Middle schoolers get hands-on in summer engineering design course
Eighth graders from Boston, Cambridge, and Lawrence, Massachusetts, learn from recent MIT graduates as part of STEM Summer Institute.
Abraham Bers, professor emeritus of electrical engineering, dies at 85
Bers, a longtime member of the MIT community, was expert in plasma physics.
More personalized online shopping
Startup’s platform analyzes data from multiple sources to better predict buying preferences.
Out of sight and out of mind, sewage can actually tell us a lot about health
PhD student Mariana Matus studies human waste to understand individual and community health.
¿Conoces México?
Three MIT-Mexico Program alumni head south of the border to launch "dynamic" careers.
Learning spoken language
System learns to distinguish words’ phonetic components, without human annotation of training data.
Printing transparent glass in 3-D
New system is the first to create strong, solid glass structures from computerized designs.
Carolyn Coyle wins two awards at NURETH-16
Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering graduate student honored for her work on nuclear thermal hydraulics.
A new molecular design approach
New programming tool could help engineers build biologically inspired materials.
First new cache-coherence mechanism in 30 years
More efficient memory-management scheme could help enable chips with thousands of cores.
Dennis Whyte named head of Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering
Whyte succeeds Richard Lester as NSE department head.
MIT joins $171M public-private consortium on manufacturing flexible electronics
Government, industry, and academia partner to bring new generation of electronics to commercial scale.
MIT ranked as nation’s No. 7 university by U.S. News
Undergraduate engineering program is No. 1; undergraduate business program is No. 2.
Silicon photonics meets the foundry
Lionel Kimerling, Rajeev Ram, and other MIT researchers explore practical ways to bring optical interconnection toward and directly onto chips.