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MIT economist lauded for work on education, market-design mechanisms.
Interdisciplinary doctoral program in statistics and online MicroMasters program in statistics and data science begin this fall.
Olympic medalist and MIT senior Jordan Malone uses his engineering skills to enhance the sport of speedskating.
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science faculty member is honored for his innovative work in cybersecurity and his engaging teaching style.
MIT Music and Theater Arts lab provides students with a chance to workshop scripts with seasoned actors and directors in a professional setting.
For students in MIT's oldest co-ed a capella group, blending voices provides a creative outlet and a chance to share their love of song.
CBS News correspondent Scott Pelley explores the MIT Media Lab for 60 Minutes, highlighting several of its projects. “The lab is a six-story tower of Babel where 230 grad students speak languages of art, engineering, biology, physics and computer coding,” says Pelley, “all translated into innovation.”
WBUR's Carey Goldberg profiles Prof. Feng Zhang, a “sunny science superstar” whose discoveries include major advances in optogenetics and CRISPR. "Feng is a one-in-a-generation scientist who sees connections that the rest of us have overlooked," says Prof. Robert Desimone, director of the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT.
In a VICE News Tonight climate segment, MIT postdocs Volodymyr Koman and Seon-Yeong Kwak explain their technique for making plants glow in the dark to a first-grade class in Boston. Following a demonstration mixing plant glucose with the specialized nanoparticles, one student exclaims in disbelief, “no battery or anything!”
The brittle material can turn flexible when made into ultrafine needles, researchers find.
Harini Suresh, a PhD student at MIT CSAIL, studies how to make machine learning algorithms more understandable and less biased.
Technique would allow addition of optical communication components to existing chips with little modification of their designs.
Neuroscientists train a deep neural network to analyze speech and music.
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