Swati Ravi is an astrophysics PhD student at MIT. Her work is all-consuming research focused on building X-ray telescopes that take pictures of the sky. She never really thought about photography as ...
MIT graduate student Alex Kachkine once spent nine months meticulously restoring a damaged baroque Italian painting, which left him plenty of time to wonder if technology could speed things up. Last ...
Clay Lewis, a Philadelphia native and a rising junior at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, came into his college career expecting to major in computer science. But the arts have been his ...
The conservation of old paintings is the latest slow and painstaking process that might soon be sped up by artificial intelligence. A mechanical engineering student at MIT has just debuted a ...
One of the highlights of my first three years as a literature professor at MIT—and indeed, of my 15-year career as an educator—has been the recent discovery that some of my students, past and present, ...