Using sensors and social networks to make slopes safer
Alumni aim to make outdoor sports safer through gathering data and building a real-time social network.
Learn a language while you wait for WiFi
CSAIL tool integrates with email and web browsers to harness micro-moments.
App screens for arrhythmia using smartphone camera
Startup develops app to detect irregular heartbeats that can cause strokes.
Apps created for everyone, by anyone
Platform created to power MIT mobile app is being used widely by colleges, businesses, and hospitals.
How ride-sharing can improve traffic, save money, and help the environment
Study shows carpooling apps could reduce congestion by a factor of three while still serving the same number of people.
Data-driven diabetes management
Smart insulin-pen cap lets patients and doctors track dosage data to better manage treatment.
Algorithm connects students to the most interesting person they’ve never met
Tuka Al-Hanai and Mohammad Ghassemi have connected over 500 MIT students for more than 1,000 lunch meetings.
Rewarding Boston’s safest driver
Mayor Martin Walsh announces a competition aimed at improving Boston driving with an app developed by an MIT spinout.
Collaborating with community colleges to innovate educational technology
Inspired by aerospace engineering, MIT Fly-by-Wire project enables customized teaching and learning experiences.
Students' web app seeks to simplify, modernize voter registration
A solution for millennials by millennials, votemate takes the frustration out of registering to vote.
When to get your head out of the game
Wearable sensor for athletes detects potential head injuries, gathers data on hard hits.
Girls Who Build Cameras workshop sparks future engineers
High school girls learn to construct cameras and program image filters at Lincoln Laboratory event.
Is your meal really gluten free?
Portable sensor detects trace amounts of gluten in food at restaurants.
Mapping coal’s decline and renewables' rise
CoalMap online tool shows what policy regulations and technological advancements can do for the cost-competitiveness of solar and wind energy.
Helping others in daily doses
Senior Donald Little uses computer science to improve people’s everyday lives.