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. May 7, 2012 Read full story →
Innovative IDEAS 13 winning teams present projects at annual awards celebration. May 4, 2012 Read full story →
MIT and Harvard launch a ‘revolution in education’ Online edX courses will open both universities’ classrooms to the world while enhancing on-campus learning. May 2, 2012 Read full story →
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. May 1, 2012 Read full story →
Comparing apples and oranges New sensor can accurately measure fruits’ ripeness, helping prevent loss of produce from spoilage. April 30, 2012 Read full story →
MITx: What the students think From Buenos Aires to Honolulu to Montreal, a virtual community grows up around the online initiative’s prototype course. April 27, 2012 Read full story →
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. April 25, 2012 Read full story →
New material shares many of graphene’s unusual properties Thin films of bismuth-antimony have potential for new semiconductor chips, thermoelectric devices. April 24, 2012 Read full story →
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. April 20, 2012 Read full story →
Lynch named Athena Lecturer Professor honored for advances in distributed systems that enable dependable Internet and wireless network applications. April 18, 2012 Read full story →
MIT establishes Center for Art, Science & Technology (CAST) $1.5M grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation will launch CAST. April 12, 2012 Read full story →
Sensing when the brain is under pressure New monitoring strategy forgoes surgery, could help doctors treat patients with head injuries. April 11, 2012 Read full story →
Del Alamo is awarded 2012 Intel Outstanding Researcher Award in Emerging Research Devices April 10, 2012 Read full story →