Boiling down viscous flow
A new simplified model predicts patterns that form from honey-like fluids.
How three MIT students fooled the world of scientific journals
A decade later, CSAIL alumni reflect on their paper generator and reveal a new fake-conference project.
Captioning at scale
Company’s more-efficient captioning system processes hundreds of video-hours per day.
Gizmo Garden blooms in Maine
The MIT Edgerton Center’s K-12 electronics curriculum was the basis for a creative technology-education workshop in rural Maine this winter.
Reviewing online homework at scale
System clusters similar student programs together, so instructors can identify broad trends.
Michael Stonebraker wins $1 million Turing Award
CSAIL researcher invented core database concepts, turned many into companies.
Better debugger
System to automatically find a common type of programming bug significantly outperforms its predecessors.
MIT launches three new cybersecurity initiatives
Complementary programs will address cybersecurity from the perspectives of technology, public policy, and organizational management.
U.S. News ranks graduate programs in engineering, business highly
MIT is home to No. 1 graduate engineering program; Sloan is No. 5 business school.
Better machine learning
Kalyan Veeramachaneni tackles some of the biggest bottlenecks holding back the data science industry.
Can an LED-filled “robot garden” make coding more accessible?
CSAIL’s 100-plus blooming, crawling, swimming bots teach basic programming concepts.
Smarter multicore chips
New approach to distributing computations could make multicore chips much faster.
Consumer-friendly makers
Media Lab alumni’s success with “smart” gaming blocks led to an acquisition deal to make consumer drones.
Better how-to videos
System recruits learners to annotate videos, increasing their educational value.