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MIT researchers among Technology Review’s annual list of the world’s top young innovators

‘TR35’ to be honored at Technology Review’s EmTech@MIT conference next month.

August 25, 2010

NSF award funds Media Lab researchers work on Autism spectrum disorders

Collaboration is the first large-scale effort of computer and behavioral scientists to jointly address ASD.

August 20, 2010

Hal Abelson, the Class of 1922 Professor of Computer Science and Engineering

The MIT roots of Google’s new software

Google’s App Inventor, which lets people with no previous programming experience build applications for mobile phones, draws on decades of MIT research.

August 19, 2010

Campus shuttle changes take effect Aug. 9

Frequency and number of seats to increase; EZRide to replace Northwest Shuttle

August 6, 2010

Campus shuttle changes take effect Aug. 9

August 3, 2010

In the summer of 2009, the MIT List Visual Arts Center carried out a major conservation effort to preserve and maintain a number of important pieces in MIT’s public art collection. "La Grand Voile" (The Great Sail) by Alexander Calder was among the works treated. Here, the sculpture can be seen after its renovation.

Q&A: Patricia Fuller on MIT’s public art collection

As she prepares to retire, the Institute’s curator of public art reflects on the importance of maintaining MIT’s impressive collection.

July 20, 2010

$Postdoctoral Associate Ankit Mohan demonstrates NETRA (Near-Eye Tool for Refractive Assessment). The user places the device to the eye and, using phone's keypad, aligns patterns in the viewfinder. These alignments provide the data needed to determine a prescription.$

In the World: Easy on the eyes

Simple, low-cost device that affixes to a cell phone could provide quick eye tests throughout the developing world.

June 23, 2010

William J. Mitchell, the former dean of MIT's School of Architecture and Planning

Bill Mitchell, former dean of MIT's School of Architecture and Planning, dies at age 65

He was an outspoken advocate for radically transforming infrastructure to create responsive sustainable cities, and played an instrumental role in transforming MIT's physical campus.

June 12, 2010