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Five of the 16 individuals in the 2016 class of National Inventors Hall of Fame inductees hail from MIT. They include Associate Professor Joseph Jacobson (top left), Jonathan (JD) Albert '97 (top right), Radia Perlman '73, SM '76, PhD '88 (center), Barrett Comiskey '97 (bottom left), and Ivan Sutherland PhD '63 (bottom right).

Five with MIT ties tapped for Inventors Hall of Fame

MIT professor and four alumni honored for inventing electronic ink, the spanning tree protocol, and Sketchpad, a human-machine graphical communication system.

February 5, 2016

The integrated science of learning — now emerging as a significant field of research — will be the core of MITili (pronounced “mightily”), a cross-disciplinary, Institute-wide initiative to foster rigorous quantitative and qualitative research on how people learn.

New initiatives accelerate learning research and its applications

Gabrieli, Belcher, Sarma leading new efforts to understand learning, improve it at all levels of education.

February 2, 2016

Edward Boyden wins BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award

Three neuroscientists share biomedicine prize for development of optogenetics

January 27, 2016

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.

January 25, 2016

Left to right: Susan Hockfield, Payal Kadakia, Dina Katabi, Helen Greiner, Jesse Draper, Anantha Chandrakasan

Empowering innovation

Panel highlighting female innovators from a range of fields aims to encourage student entrepreneurs.

January 22, 2016

MIT spinout Cogito developed voice-analytics software for call centers that tracks and analyzes voice patterns of customers and agents — such as interruptions and rapid speech — and offers real-time feedback to make the conversations more productive.

Watch your tone

Voice-analytics software helps customer-service reps build better rapport with customers.

January 20, 2016

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.

January 8, 2016

“In health care, there’s this gigantic world of unstructured data that needs to be translated into useable information,” says Paul Nemirovsky, who co-founded dMetrics with Ariadna Quattoni.

Detecting consumer decisions within messy data

Software analyzes online chatter to predict health care consumers’ behavior.

December 21, 2015

Gen9's BioFab process, now being used by dozens of researchers and companies, cuts costs and accelerates the creation and testing of genes.

Scaling up synthetic-biology innovation

MIT professor’s startup makes synthesizing genes many times more cost effective.

December 10, 2015

The "Clean Energy Technology Frontiers" panel at the C3E Women in Clean Energy Symposium.

Clean energy connections and innovation

At C3E Symposium, industry-leading women share transformative research on policies, technologies, and diversity in energy sector.

December 4, 2015

Kevin Esvelt to join the MIT Media Lab

December 4, 2015

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.

December 3, 2015

Photo of half a dozen people sitting around a table in a white conference room

Defense Secretary Carter visits MIT for innovation discussion

Dialogue with defense secretary focuses on bolstering leading-edge manufacturing.

December 2, 2015

By combining the information from the Kinect depth frame in (a) with polarized photographs, MIT researchers reconstructed the 3-D surface shown in (c). Polarization cues can allow coarse depth sensors like Kinect to achieve laser scan quality (b).

Making 3-D imaging 1,000 times better

Algorithms exploiting light’s polarization boost resolution of commercial depth sensors 1,000-fold.

December 1, 2015

“There’s no way we can solve anything if we’re not actually speaking to each other,” says senior Alyssa Napier, a chemistry major and linguistics minor.

Senior Alyssa Napier dedicates herself to improving MIT

Chemistry major works to address social justice issues.