Revolutionizing medicine, one chip at a time
Low-power computer chips allow engineers to design wearable and implantable devices to monitor patients.
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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
Can a game save the world?
New game will teach students collaboration skills--and might help fix climate change in the process
Nonlinear thinker
With techniques for translating complicated equations into ‘sums of squares,’ Pablo Parrilo helps make sense of previously insoluble problems.
MIT signs formal agreement with Singapore University of Technology and Design
President Hockfield lauds new university’s ‘distinctive vision’
Reporter’s Notebook: Workshop seeks answers to Haiti crisis
Community members gather information with an eye toward developing long-term strategies to assist the quake-devastated nation.
Extreme makeovers in space
Research suggesting that near-Earth encounters can ‘shake’ asteroids opens the door to a new field: asteroid seismology