MITx: What the students think
From Buenos Aires to Honolulu to Montreal, a virtual community grows up around the online initiative’s prototype course.
MIT launches student-produced educational video initiative
Original short videos, in collaboration with Khan Academy, aim to fuel K-12 students’ interest in engineering and science.
Introducing MIT Video
New portal aggregates nearly 10,000 videos — both by the Institute and about it — in one place.
Visiting Artist Ben Houge leads lively 'Sound and Real-Time Systems' panel
Artists discuss the convergence between video games, digital media and music composition.
Robots go head to head, 250 miles above Earth
Third annual Zero Robotics competition pits robots against each other on the International Space Station.
Video: Mapping the future
Mentoring program — now entering its fifth year — partners undergraduates with staff and faculty.
Seeing through walls
Researchers at MIT’s Lincoln Lab have developed new radar technology that provides real-time video of what’s going on behind solid walls.
Faster computer graphics
Digitally mimicking the photographic blur caused by moving objects is surprisingly hard, but new research offers ways to make it easier.
A labor of love
Walter Lewin, acclaimed professor emeritus and Internet star, delivers one final lecture at MIT.
Waste-conversion startup Sanergy bowls over competition
Wild-card entry takes top prize in $100K Business Plan Competition
3 Questions: Why Richard Feynman’s lectures still mesmerize
MIT Professor Robert Jaffe reflects on Feynman’s classic lectures five decades later, as the videos are released online.
First Person Victim
Video game uses interactive drama and tragedy to create awareness about consequences of war.
No backtalk
One key to making parallel algorithms efficient is to minimize the amount of communication between cores.