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MIT Sloan marketing professor Catherine Tucker analyzes the boundaries of privacy in a connected world.
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Oscillating microscopic beads could be key to biolab on a chip
MIT team finds way to manipulate and measure magnetic particles without contact, potentially enabling multiple medical tests on a tiny device.
Explained: Femtoseconds and attoseconds
As electronic and optical devices get ever faster, terms for ever-smaller increments of time are coming into wider use.
Watching electrons move at high speed
New MIT system allows femtosecond-resolution movie of electrons in a topological insulator, a promising new electronic material.
Fujimoto, Swanson awarded the 2012 António Champalimaud Vision Award
Share honor with colleagues for pioneering work in the development of optical coherence tomography.
The Edgerton Center turns 20
Professor J. Kim Vandiver on the history and future of the Edgerton Center.
Leonard A. Gould, EECS emeritus professor, dies at 85
Joined MIT faculty in 1953; studied control problems and dynamic modeling.
U.S. News ranks MIT sixth overall among U.S. universities
Institute’s undergraduate engineering program is again ranked No. 1; undergraduate business program is No. 2.
Understanding gambling addiction
For machine gamblers, it’s not whether they win or lose — it’s how much they play the game.
A one-way street for spinning atoms
Work correlating ultracold atoms’ spin with their direction of motion may help physicists model new circuit devices and unusual phases of matter.
Merging tissue and electronics
New tissue scaffold could be used for drug development and implantable therapeutic devices.
One-molecule-thick material has big advantages
MIT researchers produce complex electronic circuits from molybdenum disulfide, a material that could have many more applications.
Patterning defect-free nanocrystal films with nanometer resolution
New process developed at MIT could enable better LED displays, solar cells and biosensors — and foster basic physics research.