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...
Associate Dean Daniel Hastings
Dan Hastings is the Cecil (1923) and Ida Green Professor in Education and head of the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics. As ...
Deputy Dean Maria Yang
Maria Yang is the Kendall Rohsenow Professor of mechanical engineering, faculty director for academics in the MIT D-Lab, associate di...
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...
Exploring speech recognition with industry experts
Lillian ‘Lilly’ Papalia, a rising junior in mechanical engineering, is enrolled in the New Engineering Education Transformation (...
Demystifying artificial intelligence
Natalie Lao was set on becoming an electrical engineer, like her parents, until she stumbled on course 6.S192 (Making Mobile Apps), ...
Human-Exosystem Adaptation
As engineers make strides in the design of wearable, electronically active, and responsive leg braces, arm supports, and full-body su...
The Ingestible Bacterial-Electronic Sensor
MIT researchers have built an ingestible sensor equipped with genetically engineered bacteria that can diagnose bleeding in the stoma...
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 ...