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What skills, ideas, and experiences should students expect to leave college with?

For decades, MIT has been widely held to have one of the best linguistics programs in the world. But what is linguistics and what does it teach us about human language?

Our brains are incredibly good at processing faces, and even have specific regions specialized for this function. But what face dimensions are we observing?

The following press release was issued today by the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard.

As part of its continued mission to help build a better world, MIT is establishing the Alana Down Syndrome Center, an innovative

Fifty years ago, the first industrial robot arm (called Unimate) assembled a simple breakfast of toast, coffee, and champagne.

By exposing mice to a unique combination of light and sound, MIT neuroscientists have shown that they can improve cognitive and memory impairments similar to those seen in Alzheimer’s patients.

As visual information flows into the brain through the retina, the visual cortex transforms the sensory input into coherent perceptions.

Renée Fleming normally impresses audiences with her singing.

When she was an MIT undergraduate studying electrical engineering, Jeannette Wing ’78, SM ’79, PhD ’83 took a required computer science class and began thinking about changing her major.