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Shamim Mohammad receiving the MIT Sloan CIO Leadership Award
May 23, 2020The MIT Sloan CIO Symposium published that Shamim Mohammad, SVP, CIO/CTO, CarMax is the winner of the prestigious 2020 MIT Sloan CIO Leadership Award. Shamim Mohammad, Who is a Bangladeshi descent is declared as the winner... -
Over past 15 years Indian monsoons became strengthened
Aug 2, 2017News Hour An MIT study published today in Nature Climate Change finds that the Indian summer monsoons, which bring rainfall to the country each year between June and September, have strengthened in the last 15 years... -
Microscopy technique could enable more informative biopsies
Jul 26, 2017News Hour: MIT and Harvard Medical School researchers have devised a way to image biopsy samples with much higher resolution — an advance that could help doctors develop more accurate and inexpensive diagnostic tests. For more... -
Metal-free MRI contrast agent could be safer for some patients
Jul 25, 2017News Hour: To enhance the visibility of organs as they are scanned with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), patients are usually injected with a compound known as a contrast agent before going into the scanner. The most... -
Bringing neural networks to cellphones
Jul 22, 2017News Hour: In recent years, the best-performing artificial-intelligence systems in areas such as autonomous driving, speech recognition, computer vision, and automatic translation have come courtesy of software systems known as neural networks, MIT published on thair... -
Tunnel Vision: A borderline mural project at MIT campus
Jul 1, 2017News Hour: During the 2017 spring semester a group of students organized to design and paint interactive murals covering a 200-foot long stretch of wall in the tunnel system located under the campus of MIT. The... -
Researchers develop new way to clear pollutants from water
Jun 29, 2017News Hour: Removing very dilute concentrations of pollutants from water, existing separation methods tend to be energy- and chemical-intensive. Now, a new method developed at MIT could provide a selective alternative for removing even extremely low... -
FLARE technique offers snapshots of neuron activity during different tasks
Jun 29, 2017News Hour: Many cognitive processes, such as decision-making, take place within seconds or minutes. Neuroscientists have longed to capture neuron activity during such tasks, but that dream has remained elusive — until now. A team of... -
Hyperprecise measurement with Bose-Einstein condensates
Dec 30, 2016News Hour: Atom interferometry is the most sensitive known technique for measuring gravitational forces and inertial forces such as acceleration and rotation. It’s a mainstay of scientific research and is being commercialized as a means of... -
Neutrino search finds no evidence of “hidden” particle
Aug 14, 2016News Hour: An exhaustive search for a ghostly subatomic particle called the sterile neutrino has come up empty, weakening the case for its existence. Scientists from MIT and the University of Wisconsin at Madison, along with...