Livengood awarded inaugural Daniel and Eva Roos Engineering Systems Dissertation Prize
New award recognizes outstanding dissertation in the ESD PhD program.
Former banking executive reflects on launch and rise of the ATM
John Reed talks about the challenges and opportunities of working with a complex sociotechnical system.
Sterilizing with the sun
Solar concentrating system could replace fuel-powered or electric devices in remote villages.
Demaine named Presburger Award recipient
Professor Erik Demaine was cited for his contributions to computational geometry and data structures.
Paul Juodawlkis elevated to Fellow of the Optical Society
Recognized for innovations in optics and photonics
Teaching robots lateral thinking
New algorithms could help household robots work around their physical shortcomings.
MIT hosts American Junior Academy of Science delegates
The Institution provides day’s worth of activities for more than 200 conference attendees.
Chandrakasan honored at ISSCC’s 60th Plenary Session
Anantha P. Chandrakasan earns prestigious award for outstanding contributions to his field.
MIT researchers build Quad HD TV chip
A new video standard enables a fourfold increase in the resolution of TV screens, and an MIT chip was the first to handle it in real time.
That’s the way the droplets adhere
New technique developed by MIT researchers provides first direct views of how drops and bubbles adhere to surfaces — and how they let go.
Chinese students set their sights on an MIT future
Middle and high school students from Beijing engaged in project-based hands-on science and engineering lessons at the Edgerton Center.
Engineering cells for more efficient biofuel production
Yeast research takes a step toward production of alternatives to gasoline.
Beefing up public-key encryption
MIT researchers show how to secure widely used encryption schemes against attackers who have intercepted examples of successful decryption.
