Q&A: Phillip Isola on the art and science of generative models
Image-translation pioneer discusses the past, present, and future of generative adversarial networks, or GANs.
MIT students organize FAIL! ― an initiative to destigmatize failure and build resilience
FAIL! brings together prominent scholars to share the challenges and missteps that led them to where they are today.
3 Questions: Faculty appointments and the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing
Working group studies options for creating a new set of faculty hires for MIT’s new college.
The politics of ugly buildings
In new book, MIT’s Timothy Hyde looks at the architectural controversies that have helped shape Britain.
MIT celebrates a year of excellence at the 2019 Awards Convocation
Students, groups, faculty, staff, and community members are honored for their achievements and dedication to MIT.
3 Questions: The fact finders
Lydia Snover and her Institutional Research team gather data to help the Institute to study itself.
Norman Phillips, former meteorology department head, dies at 95
A theoretical meteorology pioneer, Phillips showed that numerical models could predict weather and developed the first general circulation model of Earth’s climate.
Susan Silbey earns faculty’s prestigious Killian Award
Innovative sociologist of law granted MIT’s highest faculty honor.
Media Advisory — How the new kilogram measures up
On Monday, May 20, Professor and Nobel laureate Wolfgang Ketterle will explain the new standards of measurement for mass, charge, temperature, and mole.
In cancer research, a winding road to discovery
Book by MIT professor examines the circuitous history behind the investigation of cancer as a contagious illness.
Q&A: Heather Paxson on a new model for open-access publishing in anthropology
Interim head of MIT Anthropology explains the plan's vision and challenges, plus progress made at an historic MIT workshop.
Martin Zwierlein receives Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship
Professor of physics will use U.S. Department of Defense fellowship to study the quantum world in search of new states of matter.
Franklin Fisher, professor emeritus of economics, dies at 84
Celebrated economist advanced economic theory, econometrics, and the study of industry and firm behavior.
The (evolving) art of war
In new book, political scientist Taylor Fravel uncovers the modern history of Chinese military strategy.
3Q: Susan Hockfield on a new age of living machines
Convergence research at MIT and beyond seeks new solutions for global challenges.