The birth of electrical engineering
The creation of the first electrical-engineering curriculum may have said as much about MIT’s educational philosophy as it did about the pace of innovation.
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David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research feted
MIT celebrates the official opening of the institute's new building.
Strength in numbers
At MIT’s annual sports analytics conference, owners, coaches and statistics mavens convene to ask how numbers can help increase success.
Going with the flow
New 3-D microfluidic system offers greater control over production of drug-delivering nanoparticles.
Exploiting cancer cells' weaknesses
Team identifies potential drugs that enhance stress caused by too many chromosomes.
Reading Earth’s magnetic history
New tool allows unprecedented accuracy in dating of some seafloor rocks, with potential to help climate analysis.
Chicago hope
Ambitious attempt to help the city’s poor by moving them out of troubled housing projects is having mixed results, MIT study finds.
The quantum singularity
A new experiment would use quantum effects to perform otherwise intractable calculations, but conducting it should be easier than building a quantum computer.
When the butterfly effect took flight
Half a century ago, Edward Lorenz SM '43, ScD '48, overthrew the idea of the clockwork universe with his ground-breaking research on chaos. Now MIT professors are working to establish a climate research center in his name.
Parts of brain can switch functions
In people born blind, brain regions that usually process vision can tackle language.
Language barrier
To take advantage of multicore chips, programmers will need software development systems that let them express themselves in fundamentally new ways.
A look back at Old Ashdown in all its (quirky) glory
Before it was Maseeh Hall, and before it was W1, this historic building was home to generations of graduate students.
No backtalk
One key to making parallel algorithms efficient is to minimize the amount of communication between cores.
Retooling algorithms
Charles Leiserson and his team are experts at designing parallel algorithms — including one for a chess-playing program that outperformed IBM’s Deep Blue.