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Thomas Friedman delivered the keynote address at the ninth annual Kendall Square Association (KSA) meeting.

KSA meeting focuses on digital globalization, emerging technologies

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Thomas Friedman delivers keynote on how rising trends impact society.

March 30, 2017

MIT senior research scientist David Shoemaker has been elected the next spokesperson for the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) Scientific Collaboration.

David Shoemaker named spokesperson for LIGO Scientific Collaboration

Senior MIT research scientist to speak for international collaboration for gravitational wave detection research.

March 29, 2017

MIT researchers have devised a new vaccine candidate for the Zika virus. “It functions almost like a synthetic virus, except it’s not pathogenic and it doesn’t spread,” says postdoc Omar Khan.

Progress toward a Zika vaccine

Researchers program RNA nanoparticles that could protect against the virus.

March 29, 2017

At the Usenix Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation, researchers from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory will present a new system for allocating bandwidth in data center networks.

Faster page loads

System allocates data center bandwidth more fairly, so no part of a webpage lags behind others.

March 28, 2017

“My upbringing fostered the desire to tackle big problems that have a global impact," says MIT grad student Julien Barber. "Fusion fits the bill of a global remedy for both energy needs and some environmental problems. It’s trying to change the game.”

Julien Barber: Protecting magnets and the environment

Master's candidate explores ways to cool high-temperature superconductors used in fusion research.

March 27, 2017

Professor Moshe Ben-Akiva presented his research on smart mobility at the Infrastructure, Smart Cities and Transportation Workshop. The event was part of a collaboration between MIT and Parsons Corporation.

At the intersection of industry and academia

Infrastructure, Smart Cities and Transportation Workshop sheds light on collaboration opportunities between MIT and Parsons Corporation.

March 22, 2017

Making better decisions when outcomes are uncertain

A simple statistical trick could help make a ubiquitous model of decision processes more accurate.

March 21, 2017

A new paper from an MIT-led team demonstrates that Alaska can offer a significant foothold for Asian flu viruses, enabling them to enter North America.

Tracking the spread of bird flu

Asian flu strains can enter North America through Alaska, study finds.

March 17, 2017

Bevi is a smart beverage-dispensing machine — made with high-quality components inspired by medical devices — that filters and adds carbonation and customizable flavors to tap water in offices, gyms, and hotels.

The next-generation water cooler

Smart flavored-beverage machines are persuading consumers nationwide to ditch their plastic bottles.

March 8, 2017

Researchers tracked tens of thousands of taxis in New York, San Francisco, Singapore, and Vienna and found that over 90 percent of rides that are more than 5 minutes in duration could be fairly easily shared.

Sharing the fares

Very different cities have similar potential for ride sharing, study finds.

March 6, 2017

Artificial data give the same results as real data — without compromising privacy

New approach can help organizations scale their data science efforts with artificial data and crowdsourcing.

March 3, 2017

The Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization Array (HERA) radio telescope is dedicated to observing large scale structure during and prior to the epoch of reionization.

MIT's Jacqueline Hewitt and HERA team given $5.8M boost to detect cosmic dawn

Funding will complete array and measure signals from universe’s first stars.

March 2, 2017

“We found that companies with high leverage around 2006 ended up laying off more people,” says Xavier Giroud, the Ford International Career Development Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management and co-author of a new study that sheds further light on the Great Recession.

The corporate debt trap

Study: Firms that owed more also laid off more workers during the 2007-2009 recession.

March 2, 2017

Eight student teams pitched novel inventions at last night’s MIT Sloan Healthcare Innovations Prize pitch competition. Rendever earned the $25,000 grand prize for creating a virtual-reality platform that gives the elderly the chance to explore the world virtually. The platform also provides cognitive therapy and tracks movement data to aid in early diagnosis of dementia.

Virtual-reality system for the elderly wins health care prize

Eight student teams pitched novel inventions at MIT Sloan Healthcare Innovations Prize competition.

February 24, 2017

Richard Ha (second from right), farmer and Hawaii native, shows MIT TREX participants how he generates his own electricity using water.

Getting their hands dirty: Students experience fieldwork in Hawaii

TREX program from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering offers undergraduates the opportunity to get out in the field.

February 17, 2017

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