CAMBRIDGE – The Massachusetts Institute of Technology and its researchers have long been reshaping our reality. Teachers at the school and its alumni are credited with, among many other things, creating the World Wide Web (which brought you this article), email, microprocessors, positron emission tomography, or PET, medical scans and even Bose audio speakers.
It's hard to overstate the Institute's importance in both creating many of the modern world's key technologies and in using science to better understand humanity and its needs. Today, MIT's Senseable City Laboratory continues those traditions by taking innovation to the streets, literally.
BOSTON – Boston's landmark Northern Avenue Bridge may get a much-needed facelift or it could be replaced with an entirely new structure that "honors the legacy" of the century-old span that once connected downtown to Fan Pier and the South Boston Seaport District.
To help the process along, the Boston Society of Architects is working with the city to solicit ideas from the public on what to do with the bridge, which has been closed since 2014.
