MIT welcomes eight MLK Visiting Professors and Scholars for 2022-23
Martin Luther King Jr. Visiting Professors and Scholars will enhance and enrich the MIT community through engagement with students and faculty.
A programming language for hardware accelerators
Researchers created Exo for writing high-performance code on hardware accelerators.
Startup lets doctors classify skin conditions with the snap of a picture
Piction Health, founded by Susan Conover SM ’15, uses machine learning to help physicians identify and manage skin disease.
Exploring emerging topics in artificial intelligence policy
The second AI Policy Forum Symposium convened global stakeholders across sectors to discuss critical policy questions in artificial intelligence.
Q&A: Neil Thompson on computing power and innovation
Rapid increases in the speed and power of microchips have fueled innovation in many industries, but the future trajectory of that incredible progress may be in jeopardy.
How the debt crisis of 2008-09 fueled populist politics
Research shows that in Hungary, debt drove voters to the right, as part of a consequential shift.
QS ranks MIT the world’s No. 1 university for 2022-23
Earning the top spot for the 11th straight year, the Institute also places first in 12 subject areas.
President Guðni Thorlacius Jóhannesson of Iceland visits MIT
Delegation meets campus leaders, with an eye toward AI applications and the Icelandic language.
MIT Climate and Sustainability Consortium announces recipients of inaugural MCSC Seed Awards
Twenty winning projects will link industry member priorities with research groups across campus to develop scalable climate solutions.
Fourteen from MIT awarded 2022 Fulbright Fellowships
Fulbright US Student Program funds opportunities for research, graduate study, and teaching abroad.
MIT Sloan students learn about civil rights history with a tour of the Deep South
Independent study provides an opportunity to enhance understanding, share learnings with the MIT community.
Solar-powered desalination device wins MIT $100K competition
Nona Desalination is developing a compact water-desalination device that requires less electricity than a cell phone charger.
Study: Immigrants in the U.S. are more likely to start firms, create jobs
Compared to native-born citizens, immigrants are more frequently involved in founding companies at all scales.
MIT to launch new Office of Research Computing and Data
Professor Peter Fisher will lead effort to grow and enhance computing infrastructure and services for MIT’s research community.
Absent legislative victory, the president can still meet US climate goals
Study finds activating a Clean Air Act provision could deliver major climate, health, and economic benefits.