Ultrastrong materials + Venice Biennale + political rumors + chess bot

“The Laboratory of Change” is the theme for the 18th International Architecture Exhibition.

Professor Adam Berinsky’s new book examines the political misinformation that threatens the US system of government.

Astronaut Woody Hoburg ’08 shares images — and MIT pride — from aboard the ISS.

For MIT CSHub postdoc Miaomiao Zhang, communicating effectively is perhaps the most important part of research.

The co-founding director of CICS, which later became LIDS, was a beloved professor who blended intellectual rigor with curiosity.

Nicole McGaa, a fourth-year student at MIT, discusses her work leading MIT’s all-Indigenous rocket team at the 2023 First Nations Launch National Rocket Competition. “Our project and others like it will set a precedent at MIT that will help Indigenous students to bridge their identity with their engineering aspirations and career goals,” says McGaa. “I encourage other Indigenous students to be brave, approach your projects with courage, and try incorporating your identity and values into your work.”

Professor D. Fox Harrell examines the importance of ensuring AI systems are designed to “reflect the ethically positive culture we truly want.” Harrell emphasizes that we “need to be aware of, and thoughtfully design, the cultural values that AI is based on. With care, we can build systems based on multiple worldviews — and address key ethical issues in design such as transparency and intelligibility.”