Making computers explain themselves
New training technique would reveal the basis for machine-learning systems’ decisions.
Why have solar energy costs fallen?
MIT team awarded U.S. Department of Energy grant to investigate cost reductions in solar energy systems.
Improving educational opportunities for refugee youth around the world
Three proposals in MIT Solve's “Learn” pillar advance to finals.
Finding patterns in corrupted data
New model-fitting technique is efficient even for data sets with hundreds of variables.
Seeing solutions through, across continents
When a plan to improve stoves in Peru met unexpected challenges, MIT senior Sade Nabahe rose to meet them.
High school teams awarded 2016-17 Lemelson-MIT InvenTeam grant for invention projects
Fifteen student teams nationwide set sights on inventing solutions to real-world problems.
Asu Ozdaglar named associate department head of EECS
Expert in optimization theory to join the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science leadership.
Making it easier to collaborate on code
CSAIL team's “Gitless” fixes Git’s biggest issues — and suggests their approach could help improve systems like Gmail and Dropbox.
3-D-printed structures shrink when heated
Counterintuitive “metamaterial” may enable heat-resistant circuit boards.
Electric motors find new roles in robots, ships, cars, and microgrids
James Kirtley discusses the transition from gas to electric motors and the impact these motors have had on modern technologies.
Study suggests approach to waking patients after surgery
Activating certain brain neurons may spur recovery from general anesthesia.
Fighting cancer with the power of immunity
New treatment elicits two-pronged immune response that destroys tumors in mice.
3Q: Leon Glicksman and John Lienhard on how to teach the unteachable
MIT professors take on problem formulation in thermal science: It can be taught, and their new book describes how.
Automating big-data analysis
With new algorithms, data scientists could accomplish in days what has traditionally taken months.