Computer science and technology

The building blocks of healthy collagen, above, begin with one-nanometer-sized amino acids, which form the universal 300-nanometer tropocollagen strands. Fibrils composed of those strands, in turn, make up the steel-cable-like collagen fibers.

Math model may aid study of collagen ailments

Tensile loading reveals nature's economy

November 14, 2006

MIT and University of Southampton launch World Wide Web research collaboration

Initiative will analyze and shape web's evolution

November 2, 2006

Model of One Laptop Per Child computer. MIT Media Lab co-founder Nicholas Negroponte gave a talk Oct. 19 on the inexpensive laptop he hopes to make available to children in developing countries.

Laptops will link global learners

Negroponte shares vision for children

October 24, 2006

MIT junior sells high-school social networking site

October 18, 2006

Jonathan How, a professor in aeronautics and astronautics, joins graduate students Brett Bethke, center, and Mario Valenti, right, in demonstrating their "hands-off" technique of simultaneously controlling four fully-autonomous flying vehicles using a PC.

MIT's intelligent aircraft fly, cooperate autonomously

September 26, 2006

Epilepsy breakthrough on horizon

MIT developing device to detect oncoming seizures

August 31, 2006

Handheld computers make light work of economics, science

With titles like Hip Hop Tycoon and Sick at South Beach, what's not to like?

August 23, 2006

Professor Gerbrand Ceder holds up a model of a perovskite crystal. Ceder and his team of researchers have used data about such crystals to come up with a method for predicting the structure of materials.

Sales method pays off for materials scientists

Data mining used to predict crystal structures

July 19, 2006

MEET to graduate first class in Jerusalem

July 11, 2006

Alan Kotok, 64, created joystick

June 13, 2006

Graduating senior Eric Mibuari used some of the skills he learned here at MIT to start a computer center in his hometown, Laare, Kenya.

Kenyan grad shares what he's learned

June 7, 2006

Researchers from MIT and Cambridge University are collaborating on in-depth studies of this building in Luton, England, which is cooled by natural ventilation. Their work includes on-site measurements, computer simulations and experiments with scale models.

Comfortable buildings -- hold the air conditioning

June 2, 2006

Public database aids drug researchers

May 30, 2006

Senior research scientist Jagadeesh Moodera, left, points to the molecular beam epitaxy setup he uses in his research. With him are Tiffany Santos, graduate student in materials science and engineering, and postdoctoral associate John Philip.

New material puts its own spin on electronics

May 24, 2006

Freshman R.J. Ryan hits the 'emergency' button in his automatic dorm room on East Campus. The button activates 'party mode.'

Freshmen automate dorm room