Marvin Minsky, “father of artificial intelligence,” dies at 88
Professor emeritus was a co-founder of CSAIL and a founding member of the Media Lab.
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Empowering innovation
Panel highlighting female innovators from a range of fields aims to encourage student entrepreneurs.
Watch your tone
Voice-analytics software helps customer-service reps build better rapport with customers.
MIT partners with Johnson & Johnson to promote women's STEM education
Collaboration will expand the reach and quality of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education for undergraduate women.
Detecting consumer decisions within messy data
Software analyzes online chatter to predict health care consumers’ behavior.
Scaling up synthetic-biology innovation
MIT professor’s startup makes synthesizing genes many times more cost effective.
Clean energy connections and innovation
At C3E Symposium, industry-leading women share transformative research on policies, technologies, and diversity in energy sector.
New PBS KIDS ScratchJr app launches
Developed in collaboration with the MIT Media Lab and Tufts University, the PBS KIDS ScratchJr app helps children ages 5-8 learn coding concepts.
Defense Secretary Carter visits MIT for innovation discussion
Dialogue with defense secretary focuses on bolstering leading-edge manufacturing.
Making 3-D imaging 1,000 times better
Algorithms exploiting light’s polarization boost resolution of commercial depth sensors 1,000-fold.
Senior Alyssa Napier dedicates herself to improving MIT
Chemistry major works to address social justice issues.
MISTI Global Teaching Labs launches pilot program in Armenia
Five MIT students travel abroad to support and empower young technology entrepreneurs.
Biomedical imaging at one-thousandth the cost
Mathematical modeling enables $100 depth sensor to approximate the measurements of a $100,000 piece of lab equipment.
Edward Boyden wins 2016 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences
MIT physicists share prize in fundamental physics; Larry Guth and Liang Fu win New Horizons Prizes.