The past, present and future of cancer
Researchers gather to discuss the state of their field and the potential for new treatments.
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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.
The next operating system
Operating systems for multicore chips will need more information about their own performance — and more resources for addressing whatever problems arise.
Designing the hardware
Improving communication between distributed processors and managing shared data are two of the central challenges in creating tomorrow’s chips.
Rivest unlocks cryptography's past, looks toward future
Public-key system has worked and made Internet commerce feasible, but new systems are ready in case flaws are found.
My 'four weeks' view of the U.S. achievement gap
Freshman Anna Ho mentors students while working with a Teach for America teacher in the Four Weeks for America Challenge.
King’s legacy celebrated at MIT
CNN's Roland Martin, at annual MLK Jr. breakfast, says the civil rights leader’s example of personal commitment and nonviolence lives on.
Canned, good
More than 100 years ago, 2 pioneering scientists figured out how to keep canned food safe.