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Collier Memorial dedication and community picnic to honor fallen MIT officer

MIT community invited to April 27 lecture and April 29 memorial dedication and picnic in honor of Officer Sean Collier.

April 14, 2015

Students' autonomous robots race in MIT tunnels

April 6, 2015

Munther Dahleh and Rose Faghih at a Postdoc6 workshop

Building community for EECS postdocs

Postdoctoral scholars in electrical engineering and computer science gain new perspectives as Postdoc6 comes full cycle.

March 25, 2015

Fanta Sinayoko, Jonathan Hernandez, Kristian Sonsteby, and Corine Peifer

Lemelson-MIT InvenTeam students participate in White House Science Fair

High-school students from two Lemelson-MIT InvenTeams showcased their invention projects for President Obama at the 2015 White House Science Fair.

March 23, 2015

The Personal Robots Group at the Media Lab have developed an interactive robot called Dragonbot to teach young children how to program. Dragonbot has audio and video sensors, a speech synthesizer, a range of expressive gestures, and a video screen for a face that assumes various expressions. Children created programs that dictated how Dragonbot would react to stimuli.

Teaching programming to preschoolers

System that lets children program a robot using stickers embodies new theories about programming languages.

March 11, 2015

Researchers at the MIT Media Lab have created a finger-worn device with a built-in camera that can convert text to speech for the visually impaired.

Finger-mounted reading device for the blind

Audio feedback helps user scan finger along a line of text, which software converts to speech.

March 10, 2015

Domitilla Del Vecchio bridges math, engineering, and biology

Mechanical engineering professor carries out pioneering work in the creation of biological circuits.

March 9, 2015

Nickerson named vice president for communications

Head of MIT News Office to assume larger role in coordinating Institute-wide communications.

February 24, 2015

Can an LED-filled “robot garden” make coding more accessible?

CSAIL’s 100-plus blooming, crawling, swimming bots teach basic programming concepts.

February 18, 2015

Among the games designed for the Sifteo Cubes were adventure games, like the one shown here, where users uncover sections of a maze for characters by moving cubes up and down, and putting them adjacent to each other.

Consumer-friendly makers

Media Lab alumni’s success with “smart” gaming blocks led to an acquisition deal to make consumer drones.

February 17, 2015

MIT's newly elected members of the National Academy of Engineering are Hari Balakrishnan, Sangeeta Bhatia, Emery N. Brown, and Anantha Chandrakasan (in upper row), and Eric D. Evans, Karen K. Gleason, L. Rafael Reif, and Daniela Rus (in lower row).

Eight from MIT elected to National Academy of Engineering

New members include the Institute’s president and the director of Lincoln Laboratory.

February 5, 2015

Lincoln Laboratory STEM workshop for girls

Lincoln Laboratory hosts first "Make Your Own Wearables" workshop for high-school girls

Hands-on projects in wearable technology introduce girls to mechanical design and electrical engineering.

January 14, 2015

Andrew Viterbi receiving the National Medal of Science from President George W. Bush

Inspiring a new generation of innovators

Andrew Viterbi ’56, SM ’57 has been a pioneer in wireless communications for more than half a century.

January 13, 2015

Vision system for household robots

New algorithm could enable household robots to better identify objects in cluttered environments.

January 12, 2015

Five CSAIL researchers named ACM fellows

The Association for Computer Machinery cites Devadas, Grimson, Morris, Rubinfeld, and Rus as having "provided key knowledge" to computing.

January 8, 2015

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