For the women of McCormick, a new space in which to create
MIT residence hall opens a craft studio to promote creativity and belonging.
Cracking open the black box of automated machine learning
Interactive tool lets users see and control how automated model searches work.
Empowering African farmers with data
Research from the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society aims to help African farmers increase their production and profits with better prediction.
Q&A: Phillip Isola on the art and science of generative models
Image-translation pioneer discusses the past, present, and future of generative adversarial networks, or GANs.
Ultra-Quantum Matter research gets $8 million boost
MIT’s Senthil Todadri and Xiao-Gang Wen will study highly entangled quantum matter in a collaboration supported by the Simons Foundation.
J-WAFS announces seven new seed grants
Nine principal investigators from MIT will receive grants totaling over $1 million for solutions-oriented research into global food and water challenges.
Sensor-packed glove learns signatures of the human grasp
Signals help neural network identify objects by touch; system could aid robotics and prosthetics design.
Pantry ingredients can help grow carbon nanotubes
Study finds baking soda, detergent, and table salt — all rich in sodium — are effective catalysts.
Felice Frankel donates image collection to the MIT Libraries
Landscape architecture photographs will be shared as a learning resource.
Plotting new paths to a nuclear “yes”
Nuclear science and engineering alumna Mareena Robinson Snowden PhD '17 devises new solutions for problems of arms control and proliferation.
3Q: Yet-Ming Chiang on reopening the case of cold fusion
The materials science and engineering professor is part of a multi-institution effort to investigate the possibility of cold fusion in a scientifically rigorous way.
3 Questions: The social implications and responsibilities of computing
In helping envision the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing, working group is focusing on ethical and societal questions.
3 Questions: Faculty appointments and the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing
Working group studies options for creating a new set of faculty hires for MIT’s new college.
Biotech startup uses nanoparticles to induce immune tolerance
Selecta Bioscience’s ImmTOR platform could improve gene therapies and prevent some drug side effects.
Developing artificial intelligence tools for all
MIT Quest for Intelligence-sponsored undergraduate research projects demystify AI.