Drew Houston's Commencement address
'I stopped trying to make my life perfect, and instead tried to make it interesting.'
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Opening Dropbox
MIT alumnus Drew Houston took Dropbox from conception to a multibillion-dollar business.
Why innovation thrives in cities
Double a city’s population and its economic productivity goes up 130 percent. MIT researchers think they know why.
Angela Belcher wins $500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize
MIT professor honored for her innovations that take cues, and materials, from nature to tackle key societal issues.
Tracking bubbles for improved nuclear safety
Nuclear science and engineering grad student Rosemary Sugrue explores thermal hydraulics in nuclear reactors
Automatically grading programming homework
Software that identifies errors in students’ programs — however idiosyncratic their approaches — could be a boon for online learning.
Fine-tuning emissions from quantum dots
New MIT analysis should enable development of improved color displays and biomedical monitoring systems.
A step closer to artificial livers
Researchers identify compounds that help liver cells grow outside the body.
The What, Who and How of DUE: The Teaching and Learning Laboratory
How TLL helps advance educational innovation at MIT
How computers can learn better
With a recently released programming framework, researchers show that a new machine-learning algorithm outperforms its predecessors.
Solving a semiconductor riddle
New observations of material disprove leading theory about LED brightness, opening new avenues for research.
Balance is key to making quantum-dot solar cells work
MIT team finds that the ratio of component atoms is vital to performance.
iCampus Student Competition yields online tools for improved on campus experiences
Grand prize in 2013 competition goes to an online exploration tool to aid students in planning their selection of classes.
Making quantum encryption practical
An MIT team that proposed a new, more-practical scheme for using quantum physics to secure data transmission has now demonstrated it experimentally.
D-Lab Scale-Ups awards funds to three MIT social entrepreneurs
Shawn Wen ‘13, Kevin Cedrone SM ’10 PhD ‘13 and Sumana Shrestha MBA ‘13 to join the Phase I Fellowship Program