How can a person ride a motorcycle 100 mph but not stand up in a 100 mph wind?
How can a person ride a motorcycle 100 mph but not stand up in a 100 mph wind?
How do people become addicted to online games and social networking sites?
By using them. The principles of online interaction aren’t so different from those of a slot machine…
Genuine Enthusiasm for AI
On an afternoon in early April, Tommi Jaakkola is pacing at the front of the vast auditorium that is 26-100. The chalkboards behind h...
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...
The future of motorcycles could be hydrogen
MIT’s Electric Vehicle Team, which has a long record of building and racing innovative electric vehicles, including cars and motorc...
Project Sandcastle
On a foggy night in San Francisco, a Bat-Signal appears in the sky. It flickers above a house on the highest hilltop in the city, whe...
The Infinite: May/June 2025
Dear members of the MIT community and friends, I’m writing to share a personal update. As some of you may have read, I have ...
2024 – 2025 Fellows for MIT-Novo Nordisk Artificial Intelligence Postdoctoral Fellows Program
2024-2025 MIT-Novo Nordisk Fellows Thomas Athey > Thomas Fryer > Clarice Hong > Mohammad Tariqul Islam > Johannes Lac...
Commencement 2025
MIT School of Engineering and Stephen A. Schwarzman College of Computing Advanced Degree Ceremony On May 28, 2025, we gathered on Kil...
Pioneering the future of materials extraction
The next time you cook pasta, imagine that you are cooking spaghetti, rigatoni, and seven other varieties all together, and they need...