Technology and society

Hope on the horizon: Bioengineering

May 21, 2008

A screenshot from AudiOdyssey, an experimental computer game designed by MIT and Singaporean students to be accessible to both the visually impaired community and mainstream gamers.

Singapore-MIT game lets visually impaired share the fun

May 13, 2008

Conference asks 'what's the use of race?'

April 17, 2008

A typist wears a mask in New York during the 'Spanish flu' influenza pandemic of 1918. A new study by MIT graduate student Peter Doshi finds that death rates in pandemic seasons were no higher than--and were sometimes exceeded by--those for severe nonpandemic seasons.

Study challenges notion of 'pandemic' flu

CDC-labeled pandemics no deadlier than seasonal influenza

April 11, 2008

Two MIT student projects win peace grants

April 1, 2008

NYTE's Globe Encounters visualizes in real time the volumes
of Internet data flowing between New York and cities around the world. The
size of the glow on a particular city location corresponds to the amount of
IP traffic flowing between that place and New York City. <a href="http://senseable2.mit.edu/nyte/images/hres/01%20nyte%20-%20globe%20encounters.tif"><strong>Full-size image</strong...

The city that never sleeps ... nor stops talking

February 18, 2008

Hilts named new Knight Fellowships director

January 28, 2008

Study sees potential for acceleration in U.S. emissions

November 13, 2007

MIT AgeLab unveils new support materials on driving, Alzheimer's and dementia

When is the right time to stop driving?

November 1, 2007

Broken amphoras amid debris on the Aegean seafloor.

Cask from the past

Team IDs ancient cargo from DNA

October 29, 2007

Digitalk: Where IT's at--Copyright corner

An interview with Larry Benedict and Jerry Grochow

October 24, 2007

In the 'Wiki City Rome' project an MIT team will obtain data anonymously from cell phones and other devices to map Rome in real time.

'Wiki City Rome' to draw a map like no other

August 30, 2007

The Chevrolet Volt concept car was unveiled by GM in January. A company with MIT roots will develop battery cells to meet the specific requirements of the car.

GM plugs in to battery technology with MIT roots

August 10, 2007

From left, Clarel Jerome of Haiti, a participant in MIT's International Development Design Summit; Gwyndaf Jones, a bicycle expert from the U.S., and Carlos MarroquÃn, a participant and Native American from Guatemala, are using a pedal-powered device to mill corn for the participants to cook. <a onclick="MM_openBrWindow('summit-4-enlarged.html','','width=509, height=583')">
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Innovators at MIT to present workable solutions for developing world

August 7, 2007

Amy Smith displays a bag, designed in part by one of her students, that is used in a simple water disinfection process. The bag is patented, but can be distributed free in Third World countries.

Local materials, low cost and good science add up to technology for developing nations

May 14, 2007

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