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Roots Studio team members Rebecca Hui (left) and Macauley Kenney recieve the top prize in the 2017 Creative Arts Competition.

Creative Arts Competition rewards arts entrepreneurship at MIT

Roots Studio wins top prize for the most promising arts-focused startup at the Institute.

May 16, 2017

For their 2017 J-WAFS Seed Grant project, MIT professors Stephen Graves and Bishwapriya Sanyal will analyze irrigation practice, supply chain design, and extension services in Senegal. Their goal is to understand how policy and market conditions influence the availability of irrigation technologies in developing countries. Seen here: Irrigated rice cultivation in the Senegal River Valley.

J-WAFS awards $1.4 million in third round of seed grant funding

Principal investigators will receive grants of up to $200,000 per year for two years, overhead free, for innovative research on food and water challenges.

May 10, 2017

A new website, Energize_MIT, provides to the MIT community a broad swath of detailed information about energy use and carbon emissions on campus.

MIT opens its energy-use data to the community

Campus energy “dashboard” will provide detailed information to Institute’s faculty, staff, and students.

May 7, 2017

MIT spinout New Valence Robotics (NVBOTS) has brought to market the only fully automated commercial 3-D printer that’s equipped with cloud-based queuing and automatic part removal, making print jobs quicker and easier for multiple users, and dropping the cost per part.

Making 3-D printing as simple as printing on paper

Startup’s cloud-based system allows for project queuing by multiple users and automated part removal.

May 4, 2017

Albert Saiz, director of the MIT Center for Real Estate, focuses on the confluence of urban policy, economic development, and real estate markets.

3 Questions: How urbanization and revolutionary innovation are shaping global real estate

The Center for Real Estate’s Albert Saiz talks about worldwide trends affecting housing, commercial real estate, and investment in the built environment.

May 3, 2017

Tommi Jaakkola, a professor of electrical engineering and comptuer science at MIT, tosses chocolates to students during Introduction to Machine Learning, or 6.036.

Genuine enthusiasm for AI

Machine learning is one of the hottest subjects on campus.

April 27, 2017

This panchromatic-sharpened, natural-color image of Boston was generated from data collected during an April 23, 2001 scan by the Earth-Observing-1's Advanced Land Imager.

Earth Observing–1 satellite is retired, leaving a legacy of spectacular imagery

Advanced Land Imager instrument developed at MIT Lincoln Laboratory helped NASA mission exceed expectations.

April 27, 2017

MIT researchers have designed a system that can 3-D print the basic structure of an entire building. The system consists of a tracked vehicle that carries a large industrial robotic arm, which has a smaller, precision-motion robotic arm at its end.

3-D printing offers new approach to making buildings

Technology developed at MIT could enable faster, cheaper, more adaptable building construction.

April 26, 2017

MISTI funds over 80 MIT faculty projects

MISTI’s Global Seed Funds program announces its latest winners.

April 21, 2017

Software developer is a voice for Muslim women

An entrepreneur who co-founded Wise Systems, Layla Shaikley SM ’13 may be better known for her viral video created to combat media stereotypes of Muslim women.

April 19, 2017