iCampus Student Competition yields online tools for improved on campus experiences
Grand prize in 2013 competition goes to an online exploration tool to aid students in planning their selection of classes.
Wireless researchers host ‘Game-Jam’
Event will bring together game developers, graphic designers and audio professionals to design mobile games that will help wireless researchers gather information on network data.
CSAIL graduate honored with ACM award
Shyamnath Gollakota recognized for work with wireless interference
Finding a gecko in the crowd
A combination of crowdsourcing and computer vision could identify individuals within endangered populations.
Learning software development — by developing software
In a new course, students participate in large, ongoing, open-source-software development projects, mentored by industry professionals.
Demaines selected for Guggenheim Fellowship
Honored for work with origami from wood, plastic, metal and glass.
Markus Buehler named recipient of the Robert Lansing Hardy Award
Recognized for innovations using computational science to understand mechanical properties of biological and bio-inspired materials.
Six faculty recognized for Russian engagement
Institute names inaugural Skolkovo Foundation Professors.
Berners-Lee wins first Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering
Honored for inventing the World Wide Web
Four professors named 2013 MacVicar Fellows
Griffith, Miller, Schulz and Teng awarded the Institute’s highest undergraduate teaching honor.
Goldwasser and Micali win Turing Award
Team honored for ‘revolutionizing the science of cryptography.’
New rankings acclaim MIT’s graduate programs in engineering, business
MIT leads in seven engineering disciplines and three business fields, says U.S. News & World Report.
Making cloud computing more efficient
For database-driven applications, new software could reduce hardware requirements by 95 percent while actually improving performance.
How human language could have evolved from birdsong
Linguistics and biology researchers propose a new theory on the deep roots of human speech.