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…
New Faculty (2018)
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...
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 ...
Associate Dean Hamsa Balakrishnan
Hamsa Balakrishnan is the William E. Leonhard (1940) Professor in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AeroAstro). As asso...
Helping cassava farmers by extending crop life
The root vegetable cassava is a major food staple in dozens of countries across the world. Drought-resistant, nutritious, and tasty, ...
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...
Building communities, founding a startup with people in mind
MIT postdoc Francesco Benedetti admits he wasn’t always a star student. But the people he met along his educational journey inspi...