CEE event showcases multidisciplinary opportunities
Ninth annual Research Speed Dating event fosters intradepartmental collaboration and facilitates discussion of future efforts to solve global issues.
Students helping to make islands carbon neutral
MIT Energy Initiative program is using design thinking to solve energy issues on Martha’s Vineyard and beyond.
Making a path to ethical, socially beneficial artificial intelligence
Leaders from government, philanthropy, academia, and industry say collaboration is key to make sure artificial intelligence serves the public good.
Plasma Science and Fusion Center leads new Center of Excellence
Award will support educational and research efforts in high-energy-density physics at MIT and four academic research partners.
Independence problem solved through collaboration
A math professor gives his undergraduates a frustrating combinatorics problem; their solution will soon be published in a leading journal.
Training technicians in developing technologies
MIT leads AIM Photonics Academy’s development of a technician-training apprenticeship program.
Using artificial intelligence to engineer materials’ properties
New system of “strain engineering” can change a material’s optical, electrical, and thermal properties.
Bose grants for 2018 fund research at the frontier of discovery
The prestigious awards are supporting five innovative projects that challenge established norms and have the potential to be world-changing.
New collaboration sparks global connections to art through artificial intelligence
MIT designers, researchers, and students collaborate with The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Microsoft to improve the connection between people and art.
3 Questions: Ken Urban on theater, science, and tech
The MIT Playwrights Lab founder discusses the varied connections between the sciences, technology, and the arts.
Spider web music: An inspiring harmony of art and science
"Spider’s Canvas" features the sonification of a 3-D spider web, with each strand “tuned” to a different note.
How different types of knowledge impact the growth of new firms
Study explores the micromechanisms underlying regional economic diversification.
New climate model to be built from the ground up
Scientists and engineers will collaborate in a new Climate Modeling Alliance to advance climate modeling and prediction.
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.
MIT Open Learning launches Center for Advanced Virtuality
The new center will explore how MIT can use virtual reality and artificial intelligence and other technologies to better serve human needs.