Collision avoidance + trusting AI models + storied women of MIT

Associate Professor Tamara Broderick and colleagues build a “taxonomy of trust” to identify where confidence in the results of a data analysis might break down.

The MIT assistant professor works to get more electricity out of renewable energy systems.

Asha Seth Kapadia SM ’65 was “forthright, confident, brimming with intelligence, elegant, proud of her culture, humorous, curious, welcoming, [and] unafraid of setting high standards for her students.”

Following an influential career at NASA, Ezinne Uzo-Okoro SM ’20, PhD ’22 now shapes space policy as a top White House advisor.

MIT researchers have developed a low-cost air quality sensor that can be 3D printed using open-source instructions and used by people around the world. “The reason we started this project was because we wanted to democratize environmental data,” explains research scientist Simone Mora. “We’re not just opening the data we’ve collected so far, but we hope to funnel a huge development in terms of sensors deployed in the streets, and in turn [make] the data collected available to everyone.”