Students inspire engineering activities and curriculum development for young learners
Civil and environmental engineering TREX students present their findings on Hawaii’s Mt. Kilauea to Boston Museum of Science educators.
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To handle big data, shrink it
Algorithm reduces size of data sets while preserving their mathematical properties.
Sustainability of the built environment
Professor Oral Buyukozturk has catalyzed multidisciplinary ventures to advance sustainable designs for infrastructure in Kuwait and elsewhere.
Advancing "lean research" for improved international development
To help alleviate poverty, representatives from MIT D-Lab and Tufts Fletcher School focus on respectful, human-centered research practices in global development.
Real estate and reality
MIT economist Albert Saiz studies real estate and its many links to urban life.
How a computer can help your doctor better diagnose cancer
Model from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory aims to automatically distinguish lymphoma subtypes.
MIT Center for Art, Science and Technology receives $1.5 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Combined grants provide eight years of funding, among largest gifts received by the arts at MIT.
“IDEAS” for social change
Contest winners are bringing novel technologies, new educational models to the developing world.
Patents forecast technological change
New method uses patent data to estimate a technology’s future rate of improvement.
Environmental Solutions Initiative awards seed grants to advance collaborative progress on environmental challenges
Grants of up to $200,000 will fund environmental partnerships over the next two years.
Captioning at scale
Company’s more-efficient captioning system processes hundreds of video-hours per day.
Taking action in Africa
Conference spotlights companies and organizations that are innovating across various sectors.
Engineering undergraduates characterize sulfur emissions from Hawaiian volcano
Kilauea volcanic smog study may lead to better understanding of effects on human health, infrastructure, and environment.