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‘Photographing Places’ Exhibit Opening at MIT Museum

Place. The word is simple, yet can be interpreted in so many different ways. That concept is the central focus of Places journal, founded in the ’80s […]

Wellness

MIT Bioengineer and Photographer Team Up to Make Pro-Vaccine Art

The World Health Organization estimates that 1.5 million children die each year from vaccine-preventable illnesses. The Art of Saving a Life, a new campaign launched […]

City Life

Former Gov. Deval Patrick Will Be ‘Visiting Innovation Fellow’ at MIT

With his eight years in office behind him, former Governor Deval Patrick will take on a new role at MIT’s Innovation Initiative beginning in the […]

City Life

Professors Want to Keep Robots from Getting Out of Control

Experts from around the country, including professors from Harvard University and MIT who study the future of Artificial Intelligence and its potential impacts on the […]

City Life

Engineering Student: ‘Yes, I’m Blond, and Yes, I Attend MIT’

Alice Zielinski has platinum blond hair, and she’s studying aeronautical and astronautical engineering and computer science at MIT. The only problem is, nobody seems to believe her […]

City Life

Website Tracks Your Happiness to Remind You Life’s Not So Bad

People spend hours on the Internet each day—roughly 11, to be exact—and the cascade of information that floods into someone’s brain via smartphone, laptop, or tablet […]

Wellness

MIT Study Finds That A Computer System Can Identify Objects As Well As Primate Brains

A team of MIT researchers found that an existing computer vision system can achieve object recognition as well as humans and other primates, opening the […]

Arts & Entertainment

Four Major Institutions Partner for New HUBweek Festival

Get ready to add a big new festival to your 2015 calendar. The Globe revealed Friday morning that it’s collaborating with three major local institutions—MIT, Harvard, and Mass General—to […]

City Life

After a Sexual Harassment Complaint, MIT Removed a Professor’s Online Lectures

The internet age has brought sexual harassment to the digital realm on a lot of platforms—social networks, dating websites—even online education. On the last point: […]

City Life

The Based God’s Trip to MIT Included a Lecture and Freestyle Session

Shirtless underneath his gold-colored jacket, with his pants hanging far below his waist, viral sensation, entrepreneur, and emcee Lil B “the Based God” delivered an hour-and-a-half […]

Arts & Entertainment

Five Locals Make Foreign Policy’s ‘100 Leading Global Thinkers’ List

Foreign Policy magazine released its sixth annual “100 Leading Global Thinkers” list Monday, recognizing 100 individuals and teams in various fields with inspired and influential ideas. The Global […]

City Life

Is MIT All About That Based God?

Rapper Lil B may soon be adding “professor” to his lengthy list of career achievements. According to several tweets from the California-based, Internet-motivated emcee, the […]

Arts & Entertainment

MIT to Celebrate 100 Years of AeroAstro Department with Centennial Symposium

MIT’s Aeronautics and Astronautics Department turns 100 this year, and the school is celebrating with a special Centennial Symposium. The three-day event takes place Wednesday through […]

City Life

MIT Students Suck the Oxygen Out of People’s Dreams to Live on Mars

Earth to people who want to live on Mars: you’ll probably die 68 days after landing on your new home planet, according to students from […]

Wellness

Massachusetts General Hospital and MIT Are Teaming Up

Through a brand new set of grants that will support projects “designed to improve diagnostic accuracy and cost effectiveness,” MIT and Mass General are teaming […]