How a simple phone call could provide Haitians with work
Media Lab students deploy trial of free phone service in Port-Au-Prince to match Haiti's unemployed with reconstruction jobs.
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3-D TV? How about holographic TV?
Using a single Xbox Kinect and standard graphics chips, MIT researchers demonstrate the highest frame rate yet for streaming holographic video.
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.
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.
Bringing the MIT innovation spirit to China
The new MIT Greater China Fund for Innovation awards its first research grants.
Tech support?
Contrasting views on display as MIT researchers debate how technology can curb global poverty.
Undergrads bring energy education to Ghana
Ghanaian high school students share alternative energy ideas with rural village.
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.
Illuminating research
MIT study finds potential for significant energy savings through user-controlled efficient lighting systems.
4 from MIT win DARPA Young Faculty Awards
Goal of awards is to encourage research and professional growth in DoD-related areas.
Your vital signs, on camera
MIT team develops system for continuous medical monitoring using widely available video technology.
President Hockfield reports steady progress at annual State of the Institute forum
MIT looks to the future after two years of budget cuts.