During the opening ceremonies of this summer’s Olympic games in London, a musical performance culminated with a stage-set house rising into the rafters to reveal...MIT News Office From ACM Opinion | October 22, 2012
MIT researchers have developed Qurk, a database system that automatically crowdsources tasks that are difficult or impossible to perform computationally.MIT News From ACM TechNews | August 27, 2012
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Georgetown University, and National University of Singapore recently presented an algorithm that enables...MIT News From ACM TechNews | July 6, 2012
MIT professor Nancy Leveson recently hosted a workshop to educate more than 250 safety engineering professionals from around the world about System-Theoretic Accident...MIT News From ACM TechNews | April 26, 2012
A participant in MIT's IDEAS Global Challenge is Wecyclers, a crowdsourced recycling platform that will operate in Lagos, Nigeria, and is designed to incentivize...MIT News From ACM TechNews | April 2, 2012
Scores of interesting new findings from the biosciences may speed around the globe at the click of a mouse, but one thing particularly encourages other researchers...MIT News Office From ACM News | January 12, 2012
We've all heard it: The Internet has flattened the world, allowing social networks to spring up overnight, independent of geography or socioeconomic status.MIT News Office From ACM News | December 27, 2011
Researchers at MIT's Lincoln Lab have developed new radar technology that provides real-time video of what’s going on behind solid walls.MIT News Office From ACM News | October 18, 2011
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab have developed Funf, a phone-based data collection system for self-tracking applications. MIT News From ACM TechNews | October 11, 2011
Researchers at MIT and Princeton University have developed SignalGuru, a system that uses a network of smartphones mounted on a car dashboard to collect information...MIT News From ACM TechNews | August 30, 2011
Millions of Americans have implantable medical devices, from pacemakers and defibrillators to brain stimulators and drug pumps; worldwide, 300,000 more people...MIT News Office From ACM News | June 17, 2011
MIT researchers are developing an intelligent transportation system algorithm that factors in models of human driving behavior to warn drivers of potential collisions...MIT News From ACM TechNews | June 16, 2011
Imagine a robot able to retrieve a pile of laundry from the back of a cluttered closet, deliver it to a washing machine, start the cycle and then zip off to the...MIT News Office From ACM News | May 31, 2011
MIT announced that Joichi (“Joi” — pronounced “Joey”) Ito has been selected as the next director of the MIT Media Lab.MIT News Office From ACM News | April 26, 2011
Network coding is an innovative new approach to network design that promises much more efficient use of bandwidth, and MIT researchers have made seminal contributions...MIT News Office From ACM News | April 6, 2011
U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano emphasized the importance of science and technology research as a means of keeping the nation safe in an...MIT News Office From ACM News | March 17, 2011
Young women in the U.S. represent an untapped group of potential inventors, according to the 2011 Lemelson-MIT Invention Index. The latest index shows that women...MIT News From ACM TechNews | January 21, 2011
An MIT project provides a way to preserve information in constantly changing networks, without resorting to a shared server.MIT News Office From ACM News | December 13, 2010
MIT's connections to China, already well-established, are set to be strengthened and expanded as part of a major, long-term effort to promote intellectual and...MIT News Office From ACM News | December 10, 2010
By melding economics and engineering, researchers show that as social networks get larger, they usually get better at sorting fact from fiction.MIT News Office From ACM News | November 22, 2010