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Mark Vogelsberger: Simulating galaxy formation for clues...

November 3, 2021

For all its brilliant complexity, the Milky Way is rather unremarkable as galaxies go. At least, that’s how Mark Vogelsberger sees it. “Our galaxy has a couple features that might be a bit surprising, like the exact number of structures and satellites around it,” Vogelsberger muses. “But if you average over a lot of metrics, the Milky Way is actually a rather normal place.” He should know. Vogelsberger, a newly tenured associate professor in MIT’s Department of Physics, has...

Arthur Mattuck, professor emeritus of mathematics, dies...

November 2, 2021

Arthur Paul Mattuck, emeritus professor of mathematics at MIT, passed away on Friday, Oct. 8, at the age of 91. Mattuck came to MIT as a CLE Moore Instructor, a position he held from 1955 to 1957. He joined the faculty in 1958 and retired after 52 years of service in 2010. He continued to teach through fall 2019. In his specialty, algebraic geometry, Mattuck contributed to the theory of curves and abelian varieties, and to the Riemann-Roch theorem....

Meet Research Director Leah Zaidi!

November 2, 2021

Oct 29, 2021 Leah Zaidi, Research Director Leah Zaidi has lived in Canada since the age of six, and brings to IFTF her extensive expertise in marketing, foresight strategy, systems thinking, and global development. While studying at Ontario College of Art & Design University’s Master of Design in Strategic Foresight and Innovation program, Leah became acquainted with IFTF when instructors frequently cited our work as examples of how futures thinking can be applied to complex problems. “It’s really important...

2021 Ten-Year Forecast Summit Highlights

November 2, 2021

What does K-pop fandom tell us about the future of belonging, the shifting of competitive dynamics in business, and the long-term prospects for democracy? What can you do today to prepare for the massive social challenges climate change will bring about in the coming decade+? What are the ethical implications of face-swapping apps? Are NFTs a scam or the future of … X? How would an octopus caption a New Yorker cartoon? And what do these questions have to...

3 Questions: Blending computing with other disciplines...

November 2, 2021

The demand for computing-related training is at an all-time high. At MIT, there has been a remarkable tide of interest in computer science programs, with heavy enrollment from students studying everything from economics to life sciences eager to learn how computational techniques and methodologies can be used and applied within their primary field. Launched in 2020, the Common Ground for Computing Education was created through the MIT Stephen A. Schwarzman College of Computing to meet the growing need for...

Avoiding shortcut solutions in artificial intelligence

November 2, 2021

If your Uber driver takes a shortcut, you might get to your destination faster. But if a machine learning model takes a shortcut, it might fail in unexpected ways. In machine learning, a shortcut solution occurs when the model relies on a simple characteristic of a dataset to make a decision, rather than learning the true essence of the data, which can lead to inaccurate predictions. For example, a model might learn to identify images of cows by focusing...

A new way to generate light using...

November 1, 2021

Researchers from the Low Energy Electronic Systems (LEES) interdisciplinary research group at the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART), MIT’s research enterprise in Singapore, together with collaborators at MIT, National University of Singapore (NUS), and Nanyang Technological University (NTU), have discovered a new method of generating long-wavelength (red, orange, and yellow) light using intrinsic defects in semiconducting materials, with potential applications as direct light emitters in commercial light sources and displays. This technology would be an improvement on current...

School of Science appoints 11 faculty members...

November 1, 2021

The School of Science has announced that 11 faculty members have been appointed to named professorships. These positions offer additional support to professors to advance their research and develop their careers. Andrew Babbin was named a Cecil and Ida Green Career Development Professor. A marine biogeochemist, Babbin studies the processes that return fixed nitrogen in the ocean back to nitrogen gas, exploring marine nitrogen’s control on life in the ocean and its effects on climate. His research sheds light...

Differences in T cells’ functional states determine...

November 1, 2021

Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is the most common type of lung cancer in humans. Some patients with NSCLC receive a therapy called immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) that helps kill cancer cells by reinvigorating a subset of immune cells called T cells, which are “exhausted” and have stopped working. However, only about 35 percent of NSCLC patients respond to ICB therapy. Stefani Spranger’s lab at the MIT Department of Biology explores the mechanisms behind this resistance, with the goal...

Cures for the health insurance enrollment blues

November 1, 2021

Some countries with national health insurance plans face a basic problem: Not enough people sign up for those programs, and the ones who do tend to have worse-than-average health. That is a public health matter, but also a fiscal issue. When more healthy people enroll in health care plans, and thus pay premiums, those plans gain a better fiscal footing. What’s a good way to address this challenge? A recently published study in Indonesia led by MIT economists yields...

Women’s Technology Program 2021: The sweet sound...

October 29, 2021

Each year, a new cohort of high school students come to MIT’s Cambridge, Massachusetts, campus to learn not only about STEM, but about their own potential to excel. The Women’s Technology Program (WTP), now in its 19th year, brings high school students with little-to-no engineering and computer science experience to Cambridge every summer for an immersive, four-week exploration of all things engineering. But in summer 2021, the unprecedented public health challenge of Covid-19 forced the staff of the summer...

Education in Latin America after the pandemic

October 29, 2021

In early 2020, Covid-19 forced countries across Latin America to take measures to keep children, young people, and adults away from schools. Many countries have declared educational quarantines as part of efforts to stop the pandemic, but more than a year-and-a-half later, governments are already thinking, what is next? While the pandemic may not be over, three MIT International Science and Technology Initiatives (MISTI) programs: MIT-Brazil, MIT-Chile, and MIT-Mexico, put together a panel of experts to discuss various solutions,...

Study finds the SARS-CoV-2 virus can infect...

October 29, 2021

Many Covid-19 patients have reported symptoms affecting the ears, including hearing loss and tinnitus. Dizziness and balance problems can also occur, suggesting that the SARS-CoV-2 virus may be able to infect the inner ear. A new study from MIT and Massachusetts Eye and Ear provides evidence that the virus can indeed infect cells of the inner ear, including hair cells, which are critical for both hearing and balance. The researchers also found that the pattern of infection seen in...

OMEGA scholarships awarded to high school students...

October 28, 2021

In a virtual ceremony, the MIT AgeLab awarded five $5,000 OMEGA scholarships to U.S. high school students who have demonstrated leadership in developing intergenerational programs in their communities. The scholarship winners stewarded programs that forged social connections with older adults and aided in their use of technology. Established in 2015, the AgeLab’s OMEGA program aims to foster and encourage multigenerational connections through scholarships and programming for younger adults. The OMEGA scholarship is sponsored by AARP and Five Star Senior Living....

3 Questions: Investigating a long-standing neutrino mystery

October 28, 2021

Neutrinos are one of the most mysterious members of the Standard Model, a framework for describing fundamental forces and particles in nature. While they are among the most abundant known particles in the universe, they interact very rarely with matter, making their detection a challenging experimental feat. One of the long-standing puzzles in neutrino physics comes from the Mini Booster Neutrino Experiment (MiniBooNE), which ran from 2002 to 2017 at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, or Fermilab, in Illinois....

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