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The Lincoln Laboratory Cross-Language Search Engine team includes (left to right) Elizabeth Salesky, Jennifer Williams, Jennifer Drexler, and Michael Coury.

Finding relevant data in a sea of languages

A cross-language search engine enables English monolingual analysts to find foreign language documents relevant to their investigations.

May 27, 2016

The Venice Architecture Biennale, held every two years at the sprawling Arsenale (above) and Giardini grounds on the city’s eastern tip, opens this weekend. This year’s focus on architecture’s ability to address global challenges — including numerous installations and projects from MIT faculty, students, and alumni — may indicate a paradigm shift for architecture, participants say.

MIT at the Venice Biennale

On a global stage, MIT helps steer architecture toward solving worldwide challenges.

May 27, 2016

Center for Advanced Visual Studies Special Collection materials, courtesy of the MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology

Program in Art, Culture and Technology receives National Endowment for the Arts grant

Funding supports the development of a “virtual museum” from an archive of experimental works.

May 23, 2016

“If you ask MIT economists and policy experts what we should do about climate change, chances are they will tell you: Put a price on carbon emissions,” Maria Zuber said.

MIT joins Carbon Pricing Leadership Coalition

Led by World Bank and IMF, coalition seeks to price emissions to tackle climate change.

May 20, 2016

“[W]hen you send location data as a secondary piece of information, it is extremely simple for people with very little technical knowledge to find out where you work or live,” Ilaria Liccardi says.

We know where you live

From location data alone, even low-tech snoopers can identify Twitter users’ homes, workplaces.

May 17, 2016

“The kinds of technologies that people are building today are much more connected to how people interact in social aspects of our culture. Technology and humanity are now deeply interlinked," says Eran Egozy, engineer, musician, new media pioneer, and MIT professor of the practice in music technology.

Sharing a passion for music and interactive technology

Harmonix co-founder Eran Egozy returns to MIT as professor of the practice in music technology.

May 4, 2016

QualiT, an app launched as part of a collaboration between MIT and the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA), allows riders of the Silver Line to rate their bus trips.

Crowdsourcing the Silver Line commute

New app from MIT researchers gathers rider feedback to improve Boston bus service.

May 3, 2016

MIT outlines progress on its five-year climate action plan

Progress report underscores strong collaboration across campus to address climate change.

April 27, 2016

Conceptual view of future suburban fabric

A new lens on suburbia

Center for Advanced Urbanism conference explores the suburbs’ sustainable future.

April 27, 2016

The goal of MIT's "Duckiebot" class was to create a fleet of 50 self-driving taxis that can navigate the roads of a model city with just a single on-board camera and no pre-programmed maps.

Self-driving cars, meet rubber duckies

“Duckietown” class at Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab teaches autonomy, aims to become global research platform.

April 20, 2016

Francis A. Gregory Library, Washington, designed by Adjaye and Associates, 2012

The once and future library

Librarians, architects, and other scholars gather at MIT to reflect on the future of libraries.

April 19, 2016

The Amphibian SCUBA diving simulator, a research project from the MIT Media Lab, lets users experience the underwater world through a high presence virtual reality system. The system includes a motion platform, Oculus Rift head-mounted display, snorkel with sensors, leg-motion sensors, and gloves that enable motion detection, temperature simulation, and physical feedback of objects.

Experiencing underwater worlds, virtually

"Amphibian" SCUBA simulator advances the field of virtual reality while exploring the relationship between diving and disability.

April 11, 2016

“Algorithms, Identity, and Society” was held before a capacity audience at MIT’s Bartos Theater, and sponsored by MIT’s noted program in Science, Technology, and Society.

Identity theft?

Automation helps us in many ways, but does it steal our sense of self?

April 8, 2016

Professor Yoel Fink, director of MIT’s Research Laboratory of Electronics

New institute will accelerate innovations in fibers and fabrics

National public-private consortium led by MIT will involve manufacturers, universities, agencies, companies.

April 1, 2016

The nuTonomy team, including Emilio Frazzoli (third from left, standing), with one of their driverless cars

Startup bringing driverless taxi service to Singapore

Fleet of autonomous vehicles will serve as convenient form of public transit while reducing emissions.

March 24, 2016

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