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IMF managing director calls for new technology, shifting policy to meet population growth.
New international agreement on “Mission Innovation” could lead to major progress on climate change.
Four-part plan signals effort to build on last year’s climate action plan, and an end to months-long protest.
Devadas, Grossman, Sipser, and Tang awarded MIT’s highest undergraduate teaching award.
MIT’s Eran Egozy on “12,” a chamber music debut with smartphone-driven percussion.
Substantial rise will benefit students and families across the economic spectrum.
New York Times reporter Hilarie Sheets spotlights the artwork and collaborations developed through MIT's Center for Science, Art and Technology (CAST). Sheets writes that CAST, “revitalized an M.I.T. model…of bringing in artists to humanize technology and create more expansive-thinking scientists. M.I.T. is at the forefront of this cross-disciplinary movement.”
Reuters reporter Svea Herbst-Bayliss writes that in her remarks at MIT, Madame Christine Lagarde, managing director of the IMF, spoke about steps that could be taken to tackle climate change. "If subsidies were removed and carbon prices set properly now and taxed that would go a long way in addressing the climate change issues the world is facing,” says Lagarde.
During his remarks at MIT, Robert Hannigan, director of Britain’s Government Communications Headquarters, called for greater collaboration between technology companies and governments, reports Tim Bradshaw for the Financial Times. Bradshaw writes that “Hannigan’s speech at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Monday came ahead of a proposed new public-private forum in the UK.”
New quantum computer, based on five atoms, factors numbers in a scalable way.
Scientists surprised to find amino acids, not sugar, supply most building blocks for tumor cells.
"Polaris" system from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab accelerates website load-time by decreasing network trips.
Gene required for the control of behavioral state is also found in humans, may be linked to autism.
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