Darien Williams: Chronicling Black resilience to disaster
In researching disaster recovery and marginalized populations, the PhD student seeks out people with deep knowledge of their communities.
Reporting tool aims to balance hospitals’ Covid-19 load
Based on crowdsourced data, app helps patients, EMTs, and physicians determine real-time availability of hospital resources.
With lidar and artificial intelligence, road status clears up after a disaster
Automated tools can help emergency managers make decisions, plan routes, and quantify road damage at city scales.
MIT team draws on supply chain expertise to help protect health workers from Covid-19
The group is working to increase availability of personal protective equipment during the pandemic.
Emergency-coordination system from Lincoln Laboratory supports Covid-19 response
North Macedonia is using the Next-Generation Incident Command System to coordinate emergency services and inform the public about Covid-19 cases.
MIT joins White House supercomputing effort to speed up search for Covid-19 solutions
Consortium includes industry, government, and academic institutions.
How door-to-door canvassing slowed an epidemic
Study finds that in Liberia, volunteers limited damage from Ebola by distributing information within their own communities.
Using computers to view the unseen
A new computational imaging method could change how we view hidden information in scenes.
Self-transforming robot blocks jump, spin, flip, and identify each other
Developed at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, robots can self-assemble to form various structures with applications including inspection.
Workshop explores national security repercussions of climate change
Experts assess potential global destabilization caused by climate change impacts on water supplies, land use, and migration.
Lidar accelerates hurricane recovery in the Carolinas
Lincoln Laboratory's lidar data, processed quickly with support from the organization MCNC, helped FEMA assess flooding and damages caused by Hurricane Florence.
MIT Lincoln Laboratory wins 10 R&D 100 Awards
Technologies ranging from a hurricane-evacuation decision platform to algorithms that compare DNA samples honored as some of the world's best inventions of 2018.
Humanitarian Supply Chain Lab honored for hurricane work
American Logistics Aid Network's Humanitarian Logistics Awards highlight the critical role of supply chains in saving lives during natural disasters.
IEEE honors disaster response system developers
Innovation in Societal Infrastructure Award recognizes Lincoln Laboratory researchers who created a system that gives first responders the big picture.
Using lidar to assess destruction in Puerto Rico
Lincoln Laboratory team's lidar data will allow FEMA to track further damage if another hurricane strikes the island.