High-Performance Computing Center in Western Massachusetts, one capable of boosting the state's innovation economy

The collaboration between the Institute, the state of Massachusetts and several key players in industry and academia, formally announced Thursday at an event in Holyoke, Mass., aims to establish Massachusetts as a leader in the application and development of the next generation of computing technologies     more...

New insights on macular degeneration

A new MIT study sheds light on how the brain's visual cortex can re-map itself in response to visual deprivation caused by macular degeneration, the most common form of adult blindness. March 3     more...

Ballistic spin resonance a step for quantum computing

Scientists in Germany and Canada have developed a new technique called ballistic spin resonance that is a step forward for controlling spin in semiconductors     more...