Woodie Flowers, a pioneer of hands-on engineering education
Flowers and his former student, David Wallace, have created a fun, teamwork-based approach to learning the art of mechanical design.
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MIT and Harvard launch a ‘revolution in education’
Online edX courses will open both universities’ classrooms to the world while enhancing on-campus learning.
Thwarting the cleverest attackers
Savvy hackers can steal a computer’s secrets by timing its data storage transactions or measuring its power use. New research shows how to stop them.
Comparing apples and oranges
New sensor can accurately measure fruits’ ripeness, helping prevent loss of produce from spoilage.
MITx: What the students think
From Buenos Aires to Honolulu to Montreal, a virtual community grows up around the online initiative’s prototype course.
MIT seeks government backing to build new Lincoln Lab facility
The Institute would arrange for a loan that would be repaid through the Lincoln Lab’s government contract.
New material shares many of graphene’s unusual properties
Thin films of bismuth-antimony have potential for new semiconductor chips, thermoelectric devices.
Disruptive innovation — in education
For Anant Agarwal, MITx, the Institute’s new online-learning initiative, isn’t just a means of democratizing education. It’s a way to reinvent it.
Lynch named Athena Lecturer
Professor honored for advances in distributed systems that enable dependable Internet and wireless network applications.
MIT establishes Center for Art, Science & Technology (CAST)
$1.5M grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation will launch CAST.
Sensing when the brain is under pressure
New monitoring strategy forgoes surgery, could help doctors treat patients with head injuries.
