Elisha Gray

Today in History Today is Tuesday, Feb. 14, the 45th day of 2023. There are 320 days left in the year. This is Valentine's Day. Today's Highlight in History: In 1989, Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini called on Muslims to kill Salman Rushdie, author of "The Satanic Verses," a novel condemned as blasphemous. On this date: In 1876, inventors Alexander Graham Bell and Elisha Gray applied separately for patents related to…

A summer reading list featuring books by MIT faculty and staff that were published from July 2021 to July 2022.

This year saw several advancements across medicine, space technology, and AI that extend our knowledge in consequential ways.

Thomas Edison is often accused of not having invented the things he gets credit for. He did something even harder: he built the systems needed to get them to market.

Today in History Today is Monday, Feb. 14, the 45th day of 2022. There are 320 days left in the year. This is Valentine's Day. Today's Highlight in History: On Feb. 14, 2018, a gunman identified as a former student opened fire with a semi-automatic rifle at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School near Fort Lauderdale, Florida, killing 17 people in the nation's deadliest school shooting since the attack in Newtown,…

Alexander Graham Bell made the first phone call, telling his assistant, "Mr. Watson – come here – I want to see you," on this day in history, March 10, 1876.

Los Angeles broke the bank to sign Shohei Ohtani to a gargantuan ten-year, $700 million contract. But will adding baseball's biggest star make the Dodgers better?

Thomas G. Coveney, a dedicated systems administrator at the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics for 23 years, has died at 55.

MIT Professor Yossi Sheffi discusses his book, "The Magic Conveyor Belt," which is about artificial intelligence, supply chains, and the future of work.

Throughout the 80s and 90s, you couldn't swing a stapler around any size office without hitting a fax machine. But what is it about the fax machine that makes it the subject of so much derision? Is it...

Jonathan L.S. Byrnes, a senior lecturer at the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics, died on May 7 at age 75.

As America transitions to 5G wireless networks, the U.S. intelligence community sees the Chinese telecom giant Huawei as a systemic security risk. In response, President Trump has banned the use of Chinese 5G equipment in U.S. networks. But despite these measures, there is still deep concern that eventually Huawei will dominate global markets, displacing the…

Pictures of the beginning of the universe, medicine that can (kind of) reverse death, and other leaps of human ingenuity

Relatively common for ideas we know will be big, but not so much for the rest