Student inventor Alice Chen receives Lemelson-MIT Student Prize
$30,000 prizes awarded to inventive students nationwide; four leading universities celebrate 2011 winners
The birth of electrical engineering
The creation of the first electrical-engineering curriculum may have said as much about MIT’s educational philosophy as it did about the pace of innovation.
Four professors named MacVicar fellows
Sanyal, Schuh, Verghese and Winston honored for undergraduate teaching excellence
David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research feted
MIT celebrates the official opening of the institute's new building.
Going with the flow
New 3-D microfluidic system offers greater control over production of drug-delivering nanoparticles.
Dow announces multiyear collaboration with MIT for innovative educational outreach
Five-year, $2 million commitment will help develop and support careers of underrepresented minorities and women.
The quantum singularity
A new experiment would use quantum effects to perform otherwise intractable calculations, but conducting it should be easier than building a quantum computer.
Language barrier
To take advantage of multicore chips, programmers will need software development systems that let them express themselves in fundamentally new ways.
No backtalk
One key to making parallel algorithms efficient is to minimize the amount of communication between cores.
Retooling algorithms
Charles Leiserson and his team are experts at designing parallel algorithms — including one for a chess-playing program that outperformed IBM’s Deep Blue.
Alum-astronaut Robert Satcher: ‘We need to get everybody on board’
Delivers keynote address at the annual Laureates and Leaders induction ceremony
The next operating system
Operating systems for multicore chips will need more information about their own performance — and more resources for addressing whatever problems arise.
In the World: Turning old oil into new mileage
Brazilian waste pickers gain an inexpensive way to fuel their vehicles using leftover cooking oil.