CSAIL report: Giving government special access to data poses major security risks
Whether “backdoor” or “front-door,” government access imperils your data, report authors say.
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Automatic bug repair
System fixes bugs by importing functionality from other programs — without access to source code.
Podcast: Explaining the art behind data
Society has access to more data than ever before. How do we make sense of it all?
Medical anthropology
Erica Caple James investigates how behavior, culture, and structural inequalities impact health.
Modeling how thin films break up
Recent PhD recipient Rachel Zucker models phenomena collectively known as "dewetting" in microscale to nanoscale thin films.
De-stressing lithium batteries
Modeling mechanical stress in solid-state lithium batteries yields insights into battery microstructure for MIT postdoc Giovanna Bucci.
Climate-change committee submits community’s recommendations
Zuber seeks comments on report ahead of giving recommendations to Reif.
Centimeter-long origami robot
Controlled by magnetic fields, tiny robot climbs inclines, swims, and carries loads twice its weight.
Robotics competition generated groundbreaking research
MIT team based robotic control algorithms on cutting-edge theory.
Longstanding problem put to rest
Proof that a 40-year-old algorithm is the best possible will come as a relief to computer scientists.
Breaking down social networks in a city
New research finds urban social networks are not determined geographically, but socially.
3 Questions: Economies as computers, products as information
New book argues that economic development is a special case of the growth of information.
MIT team places sixth at international DARPA Robotics Challenge
CSAIL team just misses winning the grand prize after programming a 400-lb humanoid robot to lift beams, climb stairs, and drive a car.
Megan Smith: It’s mind, hand … and heart
In Commencement remarks, U.S. CTO stresses the importance of the personal, caring side of MIT.
President L. Rafael Reif's charge to the graduates
"Join the world. Find your calling. Solve the unsolvable. Invent the future," president tells Class of 2015.