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Summer 2015

Weapons Sensor Technology Detects Rotten Meat, Ripe Fruit

Tim Swager has created tiny sensors that can detect rotting meat and ripe fruit.

Image: Flickr/NEC Corporation of America CC by 2.0

Big Data + Machine Learning = More Accurate Cancer Diagnosis

Michael Stonbraker. Photo: M. Scott Brauer/MIT News

Turing Award Celebrates the Base of Modern Databases

At an event announcing the new initiatives, CSAIL Director Daniela Rus highlighted her lab's role developing time-sharing and data encryption. Photo: Jason Dorfman/CSAIL

MIT Experts Unite to Combat Cyber Crime

Spring 2015

Shining a Light on Disease

James Fujimoto developed optical coherence tomography (OCT), a medical imaging technology.

Spring 2015

The Second Machine Age

Technological advances will reshape the global economy.

Spring 2015

‘Cyber Hero’ Supporting Next Generation of Innovators

Defending companies and countries against hostile network attacks.

‘The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies’ by Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee. Image: W.W. Norton
Spring 2015

Excerpt: ‘The Second Machine Age’

The iRobot Create 2 provides educators, students, and developers with the tools to learn the fundamentals of robotics. Image: Screenshot/iRobot.com

iRobot Inspires Next Generation of Roboticists with a Hackable Roomba

PhD students Elena Glassman '08, MNG '10, Neha Narula SM '10, and Jean Yang SM '10 (left) and Hobby Shop lecturer Brian Chan '02, SM '04, PhD '09 (right) recently participated in "Ask Me Anything" conversations. Images: imugr.com, MIT Alumni Association

MIT Alumni Take to Reddit to Talk Women in Computer Science, Extreme Origami

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