Researchers at the Koch Institute have been taking steps to find a possible cure for type 1 diabetes. Holly Ellyatt of CNBC writes that the team has developed a device to prevent “implanted insulin-producing cells from being attacked by the immune system for six months.”
BBC’s Colin Barras writes about research from Prof. Paul O’Gorman which finds that extreme snowfalls are an expected consequence of climate change. O’Gorman says “extreme snowfall events respond to climate change quite differently from total seasonal snowfall."
MIT, Tata Trusts & Tata Inst. of Social Science announced the creation of a new digital education platform known as the Connected Learning Initiative (CLIx). Aveek Datta for Forbes India writes that the program seeks to “create new learning experiences and educational opportunities for secondary school students in India.”
Popular Science‘s Dave Gershgorn writes about Prof. Marvin Minsky’s contribution to artificial intelligence. Medis Lab research scientist Joscha Bach described Minsky as a “great thinker not only in computer science and mathematics, but in how we understand the mind.”
Prof. Phillip Sharp co-authored this piece for Huffington Post about VP Joe Biden’s national cancer research initiative. “The most important thing about collaboration is that it unquestionably saves lives.”
John Tirman in the Center for Int’l Studies writes for Huffington Post that upcoming Syria talks in Geneva most likely will not resolve the crisis. “The ‘sides’ in the conflict are nearly indecipherable to all but dedicated observers,” he writes.
Prof. Marvin Minsky, who helped found MIT's Artificial Intelligence Lab, passed away at 88. “Marvin was a person who loved ideas and he cherished the people who came up with ideas,” says Prof. Michael Hawley on WBUR’s All Things Considered.
Washington Post reporter Joel Achenbach writes about the life and work of Prof. emeritus Marvin Minsky, who died on Sunday. Achebach writes that Minsky’s colleagues knew him “as a man who was strikingly clever in conversation, with an ability to anticipate what others are thinking -- and then conjure up an even more intriguing variation on those thoughts.”
MIT will celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Institute’s move from Boston to Cambridge this May, reports Kristin Toussaint for Boston.com. Toussaint writes that MIT is hosting a "competition in which MIT alumni, students, staff, and faculty can create vessels that will make their own voyage across river."
In an article for The Boston Globe, Bryan Marquard writes about Prof. emeritus Marvin Minsky, co-founder of the former AI Lab (now CSAIL), a founding member of the Media Lab, and a pioneer in the field of AI, who passed away on Sunday.
The Boston Globe’s Steve Annear writes that MIT will host a parade to honor the 100th anniversary of the Institute’s move to Cambridge, and MIT community members are invited to create vehicles for the parade. “Who knows what students will come up with?” explains Prof. John Ochsendorf. “The idea is that they come by land or by sea.”
STAT reporter Andrew Joseph writes that MIT scientists have developed a potential new treatment for diabetes. Joseph explains that the new technique could allow healthy insulin-producing cells to be successfully transplanted into patients.
Prof. emeritus Marvin Minsky, one of the founders of the field of artificial intelligence, died Sunday at age 88, reports Glenn Rifkin for The New York Times. Rifkin writes that Minsky “combined a scientist’s thirst for knowledge with a philosopher’s quest for truth as a pioneering explorer of artificial intelligence.”
Prof. Paul O’Gorman spoke at Columbia University regarding a study he conducted on how climate change might impact extreme snowfall, reports Andrea Thompson for Scientific American. O'Gorman found that while average annual snow amounts and extreme snowfalls would decline as temperatures rose, “extreme snowfalls would become a bigger proportion of all snow events.”
Alumnus Anmol Madan, co-founder and CEO of MIT startup Ginger.io, writes for The Huffington Post about how to improve mental health care in the U.S. In his piece, Madan highlights how MIT researchers have found “vast potential for the application of mobile sensing to mental health.”