Dario Gil announced as inaugural MIT School of Engineering and Schwarzman College of Computing Advanced Degree Ceremony Speaker
Dario Gil, PhD ’03, is the Senior Vice President and Director of Research at IBM, where he leads the IBM technology roadmap and tec...
Why doesn’t a plain, white piece of paper reflect light, but a mirror does?
Almost everything reflects light — it’s how it reflects it that makes a difference…
Cleaning up industrial filtration
If you wanted to get pasta out of a pot of water, would you boil off the water, or use a strainer? While home cooks would choose the ...
Diagnosing cancer with a barcode-inspired test
As Dana Al-Sulaiman peers into a microscope, a row of dots appears on a slide. These dots can help provide a cancer diagnosis. Al-Sul...
Computation Counts
When James Quigley applied to MIT, he didn’t need an algorithm to tell him getting in wasn’t a high-probability outcome. An Army ...
Commencement 2025
MIT School of Engineering and Stephen A. Schwarzman College of Computing Advanced Degree Ceremony On May 28, 2025, we gathered on Kil...
Lessons from the Clean Air Car Race 50 Years Later
1970 was a milestone year for efforts to combat air pollution. On April 22, the first Earth Day was celebrated. The 1970 Clean Air Ac...
When will AI be smart enough to outsmart people?
In a paper published last year, titled, “When Will AI Exceed Human Performance? Evidence from AI Experts,” elite researchers in a...
Middle and High School Programs
We open MIT’s doors so young minds can explore, question, and discover through science and engineering. For over five decades, MIT ...
Using spatial learning to transform math and science education
Legend has it that Isaac Newton was sitting under a tree when an apple fell on his head, sparking a bout of scientific thinking that ...