Better packing with AI + nanoLEDs + representation in health care

A new technique produces perovskite nanocrystals right where they’re needed, so the exceedingly delicate materials can be integrated into nanoscale devices.

Makan will lead special projects in his new role, while continuing to serve as head of the Music and Theater Arts Section.

The MIT professor’s new book explores the world of a woman set free from prison and redefining herself in society.

Guadalupe Hayes-Mota ’08, SM ’16 engages with MITES Saturday program participants, Leaders for Global Operations students, and others to help address systems problems in the health sector.

Professor Thomas Malone writes about the need to adapt copyright laws in the era of generative AI. “One promising possibility is to introduce a new body of law based on the premise that different legal protections are appropriate when these massive AI systems can process vast amounts of information far faster and less expensively than humans can,” he writes.

Former MIT Professor Edward Fredkin, “a pioneer in artificial intelligence and a maverick theorist,” has died at 88. Fredkin, who worked on Project MAC during his time at MIT, was “fueled by a seemingly limitless scientific imagination and a blithe indifference to conventional thinking.” Professor Gerald Sussman recalls that “Ed Fredkin had more ideas per day than most people have in a month.”