news.mit.eduadded August 2026
History of MITby Rachel Gordon | MIT CSAIL6d ago
When an artificial intelligence image generator produces a portrait, whose work went into it? The question sits at the center of lawsuits, licensing deals, and proposed regulations worldwide.
History of MITby Stephanie Martinovich | Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering9d ago
Chiang Chung "C.C." Mei, professor emeritus in the MIT Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE), a renowned hydrodynamicist whose work shaped the field’s understanding of ocean waves...
History of MITby Sara Feijo | MIT Open Learning11d ago
A new short film spotlights the life and career of MIT Institute Professor and School of Engineering Dean Paula Hammond ’84, PhD ’93.
History of MITby Peter Dizikes | MIT News12d ago
It is a transformation for the ages: The Metropolitan Storage Warehouse in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is opening as the new home of MIT’s School of Architecture and Planning, after a makeover...
History of MITby Benjamin Daniel | School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences13d ago
When MIT historian Tristan Brown first examined a Chinese tea chest label displayed as a relic of the Boston Tea Party, he had no reason to doubt its story.
History of MITby Kylie Foy | Ariana Gaines | MIT Lincoln Laboratory18d ago
On July 26, 1951, the U.S. Air Force, Army, and Navy signed a charter establishing Project Lincoln, an R&D program managed by MIT to develop the nation's first continent-wide air defense system...
History of MITby Matilda Bathurst | Department of Architecture19d ago
When Nicholas de Monchaux became head of the Department of Architecture at the School of Architecture and Planning (SA+P) in 2020, he stepped into an unusual set of leadership conditions.
History of MITby Adam Zewe | MIT News20d ago
A one-size-fits-all approach likely isn’t the best strategy when designing artificial intelligence systems that assist users in disease diagnosis.
History of MITby Peter Dizikes | MIT News22d ago
You probably think you are rational. Day to day, you try to “make the best possible use of the information available to you,” as MIT philosopher Brian Hedden PhD ’12 writes in his 2015 book...
History of MITby Science Policy Initiative24d ago
This spring, 25 MIT students and postdocs traveled to Washington to meet with congressional staffers and advocate for sustained federal investment in scientific research.
History of MITby Emma Foehringer Merchant | Institute for Medical Engineering and Science26d ago
Before the advancement of scientific data storage and collaboration via the cloud, medical investigators seeking health research breakthroughs had to overcome significant obstacles to collaboration...
History of MITby Michaela Jarvis | MIT Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems17 Jul 2026
Ever since she was a child playing on her family’s farmland in Wisconsin, Bailey Flanigan was guided by her own selective, yet wide-ranging, curiosity.
History of MITby Media Lab15 Jul 2026
Millions of people are now designing their own personalized artificial intelligence companions, yet most have little idea how those creations will actually behave.
History of MITby Anne Trafton | MIT News15 Jul 2026
Susumu Tonegawa, the Picower Professor of Biology and Neuroscience at MIT and a Nobel laureate, died July 11 at the age of 86.
History of MITby Nicole Estvanik Taylor | Department of Urban Studies and Planning13 Jul 2026
In May 2019, the government of Baltimore, Maryland, fell into chaos. Cybercriminals had locked the city out of many of its critical files and demanded payment to decrypt them.
History of MITby Amanda Diehl | MIT Schwarzman College of Computing6 Jul 2026
As advanced medical technology gets closer to hitting consumer markets, the need for guardrails on protected usage should increase.
History of MITby Benjamin Daniel | School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences2 Jul 2026
On a Wednesday afternoon in April, a cohort of scholars from the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (SHASS) gathered in MIT’s Lewis Music Library.
History of MITby Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics | System Design and Management30 Jun 2026
Three teams comprising 35 students across eight different MIT departments and Wellesley College have been at work since fall 2025, designing critical early infrastructure elements that a moon base...
History of MITby Jennifer Chu | MIT News29 Jun 2026
The Antarctic ozone hole was discovered in 1985, when scientists observed a severe depletion in the Earth’s protective layer of stratospheric ozone.
History of MITby Benjamin Daniel | School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences26 Jun 2026
David Autor, the Daniel (1972) and Gail Rubinfeld Professor in the MIT Department of Economics, has been named head of the Department of Economics, effective July 1.
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