Human touch
In many quarters, reaction to L. Rafael Reif’s election as MIT president focuses on his personal qualities.
‘This is a dream I never dared to imagine’
President-elect L. Rafael Reif greets the MIT community — and the world — as the Institute’s next leader.
L. Rafael Reif selected as MIT’s 17th president
As provost since 2005, the president-elect has inspired innovation and played a critical role in the financial stewardship of the Institute.
Students hail selection of L. Rafael Reif as MIT’s 17th president
Members of Student Advisory Committee cite president-elect’s ‘strong leadership and a willingness to engage students’ as provost.
The elusive capacity of networks
Calculating the total capacity of a data network is a notoriously difficult problem, but information theorists are beginning to make some headway.
Disruptive innovation — in education
For Anant Agarwal, MITx, the Institute’s new online-learning initiative, isn’t just a means of democratizing education. It’s a way to reinvent it.
Video: The Paradiso Synthesizer
Media Lab associate professor’s massive modular synthesizer now on exhibit in the MIT Museum.
Louis S. Osborne PhD ’50, longtime MIT physicist, dies at 88
Developed many of the experimental techniques that are now standard practice in high-energy physics
MIT Libraries receive papers of distinguished linguist, philosopher and activist Noam Chomsky
Significant collection spans a long and distinguished career dating to 1955.
MIT and the Civil War
President Susan Hockfield speaks on the struggle for America’s future — then and now.
Real-time speech communication on packet networks named an IEEE Milestone
MIT Lincoln Laboratory's role in this seminal R&D effort is honored
Participants give kudos to online registration pilot
The paper-based process underwent a sea change this fall.