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In Beijing and other Chinese cities, restaurant activity can be used to understand broader socioeconomic trends, according to a study by MIT researchers.

Why urban planners should pay attention to restaurant-review sites

Study finds online restaurant information can closely predict key neighborhood indicators, in lieu of other data.

July 15, 2019

A patient receives an ultrasound at MDaaS Global's clinic in Ibadan, Nigeria. MDaaS provides diagnostic services to low-income communities that were previously inaccessible.

World-class diagnostics for low-income communities in sub-Saharan Africa

MDaaS Global works to transform health care in Africa by bringing high-end medical diagnostics to low-income communities.

July 11, 2019

"This is an exhilarating time for MIT, and for political science in particular, as we navigate an evolving intellectual landscape" says David Singer, professor of political science and head of the Department of Political Science.

David Singer named head of the Department of Political Science

Singer is a scholar of international political economy, a subfield of political science focused on international economic relations.

July 9, 2019

For years, researchers from MIT and Brown University have been developing an interactive system that lets users drag-and-drop and manipulate data on any touchscreen, including smartphones and interactive whiteboards. Now, they’ve included a tool that instantly and automatically generates machine-learning models to run prediction tasks on that data.

Drag-and-drop data analytics

System lets nonspecialists use machine-learning models to make predictions for medical research, sales, and more.

June 27, 2019

Mussie Demisse demonstrates the Smart Suit, a 6.08 team project that analyzes the user's pushup form.

Smart workout apparel, “Vegetable Assassins,” and inspiration from medieval music

In a popular EECS class, student teams design, program, build, and demonstrate their own cloud-connected, handheld, or wearable embedded systems.

June 25, 2019

The MIT Machine Intelligence Community board and executive committee

Want to learn how to train an artificial intelligence model? Ask a friend.

MIT Machine Intelligence Community introduces students to nuts and bolts of machine learning.

June 25, 2019

A data scientist dedicated to social change

MBAn student Mason Grimshaw seeks to bring business solutions to overlooked communities.

June 22, 2019

Commuters wait for a Red Line subway train, part of Boston’s public transit system. A new study by MIT researchers shows that low-income people use mass transit significantly more often when they have access to fare reductions.

3 Questions: An experiment illuminates the value of public transportation

Urban studies research from MIT sheds light on the ways low-income riders use mass transit.

June 19, 2019

Africa's Talking, which offers developers voice and text functions to add to their solutions, employs around 160 people and is scaling quickly around Africa.

A platform for Africa’s mobile innovators

Africa’s Talking gives entrepreneurs on the continent an easy way to add voice- and text-based functions to their solutions.

June 10, 2019

Left to right: MIT seniors Ryan Koeppen, Jen McDermott, Kim Veldee, Gabe Valdes, and Marissa Steinmetz gather at the UPOP STARS Major Mixer.

UPOP’s new career peer-mentoring program reaches for the STARS

Seniors take part in the Undergraduate Practice Opportunities Program student leader program, building community and bringing peer career advising to sophomores.

June 10, 2019

MIT grad student Steven Gonzalez is showing that the cloud is neither distant nor ephemeral: It’s a massive system, ubiquitous in daily life, that contains huge amounts of energy, has the potential for environmental disaster, and is operated by an insular community of expert technicians.

Communities in the cloud

PhD student Steven Gonzalez studies cloud computing with the eye of an anthropologist.

June 5, 2019

MIT Professor Daniela Rus, director of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, kicked off an all-female lineup of speakers at TEDxMIT.

CSAIL hosts first-ever TEDxMIT

Speakers — all women — discuss everything from gravitational waves to robot nurses.

May 31, 2019

“I try to understand how policy makers and negotiators think, explore current nuclear challenges, and then try to evolve technical frameworks to meet the world as it is,” says Mareena Robinson Snowden PhD '17.

Plotting new paths to a nuclear “yes”

Nuclear science and engineering alumna Mareena Robinson Snowden PhD '17 devises new solutions for problems of arms control and proliferation.

May 28, 2019

Selecta Biosciences hopes its technology can be used to mitigate the unwanted immune responses of hundreds of drugs.

Biotech startup uses nanoparticles to induce immune tolerance

Selecta Bioscience’s ImmTOR platform could improve gene therapies and prevent some drug side effects.

May 23, 2019

Students participating in Quest for Intelligence-funded UROP projects this spring include: (clockwise from top left) Amanda Li, Maya Nigrin, Yuria Utsumi, Kika Arias, Marco Fleming, and Shreya Pandit.

Developing artificial intelligence tools for all

MIT Quest for Intelligence-sponsored undergraduate research projects demystify AI.