Own your own data A new system would allow individuals to pick and choose what data to share with websites and mobile apps. July 9, 2014 Read full story →
Harnessing the speed of light Nicholas Fang pushes the limits of light to improve performance in communication, fabrication, and medical imaging. July 8, 2014 Read full story →
Mathematical patchwork Alice Guionnet, an authority on random matrix theory, aims to make sense of huge data sets. June 27, 2014 Read full story →
Collaborative learning — for robots Algorithm lets independent agents collectively produce a machine-learning model without aggregating data. June 25, 2014 Read full story →
Researchers unveil experimental 36-core chip Design lets chip manage local memory stores efficiently using an Internet-style communication network. June 23, 2014 Read full story →
When it comes to numbers, culture counts In a Bolivian rainforest society, children learn to count just like in the U.S., but on a delayed timetable. June 18, 2014 Read full story →
High-performance computing programming with ease Alan Edelman leads the global, open-source collaboration developing "Julia," a powerful but flexible programming language for high performance computing. June 16, 2014 Read full story →
President L. Rafael Reif's charge to the graduates "Rebuild the engine of society until it delivers the kind of performance we expect from ourselves at MIT," president tells the Class of 2014. June 6, 2014 Read full story →
The Internet of medical things Stephen Miles helps to bring the benefits of serialized identification systems to translational medicine and research. June 3, 2014 Read full story →
Advanced research gives EECS undergraduates the ‘big picture’ SuperUROP connects student creativity with tough challenges May 29, 2014 Read full story →
Q&A: David Autor on inequality among the “99 percent” In new Science piece, MIT economist aims to move the inequality discussion beyond the “1 percent.” May 22, 2014 Read full story →
Search without reward MIT conference highlights the plight of the long-term unemployed, a social issue of growing urgency. May 7, 2014 Read full story →
IDEAS winners aim to improve the world’s “quality of life” Contest awards thousands of dollars to 13 teams tackling environmental and health challenges in developing countries. May 6, 2014 Read full story →
A “wimpy” dwarf fossil galaxy reveals new facts about early universe Faintest galaxy ever detected illuminates unusual aspects of the universe’s early evolution. May 1, 2014 Read full story →
How a health care plan quickly lowered infant mortality Study: Improved hospital access lowered infant death rate among Thailand’s poor within a year. April 30, 2014 Read full story →