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The MIT campus tour is now available on the Institute's mobile apps.

Let your mobile phone be your guide: A new twist on the MIT Campus Tour

Visitors with an iPhone or Android device can download the latest version of the MIT Mobile app, which includes links to the MIT150 website as well as a campus tour with a map, text and images.

January 8, 2011

The surprising usefulness of sloppy arithmetic

A computer chip that performs imprecise calculations could process some types of data thousands of times more efficiently than existing chips.

January 3, 2011

Bringing the MIT innovation spirit to China

The new MIT Greater China Fund for Innovation awards its first research grants.

December 10, 2010

Children participate in a One Laptop Per Child pilot program in Thailand

Tech support?

Contrasting views on display as MIT researchers debate how technology can curb global poverty.

December 9, 2010

Three students from the Ghana Fab Lab put the finishing touches on a solar panel unit in Kobina Adorh Krom village, with help from a young friend.

Undergrads bring energy education to Ghana

Ghanaian high school students share alternative energy ideas with rural village.

December 8, 2010

The Alphabot, a prototype robot that appears to move seamlessly between the real world and an on-screen virtual world, is designed to resemble a child's alphabet block.

When the playroom is the computer

A block-shaped robot that seems to roll onto a computer screen is part of an educational-media system that gets kids out of their chairs.

November 22, 2010

Visiting student Nan Zhao works in the test setup at the Media Lab under four LED fixtures controlled by the prototype adaptive system.

Illuminating research

MIT study finds potential for significant energy savings through user-controlled efficient lighting systems.

November 19, 2010

Harry P. Portnoy, former campus architect, dies at age 88

October 29, 2010

Simmons residents unite! From left, freshmen Abbel Getu, Jennifer Hsu, Victor Morales and Alex McCarthy use lots of tape to create their cardboard viking boat.

Vikings strike at Cambridge regatta

No, not the famous one. The other one.

October 27, 2010

Communication Forum: the online migration of newspapers

October 7, 2010

4 from MIT win DARPA Young Faculty Awards

Goal of awards is to encourage research and professional growth in DoD-related areas.

October 4, 2010

MIT Media Lab student Daniel McDuff, who collaborated on the pulse-monitoring system, demonstrates a version of the device built into a mirror that displays his pulse rate in real-time at the bottom.

Your vital signs, on camera

MIT team develops system for continuous medical monitoring using widely available video technology.

October 4, 2010

MIT President Susan Hockfield delivers her address at the beginning of the State of the Institute forum.

President Hockfield reports steady progress at annual State of the Institute forum

MIT looks to the future after two years of budget cuts.

October 1, 2010

Thomas W. Malone, the Patrick J. McGovern Professor of Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management

Putting heads together

New study: groups demonstrate distinctive ‘collective intelligence’ when facing difficult tasks

October 1, 2010

<em>Death and the Powers</em> introduces new performance techniques and an animated set, including a musical chandelier with dozens of Teflon strings that can be played by the performers.

Disembodied performance

Tod Machover’s Death and the Powers, which features robots as performers, premieres this month. Is this the future of opera?

September 10, 2010

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