MIT Cycling Team rides to (another) national championship
Banner year for women and men cements club's reputation as perennial powerhouse.
Writing graphics software gets much easier
A new programming language for image-processing algorithms yields code that’s much shorter and clearer — but also faster.
Simons Center for the Social Brain offering seed grants, postdoc fellowships
Deadline for application is August 31.
Research update: Chips with self-assembling rectangles
New technique allows production of complex microchip structures in one self-assembling step.
Researchers explain how dye-based nanotubes can help harvest light’s energy
Tiny cylinders help reveal how natural-light-harvesting antennae collect light with exceptional efficiency.
Student teams tackle Third World health care issues
LGO students add operations expertise to ghdLab projects
Glen Urban, former MIT Sloan dean, retires to focus on research; leaves behind $1 million gift
Establishes a PhD marketing fellowship at the school
A festive day for MIT’s 146th Commencement exercises
Graduates reminisce and celebrate in innovative ways.
President Susan Hockfield’s charge to the 2012 graduates
‘Now is the moment for us to send you forth … to put MIT’s spirit and principles to work around the globe.’
Sal Khan salutes ‘the wizards of tomorrow’
In commencement address, 1998 alumnus asks the Class of 2012 to perform a thought experiment in time travel.
System improves automated monitoring of security cameras
New approach uses mathematics to reach a compromise between accuracy, speed.
From yeast, researchers learn how populations collapse
Findings could help fishery and wildlife managers monitor their stocks before disaster strikes.