As the Institute’s first VP for energy and climate, Evelyn Wang ’00 is marshaling MIT’s expertise to meet the greatest ...

The head of the team that conquered the geolocation contest reveals the winning techniques and tells how the Internet can be harnessed to tackle real-world problems. Lance Whitney is a freelance ...

In the world of robotics, Baxter is something of a celebrity, and now, the bot is starting to act like one — by putting its own twist on the latest viral trend. In May, researchers at MIT’s Computer ...

MIT team first to identify locations of 10 red balloons scattered across United States, winning a $40,000 cash prize. Lance Whitney is a freelance technology writer and trainer and a former IT ...

Over the past week or so, one celebrity after another has stepped up to offer their take on nailing the Bottle Cap Challenge. I thought Mariah Carey’s was particularly funny, as she used one of her ...

A team of students from MIT out-traded teams from eight other elite universities from across the globe to win the first annual Peeptrade University Challenge. The premise of the challenge was simple: ...

DARPA would have you believe that it's the brilliance of modern day social networks that led an MIT-based team to win its red balloon challenge this weekend, and while there's no doubt that the ...

There is an immediate need for startups to handle the crisis around the outbreak of the novel coronavirus, from diagnostics to identify potential carriers of the virus to assisting the treatment of ...

This Saturday, MIT grad students will compete in the Global Space Balloon Challenge, where over 250 teams in more than 40 countries will send latex, helium-filled, high-altitude balloons to the edge ...

What would you do to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Internet? Well, if you're the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency better known as DARPA, you get 4,000 teams to scan the nation's ...