Online-learning initiative’s first offering, ‘6.002x: Circuits and Electronics,’ accepting registrants now.
The blind codemaker
New error-correcting codes guarantee the fastest possible rate of data transmission, even over fluctuating wireless links.
Five MIT engineers named to National Academy of Engineering
Several Institute alumni also among 66 new members announced today.
Cohen, Hinckley named Gates Cambridge Scholars for 2012
Two MIT seniors to pursue graduate degrees at the University of Cambridge.
Revealing how a battery material works
MIT team uncovers a reason why the hottest new material for rechargeable batteries works so well.