Vargas honored in Dubai ceremony
MIT Tata Center alumna's innovative work with public space empowers residents of informal settlements.
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Armory Show is “CULTURUNNERS’” next stop
“CULTURUNNERS” and ACT involve creative individuals across MIT to highlight artistic journeys and exchanges between the United States and the Middle East.
The poetics and pragmatics of participatory art
Urban planning, architecture, and art students and practitioners join in a conversation about participatory art led by visiting MIT fellow Mel Chin.
Smarter multicore chips
New approach to distributing computations could make multicore chips much faster.
Shruti Sharma wins Gates Cambridge Scholarship
Award allows MIT senior to pursue a PhD in materials and manufacturing engineering at the University of Cambridge.
Stamp honors MIT’s first black graduate
The 38th stamp in the "Black Heritage" series honors architect and educator Robert Robinson Taylor of the Class of 1892.
3 Questions: John Charles on enabling IS&T to meet MIT’s evolving needs
MIT’s vice president for information systems and technology shares his vision for IS&T’s future.
Five CSAIL researchers named ACM fellows
The Association for Computer Machinery cites Devadas, Grimson, Morris, Rubinfeld, and Rus as having "provided key knowledge" to computing.
$118M gift from MIT alumnus will advance socially responsible and sustainable real estate development
Samuel Tak Lee MIT Real Estate Entrepreneurship Lab to include focus on China.
Spin designers
Caroline Ross and Geoffrey Beach are studying how the “spin” of electrons on nanomagnets could be manipulated to create faster, more energy-efficient computers.
Vivienne Sze receives DARPA 2014 Young Faculty Award
Award honors work on real-time energy-efficient visual data processing for portable media, which will impact elderly-assistance and advanced driver-assistance systems.
New horizons for self-assembling materials
3-D-printable materials deform to change surface area, enabling curvature rather than rigid folding.