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The RePaint system reproduces paintings by combining two approaches called color-contoning and halftoning, as well as a deep learning model focused on determining how to stack 10 different inks to recreate the specific shades of color.

Reproducing paintings that make an impression

CSAIL's new RePaint system aims to faithfully recreate your favorite paintings using deep learning and 3-D printing.

November 29, 2018

Artist Ekene Ijeoma sits with “Pan-African AIDS,” a sculpture representing the hyper-visibility of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Africa and the hidden one in Black America.

Ekene Ijeoma joins MIT Media Lab

The new media arts and sciences faculty member merges social justice with design, architecture, music, performance, and technology.

November 7, 2018

Felipe Varon says he hopes his vehicle can have an impact in developing countries where traffic and congestion are a problem, or where there’s a lack of transportation infrastructure.

One man’s flying car dream is taking off, thanks to MIT

Felipe Varon uses knowledge gained from MIT Professional Education to improve his invention; hopes cars might service areas with low access to food and supplies.

September 26, 2018

An MIT system uses an algorithm that can take 2-D videos and turn them into 3-D-printed “motion sculptures” that show how a human body moves through space.

Creating 3-D-printed “motion sculptures” from 2-D videos

CSAIL system could help athletes, dancers, and others better analyze how they move.

September 18, 2018

“The classroom is where I practice and cultivate a kind of utopia with my students, in the best possible sense,” says Associate Professor Ana Miljacki.

Ana Miljacki: Scholar of designers and dreamers

Historian, curator, and designer studies architects and their quest to make a better world.

September 5, 2018

Fengdi Guo, a graduate student in the department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, is shown here working on the project.

Software tool could help architects design efficient buildings

MIT researchers develop inexpensive way to perform full lifecycle analysis of design choices as buildings are being planned.

September 5, 2018

CSAIL researchers have developed a visualization tool for CAD that, for the first time, lets users instead interactively explore all designs that best fit multiple, often-conflicting performance tradeoffs, in real time.

Design tool reveals a product’s many possible performance tradeoffs

Users can quickly visualize designs that optimize multiple parameters at once.

August 15, 2018

Advanced Fiber workshop participants compare the differences between weft knit and warp knit for sweater construction at FIT in New York City. Pictured (clockwise from left) are Veronica Apsan, Melanie Wong, Jesse Doherty, Erika Anderson, Sebastian Pattinson, David Merchan, and Calvin Zhong.

Inventing future fabrics

Advanced Functional Fabrics of America workshop challenges pioneering MIT and FIT students to conceive new ideas.

July 31, 2018

J. Meejin Yoon named dean of Cornell University College of Architecture, Art and Planning

July 24, 2018

An atmospheric scene, called "Forest," with video from thesilentwatcher.com, is part of the Mediated Atmospheres project by Nan Zhao.

Smart office enables a personalized workplace atmosphere

Project out of the MIT Media Lab uses biosensors and machine learning to optimize the sensory experience in individual work environments.

July 13, 2018

Dennis Frenchman, the Class of 1922 Professor of Urban Design and Planning, is the newly appointed director of the MIT Center for Real Estate.

Dennis Frenchman named head of the MIT Center for Real Estate

Architect and urban designer brings to the role decades of global expertise on the transformation of cities

July 2, 2018

QS ranks MIT the world’s No. 1 university for 2018-19

Ranked at the top for the seventh straight year, the Institute also places first in 12 of 48 disciplines.

June 6, 2018

MIT startup teams meet with Chinese industry partners at the China Future City Lab demo day.

China Venture Workshop announces first cohort

Ten teams will collaborate with local partners, pilot solutions to urban challenges.

May 31, 2018

Anne Whiston Spirn (left), the Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Landscape Architecture and Planning, has been honored with the Design Mind award by Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. Neri Oxman (right), the Sony Corporation Career Development Professor, received the Interaction Design award.

Spirn, Oxman win Cooper Hewitt design awards

School of Architecture and Planning professors receive national recognition for excellence, innovation, and impact through design.

May 30, 2018

Seven new projects focusing on solutions to water and food systems challenges, led by 11 faculty principal investigators across five MIT departments, will be funded by the Abdul Latif Jameel World Water and Food Security Lab (J-WAFS) with two-year grants of up to $200,000.

J-WAFS awards over $1.3 million in fourth round of seed grant funding

Eleven principal investigators from six MIT departments will receive grants totaling over $1.3 million, overhead free, for research on food and water challenges.

May 25, 2018

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