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Hal Gregersen, author of “Questions Are the Answer.”

Q&A: Why business leaders should — yes — ask questions

MIT Sloan’s Hal Gregersen talks about his new book, “Questions Are the Answer.”

December 18, 2018

“Our students build some tech, then use it in a creative and artistic way,” says Eran Egozy, a professor of the practice. “Music technology is the quintessential multidisciplinary field, and this kind of multimodal thinking is increasingly important as we educate tomorrow’s leaders.”

Music technology accelerates at MIT

An increasingly popular program is drawing students eager to build — and use — the next generation of tools for making music.

December 18, 2018

Aleksander Madry is a leader in the emerging field of building guarantees into artificial intelligence, which has nearly become a branch of machine learning in its own right.

3Q: Aleksander Madry on building trustworthy artificial intelligence

A recent MIT symposium explores methods for making artificial intelligence systems more reliable, secure, and transparent.

December 14, 2018

While exploring the campus, participants in a Legatum Leadership Forum have a surprise encounter and photo-op with Megan Smith (center), a member of the MIT Corporation and the former U.S. Chief Technology Office under President Obama.

African entrepreneurs visit MIT for leadership boot camp

The Legatum Center joined Zambezi entrepreneurs with MIT faculty, students, and stakeholders for a leadership forum around African prosperity.

December 11, 2018

MIT employee Pauline Dowell (center) and her seeing eye dog, Dora, hang out near the Charles River with MIT students from Team Pauline: (l-r) Sandy Yang, Tiffany Xi, Rebecca Agustin, and Temitope Olabinjo.

Student group helps blind boater sail independently

Four seniors in the Principles and Practices of Assistive Technology program designed an audible device to help an MIT employee navigate on the water.

December 9, 2018

High resolution E-SEM image of the milk protein network in the casein gel (yogurt) that the researchers were able to characterized using the new OWCh technique during the entire gelation process.

Technique inspired by dolphin chirps could improve tests of soft materials

Method can be used to quickly characterize any soft, rapidly changing substance, such as clotting blood or drying cement.

December 6, 2018

What game theory tells us about politics and society

Economist Alexander Wolitzky uses game theory to model institutions, networks, and social dynamics.

December 4, 2018

Jessy Lin, an MIT senior double-majoring in electrical engineering and computer science and in philosophy.

I think, therefore I code

Senior Jessy Lin, a double major in EECS and philosophy, is programming for social good.

November 15, 2018

Singer Omar Ebrahim as Arnold Schoenberg as Humphrey Bogart, from "Schoenberg in Hollywood"

“Schoenberg in Hollywood,” the opera

New work by Tod Machover of the Media Lab's Opera of the Future group examines ideas of heritage, politics, and artistic integrity.

November 14, 2018

The RV Knorr, in Norway’s Alesund harbor in February 2014, as the crew prepares to begin its Nordic Seas Experiment.

Oceanographers produce first-ever images of entire cod shoals

Wide-ranging acoustic images could help researchers identify populations on the brink of collapse.

November 6, 2018

$This photo shows water droplets placed on the nanostructured surface developed by MIT researchers. The colors are caused by diffraction of visible light from the tiny structures on the surface, ridges with a specially designed shape.$

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