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Tracking emissions to help companies reduce their environmental footprint

Context Labs, led by Dan Harple SM ’13, uses AI-enabled data analytics and verification to help companies measure their true greenhouse emissions and document reductions.

August 7, 2024

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Collaborating to advance LEADing-edge digital financial infrastructure

Project led by MIT economist Rob Townsend aims to help low- and middle-income countries assess and utilize new technologies to improve central banks’ functions.

July 23, 2024

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Summer 2024 reading from MIT

MIT News rounds up recent titles from Institute faculty and staff.

July 3, 2024

Faces of MIT: Anthony Hallee-Farrell '13

The senior program and technical associate for the Community Services Office has been a supporter of the MIT community since he arrived on campus as a student.

June 28, 2024

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Making climate models relevant for local decision-makers

A new downscaling method leverages machine learning to speed up climate model simulations at finer resolutions, making them usable on local levels.

June 11, 2024

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Mouth-based touchpad enables people living with paralysis to interact with computers

The startup Augmental allows users to operate phones and other devices using their tongue, mouth, and head gestures.

June 5, 2024

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HPI-MIT design research collaboration creates powerful teams

Together, the Hasso Plattner Institute and MIT are working toward novel solutions to the world’s problems as part of the Designing for Sustainability research program.

May 3, 2024

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Epigenomic analysis sheds light on risk factors for ALS

In a study of cells from nearly 400 ALS patients, researchers identified genomic regions with chemical modifications linked to disease progression.

May 2, 2024

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MIT launches Working Group on Generative AI and the Work of the Future

New initiative is convening leading companies and nonprofits with support from Google’s Community Grants Fund.

March 28, 2024

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Stitch3D is powering a new wave of 3D data collaboration

The company, founded by Clark Yuan MBA ’22, has developed a cloud platform that makes 3D data sharing, visualizing, and editing easy.

February 16, 2024

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New fellowship to help advance science journalism in Africa and the Middle East

The Knight Science Journalism Program at MIT announces a new one-semester fellowship to start in fall 2024.

January 31, 2024

View of New York City’s East River rising during Hurricane Sandy. The Brooklyn and George Washington Bridges are in background.

New tool predicts flood risk from hurricanes in a warming climate

Using New York as a test case, the model predicts flooding at the level experienced during Hurricane Sandy will occur roughly every 30 years by the end of this century.

January 24, 2024

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Stratospheric safety standards: How aviation could steer regulation of AI in health

An interdisciplinary team of researchers thinks health AI could benefit from some of the aviation industry’s long history of hard-won lessons that have created one of the safest activities today.

January 17, 2024

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3 Questions: Implementing the MIT Graduate Student Union’s collective bargaining agreement

Ian Waitz describes the three-year contract that will change and enhance MIT’s graduate student policies and procedures.

January 16, 2024

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MIT in the media: 2023 in review

MIT community members made headlines with key research advances and their efforts to tackle pressing challenges.

December 21, 2023

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