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Researchers in RLE, led by Charlotte Reed, are using the sense of touch to develop communication aids for the profoundly deaf. The devices convert sound waves to vibrations, which the deaf person holding the device can feel, and help lip-readers identify sounds that can be difficult to distinguish visually.

Good vibrations

Devices aid the deaf by translating sound waves to vibrations

February 26, 2009

3 Questions: Kosta Tsipis on nuclear proliferation

February 3, 2009

Media Lab student Amit Zoran shows the Chameleon Guitar, along with a variety of the interchangeable soundboards -- made of different woods and other materials -- that can be inserted to alter the guitar's acoustic characteristics.

'Chameleon Guitar' blends old-world and high-tech

Guitar built by a student at MIT's Media Lab promises to provide the best of electronic and acoustic.

February 3, 2009

Surviving without growing

Jay Forrester, the father of system dynamics, talks about sustainability and organizational decision making

January 30, 2009

Patrick J. McGovern Professor of Information Systems in the School of Management and Director of CCI Thomas W. Malone.

Putting heads (and computers) together to solve global problems

MIT's Center for Collective Intelligence (CCI) looks to take advantage of strength in numbers

January 13, 2009

3 Questions: James Poterba on the recession

December 15, 2008

Saturation maps from a numerical simulation of the proposed model show that the flow dynamics and the distinctive saturation overshoot at the tip of the fingers agree with experimental observations.

Researchers finger the cause of 'gravity fingers'

December 12, 2008

3 Questions: Michael Cusumano on letting U.S. automakers fail

November 21, 2008

By studying songbirds, McGovern's Professor Michale Fee, left, and post-doc Michael Long move closer to understanding how timing is represented within the brain.

Singing in slow motion

MIT work with songbirds could aid study of humans' timing

November 12, 2008

International financier and philanthropist George Soros, right, had a conversation with Ford International Professor of Economics and head of the department of economics Ricardo J. Cabellero at Kresge on Tuesday, October 28.

Soros says crisis underscores need for regulation

October 29, 2008

Former U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz speaks at the Energy Advisory Board meeting at MIT on Oct. 15.

Shultz urges cut in U.S. oil dependence at MIT event

Moving ahead on energy requires understanding and innovation

October 17, 2008

Two MIT faculty win MacArthur 'genius' grants

Winners each get $500,000 in unrestricted funds

September 23, 2008

Watch and learn: Time teaches us how to recognize visual objects

MIT work could help develop better computer vision systems

September 11, 2008

Solutions-driven culture draws Fallon to MIT

Veteran of global hot spots to share insights during fall CIS fellowship

September 2, 2008

MIT Lincoln LaboratoryÂ software aims to thwart cyber hackers

August 27, 2008

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