Record attendance for MIT’s Graduate Arts Soiree
Nearly 600 from across disciplines attend Friday night event.
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MIT Japan 3.11 Initiative receives grant
Project prepares for year two in its response to Japan's disaster.
Testing unbuilt chips
A new software-simulation system promises much more accurate evaluation of promising — but potentially fault-ridden — multicore-chip designs.
Alumni bring Turks and Armenians together for joint initiative
Professional workshops focus on environmental sustainability.
National Engineers Week: A Q&A with Olivier de Weck
On engineering systems and the book Engineering Systems: Meeting Human Needs in a Complex Technological World
Susan Hockfield to step down
MIT’s 16th president led Institute in service to nation and world; met recession with unprecedented fundraising success and careful budget management.
New system allows robots to continuously map their environment
Algorithm to build 3-D maps requires a low-cost camera, no human input.
MIT honors Martin Luther King Jr. at 38th annual breakfast
Diversity and education among breakfast-table topics.
MIT and SUTD open International Design Centre
Aims to become the world’s premier scholarly hub for technologically intensive design.
Proof that 'MIT Can Talk'
IAP activity promotes campus-wide awareness of good oral communication skills.
How spider webs achieve their strength
It’s not just the strength of the silk itself, a new study finds; the silk’s way of stretching and the structure of the whole web help it resist damage.
An important new book on alumnus Robert Taylor
The nation’s first professionally trained African-American architect
MIT faculty speak at the World Economic Forum in Davos
Talks explore the mind/machine interface and the science of predicting the economy, among other topics.
