New Faculty (2018)
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…
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...
Human-Exosystem Adaptation
As engineers make strides in the design of wearable, electronically active, and responsive leg braces, arm supports, and full-body su...
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 ...
Making Music with The Chorallaries of MIT
How do you transform emotion from the soul, through the body, to the voice, and elicit a physiological response from the audience? Me...
Future Engineers
We are dedicated to making science and engineering open to everyone. Too often, kids’ zip codes play a larger role in determining t...
Materials Science and Engineering
Redefine the material world.
Dean Anantha P. Chandrakasan
Anantha P. Chandrakasan is the dean of the MIT School of Engineering and the Vannevar Bush Professor of Electrical Engineering and Co...
Mingda Li
Mingda Li will join the Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering as an assistant professor in January 2018....