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…
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 ...
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...
Staff Advice & Implementation Committee
The School of Engineering a Staff Advice & Implementation Committee (SAIC) is open to include any employee within SoE who is will...
The Ingestible Bacterial-Electronic Sensor
MIT researchers have built an ingestible sensor equipped with genetically engineered bacteria that can diagnose bleeding in the stoma...
Henry Corrigan-Gibbs
Henry Corrigan-Gibbs joined the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science as an assistant profess...
The impact of climate change on the ocean
“I think ocean engineering as a field is really interesting because it marries the holistic side of living on planet Earth with sol...
Manya Ghobadi
Manya Ghobadi joined the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science as an assistant professor in October. Previous...
Human-Exosystem Adaptation
As engineers make strides in the design of wearable, electronically active, and responsive leg braces, arm supports, and full-body su...