Technology and society

Handheld computers make light work of economics, science

With titles like Hip Hop Tycoon and Sick at South Beach, what's not to like?

August 23, 2006

GEM4 researchers examine facets of diseases

August 16, 2006

eLens: A digital take on the streets where we live

August 11, 2006

Professor Dava Newman, director of MIT's Technology and Policy
Program, makes introductory remarks at the program's 30th anniversary symposium, held June 8. TPP's founding director, Professor Richard de Neufville, and Institute Professor Sheila Widnall look on.

Technology and Policy Program marks 30th anniversary

June 23, 2006

Nobelist offers views on flu pandemic

May 17, 2006

MIT alumna Pia Lindman performs with the robot Domo at the Luxe Gallery in New York City. Her solo show, 'Pia Lindman: Embodiments,' opens at the MIT Museum's Compton Gallery on April 18.

Artist explores human-robot interaction

April 12, 2006

Experts tackle issues raised by race-based drugs

April 5, 2006

Benjamin Goff, a software maintenance engineer at Robins Air Force Base in Warner Robins, Ga., is a serious weather buff. He has used OpenCourseWare to explore many of the courses in the MIT Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences.

OpenCourseWare marks 5 years of educating the world

April 4, 2006

Children benefit from exposure to digital culture, Jenkins says

March 15, 2006

IBM's Everywhere Display is part of the 'Digital_minimal' exhibit now on display in the School of Architecture and Planning's Wolk Gallery through March 29. The installation is a video projector with a rotating mirror that allows any surface around it to become a potential screen.

New directions for digital design on display

March 1, 2006

MIT Assistant Professor John Ochsendorf of architecture gave a talk to the American Association for the Advancement of Science in February in which he described a new software tool designed to find a structure's most efficient form.

Virtual forms for buildings and society

Faculty present findings at AAAS meeting

February 23, 2006

Founding President Barbara Johnston, left, holds the charter certificate for the MIT chapter of the Society of Women Engineers in February 1980. At right is Sheila E. Widnall, who is now an Institute professor.

Women engineer future through SWE

February 16, 2006

Carl Dietrich, 2006 winner of the $30,000 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize, holds a model of the personal air vehicle that he envisions for use in the air and on the road.

Sky's no limit for Lemelson winner

February 15, 2006

This image shows a sample of the data collected by the SeaBed autonomous underwater vehicle as it swam over the Chios shipwreck in July 2005. The 3-D color mesh represents a topographic map of the sea floor, created using data collected by multibeam sonar. The brown strip shows the area captured in digital images, which were used to create the photomosaic of the wreck. <a onclick="MM_openBrWindow(...

Deep-sea robot photographs ancient Greek shipwreck

February 2, 2006

MIT graduate student Marisa Jahn designed a pair of vests joined by a bellows-like tube, which creates a sound. The garment will be featured at 'Seamless: Computational Couture,' a Feb. 1 fashion event curated by MIT Media Lab students. <a onclick="MM_openBrWindow('seam-jahn-2-enlarged.html','','width=509, height=583')">
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Students showcase 'Seamless' pairing of fashion, technology

January 26, 2006

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