| MIT Battlecode | | | | | | In MIT’s long-running Battlecode competition, student teams from around the world program huge armies of digital bots that duke it out in an epic video-game-style tournament. “The spirit of the competitors is what makes the program so great,” says junior Andy Wang. Full story via MIT News | Watch the video→ |
| Phiala Shanahan is seeking fundamental answers about our physical world With supercomputers and machine learning, the physicist aims to illuminate the structure of everyday particles and uncover signs of dark matter. Full story via MIT News → | |
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| Illuminating the successes and struggles of MIT Black history The MIT Black History Project is documenting 150+ years of the Black experience at the Institute and beyond. Full story via MIT News → | |
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| MIT wins 83rd Putnam Mathematical Competition, sweeps top five spots for third consecutive year Twenty-one of the top 25 finishers are MIT students, including the Elizabeth Lowell Putnam Prize winner. Full story via MIT News → | |
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| New purification method could make protein drugs cheaper MIT engineers find specialized nanoparticles can quickly and inexpensively isolate proteins from a bioreactor. Full story via MIT News → | |
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| Comedy meets mathematics in a new opera at MIT Senior music lecturer Elena Ruehr turns Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace, groundbreaking thinkers of modern computing, into crime fighters. Full story via MIT News → | |
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| Researchers at MIT built a mini city to test algorithms for autonomous cars // Mashable MIT researchers constructed a mini city to safely test algorithms designed for autonomous vehicles. “The idea of the mini city is that we have lots of cars going at the same time and we can actually test out new algorithms in a safe environment,” explains graduate student Noam Buckman. Full story via Mashable→ |
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| This bra tracks your vital signs // Fast Company Through her startup Bloomer Tech, Alicia Chong Rodriguez SM ’17, SM ’18 is “dedicated to transforming women’s underwear into a health care device” to help improve the gender health gap. “Our big goal is to generate digital biomarkers,” says Chong Rodriguez. Full story via Fast Company→ |
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| Opinion: ChatGPT heralds an intellectual revolution // The Wall Street Journal Dean Daniel Huttenlocher, former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and former Google CEO Eric Schmidt explore how generative artificial intelligence “presents a philosophical and practical challenge on a scale not experienced since the beginning of the Enlightenment.” Full story via The Wall Street Journal→ |
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| Scientists are trying to pull carbon out of the ocean to combat climate change // Scientific American MIT researchers developed a two-step electrochemical process to remove carbon dioxide out of seawater. The approach “cuts energy costs and expensive membranes used to collect CO2 to the point where merchant ships that run on diesel power could collect enough CO2 to offset their emissions.” Full story via Scientific American→ |
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| | | Science Surfaces is a collection of body coverings and accessories designed by high school students that feature prints inspired by MIT life science research labs. The exhibition, now on display in the Koch Institute Public Galleries, stems from the inaugural Peers + Pros project, a Boston Fashion Week initiative catalyzed by the Cambridge Science Festival and sponsored in part by MIT’s Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research. “Science and technology are the new frontiers of fashion,” says Jay Calderin, Boston Fashion Week founder and lead mentor for the initiative. “This project has provided an invaluable opportunity for young fashion makers to collaborate with their peers and learn from industry professionals while exploring new ways of thinking about the design process.” Learn more via MIT News→ |
| | | | | You need to come up with this nerd posse that will support you decades into your future. | | —Eileen Tanghal ’97, founder and general partner of Black Opal Ventures, speaking about her career path at the student-led Microsystems Annual Research Conference Full story via MIT News → |
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