MIT launches iPhone application
App features news, map, people directory, access to Stellar, and more
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Medical entrepreneurship, from the bottom up
MIT students aim to bring affordable health care to India’s masses.
Moniz named to Blue Ribbon Commission on America’s Nuclear Future
Department of Energy panel will provide recommendations on managing used fuel and nuclear waste
Mapping the brain
MIT scientists are making computers smart enough to see the connections between the brain's neurons
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.
Explained: Gallager codes
In 1993, scientists achieved the maximum rate for data transmission — only to find they’d been scooped 30 years earlier by an MIT grad student.
Institute releases report on minority faculty
Report of the Initiative on Faculty Race and Diversity recommends ways to strengthen recruitment and retention of under-represented minority faculty
Not easy being green
MIT historian Harriet Ritvo explains how a battle to save an English lake helped found modern environmentalism — but might worry greens today
MIT’s big wheel in Copenhagen
New bicycle wheel not only boosts power, but also can keep track of friends, fitness, smog and traffic
Computing with a wave of the hand
A new Media Lab system turns LCD displays into giant cameras that provide gestural control of objects on-screen. And that’s just for starters.
Reporter’s Notebook: Jules Verne, desperado?
MIT historian of science Rosalind Williams on the overlooked legacy of Jules Verne, anti-globalization visionary
MIT goes to Copenhagen
Delegation of MIT professors, students and alumni attend historic global warming conference to present research and report on event
Rethinking artificial intelligence
Broad-based MIT project aims to reinvent AI for a new era. By going back and fixing mistakes, researchers hope to produce ‘co-processors’ for the human mind.
Explained: The Discrete Fourier Transform
The theories of an early-19th-century French mathematician have emerged from obscurity to become part of the basic language of engineering.
Selling chip makers on optical computing
By designing chips that can be built using existing fabrication processes, MIT researchers show that computing with light isn’t so far fetched.