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Outside the cell of MIT's Alcator C-Mod tokamak Professor Joe Paradiso listens to the sound of the fusion experiment's data, processed by his unique modular synthesizer.

Spinning data into sound

An interdepartmental collaboration brings out the music of nuclear fusion.

May 9, 2018

The 16th Venice Architecture Biennale will be open to the public May 26 - Nov. 25.

MIT returns to the Venice Architecture Biennale

Faculty, students, and alumni contribute as curators and exhibitors at the world’s premier forum for architecture and design.

May 4, 2018

Students get hands-on at Maker Break, the first annual celebration of making at MIT.

Maker Break: A celebration of making at MIT

Over 700 students and makers joined in the first annual participatory showcase of fabrication and crafts around the Institute.

May 4, 2018

“When I first started Python, I basically felt like I was learning some unfathomable witchcraft. Many of the concepts still feel hard to grasp for me, and that sort of feeling is what made me love it,” says second-year student James Quigley. He is featured with Ana Bell, a lecturer in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at MIT.

Computation counts

Students are flocking to 6.00 (Introduction to Computer Science and Programming Using Python), where they learn not just coding but computational thinking.

May 4, 2018

Dropbox co-founder and CEO Drew Houston at MIT April 18

From startup to $12 billion: Seven lessons from Dropbox

CEO Drew Houston offers advice for starting and scaling a company.

April 25, 2018

MIT neuroscientists have developed a machine-learning system that can process speech and music the same way that humans do.

Machine-learning system processes sounds like humans do

Neuroscientists train a deep neural network to analyze speech and music.

April 19, 2018

MIT composer Tod Machover, center-left, and Yannick Nézet-Séguin, conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra, center-right, at the conclusion of Machover’s new symphony “Philadelphia Voices,” at the Kimmel Center in Philadelphia, Thursday, April 6, 2018.

Q&A: Composer Tod Machover presents “Philadelphia Voices”

Ambitious new piece in his “City Symphony” series features the birthplace of American democracy.

April 9, 2018

Hal Gregersen, the executive director of the MIT Leadership Center and senior lecturer at MIT Sloan School of Management, suggests leaders ask questions in bursts to help find innovative solutions to problems.

Asking the questions that unlock innovation

The MIT Leadership Center's Hal Gregersen says brainstorming in “question bursts” is the best way for innovative leaders and problem solvers to find solutions.

April 6, 2018

MIT Haystack Observatory in Westford, Massachusetts (pictured), and the Onsala Space Observatory in Onsala, Sweden are celebrating 50 years since the first transatlantic geodetic very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) observations.

Celebrating 50 years of transatlantic geodetic radio science

Researchers mark a silver anniversary for a space geodesy technique pioneered at MIT.

April 5, 2018

Aude Oliva (right), a principal research scientist at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and Dan Gutfreund (left), a principal investigator at the MIT–IBM Watson AI Laboratory and a staff member at IBM Research, are the principal investigators for the Moments in Time Dataset, one of the projects related to AI algorithms funded by the MIT–IBM Watson AI Laboratory.

Artificial intelligence in action

At the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab, researchers are training computers to recognize dynamic events.

April 4, 2018

Morris Halle, Institute Professor Emeritus of Linguistics

Institute Professor Emeritus Morris Halle, innovative and influential linguist, dies at 94

Scholar conducted groundbreaking research, helped found MIT’s linguistics program, and inspired generations of students.

April 3, 2018

Fright makes right

Eugenie Brinkema studies the aesthetics and ethics of horror films.

March 28, 2018

Diagram illustrates the crystal lattice of a proposed battery electrolyte material called Li3PO4. The researchers found that measuring how vibrations of sound move through the lattice could reveal how well ions – electrically charged atoms or molecules – could travel through the solid material, and therefore how they would work in a real battery. In this diagram, the purple pyramid-like shapes...

A new way to find better battery materials

Design principles could point to better electrolytes for next-generation lithium batteries.

March 25, 2018

MIT grad student Elizabeth Bieler with her Dalmatian Hercules, who she plans to train as a therapy dog

Incorporating humanity into a systems mindset

Grad student and Air National Guard officer Elizabeth Bieler combines systems design and management studies with engineering and volunteer projects.

March 23, 2018

The MIT Women's unConference, held March 9-10, was sold out, with nearly 350 registered from 29 states and six countries.

Alumnae unite at MIT Women's unConference

Gathering brings alumni to campus to celebrate women and create connections to further societal changes.

March 19, 2018