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One of the 3-D printers at work in the Mediated Matter group at the MIT Media Lab.

Printing off the paper

MIT research continues to push the boundaries of the burgeoning technology of 3-D printing.

September 14, 2011

MIT launches new Center for Mobile Learning

Receives initial funding from Google Education.

September 9, 2011

Raised in Tokyo and Silicon Valley, Ito became a resident of Dubai in 2008 in order to gain a better understanding of the Middle East, part of his aim to understand intellectual property issues internationally and to become what he describes as a ‘global citizen.'

A conversation with Joichi Ito

New Media Lab director touches on his work, his hobbies, and what he's learned from swimming with sharks.

September 6, 2011

Pat Gercik, associate director of the MIT International Science and Technology Initiatives (MISTI), is the Japan 3/11 Initiative's program coordinator and overseer of fundraising efforts.

MIT Japan 3/11 Initiative raising funds, awareness

Memorial community center, long-term research are goals of the project

July 20, 2011

A diagram showing LinkedIn Founder Reid Hoffman's connections.

Living in the digital ecosystem

LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman talks data mash-ups, entrepreneurship and how his site keeps people honest.

July 20, 2011

Daniel Schmidt, neurobiology postdoc, wins cancer fellowship

Brain-tumor researcher named among 18 fellows

July 19, 2011

Find and replace window overlays sequence of letters as "TAG" is highlighted throughout.

Scientists unveil tools for rewriting the code of life

New technology from MIT and Harvard can edit DNA at the genome scale, giving cells novel functions.

July 15, 2011

Zinc oxide nanostructures are directly synthesized in parallel microfluidic channels (held by the metal frame) by flowing reactants through the tubing. The microfluidic structure not only creates the device, but also becomes the final packaged functional LED device itself.

How to grow wires and tiny plates

Liquid processing method developed at MIT can control the shapes of nanowires and produce complete electronic devices.

July 14, 2011

Ramesh Raskar takes an eye test using one of his team’s clip-on test devices.

‘Radar for the human eye’

Inexpensive hand-held device developed at MIT could detect cataracts even at the earliest stages.

July 1, 2011

Ethan Zuckerman, the new MIT Center for Civic Media director, is als co-founder of Geekcorps and founder of the international blogging platform Global Voices.

Ethan Zuckerman, cyberscholar and activist, to lead MIT Center for Civic Media

He will direct MIT's influential group of technologists and academics committed to empowering communities around the globe by inventing and testing civic media tools and practices.

June 23, 2011

300 of the world’s best design theses on view at SA+P

June 2, 2011

Members of sanitation start-up 'Sanergy' accepts the $100,000 prize as winners of the MIT $100K competition 100K associate director John Casey (far left), managing director Kourosh Kaghazian (far right), and venture capitalist Vinod Khosla (second from left) presented the team with the check.

Waste-conversion startup Sanergy bowls over competition

Wild-card entry takes top prize in $100K Business Plan Competition

May 12, 2011

Marvin Minsky, left, and Noam Chomsky chatted as they waited for the symposium’s kickoff panel, 'The Golden Age,' to begin.

Of minds and machines

Final installment of MIT’s 150th anniversary symposia explores intelligence — both human and artificial.

May 9, 2011

MIT President Susan Hockfield and her husband, Dr. Thomas Byrne, award a Global Challenge Juried Award to Team Solar Autoclave.

Spotlight on service

IDEAS and Global Challenge competitions award nearly $150,000 to teams of public service innovators working around the world.

May 4, 2011

Better glasses-free 3-D

A fundamentally new approach to glasses-free 3-D displays could save power, widen the viewing angle and make 3-D illusions more realistic.