Finding 911 callers instantly
Mobile app automatically sends a caller’s location and medical data to dispatch centers.
QS ranks MIT the world's top university for 2015-16
Ranked No. 1 for the fourth straight year, the Institute also places first in 11 of 36 disciplines.
Personalized heart models for surgical planning
System can convert MRI scans into 3D-printed, physical models in a few hours.
Middle schoolers get hands-on in summer engineering design course
Eighth graders from Boston, Cambridge, and Lawrence, Massachusetts, learn from recent MIT graduates as part of STEM Summer Institute.
A day in the sun
MIT Solar Day brings the MIT community together to preview the coming decades of solar energy innovation.
Abraham Bers, professor emeritus of electrical engineering, dies at 85
Bers, a longtime member of the MIT community, was expert in plasma physics.
More personalized online shopping
Startup’s platform analyzes data from multiple sources to better predict buying preferences.
Out of sight and out of mind, sewage can actually tell us a lot about health
PhD student Mariana Matus studies human waste to understand individual and community health.
¿Conoces México?
Three MIT-Mexico Program alumni head south of the border to launch "dynamic" careers.
Printing transparent glass in 3-D
New system is the first to create strong, solid glass structures from computerized designs.
Learning spoken language
System learns to distinguish words’ phonetic components, without human annotation of training data.
Carolyn Coyle wins two awards at NURETH-16
Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering graduate student honored for her work on nuclear thermal hydraulics.
A new molecular design approach
New programming tool could help engineers build biologically inspired materials.
First new cache-coherence mechanism in 30 years
More efficient memory-management scheme could help enable chips with thousands of cores.