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MIT's entry for the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge competition is a self-piloted Land Rover LR3.

Drivers Unwanted: MIT 'Robocar' takes a spin

June 28, 2007

Awards: Key to abbreviations

June 6, 2007

The late MIT professor Claude E. Shannon, known as the father of digital communications and information theory, invented mind-bogglingly clever devices and contraptions.

Shannon collection shows wit and whimsy

MIT Museum receives collection of toys and contraptions created by the 'father of information theory'

May 30, 2007

Mechanical engineering professor Triantaphyllos R. Akyls and Senior Associate Dean for Student Life Candace Royer enjoy the luncheon to welcome new members of the Quarter Century Club, held in the Brain And Cognitive Sciences building atrium.

Quarter Century Club welcomes new members

May 25, 2007

An MIT research team studying gene regulation in mouse and human liver cells has found that master regulatory proteins function differently in the two. From left, post-doc Robin Dowell, Professor Ernest Fraenkel, graduate student Kenzie MacIsaac and research technician William Gordon discuss their research.

Mice and men make livers differently

Work should guide researchers using mice as models for human biology

May 21, 2007

Twelve MIT faculty are elected to AAAS

May 8, 2007

Systems biology, in search of a metaphor, tries out language of machines, intestines

May 2, 2007

Kenyan center supports literacy, development

May 2, 2007

The stucco-like surface on the right looks darker and glossier than the one on the left even though the mean luminance of both images is equal. The luminance histogram of the image on the right is positively skewed and the one on the left is negatively skewed.

MIT shows how brain tells glossy from grainy surfaces

Work could let robots see better

April 19, 2007

Larger-scale folds develop the fastest in premature (born more than seven weeks early) infants (top), while medium-scale folds develop the fastest in older premature infants, born between seven and two weeks early (middle). In older infants and children, fine folds develop the most quickly across the brain surface (bottom).

Model helps researchers 'see' brain development

Work could facilitate early detection of autism

April 10, 2007

MIT postdoctoral associate Aaron Edsinger gets some help from Domo, an assistive robot he has been developing for the last three years.

Assistive robot adapts to people, new places

April 9, 2007

An MIT model for object recognition takes as input the unlabeled images of digital photographs from the street scene database (top) and generates automatic annotations (bottom row). The orange bounding boxes are for pedestrians ("ped") and cars ("car"). The system would have also detected bicycles if present. For sky, buildings, trees and road, the system uses color coding (blue, brown, green and ...

Computer model mimics neural processes in object recognition

Applications include surveillance, visual search engines, biomedical imaging analysis and robots with realistic vision

February 23, 2007

Victor Zue will direct CSAIL

February 14, 2007

Academy of Engineering elects 5 from MIT