Four from MIT receive NIH New Innovator Awards for 2022
Awards support high-risk, high-impact research from early-career investigators.
Scientists chart how exercise affects the body
A new study maps the genes and cellular pathways that contribute to exercise-induced weight loss.
Learning on the edge
A new technique enables AI models to continually learn from new data on intelligent edge devices like smartphones and sensors, reducing energy costs and privacy risks.
Investigating at the interface of data science and computing
Guy Bresler builds mathematical models to understand multifaceted, interdisciplinary engineering problems that have far-reaching applications.
Neurodegenerative disease can progress in newly identified patterns
A machine-learning method finds patterns of health decline in ALS, informing future clinical trial designs and mechanism discovery. The technique also extends to Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s.
New program to support translational research in AI, data science, and machine learning
The MIT-Pillar AI Collective will cultivate prospective entrepreneurs and drive innovation.
Q&A: Global challenges surrounding the deployment of AI
Aleksander Madry, Asu Ozdaglar, and Luis Videgaray, co-chairs of the AI Policy Forum, discuss key issues facing the AI policy landscape today.
MIT engineers build a battery-free, wireless underwater camera
The device could help scientists explore unknown regions of the ocean, track pollution, or monitor the effects of climate change.
MIT welcomes the 2022 incoming graduate students
Graduate Student Council introduces new grad students to MIT with information, community, and interactive activities.
Soft robots that grip with the right amount of force
Researchers created a system that lets robots effectively use grasped tools with the correct amount of force.
Peter Shor wins Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics
MIT professor to share $3 million prize with three others; Daniel Spielman PhD ’95 wins Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics.
In-home wireless device tracks disease progression in Parkinson’s patients
By continuously monitoring a patient’s gait speed, the system can assess the condition’s severity between visits to the doctor’s office.
Empowering Cambridge youth through data activism
Mayor’s youth employment program brought local high schoolers to MIT this summer.
Between two universes
Mohammad Javad Khojasteh, a postdoc at MIT LIDS, uses both classical and quantum physics to improve state-of-the-art capabilities in communication, sensing, and computation.
Ethics in action
In MIT’s Experiential Ethics summer course, students grapple with real-world ethical decision making, often while interning in the very fields they’re studying.