The People Behind the Awards: Karl Taylor Compton
A look at some of MIT's most influential figures and the Institute awards that honor them.
The birth of electrical engineering
The creation of the first electrical-engineering curriculum may have said as much about MIT’s educational philosophy as it did about the pace of innovation.
Four professors named MacVicar fellows
Sanyal, Schuh, Verghese and Winston honored for undergraduate teaching excellence
EAPS, physics professor James Elliot dies at 67
Led team that discovered the rings of Uranus in 1977.
Zipcar plugs in at MIT
Hybrid plug-in now available as part of car-sharing service at MIT's Albany Street garage.
A difference maker
Vannevar Bush PhD ’16, a unique figure in American history, transformed his country’s scientific establishment during its wartime hour of need.
Martin Hackl's Experimental Syntax and Semantics Lab generates knowledge about meaning formation
Role of linguistic form stronger than previously realized.
Rivest unlocks cryptography's past, looks toward future
Public-key system has worked and made Internet commerce feasible, but new systems are ready in case flaws are found.
Springing up FAST
Architectural installations to animate MIT campus as part of MIT150 art, science and technology festival.
2010-11 MISTI Global Seed Funds winners announced
More than $900,000 distributed to 46 international faculty research projects.
Data visualization tool developed at MIT gets Library of Congress support
MIT Libraries receives grant for work on 'Exhibit 3.0' software