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The Engine will provide funding, space, and expertise — powering a network of innovation networks.
With new algorithms, data scientists could accomplish in days what has traditionally taken months.
Counterintuitive “metamaterial” may enable heat-resistant circuit boards.
New treatment elicits two-pronged immune response that destroys tumors in mice.
Algorithm could help analyze fetal scans to determine whether interventions are warranted.
New model-fitting technique is efficient even for data sets with hundreds of variables.
President L. Rafael Reif writes for The Boston Globe about The Engine, a new venture built by MIT to support startups tackling the world’s pressing challenges. Reif writes that The Engine will provide a model of support that nurtures “high-impact ideas and speeds them into the world while helping our regional innovation ecosystem flourish.”
New York Times reporter Randy Kennedy writes about “The Enemy,” a virtual reality project created by Prof. Fox Harrell and Visiting Scholar Ben Khelifa that is aimed at allowing visitors to learn from individuals on both sides of long-standing conflicts. The project “holds the promise of opening up new frontiers for the integration of journalism and art,” writes Kennedy.
MIT, Boston Medical Center and Post Office Square Redevelopment Corp. are joining forces to purchase solar power from a new solar farm being constructed in North Carolina, writes Jessica Bartlett for the Boston Business Journal. Bartlett writes that the project is “the largest renewable-energy project ever to be constructed in the U.S. through an alliance of different buyers.”
Zeninjor Enwemeka reports for WBUR that MIT is launching an effort aimed at helping startups bring scientific inventions from the lab to the marketplace. Enwemeka notes that in addition to providing space, funding and support for startups, The Engine “will tap into the region's innovation hubs and aims to create an innovation network across the area.”
“At MIT, it is our duty to bring transformative innovation to the world,” President Reif said at launch event for new enterprise.
The Institute had a strong finish to fiscal year 2016, closing with $529 million in new gifts and pledges.
School of Architecture and Planning will develop curriculum, courses for Dubai Institute of Design and Innovation.
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