Playing with Einstein
MIT Game Lab releases OpenRelativity, a game-development tool to help developers and educators experiment with the effects of special relativity.
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Local fifth graders explore mathematics with MIT graduate students
MITxplore, a free after-school math program, transforms math into an adventure.
Reinventing invention
Designer Chuck Hoberman partners with CSAIL to create transformable mechanisms
Balance is key to making quantum-dot solar cells work
MIT team finds that the ratio of component atoms is vital to performance.
Composing and consciousness
Dustin Katzin’s friends say he is an Academy Award just waiting to happen.
The strangely familiar browsing habits of 14th-century readers
MIT professor’s book digs into the eclectic, textually linked reading choices of people in medieval London.
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.
3dim wins MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition
Annual business-plan contest awards $257,000 in total.
Arts at MIT add an artistic boost to the Institute’s entrepreneurial scrum
New $10,000 Creative Arts Competition to reward best arts-focused business plan
MIT Global Founders’ Skills Accelerator announces 2013 student teams
Startup accelerator includes eight MIT student teams as well as teams from six international universities.
Machine shop builds lifelong skills
In its 15th year, the Edgerton Student Shop continues to entice students to build all manner of things
Wireless researchers host ‘Game-Jam’
Event will bring together game developers, graphic designers and audio professionals to design mobile games that will help wireless researchers gather information on network data.
The new challenges for urban planners
In MIT talk, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan emphasizes the need for creative urbanism in a time of economic strain.