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Students recognized for inventive solutions to challenges in health care, transportation, food and agriculture, and consumer devices.
Associate Professor Polina Anikeeva, in preparing for the Boston Marathon, shares her love of running.
An entrepreneur who co-founded Wise Systems, Layla Shaikley SM ’13 may be better known for her viral video created to combat media stereotypes of Muslim women.
Alumni continue an enduring tradition of MIT service.
Junior faculty members from Masdar Institute plan to share insights with their own students in Abu Dhabi.
Vincent Fish, a research scientist at MIT’s Haystack Observatory, speaks with Hannah Osborne of Newsweek about the first attempt to capture an image of a black hole using the Event Horizon Telescope. “What we expect to see is an asymmetric image where you have a circular dark region,” says Fish. “That’s the black hole shadow.”
BBC News reporter Zoe Kleinman writes that graduate student Joy Buolamwini has developed an initiative aimed at tackling algorithmic bias. "If we are limited when it comes to being inclusive that's going to be reflected in the robots we develop or the tech that's incorporated within the robots,” says Buolamwini.
A new study finds that MIT offers students the best value for their money, reports Will Norris for Boston Magazine. “The study found that MIT, with its plentiful grant and scholarship opportunities and a cool $78,300 average starting salary for graduates, affords students the ‘best value’ of any school in the country,” writes Norris.
Scientists discover a way to harvest fresh water from air, including in arid regions.
CSAIL tool integrates with email and web browsers to harness micro-moments.
Ballyhooed artificial-intelligence technique known as “deep learning” revives 70-year-old idea.
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