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…
Fighting ALS with Mind, Hand, and Heart
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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...
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, ...
Creating “Big, Beautiful Things”
Garrett Parrish grew up singing and dancing as a theater kid, influenced by his older siblings, one of whom is an actor and the other...
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...
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...