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...
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...
Mingda Li
Mingda Li will join the Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering as an assistant professor in January 2018....
Tim Kraska
Tim Kraska will join the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science as an associate professor in ...