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A player at the Boston Red Sox preseason training camp is wired with sensors developed by the MIT Media Lab, which gauge the forces he exerts when he swings the bat.

The Red Sox' swing doctor

Slumping sluggers could soon get help from MIT Media Lab researchers.

October 5, 2009

The students' Hi-Drone project, an adaptable architecture gallery made of hydraulically operating pistons that are virtually and literally reconfigurable.

Student team of architects wins multiple awards

A floating gallery, a morphing sculpture and a weather-responsive installation are among their winning projects

September 23, 2009

Ed Boyden holding his most recent optogenetic device; an array of optical elements that can turn on and off individual neurons in sixteen different points with the brain.

McGovern Institute Neurotechnology (MINT) program funds three new projects

The McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT today announced three new collaborative funding awards as part of the McGovern Institute Neurotechnology (MINT) program.

September 18, 2009

Michael Mittelman, the newly appointed associate director of the Center for Advanced Visual Studies (CAVS).

New appointment: Michael Mittelman, associate director, Center for Advanced Visual Studies

Michael Mittelman has been appointed associate director of the Center for Advanced Visual Studies (CAVS), succeeding Larissa Harris who joined the Queens Museum of Art in New York as curator last fall.

September 18, 2009

Workers continue their renovation work on the dome above Building 10 in mid-July.

While you were out: Campus renovation, construction projects advanced despite wet summer

September 2, 2009

3 from MIT among Technology Review's top young innovators

Jose Gomez Marquez named 'humanitarian of the year'

August 18, 2009

Ramesh Raskar, left, holds box with conventional barcode,
while Ankit Mohan holds a prototype of new Bokode.

Barcodes for the rest of us

Tiny labels could pack lots of information, enable new uses

July 24, 2009

Harvard graduate students Ankush Sharma, right, and Alexis Geancotes, left, (who also study at MIT) represent the MoCa team, which developed mobile diagnostics to improve health care in the developing world.

A phone is not just a phone

Student projects explore innovative cellphone uses in developing world

July 2, 2009

Awards and Honors: June 26, 2009

June 26, 2009

Joseph Coughlin

MIT researchers make magazine's list of '100 most creative'

May 15, 2009

Stacy Pyron, of the Lemelson Program, left, catches up with smoking-cessation specialist in MIT Medical's Health Promotion and Wellness Lauren Mayhew, who helped Stacy quit smoking some 7 months ago.

MIT helps smokers quit

May 12, 2009

Scratch Day goes global

Conference on programming language spans 100 sites

May 12, 2009

Processing time

May 5, 2009

Hiroshi Ishii with one of his early projects, bottles that play music when their stoppers are removed.

Ishii makes the virtual tangible

A 'hands-on' approach to computers

April 6, 2009

Video artist Bill Viola, left, tries out the 'wall' in the Tangible Bits lab with the help of graduate student Jamie Zigelbaum.

Back to school

Video artist Viola, winner of McDermott award, samples new technologies during weeklong residency at MIT

March 19, 2009