The MIT Press launches MIT Open Publishing Services
New publishing model provides unique and timely solutions to the production, curation, and preservation of knowledge.
Seeking the cellular mechanisms of disease, with help from machine learning
Caroline Uhler blends machine learning, statistics, and biology to understand how our bodies respond to illness.
A streamlined approach to determining thermal properties of crystalline solids and alloys
MIT research team finds machine learning techniques offer big advantages over standard experimental and theoretical approaches.
Tactile textiles sense movement via touch
By measuring a person’s movements and poses, smart clothes developed at MIT CSAIL could be used for athletic training, rehabilitation, or health-monitoring for elder-care facilities.
System detects errors when medication is self-administered
Wireless sensing technology could help improve patients’ technique with inhalers and insulin pens.
MIT.nano courses bring hands-on experimentation to virtual participants
Five courses celebrate the nanoscale, highlight technologies in photogrammetry and 360-degree videography.
Scene at MIT: Ruth Anderson, pioneer of mathematics and computing
A brief history of one member of MIT’s famed Radiation Laboratory.
Faster drug discovery through machine learning
New technique speeds up calculations of drug molecules’ binding affinity to proteins.
Artificial intelligence that more closely mimics the mind
Leveraging years of MIT cognitive science research, Nara Logics incorporates findings about the brain into its AI platform.
After cracking the “sum of cubes” puzzle for 42, mathematicians discover a new solution for 3
The 21-digit solution to the decades-old problem suggests many more solutions exist.
Algorithm helps artificial intelligence systems dodge “adversarial” inputs
Method builds on gaming techniques to help autonomous vehicles navigate in the real world, where signals may be imperfect.
Lincoln Laboratory earns a 2020 Stratus Award for Cloud Computing
An innovative approach protects closed-source Windows applications against cyber attacks by automatically and transparently re-randomizing sensitive internal data.
QS World University Rankings rates MIT No. 1 in 12 subjects for 2021
The Institute ranks second in four subject areas.
Microsystems Annual Research Conference goes virtual, preserves human touch
Student committee delivers interactive conference on microsystems and nanoscience.
Helping soft robots turn rigid on demand
New type of control system may broaden robots’ range of tasks and allow safer interactions with people.