The Center for Real Estate celebrated its 25th anniversary this fall with three days of festivities including a dinner for industry partners at the MIT Museum, a day-long conference held atop the new Media Lab Complex and a black-tie gala at Boston'...
A new book from SA+P’s John Ochsendorf traces the development of the Rafael Guastavino family, a father/son team of immigrants whose ingenious ‘Tile Arch System’ enabled architects to create dramatic domed ceilings in such major landmarks as Grand Centra...
Media Lab researchers Rosalind Picard, Matthew Goodwin and Rana el Kaliouby, along with collaborators at five other institutions, have received a $10M Expeditions Award from the National Science Foundation to develop technologies for measu...
Masanori Nagashima MArch’76 is a major donor to the School of Architecture + Planning, having established a fund in the Media Lab for graduate student financial support and having named the Masanori Nagashima Conference Room in the new Media Lab Complex. He is Chairman of Informatix, a compa...
Eric Klopfer, Director of the Scheller Teacher Education Program in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning, has received a grant of $2M from the National Science Foundation for a four-year collaboration with the University of Pennsy...
Neri Oxman has been appointed Assistant Professor of Media Arts and Sciences in the Media Arts and Sciences Program; she holds the Sony Career Development Chair. Oxman directs the Mediated Matter research group, exploring how digital desi...
In October, the MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology (ACT) presented a tribute to pioneering sound artist Maryanne Amacher on the first anniversary of her death. During the 1970s, Amacher was a fellow at the Center for Advanced...
Researchers in SA+P’s Senseable City Lab have created a prototype robot for a system they call Seaswarm – a fleet of vehicles that could make cleaning up future oil spills, like the BP spill in the Gulf of Mexico, both less expensive and more effic...
