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November 28, 2007

The robotic ankle is one of six MIT inventions singled out by Time magazine in its annual survey of the world's most promising visions of the future. MIT Media Lab Professor Hugh Herr and his team of researchers developed the world's first such ankle, an important advance for lower-limb amputees. <a onclick="MM_openBrWindow('time-ankle-enlarged.html','','width=509, height=583')">
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Time magazine honors MIT for inventions, inventors

November 14, 2007

MIT Corporation grants tenure to 50 faculty

November 14, 2007

Team analyzes genomes of 12 fly species

Approach could unlock secrets of human genome

November 9, 2007

CSAIL professor Regina Barzilay, right, and principal research scientist James Glass, left, use computer techniques to create a lecture-browsing system.

MIT develops lecture search engine to aid students

November 7, 2007

Wissam Jarjoui, 17, has become the first participant in MEET, a program that brings together Israeli and Palestinian youths, to enroll at MIT.

Unique Middle East program rooted at MIT bears fruit

Palestinian becomes first MEET student to enroll at MIT

September 19, 2007

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

DARPA names MIT's 'robocar' a semifinalist

August 9, 2007

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