SA+P students sweep visual arts awards
Honors for work that incorporates both old and new technologies
Media Lab
Bringing ‘common sense’ to text analytics
Luminoso Technologies uses artificial-intelligence research as a commercial springboard.
Four from MIT named to ‘AI’s 10 to Watch’ list
Ranking celebrates rising researchers in the field of artificial intelligence
Quantifying cities’ emotional effects
A new Web tool could help measure subjective impressions of urban environments, which may have consequences for social behaviors.
Cheap, color, holographic video
A practical new approach to holographic video could also enable 2-D displays with higher resolution and lower power consumption.
Diversifying your online world
In a new book, MIT’s Ethan Zuckerman asserts that we need to overcome the Internet’s sorting tendencies and create tools to make ourselves ‘digital cosmopolitans.’
Automated ‘coach’ could help with social interactions
New software system from MIT could help people improve their conversational and interview skills.
President Ollanta Humala of Peru visits MIT
Visit establishes intent to explore collaborations in education and research.
Why innovation thrives in cities
Double a city’s population and its economic productivity goes up 130 percent. MIT researchers think they know why.
U.S. Ambassador Allan J. Katz visits MIT
Ambassador to Portugal led a Business Development Road Show that included a stop at the MIT Media Lab.
MIT hosts American Junior Academy of Science delegates
The Institution provides day’s worth of activities for more than 200 conference attendees.
The robotic equivalent of a Swiss army knife
Reconfigurable robot a step toward something that can become almost anything.