School of Engineering third quarter 2018 awards
Faculty members recognized for excellence via a diverse array of honors, grants, and prizes over the last quarter.
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A step toward personalized, automated smart homes
System that automatically identifies people moving around indoors could enable self-adjusting homes.
Showcasing solutions for land, sea, space — and everywhere in between
At the fifth annual Mechanical Engineering Research Exhibition, graduate students gain valuable practice presenting their innovative work.
Movement-enhancing exoskeletons may impair decision making
In lab experiments, soldiers wearing exoskeletons designed to improve physical performance reacted more slowly to visual cues.
Model helps robots navigate more like humans do
In simulations, robots move through new environments by exploring, observing, and drawing from learned experiences.
MIT and HUBweek showcase ideas and innovators making the future
Institute throws open its doors for the Greater Boston area’s fourth annual celebration of innovation.
Ideas abound at Quest for Intelligence workshop
Community event generates ideas for sparking innovative and ambitious plans to advance research in human and machine intelligence.
MIT Solve selects new class of innovators for 2018
At the Solve Challenge Finals, judges selected 33 tech entrepreneurs who will receive the support necessary to scale their solutions.
3Q: Antonio Torralba on what's next for the Quest for Intelligence
Inaugural director of The Quest discusses what's been accomplished since last spring's launch and what is on the horizon.
How phytoplankton survive in ocean gyres with low nutrient supplies
Model of nutrient recycling may explain longstanding mystery.
Helping computers fill in the gaps between video frames
Machine learning system efficiently recognizes activities by observing how objects change in only a few key frames.
Robots can now pick up any object after inspecting it
Breakthrough CSAIL system suggests robots could one day be able to see well enough to be useful in people’s homes and offices.
Yo-yo champion pursues his passions at MIT
Alex Hattori, a senior in MechE and six-time national yo-yo champion, explores yo-yos and robotics inside and out of the classroom.
Sebastien Mannai, Antoni Rosinol Vidal win FutureMakers first prize
AeroAstro grad students win multi-university challenge by demonstrating the utility of machine vision in a complex system.