African entrepreneurs visit MIT for leadership boot camp
The Legatum Center joined Zambezi entrepreneurs with MIT faculty, students, and stakeholders for a leadership forum around African prosperity.
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Tarana Burke, BethAnn McLaughlin, and Sherry Marts win 2018 Media Lab Disobedience Award
Three leaders of the #MeToo and #MeTooSTEM movements are recognized.
MIT hosts China Summit, additional gatherings in Beijing
MIT faculty, leadership, alumni, and Corporation members engage with old and new friends of the Institute.
Times Higher Education ranks MIT No.1 in business and economics, No.2 in arts and humanities
Worldwide honors for 2019 span three MIT schools.
Platform helps farmers out of extreme poverty
Social enterprise Ricult uses digital tools to empower rural farmers in developing countries.
“Schoenberg in Hollywood,” the opera
New work by Tod Machover of the Media Lab's Opera of the Future group examines ideas of heritage, politics, and artistic integrity.
Putting food-safety detection in the hands of consumers
Simple, scalable wireless system uses the RFID tags on billions of products to sense contamination.
Ekene Ijeoma joins MIT Media Lab
The new media arts and sciences faculty member merges social justice with design, architecture, music, performance, and technology.
Collaborating for MIT’s Future poster session offers community insights and inspiration
For the fifth year, the poster session brought together colleagues from across MIT to learn about new projects and partnerships.
Celebrating Open Access Week
Knowledge Futures Group and the MIT Press team up to highlight ways to meet increasing demands for open access content.
New CRISPR tool opens up more of the genome for editing
Enzyme can target almost half of the genome’s “ZIP codes” and could enable editing of many more disease-specific mutations.
How should autonomous vehicles be programmed?
Massive global survey reveals ethics preferences and regional differences.
Prior Art Archive aims to improve patent process
New MIT-hosted database is open to both examiners and the wider public, and seeks to reduce the number of wrongly-issued patents.
Taming “information hazards” in synthetic biology research
Cryptography techniques to screen synthetic DNA could help prevent the creation of dangerous pathogens, argues Professor Kevin Esvelt.
MIT and HUBweek showcase ideas and innovators making the future
Institute throws open its doors for the Greater Boston area’s fourth annual celebration of innovation.