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…
Why do I have to take some medications every four hours but others only once a day?
Just as there’s no such thing as a “generic” person, no two people process the same medication in just the same way…
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...
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...
Romancing the stone: DMSE researchers crack magnetic garnet mystery
Five years ago, what began as three nervous Norwegians spotting each other across a study room has evolved into a drone company enabl...
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...
Brave Behind Bars: Prison education program focuses on computing skills for women
A programming language textbook might not be the first thing you’d expect to see when walking into a correctional facility.
Student, Alum Team Up to Combat Covid
“One of the reasons I like to interview for MIT is to be inspired—and maybe inspire a little bit back,” says George Hu ’89, a...
GrubHub Founder Starts a Handy Alternative to the Gig Economy
It started not with a stroke of creative genius, but with a rain barrel that Mike Evans ’99, MEng ’00, wanted to install in his g...