New technique predictably generates complex, wavy shapes
May help improve drug delivery and explain natural patterns from brain folds to bell peppers.
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The Civil War’s iron age
MIT historian David Mindell revisits the human experience on board one of history’s most famous warships.
MITx: What the students think
From Buenos Aires to Honolulu to Montreal, a virtual community grows up around the online initiative’s prototype course.
MIT launches student-produced educational video initiative
Original short videos, in collaboration with Khan Academy, aim to fuel K-12 students’ interest in engineering and science.
The robot revolution is just beginning
Rodney Brooks outlines his vision of the future to student entrepreneurs.
Lynch named Athena Lecturer
Professor honored for advances in distributed systems that enable dependable Internet and wireless network applications.
Getting to the root of genetics
Manolis Kellis uses computational techniques to decipher human disease.
All in a day’s work: Design and print your own robot
MIT project, funded with $10 million NSF grant, could transform robotic design and production
Self-sculpting sand
New algorithms could enable heaps of ‘smart sand’ that can assume any shape, allowing spontaneous formation of new tools or duplication of broken mechanical parts.
Buckle in
Inspired by a toy, the ‘buckliball’ — a collapsible structure fabricated from a single piece of material — represents a new class of 3-D, origami-like structures.
Four professors named 2012 MacVicar Fellows
Broadhead, Kaelbling, Kaiser and Rose awarded the Institute’s highest undergraduate teaching honor.
Guiding robot planes with hand gestures
MIT researchers are developing a system that would allow aircraft-carrier crews to direct autonomous planes using ordinary hand gestures.
Scott Aaronson wins NSF’s Alan T. Waterman Award
National Science Foundation’s most prestigious award will help fuel CSAIL researcher’s work.
Sometimes the quickest path is not a straight line
New methods and software developed at MIT can predict optimal paths for automated underwater vehicles.