Press Release Archive

New data released by a team of experts provide further evidence that amputees using running-specific prostheses have no overall biomechanical advantages when running at top speeds compared to able-bodied sprinters. These findings were published today in Biology Letters, a journal of the Royal Society of London.  more ›

A team of experts in biomechanics and physiology that conducted experiments on Oscar Pistorius, the South African bilateral amputee track athlete, have just published their findings in the Journal of Applied Physiology. Some of their previously confidential findings were presented to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in Lausanne, Switzerland in May of 2008.  more ›

This week, users of MIT's easy-to-learn Scratch programming language are gathering for a conference on campus to discuss the software and its uses. Designed at the MIT Media Lab, the program lets anyone create and share video games and animated stories.

A world-renowned team of experts in biomechanics and physiology from six universities, led by Professor Hugh Herr of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Media Lab, refute scientific claims that the prostheses worn by Oscar Pistorius, a 21-year-old South African bilateral amputee track athlete, provide him with an unfair advantage in the 400-meter race.  more ›

MIT Media Lab Director Frank Moss today announced the appointment of two associate directors: Hiroshi Ishii and Andrew Lippman, both long-term, prominent researchers at the Lab

The MIT Media Laboratory and Bank of America today announced the creation of the Center for Future Banking, a collaboration that will seek to transform the ways banking will be conducted in rapidly changing social, economic, and information landscapes.

MIT's new Center for Future Civic Media has announced that Ellen Hume will join the center as research director, effective Jan. 28. Hume is currently founding director of the Center on Media and Society at the University of Massachusetts Boston.

An MIT professor and colleagues from Brown University and the Providence Veterans Affairs Medical Center have begun a five-year, multidisciplinary research project to restore arm and leg function to amputees.

The Department of Veterans Affairs has awarded $7.2 million to the Providence VA Medical Center to establish a broad-based research program to restore natural function to amputees. The chief goal is to create “biohybrid” limbs that meld human tissue with a prosthesis controlled by an amputee’s own muscles and brain signals.  more ›

(EAST AURORA, NY) December 3, 2004—Fisher-Price, Inc., a subsidiary of Mattel, Inc. and the world's leading manufacturer of infant and preschool toys, has announced the release of Color Pixter^®.  more ›

Stephen A. Benton, inventor of the rainbow hologram and a pioneer in medical imaging and fine arts holography, died of brain cancer.