First improvement of fundamental algorithm in 10 years
The max-flow problem, which is ubiquitous in network analysis, scheduling, and logistics, can now be solved more efficiently than ever.
In the World: Health care in the palm of a hand
MIT-led student team develops mobile-device software to help improve health-care accessibility in remote regions.
Cars as traffic sensors
A new algorithm optimizes the dissemination of information about traffic and road conditions through networks of wirelessly connected cars.
Putting carbon dioxide to good use
MIT biological engineers have found a way to convert carbon-dioxide emissions to useful building materials, using genetically altered yeast.
Cynthia Barnhart is appointed acting dean of the School of Engineering
Subra Suresh, nominated to head NSF, is on sabbatical leave for the fall semester.
Squeezing more production out of bacteria
MIT chemical engineers demonstrate a new way to dramatically boost bacteria’s manufacturing abilities.
Robert J. Butler, former design research engineer at MIT, dies at 89
An MIT engineer for 25 years, he helped design instruments for NASA’s Voyager spacecraft.
MIT welcomes 8 MLK visiting professors and scholars
Scholars’ diverse backgrounds enhance MIT community, research and teaching.
Nuclear-fuel report challenges key assumptions
MIT study finds no shortage of uranium for nuclear energy for decades, but more research is needed to develop improved fuel-cycle options.
Hockfield says research universities must help cultivate science, math teachers
At a Brookings Institution event, the MIT president warns U.S. STEM-education gap to have ‘disastrous consequences’ on nation.
Code quest
As a grad student, Robert Gallager, SM ’57, ScD ’60, met one of information theory’s central challenges. But nobody realized it for 30 years.
Solar funnel
New antenna made of carbon nanotubes could make photovoltaic cells more efficient by concentrating solar energy.
Pushing ions through carbon nanotubes
The tiny, multitalented carbon tubes can carry single molecules, one at a time.
Can you find me now?
By demonstrating fundamental limits on their accuracy, MIT researchers show how to improve wireless location-detection systems.