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| Living Boldly at MIT |
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On top of writing award-winning poetry, senior Catherine Ji has conducted research, performed a cappella, co-led student advocacy efforts, and served as a teaching assistant and mentor. “There are just too many cool things to do here, and never enough time,” she says.
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How Huntington’s disease affects different neurons
A new study identifies cells that are the most vulnerable within a brain structure involved in mood and movement.
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Sensing with purpose
Fadel Adib uses wireless technologies to sense the world in new ways, taking aim at sweeping problems such as food insecurity, climate change, and access to health care.
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MIT Gas Turbine Laboratory prepares to jet into the future
With 75 years of aviation industry-focused research and education under its belt, the lab continues to develop propulsion systems for next-generation aircraft.
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When should data scientists try a new technique?
A new measure can help scientists decide which estimation method to use when modeling a particular data problem.
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A unique MIT suit helps people better understand the aging experience
Students, researchers, and actors don AGNES for a taste of the friction, frustration, and fatigue that older adults often experience.
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Could air someday power your flight? Airlines are betting on it. // The New York Times
Professor Steven Barrett discusses the pressing need to make air travel more sustainable and his research exploring the impact of contrails on the planet’s temperature.
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A look into the future of AI at MIT’s robotics laboratory // Mashable
Professor Daniela Rus, director of MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, discusses the future of artificial intelligence, robotics, and machine learning, emphasizing the importance of balancing the development of new technologies with the need to ensure they are deployed in a way that benefits humanity.
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It’s not sci-fi — NASA is funding these mind-blowing projects // Wired
Assistant Professor Zachary Cordero and his team are working to develop an in-space manufacturing technique to design a satellite reflector that can monitor storms and precipitation through moisture changes in the atmosphere.
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Destination Boston: City of firsts // NBC 1st Look
NBC 1st Look host Chelsea Cabarcas visits MIT to see how faculty, researchers, and students are “pioneering the world of tomorrow.” Cabarcas meets the MIT Solar Electric Vehicle team and the MIT mini cheetah robot that could one day be used in disaster-relief operations.
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| MIT Illuminations is a new, colorful installation and introduction to creative computation that expresses the dynamic, vibrant culture of MIT through the medium of programmable light. Located in the new MIT Welcome Center, the installation runs on software written by MIT-alumni founded experiential design firm SOSO, and is used as the foundation of an introduction to programming seminar for first-year students.
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MIT breaks you of any bad habits you might have had. And it gives you the confidence to enter new spaces, a willingness to step into the unknown. In truth, I have a tough time relating the person who started there in the fall of 2006 to the person who left in 2012. It was a dramatic change, in a very positive way.
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—Bill Near ’10, MEng ’12, who once dreamed of playing in the NHL but went on to found and lead HELIOS, a hockey performance tech firm
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| Across a research institution like MIT, there may be many thousands of projects underway across a broad spectrum of organizational units. As a way to help tell the story of the MIT Media Lab’s work and priorities, the lab’s communications team recently took on the task of visualizing the research groups, initiatives, and programs central to the lab’s mission. Collaborating with the startup Kumu, the team has now launched an interactive map highlighting about 100 projects, each of which connects to at least one of 27 research groups, to at least one of five research themes, and, in many cases, to entities in other parts of MIT. With more than 4,300 individual connections, the breadth of the Media Lab’s undertakings is now on vivid display to anyone with a web browser.
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