Slideshow: A Terrascope spring break
Students visit Abu Dhabi to learn about plans for the world’s first carbon-neutral city
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Charting a course toward cleaner cars
MIT team recommends strategy for reducing automotive fuel use, emissions
A grand unified theory of AI
A new approach unites two prevailing but often opposed strains in the history of artificial-intelligence research.
Rough calculations
Sanjoy Mahajan’s new book, Street-Fighting Mathematics, lays out practical tools for educated guessing and down-and-dirty problem-solving
Explained: Regression analysis
Sure, it’s a ubiquitous tool of scientific research, but what exactly is a regression, and what is its use?
Revolutionizing medicine, one chip at a time
Low-power computer chips allow engineers to design wearable and implantable devices to monitor patients.
In Profile: Alex Slocum
Teaching and tinkering, and teaching how to tinker, are the driving forces for longtime MIT mechanical engineer
Explained: Linear and nonlinear systems
Much scientific research across a range of disciplines tries to find linear approximations of nonlinear behaviors. But what does that mean?
Celebrating MIT's excellent staff
Fifteen individuals and four teams to be honored at 2010 MIT Excellence Awards
Patricia Gercik receives MIT Excellence Award
A visionary for MIT's applied international studies programs
Institute honors Martin Luther King, Jr. at annual breakfast celebration
Speakers ask MIT community members to spread the Institute’s unique gifts