Wyn Kelley sails on the Charles W. Morgan
MIT Melville scholar travels on the last surviving U.S. whaleship from Melville's era.
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Vision-correcting displays
Technology could lead to e-readers, smartphones, and displays that let users dispense with glasses.
ScratchJr: Coding for kindergarten
With a new app, young children learn important skills as they program stories and games.
GEARing technology for developing markets
Amos Winter designs, builds, and delivers products for underserved populations around the world.
Microfluidics and nanofluidics research address global challenges
Karnik group develops inexpensive ways to analyze blood and filter water
Keeping it simple (for a bioinformatician)
Alumnus strikes delicate balances in big data — helping define the future of health care.
A "maker" education
NuVu Studio takes high school students out of the classroom and into a design space to invent and create.
Professor Seth Teller dies at age 50
Expert on computer vision, robotics, and human-robot interaction had been on the faculty since 1994.
Mathematical patchwork
Alice Guionnet, an authority on random matrix theory, aims to make sense of huge data sets.
Collaborative learning — for robots
Algorithm lets independent agents collectively produce a machine-learning model without aggregating data.
Why networking doesn't work
New study reveals the strength of the strongest ties in collaborative problem solving.
Researchers unveil experimental 36-core chip
Design lets chip manage local memory stores efficiently using an Internet-style communication network.
Solving the world’s plastic problem
Alumna invents continuous, zero-toxic-emission system that converts nonrecycled plastics into crude oil.
A new way to detect leaks in pipes
Self-propelled robotic device can speed through pipes, pinpointing leaks more accurately than existing methods.