Embracing change and innovation at DUSP
A chat with Eran Ben-Joseph, the new head of MIT's Department of Urban Studies and Planning.
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Big medical data
At the intersection of medicine and computer science, researchers look for clinically useful correlations amid mountains of information.
Life in BASIC
Nick Montfort and colleagues examine cultural significance of computer code in new book.
Cellphone data helps pinpoint source of traffic tie-ups
Study: Congestion can be alleviated throughout a metropolitan area by altering the trips of drivers in specific neighborhoods.
A flow of creativity
MIT’s Gediminas Urbonas emerged from the old Soviet Union to produce new art in Cambridge.
Graduate student David Sengeh gives back to Sierra Leone
Media Lab doctoral student created a competition to help youth in his home country create their own solutions.
Sloan student is dressed for success — in her own line of clothes
Aminata Kane MBA ’13 aims to have a positive social impact on the African continent while making great-fitting clothes.
Precisely engineering 3-D brain tissues
New design technique could enable personalized medicine, studies of brain wiring.
J.J. Abrams: 'It’s like driving in the fog'
Movie and television writer-producer shares his thoughts on how his production company compares with MIT’s Media Lab.
Photo finish: Sloanies team up to create Bounce Imaging
Low-cost camera targeted for first responders, military
When it comes to fostering innovation, student group says 'Do it!'
Lady Gaga collaborator and Interscope executive highlights do.it@MIT’s wide-ranging approach.
Composing for loudspeakers: computer music pioneer John Chowning visits MIT
The inventor of FM synthesis, Chowning revolutionized the music industry; saw a glimpsing into the future of music at the Institute.
MIT alums recount their Martian experiences
Several AeroAstro alumni return to campus to describe landing the Curiosity rover on Mars.