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Next Century Convocation celebrates the history, achievements and people of MIT’s first century and a half.
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Cast your vote in the MIT Global Challenge
Community Choice Voting begins today and continues through April 25.
Thinking like economists
From funky markets in airfares and hot dogs to the effects of alcohol taxes on drunk-driving fatalities, MIT undergraduates try their hand at economics research.
New report details status of women in science and engineering at MIT
Follow-up to previous reports shows improvement, but that still more can be done.
The past, present and future of cancer
Researchers gather to discuss the state of their field and the potential for new treatments.
Explained: Ad hoc networks
Decentralized wireless networks could have applications in distributed sensing and robotics and maybe even personal communications.
Student inventor Alice Chen receives Lemelson-MIT Student Prize
$30,000 prizes awarded to inventive students nationwide; four leading universities celebrate 2011 winners
David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research feted
MIT celebrates the official opening of the institute's new building.
The quantum singularity
A new experiment would use quantum effects to perform otherwise intractable calculations, but conducting it should be easier than building a quantum computer.
Language barrier
To take advantage of multicore chips, programmers will need software development systems that let them express themselves in fundamentally new ways.
No backtalk
One key to making parallel algorithms efficient is to minimize the amount of communication between cores.