Creating “big, beautiful things” Senior Garrett Parrish combines art and technology, with dramatic effects. January 13, 2017 Read full story →
MIT Media Lab to participate in $27 million initiative on AI ethics and governance Fund establishes a global initiative to advance artificial intelligence research for the public good. January 10, 2017 Read full story →
Twin wins for planetary exploration MIT scientists and alumni well represented on newly announced NASA asteroid missions Psyche and Lucy. January 5, 2017 Read full story →
Portuguese government and biotech representatives visit MIT U.S. Ambassador to Portugal and the Portuguese Minister of Economy discuss transatlantic cooperation with Europe in the biotechnology sector. January 4, 2017 Read full story →
Bots, bit flips, and catching the bus Engineering undergrads showcase their research after one semester of yearlong SuperUROP projects. December 22, 2016 Read full story →
Driverless platoons Analysis finds autonomous trucks that drive in packs could save time and fuel. December 20, 2016 Read full story →
Ingestible robots, glasses-free 3-D, and computers that explain themselves A look at 16 of the coolest things that happened at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in 2016. December 16, 2016 Read full story →
Taking a leap in bioinspired robotics Mechanical engineer Sangbae Kim builds animal-like machines for use in disaster response. December 16, 2016 Read full story →
Making big data manageable Technique shrinks data sets while preserving their fundamental mathematical relationships. December 14, 2016 Read full story →
Richard Held, professor emeritus of brain and cognitive sciences, dies at 94 Longtime professor and former department head spent a lifetime investigating the mechanisms of visual perception. December 9, 2016 Read full story →
Four MIT students named 2017 Schwarzman Scholars Alix de Monts, Lisa Ho, Anita Liu, and Melody Liu will study for one year at Tsinghua University in China. December 2, 2016 Read full story →
Community forum gives insight into how The Engine will run MIT leadership answers questions about the mission and features of the new accelerator. December 2, 2016 Read full story →
Computer learns to recognize sounds by watching video Machine-learning system doesn’t require costly hand-annotated data. December 2, 2016 Read full story →
Lincoln Laboratory's supercomputing system ranked most powerful in New England New Dell EMC petaflop-scale supercomputer has 6 times more processing power and 20 times more bandwidth than its predecessor. December 1, 2016 Read full story →
Four MIT students named 2017 Marshall Scholars Matthew Cavuto, Zachary Hulcher, Kevin Zhou, and Daniel Zuo will pursue two years of study in the U.K. November 28, 2016 Read full story →