Empowered by math + AI inequality + remembering George Clark

FlexBoard is a flexible breadboard that enables rapid prototyping of objects with interactive sensors, actuators, and displays on curved and deformable surfaces.

In their new book, “Power and Progress,” Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson ask whether the benefits of AI will be shared widely or feed inequality.

With winches, spinners, and telescoping contraptions, bots go head to head in a student robot competition inspired by “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.”

Longtime MIT faculty member led investigations into cosmic-ray physics and gamma-ray and X-ray astronomy.

As part of an effort to address racism and discrimination, MIT researchers have developed a new VR role-playing project, dubbed “On the Plane.” CSAIL Research Scientist Caglar Yildirim explains that: “Our hope is that (players) move away from the experience with an understanding of how xenophobia and other forms of discrimination may play out in everyday life situations.”