The Missing Semester of Your CS Education – Revised for 2026

Pills that communicate from the stomach could improve medication adherence

We can’t send mail farther than 500 miles (2002)

Typechecking is undecidable when 'type' is a type (1989) [pdf]

MOOSE Crossing: Construction, Community, and Learning in a Networked Virtual World for Kids (1997)

To flexibly organize thought, the brain makes use of space: « MIT researchers tested their theory of spatial computing, which holds that the brain recruits and controls ad hoc groups of neurons for cognitive tasks by applying brain waves to patches of the cortex

Computer Systems Security 6.566 / Spring 2024

Meditation and Unconscious: A Buddhist Monk and a Neuroscientist (2022)

MIT Whirlwind I: A High-Speed Electronic Digital Computer (1951) [pdf]

Agonist-Antagonist Myoneural Interface

Mathematics for Computer Science (2018) [pdf]

Street-Fighting Mathematics (2008)

Elephants Don't Play Chess (1990) [pdf]

AI-generated sensors open new paths for early cancer detection: Nanoparticles coated with molecular sensors could be used to develop at-home tests for many types of cancer.

Formally speaking, "Transpiler" is a useless word

Noninvasive imaging could replace finger pricks for measuring blood glucose

One pull of a string is all it takes to deploy these complex structures: « A new method could enable users to design portable medical devices, like a splint, that can be rapidly converted from flat panels to a 3D object without any tools

Deep-learning model predicts how fruit flies form, cell by cell

Artificial tendons give muscle-powered robots a boost: « The new design from MIT engineers could pump up many biohybrid builds. »

A Knapsack Public Key Cryptosystem Based on Arithmetic in Finite Fields (1988) [pdf]

Enabling small language models to solve complex reasoning tasks

MIT Missing Semester 2026

Director of MIT's Plasma and Fusion Center, Dies at 47

The Fatal Trap UBI Boosters Keep Falling Into

Ultrasonic device dramatically speeds harvesting of water from the air

MIT Report Claims 11.7% of U.S. Labor Can Be Replaced with Existing AI

New therapeutic brain implants could defy the need for surgery: « MIT researchers created microscopic wireless electronic devices that travel through blood and implant in target brain regions…

Nice Functions [pdf]

Typechecking is undecideable when 'type' is a type (1989) [pdf]

In Praise of Useless Robots

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