Interesting Engineering

Motor-free fiber muscles bring silent, human-like movement to modern robots

This approach removes a major limitation in soft robotics. Traditional fluid-driven systems rely on “heavy, bulky, oftentimes ...
India West

Hamsa Balakrishnan Named Associate Dean Of MIT School of Engineering

BOSTON, MA – Prof. Hamsa Balakrishnan, in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT, has been named the associate dean of the MIT School of Engineering, effective August 1. In her new role ...

Meet Patrick Winston: MIT professor whose one-hour lecture stayed packed for 40 years and it wasn’t about STEM

For decades at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, one lecture stood out not for equations or algorithms, but for a skill that quietly shapes s.
The Free Press Journal

QS Subject Rankings 2026: IIT Delhi, IIT Bombay Lead India In Engineering; MIT Tops Globally

QS Subject Rankings 2026: The QS World University Rankings by Subject 2026 has once again emphasised the growing reputation of Indian universities in the fields of engineering and technology, even as ...
Newswire

Nine in ten product engineering leaders plan to increase AI investment--but most favor modest growth of 1-25%, reveals new MIT Technology Review Insights report

Sustainability and product quality outrank cost reduction as top measurable AI outcomes in physical systems. CAMBRIDGE, Mass., March 16, 2026 /CNW/ -- A new report by MIT Technology Review Insights ...
MIT Technology Review

Pragmatic by design: Engineering AI for the real world

In physical systems where errors carry tangible consequences, AI creates value through reliability and first-time-right performance. In partnership withL&T Technology Services The impact of artificial ...
WBUR

Lock it down or let it be: MIT students mull campus security after professor's killing, Brown shooting

As MIT resumed classes this week, security was top of mind for some students still reeling after last semester ended with one of its famed professors fatally shot off-campus days after a mass shooting ...
InfoQ

MIT's Recursive Language Models Improve Performance on Long-Context Tasks

Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. Agent workflows make transport a first-order ...
VentureBeat

MIT’s new ‘recursive’ framework lets LLMs process 10 million tokens without context rot

Recursive language models (RLMs) are an inference technique developed by researchers at MIT CSAIL that treat long prompts as an external environment to the model. Instead of forcing the entire prompt ...
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Investigators search for shooter in Brookline killing of MIT nuclear physicist Nuno F.G. Loureiro

QUESTIONS AND VERY FEW ANSWERS. YOU GOT THAT RIGHT. YOU KNOW, INVESTIGATORS SAID FROM THE START THIS DOES NOT APPEAR TO BE IN ANY WAY CONNECTED TO THE BROWN UNIVERSITY SHOOTING. BUT TONIGHT, SOURCES ...
Time

Suspect in Brown University and MIT Shootings Found Dead. Here’s What We Know

A team of FBI agents arrive on the scene at the Extra Space Storage facility on December 18, 2025. The Brown University shooting suspect was found dead inside a storage unit there. Reporter A man ...
PBS

MIT professor’s fatal shooting has police still searching for a suspect

BROOKLINE, Mass. (AP) — Police intensified their search Wednesday for a suspect in the fatal shooting of a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who was shot at his home earlier in ...