Going head to head
Mechanical-engineering competition set the stage for a variety of competitive classes and events at MIT and elsewhere.
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Treasured vaults
A professor sheds light on the immigrant family that crafted many American architectural landmarks.
Multicore may not be so scary
Research suggests that the free operating system Linux will keep up with the addition of more ‘cores,’ or processing units, to computer chips.
Galileo revisited: How ribbons roll
In a twist on a classic experiment, MIT researchers discover how flexible cylinders behave when rolling down a slope.
Solar cell, heal thyself
New self-assembling photovoltaic technology can keep repairing itself to avoid any loss in performance.
The MIT roots of Google’s new software
Google’s App Inventor, which lets people with no previous programming experience build applications for mobile phones, draws on decades of MIT research.
New design-build class weaves nature into rural Cambodian school
Students take part in “Design for a Sustainable Future”
Shape-shifting robots
Self-folding sheets of a plastic-like material point the way to robots that can assume any conceivable 3-D structure.
Seeing the forest for the trees
Object recognition systems that break images into ever smaller parts should be much more efficient and may shed light on how the brain works.
3 Questions: Mitchel Resnick
Creator of the popular Scratch programming language discusses Apple’s decision to disallow Scratch viewer for iPhones and iPads.
Computing, Sudoku-style
Computer scientists generally see computation as something like following a recipe. Alexey Radul sees it as more like a puzzle with interconnecting parts.
Rough calculations
Sanjoy Mahajan’s new book, Street-Fighting Mathematics, lays out practical tools for educated guessing and down-and-dirty problem-solving
GAMBIT Game Lab to build new video games in 48-hour marathon
The Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab will play host to Boston's developer community for the 2010 Global Game Jam.
Three of a kind
MIT linguist Shigeru Miyagawa explains how the hidden similarities of English, Japanese, and some forms of Bantu reveal language’s universal essence.