The MIT roots of Google’s new software
Google’s App Inventor, which lets people with no previous programming experience build applications for mobile phones, draws on decades of MIT research.
MIT undergraduate engineering again ranked No. 1
U.S. News and World Report ranks MIT Sloan’s undergraduate program second among peer institutions.
3 questions: P vs. NP
After glancing over a 100-page proof that claimed to solve the biggest problem in computer science, Scott Aaronson bet his house that it was wrong. Why?
A pharmacy on the back of a cell
Drugs encapsulated in new MIT nanoparticles can hitch a ride to tumors on the surface of immune-system cells.
James Keck, professor emeritus of mechanical engineering, dies at 86
Worked on the atomic bomb at Los Alamos
All charged up
Ability to recharge rapidly could make electric cars more acceptable to consumers, says MIT student team
Institute technologies receive six R&D 100 Awards
Internationally respected journal honors work from Institute, Lincoln Laboratory
15 MIT students awarded DOE-funded Science Graduate Fellowships
Among 150 students nationwide awarded fellowships in program's first year
Shining a light — literally — on diabetes
Device from MIT lab could help diabetic patients monitor their blood glucose levels without finger pricks.
Charles Freed, pioneer of laser technologies, dies at age 84
A Russian prison camp survivor, he worked at Lincoln Lab for 32 years and designed and built many laser systems still in use today.
Varanasi receives DARPA Young Faculty Award
Funding will support research on nano-engineered surfaces for heat management that could make all sorts of systems work more efficiently
Shape-shifting robots
Self-folding sheets of a plastic-like material point the way to robots that can assume any conceivable 3-D structure.
Silicon can be made to melt in reverse
Material that shows melting while cooling might someday lead to applications in solar cells and other devices
Unraveling the Matrix
A new way of analyzing grids of numbers known as matrices could improve signal-processing applications and data-compression schemes.
Technology and Policy Program student named Switzer Environmental Fellow
Among 21 granted fellowships this year