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    • K. Guadalupe Cruz’s path into neuroscience began with storytelling. “For me, it was always interesting that we are capable of keeping knowledge over so many generations,” says Cruz, a PhD student in MIT's Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences. Fueled by the power of stories
    • A new MIT-developed “squeezer” technology cuts down on LIGO’s quantum noise, enabling weekly detections of gravitational waves. New instrument extends LIGO’s reach
    • The MIT Technology and Policy Program has launched a Research to Policy Engagement Initiative aimed at bridging knowledge to action on major societal challenges, and connecting policymakers, stakeholders, and researchers from diverse disciplines. Technology and Policy Program launches Research to Policy Engagement Initiative
    • Patrick Collison, CEO of internet payment company Stripe, spoke in November to students at the MIT School of Engineering and the MIT Sloan School of Management about entrepreneurship and innovation. The impatient pursuit of progress
    • A love of languages led PhD student Timothy Loh nearly around the world to study, and then to MIT, where he is a sociocultural and medical anthropologist-in-training. He focuses on the confluence of deafness, sign language, and technology.
Uncovering the role of technology and medicine in deaf and signing worlds
    • The MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, the Institute's largest academic department, reorganizes with new leadership as part of the formation of the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing. Restructuring the MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
    • ADEPT, an artificial intelligence model developed by MIT researchers, demonstrates an understanding of some basic “intuitive physics” by registering a surprise signal when objects in a scene violate assumed reality, similarly to how human infants and adults would register surprise. Helping machines perceive some laws of physics
    • Mining materials from the sea floor could help secure a low-carbon future, but researchers at MIT and beyond are racing to understand the environmental effects. Understanding the impact of deep-sea mining
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    • Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL)
      • The MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, the Institute's largest academic department, reorganizes with new leadership as part of the formation of the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing. Restructuring the MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
      • ADEPT, an artificial intelligence model developed by MIT researchers, demonstrates an understanding of some basic “intuitive physics” by registering a surprise signal when objects in a scene violate assumed reality, similarly to how human infants and adults would register surprise. Helping machines perceive some laws of physics
      • Dean Dan Huttenlocher has been working on developing the organizational structure of the new MIT Stephen A. Schwarzman College of Computing. He answers three questions about building the college and offers a glimpse into the new college headquarters. 3 Questions: Dan Huttenlocher on the formation of the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing
      • An MIT team developed a machine-learning method for building brain scan templates that represent given patient populations. These “atlases” can serve as a reference to guide disease diagnosis. Producing better guides for medical-image analysis
    • Computer vision
      • ADEPT, an artificial intelligence model developed by MIT researchers, demonstrates an understanding of some basic “intuitive physics” by registering a surprise signal when objects in a scene violate assumed reality, similarly to how human infants and adults would register surprise. Helping machines perceive some laws of physics
      • A team led by researchers at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) has been exploring whether self-driving cars can be programmed to classify the social personalities of other drivers, so that they can better predict what different cars will do. Predicting people's driving personalities
      • MIT researchers have developed a trajectory-planning model that helps drones fly more safely at high speeds through previously unexplored areas, which could aid search-and-rescue missions. System prevents speedy drones from crashing in unfamiliar areas
      • At MIT, demand for computing power is estimated to be five times greater than what the Institute can offer. To help ease the crunch, industry has stepped in with four projects made possible by IBM and Google cloud donations. What a little more computing power can do
    • Electrical Engineering & Computer Science (eecs)
      • The MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, the Institute's largest academic department, reorganizes with new leadership as part of the formation of the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing. Restructuring the MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
      • Three MIT seniors, Mariam Dogar, Adedoyin Olateru-Olagbegi, and Jessica Quaye, are recipients of this year’s Schwarzman Scholarship distinguished fellowship. Jessica Wang ’16, MEng ’17 and another alumna were also named. Three MIT seniors to join 2021 class of Schwarzman Scholars
      • ADEPT, an artificial intelligence model developed by MIT researchers, demonstrates an understanding of some basic “intuitive physics” by registering a surprise signal when objects in a scene violate assumed reality, similarly to how human infants and adults would register surprise. Helping machines perceive some laws of physics
      • MIT researchers developed a circuit that uses a nanometer-thin magnetic domain wall in magnetic material to enable precise control of computing binary bits with magnetic spin waves. This advance could make practical “spintronics” devices that compute more efficiently than electronics. Toward more efficient computing, with magnetic waves
    • Imaging
      • An MIT team developed a machine-learning method for building brain scan templates that represent given patient populations. These “atlases” can serve as a reference to guide disease diagnosis. Producing better guides for medical-image analysis
      • Researchers at the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology have discovered a way to study the properties of a nanoparticle without damaging it. The advance paves the way for researchers across different sectors to push current limits on nanoparticle research. SMART discovers nondisruptive way to characterize the surface of nanoparticles
      • Among the winners of the 2019 R&D 100 Awards are 10 technologies developed in whole or in part by researchers at MIT Lincoln Laboratory. These 10 inventions bring to 58 the number of R&D 100 Awards presented to Lincoln Laboratory since 2010. Ten Lincoln Laboratory technologies earn 2019 R&D 100 Awards
      • MIT chemists have come up with a way to make certain drug-delivery polymers more readily degradable by adding a novel type of building block to the polymer backbone. New synthesis method yields degradable polymers
    • Research
      • Mining materials from the sea floor could help secure a low-carbon future, but researchers at MIT and beyond are racing to understand the environmental effects. Understanding the impact of deep-sea mining
      • A new MIT-developed “squeezer” technology cuts down on LIGO’s quantum noise, enabling weekly detections of gravitational waves. New instrument extends LIGO’s reach
      • MIT researchers are developing an oral contraceptive that only has to be taken once a month, which could reduce unintended pregnancies that result from forgetting to take a daily dose. Monthly birth control pill could replace daily doses
      • Unlike the organisms that caused the Great Oxidation Event, modern microbes examined by MIT researchers use sulfide to perform photosynthesis and don't create molecular oxygen. Ancient manganese oxide may not indicate the local evolution of oxygen-producing life. Investigating the rise of oxygenic photosynthesis
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  • By School

    • School of Architecture + Planning
      • Consider 4D printed materials that transform underwater, or fibers that snap into a particular shape when they are cut out of a flat panel, or coaxing shifting sands in the ocean into building artificial islands, and you will understand the breadth of research that MIT Professor Skylar Tibbits pursues.
Transformation by design
      • How will dancers perform in space? How will artists pursue crafting in zero gravity? How can exercise, gastronomy, and other human endeavors be reimagined for space? Such questions drive 14 projects aboard the MIT Media Lab Space Exploration Initiative’s second parabolic research flight. Designing humanity’s future in space
      • Artist and educator Zach Lieberman has been appointed an adjunct associate professor of media arts and sciences at the MIT Media Lab. He is teaching courses and working on projects at the lab under the aegis of his newly founded research group, Future Sketches. Zach Lieberman joins MIT Media Lab
      • A study co-authored by MIT researchers shows how much human movement — especially commuting — affects the spread of illness in urban settings. Tracking contagion in cities, using mobile phone data
    • School of Engineering
      • Mining materials from the sea floor could help secure a low-carbon future, but researchers at MIT and beyond are racing to understand the environmental effects. Understanding the impact of deep-sea mining
      • The MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, the Institute's largest academic department, reorganizes with new leadership as part of the formation of the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing. Restructuring the MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
      • Patrick Collison, CEO of internet payment company Stripe, spoke in November to students at the MIT School of Engineering and the MIT Sloan School of Management about entrepreneurship and innovation. The impatient pursuit of progress
      • Functional, intelligent robots the size of a single cell are within reach, Cornell University Professor Paul McEuen said at the inaugural Mildred S. Dresselhaus Lecture in his talk entitled “Cell-sized Sensors and Robots.” Paul McEuen delivers inaugural Dresselhaus Lecture on cell-sized robots
    • School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences
      • A love of languages led PhD student Timothy Loh nearly around the world to study, and then to MIT, where he is a sociocultural and medical anthropologist-in-training. He focuses on the confluence of deafness, sign language, and technology.
Uncovering the role of technology and medicine in deaf and signing worlds
      • How will dancers perform in space? How will artists pursue crafting in zero gravity? How can exercise, gastronomy, and other human endeavors be reimagined for space? Such questions drive 14 projects aboard the MIT Media Lab Space Exploration Initiative’s second parabolic research flight. Designing humanity’s future in space
      • Dean Dan Huttenlocher has been working on developing the organizational structure of the new MIT Stephen A. Schwarzman College of Computing. He answers three questions about building the college and offers a glimpse into the new college headquarters. 3 Questions: Dan Huttenlocher on the formation of the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing
      • Six MIT faculty members — Arthur Baggeroer, Suzanne Flynn, Wesley Harris, Eric Klopfer, Douglas Lauffenburger, and John Leonard — have been elected as 2019 fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Six MIT faculty elected 2019 AAAS Fellows
    • Sloan School of Management
      • Patrick Collison, CEO of internet payment company Stripe, spoke in November to students at the MIT School of Engineering and the MIT Sloan School of Management about entrepreneurship and innovation. The impatient pursuit of progress
      • MIT Phd student George Lordos and his brother Alexandros combined their shared passion for space with their professional expertise to develop Star City, a concept for a human city on Mars. Their design won first place at the Mars Colony Prize Design contest sponsored by the Mars Society. Interdisciplinary team takes top prize in Mars colony design competition
      • MIT’s 2019 Inclusive Innovation Challenge awarded $1.6 million to startups working to ensure technological disruption to the economy brings greater — and shared — prosperity. Inclusive Innovation Challenge recognizes startups improving the future of work
      • At MIT’s day-long AI and the Work of the Future Congress, a series of expert panels focused on preparing workers for the era of artificial intelligence. MIT conference focuses on preparing workers for the era of artificial intelligence
    • School of Science
      • A new MIT-developed “squeezer” technology cuts down on LIGO’s quantum noise, enabling weekly detections of gravitational waves. New instrument extends LIGO’s reach
      • K. Guadalupe Cruz’s path into neuroscience began with storytelling. “For me, it was always interesting that we are capable of keeping knowledge over so many generations,” says Cruz, a PhD student in MIT's Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences. Fueled by the power of stories
      • Functional, intelligent robots the size of a single cell are within reach, Cornell University Professor Paul McEuen said at the inaugural Mildred S. Dresselhaus Lecture in his talk entitled “Cell-sized Sensors and Robots.” Paul McEuen delivers inaugural Dresselhaus Lecture on cell-sized robots
      • Unlike the organisms that caused the Great Oxidation Event, modern microbes examined by MIT researchers use sulfide to perform photosynthesis and don't create molecular oxygen. Ancient manganese oxide may not indicate the local evolution of oxygen-producing life. Investigating the rise of oxygenic photosynthesis
  • By Department

    • Nuclear Science and Engineering
      • Every quarter, the School of Engineering publicly recognizes its faculty members' achievements by highlighting the honors, prizes, and medals won by faculty working in their academic departments, labs, and centers. These are the third quarter 2019 award-winners. School of Engineering third quarter 2019 awards
      • As a graduate student, MIT's Pablo Rodriguez-Fernandez became intrigued by a fusion research mystery that had remained unsolved for 20 years. His novel observations and subsequent modeling helped provide the answer, earning him the Del Favero Prize. Heating by cooling
      • MIT Professor Areg Danagoulian has committed himself to generating new technologies that reduce nuclear security threats and that offer game-changing options in the arena of nuclear nonproliferation and treaty verification. Advancing nuclear detection and inspection
      • More than 3,000 users hailing from 137 countries signed up for the MIT Department of Nuclear Energy's debut massive open online course (MOOC), “Nuclear Energy: Science, Systems and Society,” which debuted last year on MITx. Now, the course will be offered again in spring 2020, with key upgrades. Enhanced nuclear energy online class aims to inform and inspire
    • earth
      • An MIT and Simon Fraser University study finds short-lived greenhouse gases such as methane can cause centuries of sea-level rise. Short-lived greenhouse gases cause centuries of sea-level rise
      • Economic and population growth on top of climate change could lead to serious water shortages across a broad swath of Asia by the year 2050, a newly published study by MIT scientists has found. Water problems in Asia’s future?
      • Astronomers from MIT, Cambridge University, and elsewhere have generated the first temperature map of a “super-Earth” exoplanet, revealing an inhospitable world covered in rivers and lakes of boiling hot magma. First temperature map of a “super-Earth” reveals lava world
      • New MIT research suggests the first animal to appear on Earth was very likely the simple sea sponge. Title for ‘Earth’s first animal’ likely goes to simple sea creature
    • Linguistics and Philosophy
      • Nikhil Agarwal, Sana Aiyar, Stephanie Frampton, F. Daniel Hidalgo, and Miriam Schoenfield have received tenure at MIT's School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences. Meet the 2019 tenured professors in the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences
      • The Ad Hoc Task Force on Open Access to MIT’s Research has released its final recommendations, which aim to support and increase the open sharing of MIT publications, data, software, and educational materials. 

Open access task force releases final recommendations
      • Faculty in MIT’s School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences envision how the humanistic fields can help shape the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing — and benefit from advanced computing technologies. Computing and artificial intelligence: Humanistic perspectives from MIT
      • MIT faculty mentors John Lienhard, Susan Murcott, Bradly Olsen, and Agustin Rayo have been honored by their students as "committed to caring" for affirming, inspiring, actively listening, and creating space for all students. In it together: Faculty mentors and graduate students
    • Brain and Cognitive Sciences
      • K. Guadalupe Cruz’s path into neuroscience began with storytelling. “For me, it was always interesting that we are capable of keeping knowledge over so many generations,” says Cruz, a PhD student in MIT's Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences. Fueled by the power of stories
      • MIT researchers have found people can enhance their attention by controlling their own alpha brain waves, based on neurofeedback they receive as they perform a particular task. Controlling attention with brain waves
      • Two MIT professors named 2019 fellows of the National Academy of Inventors
      • ADEPT, an artificial intelligence model developed by MIT researchers, demonstrates an understanding of some basic “intuitive physics” by registering a surprise signal when objects in a scene violate assumed reality, similarly to how human infants and adults would register surprise. Helping machines perceive some laws of physics
    • Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences
      • The MIT Technology and Policy Program has launched a Research to Policy Engagement Initiative aimed at bridging knowledge to action on major societal challenges, and connecting policymakers, stakeholders, and researchers from diverse disciplines. Technology and Policy Program launches Research to Policy Engagement Initiative
      • Unlike the organisms that caused the Great Oxidation Event, modern microbes examined by MIT researchers use sulfide to perform photosynthesis and don't create molecular oxygen. Ancient manganese oxide may not indicate the local evolution of oxygen-producing life. Investigating the rise of oxygenic photosynthesis
      • How will dancers perform in space? How will artists pursue crafting in zero gravity? How can exercise, gastronomy, and other human endeavors be reimagined for space? Such questions drive 14 projects aboard the MIT Media Lab Space Exploration Initiative’s second parabolic research flight. Designing humanity’s future in space
      • With new work by MIT's Professor Roger Summons, bacterial mat samples from Robert F. Scott’s Discovery expedition are shedding light on the evolution of complex life, and that which existed during the planet's "Snowball Earth" phase. Continuing a legacy of Antarctic exploration
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  • By Center, Lab, & Program

    • Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL)
      • ADEPT, an artificial intelligence model developed by MIT researchers, demonstrates an understanding of some basic “intuitive physics” by registering a surprise signal when objects in a scene violate assumed reality, similarly to how human infants and adults would register surprise. Helping machines perceive some laws of physics
      • Dean Dan Huttenlocher has been working on developing the organizational structure of the new MIT Stephen A. Schwarzman College of Computing. He answers three questions about building the college and offers a glimpse into the new college headquarters. 3 Questions: Dan Huttenlocher on the formation of the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing
      • An MIT team developed a machine-learning method for building brain scan templates that represent given patient populations. These “atlases” can serve as a reference to guide disease diagnosis. Producing better guides for medical-image analysis
      • Artists and computer scientists led by the MIT Center for Advanced Virtuality designed an art installation to empower and educate the public on how to discern reality from deepfakes. "In Event of Moon Disaster" features a believable video of Richard Nixon's Apollo 11 contingency speech. MIT art installation aims to empower a more discerning public
    • Research Laboratory of Electronics
      • MIT researchers developed a circuit that uses a nanometer-thin magnetic domain wall in magnetic material to enable precise control of computing binary bits with magnetic spin waves. This advance could make practical “spintronics” devices that compute more efficiently than electronics. Toward more efficient computing, with magnetic waves
      • The MIT.nano “Perspectives in Nanotechnology” seminar series wrapped up with a conversation with physicist Don Eigler, Kavli Laureate and former fellow of the IBM Almaden Research Center.

Fireside chat with Don Eigler wraps up MIT.nano “Perspectives in Nanotechnology” seminars
      • A new ultrathin coating developed by MIT researchers could open up many applications for 2D materials in electronic, photonic, or optoelectronic devices. A new way to corrosion-proof thin atomic sheets
      • MIT.nano has announced the first recipients of NCSOFT seed grants to foster hardware and software innovations in gaming technology. The grants are part of the new MIT.nano Immersion Lab Gaming program. MIT.nano awards inaugural NCSOFT seed grants for gaming technologies
    • Biomimetics Robotics Lab
      • Blind ambition: MIT’s Cheetah 3 robot can climb stairs littered with obstacles, without the help of cameras or visual sensors “Blind” Cheetah 3 robot can climb stairs littered with obstacles
      • Inspired by creatures from geckos to cheetahs, MIT mechanical engineering professor Sangbae Kim builds animal-like robots for use in disaster response.  
Taking a leap in bioinspired robotics
      • The MIT School of Engineering has announced that seven members of its faculty have been granted tenure. They are: Steven Barrett, Mark Bathe, Paola Cappellaro, Sangbae Kim, Jesse Kroll, Youssef Marzouk, and Armando Solar-Lezama. The tenured engineers of 2016
      • Bound for robotic glory
    • Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL)
      • ADEPT, an artificial intelligence model developed by MIT researchers, demonstrates an understanding of some basic “intuitive physics” by registering a surprise signal when objects in a scene violate assumed reality, similarly to how human infants and adults would register surprise. Helping machines perceive some laws of physics
      • Dean Dan Huttenlocher has been working on developing the organizational structure of the new MIT Stephen A. Schwarzman College of Computing. He answers three questions about building the college and offers a glimpse into the new college headquarters. 3 Questions: Dan Huttenlocher on the formation of the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing
      • An MIT team developed a machine-learning method for building brain scan templates that represent given patient populations. These “atlases” can serve as a reference to guide disease diagnosis. Producing better guides for medical-image analysis
      • Artists and computer scientists led by the MIT Center for Advanced Virtuality designed an art installation to empower and educate the public on how to discern reality from deepfakes. "In Event of Moon Disaster" features a believable video of Richard Nixon's Apollo 11 contingency speech. MIT art installation aims to empower a more discerning public
    • Technology and Policy Program
      • The student-run MIT Policy Hackathon gathered data analysts, engineers, scientists, domain experts, and policy specialists to look for creative, data-driven solutions to major issues in climate, health, artificial intelligence (AI) and ethics, urban planning, and the future of work. MIT Policy Hackathon connects data-driven problem solvers
      • Civil and environmental engineering graduate student Tiziana Smith models how much food China can grow, to better understand the country’s changing agricultural habits. How many people can China feed?
      • Using data science to improve public policy
      • MIT researchers are working with the Mexican government on carbon pricing options to meet the country’s climate goals under the Paris Agreement. Helping Mexico design an effective climate policy
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