J-WAFS launches Food and Climate Systems Transformation Alliance
Announced at the UN Climate Change Conference, the initiative aims to make food systems more resilient and sustainable by better connecting research to practice.
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Embarking upon a leadership journey
MIT students connect with Israelis and Palestinians to learn how to leverage science, technology, and entrepreneurship.
Toward speech recognition for uncommon spoken languages
Reducing the complexity of a powerful machine-learning model may help level the playing field for automatic speech-recognition around the world.
MIT collaborates with Biogen on three-year, $7 million initiative to address climate, health, and equity
Biogen’s support is part of the biotechnology company’s Healthy Climate, Healthy Lives Initiative.
Avoiding shortcut solutions in artificial intelligence
A new method forces a machine learning model to focus on more data when learning a task, which leads to more reliable predictions.
School of Science appoints 11 faculty members to named professorships
Those selected for these positions receive additional support to pursue their research and develop their careers.
Taming the data deluge
A National Science Foundation-funded team will use artificial intelligence to speed up discoveries in physics, astronomy, and neuroscience.
Solving puzzles of international trade, war, and order
Assistant Professor Mariya Grinberg works at the intersection of economics and national security, building better theories of state behavior.
Creating dynamic symmetry in quantum systems
MIT researchers develop a new way to control and measure energy levels in a diamond crystal; could improve qubits in quantum computers.
MIT Energy Initiative awards seven Seed Fund grants for early-stage energy research
Awards support research to improve the efficiency, scalability, and adoption of clean energy technologies.
Dragging your feet? Lack of sleep affects your walk, new study finds
Periodically catching up on sleep can improve gait control for the chronically sleep-deprived.
Legatum Center welcomes the inaugural Foundry Fellows
Thirteen entrepreneurs from eight countries across Africa join the first cohort of Legatum Foundry Fellows.
At MIT, Nobel laureate Frances Arnold describes innovation by evolution
In the Hoyt C. Hottel Lecture, Arnold tells the story of her pathbreaking research to engineer better enzymes for critical applications.
Saving seaweed with machine learning
PhD candidate Charlene Xia is developing a low-cost system to monitor the microbiome of seaweed farms and identify diseases before they spread.
Innovating delivery of financial services for Asian banks
MIT students collaborate with Hong Kong peers to propose fintech solutions during the MIT Entrepreneurship and Fintech Integrator.