MIT Experts Unite to Combat Cyber Crime
Cybersecurity has a long history at MIT, and the latest chapter began last month on three fronts. Housed in the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and MIT Sloan School...
View ArticleMIT’s Mysterious “New Entity” Receives a Name, and a Director
In September 2014, MIT Provost Martin Schmidt announced the Institute’s plans to create a “New Entity” focused on socio-technical systems, information and decision systems, and statistics. On...
View ArticleMIT Problem Solvers on the World Stage
US Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz and Ali Akbar Salehi PhD ’77, the head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization, did not cross paths when they were at MIT in the 1970s. But nearly 40 years later their...
View ArticleBringing Light to Blind Children, for 10 Years and Counting
Pawan Sinha SM ’92, PhD ’95 has dedicated the past decade of his life to providing Indian children with the gift of sight. Since 2005, his nonprofit Project Prakash has provided free services to...
View ArticlePhysicist and Novelist Alan Lightman Looks Back on a Decade of Science on Stage
For a decade, Catalyst Collaborative @MIT (CC@MIT) has convened scientists and theater artists searching for common ground and, in a partnership between MIT and nearby Central Square Theater (CST), has...
View ArticleTuring Award Celebrates the Base of Modern Databases
Michael Stonebraker started working with big data long before anyone called it that. Now the MIT adjunct professor is receiving what’s known in the field as the “Nobel Prize in Computing,” the...
View ArticleThink Your Final Exams Were Hard? This One Involves a Sledgehammer.
“My philosophy with engineering is that it’s best learned in the context of how you’d practice it,” says Martin Culpepper, a professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. To that end, he makes...
View ArticleThe Grad Student and the Celebrity Economist: An Unexpected Critique Earns...
It’s not every day that the prestigious Brookings Institute commissions a paper based on a blog comment, but that’s exactly what happened to MIT graduate student Matthew Rognlie. Last year, Rognlie, a...
View ArticleMIT Researchers: Lack of Science Funding Threatens the Nation’s Future
In a new report released Monday, MIT researchers examine how a decrease in basic research funding is creating an innovation deficit in the US—and may be driving scientific talent overseas. The report,...
View ArticleMedical Hackathon Awards Innovations in Mobile, Global Health Solutions
For the second year in a row, MIT Hacking Medicine brought together engineers, designers, developers, and clinicians interested in health care innovation. One of the largest health care hackathons in...
View ArticleSolar Power to Purify Water: A 2-Billion-Person Solution?
A team led by MIT engineers took top honors at a recent competition that challenged teams to create a cost-effective, energy efficient, and environmentally stable desalination technology. Sponsored by...
View ArticleMajor New Report: What’s Holding Back Solar Energy?
Maximizing the enormous potential of solar energy will require more affordable technologies and more effective policies, says a comprehensive study released May 5 by the MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI)....
View ArticleBoston Globe Honors MIT Game Changers
The Globe Magazine’s 2015 Game Changers list “highlights people, businesses, movements, and, yes, robots pushing the limits of innovation.” Among this year’s honorees are numerous MIT faculty and...
View ArticleAgri-Drone Startup Takes Top Honors at MIT $100K Competition
On May 13, eight student teams pitched their business plans at the 25th annual MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition. Raptor Maps, a startup using unmanned aircraft technology to provide crop...
View ArticleBig Data + Machine Learning = More Accurate Cancer Diagnosis
Researchers at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) are combining big data sets from previous cancer diagnoses and new algorithms to more accurately diagnose cancer....
View ArticleContemplating Climate Change at the Ends of the Earth
John Carlson’s bags are always packed, and this year, they are accompanying him to the farthest-flung destinations—Antarctica and the North Pole—with the MIT Alumni Travel Program. An emerging markets...
View ArticleDeveloper of Record-Breaking Desalination Plant Hails New Model for...
“It’s a very interesting time in the water industry,” says Carlos Riva ’75, CEO of Poseidon Water, a company that is drawing attention as it develops, in Southern California, what will be the largest...
View ArticleFast-Tracking Innovation for MIT’s Postdocs
Yoel Fink PhD ’00 wants to save the next generation of researchers time and frustration in their efforts to move their ideas and inventions from lab to market. A professor of materials science and...
View ArticleAt MIT, the Future of Computing is Touchable
The MIT Media Lab is reimagining the future of computing, and its vision takes another step toward merging the physical with the virtual. inFORM, developed at the Media Lab, is a surface of 900 pegs...
View ArticleAlumnus Kenneth Strzepek: Inside the MIT-led Effort to Resolve an...
For millennia, Egypt has relied on the Nile River for its agriculture. So Egyptians were understandably upset in 2011 when their upstream neighbor, Ethiopia, announced plans to build a hydroelectric...
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