Alumnus’s throwable tactical camera gets commercial release
Softball-sized camera can be tossed into unseen areas, sends panoramic images back to a smartphone.
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Management
The Council for the Arts at MIT announces new leadership roles
Rick Stone ’76 will serve as chair, Karen Arenson ’70 as vice chair
Study: Juvenile incarceration yields less schooling, more crime
Teen offenders who serve time finish school less often, become repeat offenders more often.
Crop-mapping drones win MIT $100K
Team developing drones that scan and monitor crop health takes grand prize at 25th annual competition.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visits MIT
Discussion of innovation keynotes stop; Japan gives gift to Institute.
Five from MIT win 2015 Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans
Recipients, all immigrants or children of immigrants, win $90,000 apiece to support graduate studies.
Captioning at scale
Company’s more-efficient captioning system processes hundreds of video-hours per day.
Taking action in Africa
Conference spotlights companies and organizations that are innovating across various sectors.
Economic detective work
Versatile scholar Jonathan Parker finds new ways to decipher riddles in economics.
Study: Prices of cancer drugs have soared since 1995
Researchers find a 10 percent annual increase, after inflation.
U.S. News ranks graduate programs in engineering, business highly
MIT is home to No. 1 graduate engineering program; Sloan is No. 5 business school.
Bringing “everyone wins” recycling to Nigeria
Across the slums of Lagos, a startup’s bikes have removed 600 tons of recyclables in return for rewards.
Six keys to sports analytics
Massive MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference reveals state of growing field.
High “return-on-learning”
“Business intelligence” software for schools links classroom technology and strategies to student achievement.