Gita Manaktala receives 2019 Association of University Presses Constituency Award MIT Press editorial director recognized for service to the university press community. July 3, 2019 Read full story →
MIT Media Lab Director's Fellows announced for 2019 NBA star, Polynesian voyager, mayor of Stockton, California, are among the new cohort working to build bridges between MIT and the world. July 1, 2019 Read full story →
Want to learn how to train an artificial intelligence model? Ask a friend. MIT Machine Intelligence Community introduces students to nuts and bolts of machine learning. June 25, 2019 Read full story →
Graduate students win first place in 2019 Patagonia Case Competition MIT PhD and MBA students proposed a winning solution for sustainable food and apparel packaging. June 24, 2019 Read full story →
Creating 3-D images, with regular ink MIT startup Lumii helps manufacturers replicate the visual effects of holograms on their printed materials. June 19, 2019 Read full story →
Teaching artificial intelligence to connect senses like vision and touch MIT CSAIL system can learn to see by touching and feel by seeing, suggesting future where robots can more easily grasp and recognize objects. June 17, 2019 Read full story →
Transmedia Storytelling Initiative launches with $1.1 million gift Program creates a new hub for pedagogy and research in time-based media. June 12, 2019 Read full story →
A platform for Africa’s mobile innovators Africa’s Talking gives entrepreneurs on the continent an easy way to add voice- and text-based functions to their solutions. June 10, 2019 Read full story →
Solving equations to design safer ships David Larson, a doctoral candidate in mechanical engineering and an avid sailor, models ship-wave interactions to understand how ships behave in severe storms. June 10, 2019 Read full story →
Michael Bloomberg's Commencement address Entrepreneur, philanthropist announces new climate initiative, says climate crisis "is unlike any other ever faced by humankind." June 7, 2019 Read full story →
Autonomous boats can target and latch onto each other Fleet of “roboats” could collect garbage or self-assemble into floating structures in Amsterdam’s many canals. June 5, 2019 Read full story →
Q&A: Phillip Isola on the art and science of generative models Image-translation pioneer discusses the past, present, and future of generative adversarial networks, or GANs. May 30, 2019 Read full story →
Felice Frankel donates image collection to the MIT Libraries Landscape architecture photographs will be shared as a learning resource. May 28, 2019 Read full story →
Fabrics poised to become the new software Basic research advance leads to production of more than 250,000 chips embedded within fibers in less than a year. May 21, 2019 Read full story →
Public opinion study in Europe shows drop in anti-immigration sentiment, among other changes Surveys spanning recent decades also reveal geographic differences and gender gap in economic views. May 16, 2019 Read full story →