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MIT and Volkswagen have teamed up to create the AIDA (Affective, Intelligent Driving Agent), a combination personal robot and intelligent navigation system: imagine a car that lets you know the fuel is low just as you're driving by a gas station...

The MIT News Office takes a look at a notorious problem in theoretical computer science, the assertion that P = NP...

MIT has launched a new site focused on dialogue and action to promote an inclusive community. Watch how issues of gender and cultural identity play out in Theater and Cultural Diversity in the U.S..

President Barack Obama visits MIT Friday, October 23 to tour a research lab and address the campus community on American leadership in clean energy.MIT has long been a leader in energy research. You can explore many of MIT's energy-related courses on OCW.Photo by whitehouse on Flickr.

By listening in on the brains of sleeping rats, MIT professor Matt Wilson has found solid evidence that sleep plays a vital role in learning and memory. Learn more about learning and memory in Prof. Wilson's Neural Basis of Learning and Memory.

MIT researchers have presented a new algorithm that could bring efficiency to systems of linear equations. It has promising implications for image, video and signal processing; robot control; and weather modeling.One of the authors of the paper, Prof...

In these times of economic and environmental uncertainty, you may wonder how you can make a difference in the complex issues affecting your world. Knowledge truly is power, and OCW puts MIT's world-class ...

Professor JoAnne Stubbe has been awarded a National Medal of Science for her work in the mechanism of enzymes involved in DNA replication and repair...

MIT Admission's student blogs offer a window into life as an MIT student, often outside the classroom. MIT OpenCourseWare is a window inside the classroom, particularly courses such as Single Variable Calculus, an introductory calculus course with full video lectures.

Members of the MIT Graphics Group have demonstrated that combining several low-quality exposures with different focal depths can yield a sharper photo than a single, higher-quality exposure...

This week the MIT News Office talks with MIT Professor Phillip Sharp about the need for a new biology initiative to accelerate breakthroughs that could solve some of society's most pressing problems. Sharp's Cell Biology: Structure and Functions of the Nucleus is available on MIT OpenCourseWare.

MIT economist Esther Duflo, whose research has helped change the way governments and aid organizations address global poverty, has been named as a recipient of a 2009 MacArthur Fellowship - the prominent "genius" grant for innovative work...

In the next few weeks, you'll notice some changes to our course home pages. Some of these changes will make the courses easier to navigate, and some of them will allow us to share messages about OCW and MIT...