Collaboration

Visitors wear virtual reality headsets in the MIT.nano Immersion Lab.

The power of play

Video game developer NCSOFT joins with MIT.nano to apply the language of gaming to technology research and education.

April 3, 2019

ATHack participants Borja Apaolaza and Naroa Coretti consult with co-designer Ellen.

Developing tech for, and with, people with disabilities

Sixth annual Assistive Technologies Hackathon paired students with client co-designers to create innovative solutions to the everyday problems they face.

March 22, 2019

“One.MIT,” a new art installation at MIT.nano, displays a 6-inch silicon wafer depicting an image of MIT’s Great Dome. The image was formed by etching the names of the more than 270,000 people associated with the Institute from 1861 to spring 2018.

“One.MIT” creates a monument — at the smallest scale

MIT.nano etches more than 270,000 names from the MIT community on a 6-inch wafer.

March 18, 2019

The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering's Research Speed Dating event included a panel discussion with CEE professors on the future of research in infrastructure and environment.

CEE event showcases multidisciplinary opportunities

Ninth annual Research Speed Dating event fosters intradepartmental collaboration and facilitates discussion of future efforts to solve global issues.

March 12, 2019

Participants in a Martha's Vineyard net-zero carbon design thinking workshop included MIT Energy Initiative staff; representatives from Martha's Vineyard, Shell, and Viessmann; and students from MIT, Harvard University, and Tufts University.

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.

March 8, 2019

"MIT is going to be the anchor of what we will know in this society as public interest technology," predicted Darren Walker, president of the Ford Foundation, in a recent MIT panel discussion on ethics and artificial intelligence. "What MIT is doing will set the pace for every other university that wants to be relevant in the future."

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.

March 5, 2019

Members of the the PSFC's High-Energy-Density Physics division gather in their Accelerator Facility, part of the new Center of Excellence.

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.

February 25, 2019

MIT Assistant Professor Yufei Zhao (far right) gave undergraduates (l-r) Mehtaab Sawhney, David Stoner, and Ashwin Sah a particularly vexing combinatorics problem. Their theorem on the number of independent sets in a graph is on the board behind them.

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.

February 25, 2019

MIT Professor Lionel Kimerling, speaking at Stonehill College, leads the AIM Academy program for AIM Photonics.

Training technicians in developing technologies

MIT leads AIM Photonics Academy’s development of a technician-training apprenticeship program.

February 15, 2019

Introducing a small amount of strain into crystalline materials, such as diamond or silicon, can produce significant changes in their properties, researchers have found. The mechanical strain is represented here as a deformation in the diamond's shape.

Using artificial intelligence to engineer materials’ properties

New system of “strain engineering” can change a material’s optical, electrical, and thermal properties.

February 11, 2019

The 2018 Bose Research Fellows (standing) pose for a photo with (seated, l-r) President L. Rafael Reif, Judy Bose, and Provost Martin Schmidt.

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.

February 11, 2019

Lara Baladi, lecturer in the MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology (left), and Noelle LaCharite of Microsoft

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.

February 5, 2019

"Understanding others is crucial right now," Ken Urban says. "You cannot write convincingly until you care about people who are different from you. That’s what being a playwright has taught me."

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.

February 4, 2019

“'Spider’s Canvas' is truly the most collaborative project I’ve ever been involved in. It’s not just interdisciplinary but literally interspecies,” says Professor Evan Ziporyn.

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.

January 8, 2019

Researchers in MIT's Collective Learning Group used data on the work history of an entire country to identify the knowledge flows that are more consequential for entrepreneurial activities.

How different types of knowledge impact the growth of new firms

Study explores the micromechanisms underlying regional economic diversification.

December 20, 2018

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