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To improve artificial perception, Professor Paris Smaragdis seeks to make machines that can hear and understand sound even better than humans.

Making machines that can listen

10.28.26
Professor Michael Yaffe, seen here in the Koch Institute Public Galleries, was elected to the National Academy of Medicine, along with six MIT alumni.

Seven MIT affiliates elected to the National Academy of Medicine for 2026

10.28.26
The backbone of the vaccine is a modified, harmless bacteriophage called M13, which forms a nanofiber that can be coated with cancer antigens.

MIT engineers create nanoparticles for delivering personalized cancer vaccines

10.30.26
The backbone of the vaccine is a modified, harmless bacteriophage called M13, which forms a nanofiber that can be coated with cancer antigens.

MIT engineers create nanoparticles for delivering personalized cancer vaccines

10.30.26
Social.Wiki employs a decentralized infrastructure that allows users to retain ownership of their data as they create, edit, and navigate social websites within the platform.

New system gives users more control over their online experience

10.29.26
Gunter Stein was a valued adjunct professor of EECS and researcher within LIDS, while he also worked at Honeywell Labs.

Gunter Stein, control systems and theory expert, dies at 84

10.23.26
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“We have created an ecosystem of R&D, with MIT at the center of it, to facilitate not only leading-edge research, but also a path toward translation into a device that can be used in the clinic,” Ahmad Bahai says.

MIT-led team receives funding to develop a wearable monitor for early disease detection

11.04.26