MIT Battlecode + Black history project + Putnam math champs

With supercomputers and machine learning, the physicist aims to illuminate the structure of everyday particles and uncover signs of dark matter.

The MIT Black History Project is documenting 150+ years of the Black experience at the Institute and beyond.

Twenty-one of the top 25 finishers are MIT students, including the Elizabeth Lowell Putnam Prize winner.

MIT engineers find specialized nanoparticles can quickly and inexpensively isolate proteins from a bioreactor.

Senior music lecturer Elena Ruehr turns Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace, groundbreaking thinkers of modern computing, into crime fighters.

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.

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.

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.”

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.”