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Getting dressed with help from robots

July 14, 2021

Basic safety needs in the paleolithic era have largely evolved with the onset of the industrial and cognitive revolutions. We interact a little less with raw materials, and interface a little more with machines. Robots don’t have the same hardwired behavioral awareness and control, so secure collaboration with humans requires methodical planning and coordination. You can likely assume your friend can fill up your morning coffee cup without spilling on you, but for a robot, this seemingly simple task...

3 Questions: James Poterba on making infrastructure...

July 14, 2021

With a timeframe resembling that of a construction project, the U.S. Congress is working on an infrastructure bill. How effective could the legislation be? In a new paper, James M. Poterba, the Mitsui Professor of Economics at MIT, and co-author Edward Glaeser, an economist at Harvard University, survey economic aspects of infrastructure investment in the U.S. They advocate for cost-benefit analyses of projects, find that repairing infrastructure often pays off more than new projects, and suggest that infrastructure user...

How aspirations become actions

July 14, 2021

Minutes before finding out he’d been accepted to MIT, Mussie Demisse ’21 was shaking Governor Charlie Baker’s hand. Demisse was at an awards ceremony at the Massachusetts State House, being honored as one of the 2018 “29 Who Shine,” a select group of graduates from the Commonwealth’s higher education system who’d made an impact at their institution and in the community. For Demisse, Bunker Hill Community College, where he’d spent the previous two years studying computer science, represented both....

Restoring amputees’ natural functionality with brain-controlled interfaces

July 13, 2021

When someone close to rising MIT junior Eeshan Tripathii and his sister, engineer Vini Tripathii, had their hand amputated, the siblings witnessed the challenges of living with a prosthetic. After a year of arguing with insurance companies to get their loved one a top-of-the-line prosthetic, they were dismayed that it failed to bring the loved one closer to the functionality needed for an independent life. The device itself had strong mechanical dexterity. In practice, though, it was difficult to...

3 Questions: Richard Milner on the messier...

July 13, 2021

“The Hermes Experiment,” a new book by MIT physics Professor Richard Milner and FAU Erlangen-Nurnberg Professor Erhard Steffens, tells the story of how several hundred physicists from Europe and North America collaborated in 1988 to design, construct, and operate the innovative HERMES experiment at the DESY laboratory in Hamburg, Germany, with the goal of studying the fundamental spin structure of matter. The book serves as a primer on subatomic physics and provides a personal look into how physics gets done,...

Software to accelerate R&D

July 13, 2021

Many scientists and researchers still rely on Excel spreadsheets and lab notebooks to manage data from their experiments. That can work for single experiments, but companies tend to make decisions based on data from multiple experiments, some of which may take place at different labs, with slightly different parameters, and even in different countries. The situation often requires scientists to leave the lab bench to spend time gathering and merging data from various experiments. Teams of scientists may also...

3 Questions: Secretary Kathleen Theoharides on climate...

July 12, 2021

Massachusetts is poised to be a national and global leader in the fight against climate change. This spring, Kathleen Theoharides, secretary of the Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, spoke with MIT Energy Initiative Director Robert Armstrong at a seminar focused on Massachusetts’ emissions-reduction plans. Here, Theoharides discusses the state’s initiatives to address the decarbonization of key sectors to help the state achieve these goals. Q: In March, Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker signed...

Sertac Karaman named director of the Laboratory...

July 12, 2021

Sertac Karaman has been named director of the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS), MIT’s longest continuously-running lab. Karaman, an associate professor in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, began his appointment on July 1. “This is an extremely exciting time for LIDS, with the tremendous advances in automated decision-making systems and their deployment,” says Daniel Huttenlocher, dean of the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing and the Henry Ellis Warren Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. “I...

Asegun Henry has a big idea for...

July 11, 2021

Asegun Henry has a bold idea to save the world. He believes the key to reducing carbon emissions, and mitigating further climate change, lies in our ability to box up the sun. Today, much of the renewable energy that’s captured from the wind and sun is delivered in a use-it-or-lose-it capacity. To store such energy, Henry envisions a completely sustainable, zero-carbon grid with the potential to supply all our electrical needs, even on overcast and windless days. And...

The tenured engineers of 2021

July 9, 2021

The School of Engineering has announced that MIT has granted tenure to eight members of its faculty in the departments of Chemical Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Materials Science and Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and Nuclear Science and Engineering. “This year’s newly tenured faculty are truly inspiring,” says Anantha Chandrakasan, dean of the School of Engineering and Vannevar Bush Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. “Their work as educators and scholars has shown an incredible commitment to teaching...

2021 Teaching with Digital Technology Awards honor...

July 9, 2021

This June, 23 faculty and instructors from over a dozen departments, labs, and centers across MIT were honored with Teaching with Digital Technology Awards in an online celebration hosted by the Office of Open Learning. Established in 2016 and co-sponsored by MIT Open Learning and the Office of the Vice Chancellor, these awards were originally intended primarily as a means of recognizing innovative use of digital technologies in the context of MIT’s in-person, on-campus classes. But in the last...

Arlene Fiore appointed first Stone Professor in...

July 8, 2021

The MIT Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences (EAPS) has named atmospheric chemist Arlene Fiore the Peter H. Stone and Paola Malanotte Stone Professor in Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences. Her chair began on July 1. Fiore is the first person to be appointed to this senior position, a full professorship that was generously endowed to EAPS by Professor Emeritus Peter H. Stone and Professor Paola Malanotte-Rizzoli. The couple’s $5 million donation sparked a multi-year campaign to find...

New plasma etching system significantly expands MIT.nano...

July 8, 2021

To expand the types of materials that researchers can process, MIT.nano has acquired a new SAMCO inductively coupled plasma (ICP) reactive-ion etching (RIE) system. The instrument has been installed and qualified on the third floor of MIT.nano, where it is now available for training and use. Reactive-ion etching is a material removal process performed under low pressure in which a reactive plasma is generated to remove the material on the substrate. With inductively coupled plasma RIE, the plasma is...

At the Venice Biennale, an architecture exhibition...

July 8, 2021

By many lights, these are challenging times: The worldwide Covid-19 pandemic, the climate crisis, rampant political polarization, and the social and economic effects of globalization have all contributed to a sense of unease or outright turmoil around the globe. This summer, the Venice Biennale’s 17th International Architecture Exhibition, the world’s premier event of its kind, is directly tackling those types of issues, led by the exhibition’s curator, Hashim Sarkis, dean of MIT’s School of Architecture and Planning. As curator,...

Governance innovation boot camp culminates in pitch...

July 7, 2021

As the culmination of a two-week workshop on governance innovation, Sierra Leonean civil servants presented project proposals to audience members and a panel of judges at a June 18 pitch night at the Radisson Blu Hotel in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Designed by the MIT Governance Lab (MIT GOV/LAB) and Sierra Leone’s Directorate of Science, Technology and Innovation (DSTI), the boot camp taught strategies for identifying and understanding governance problems and finding creative, evidence-based solutions. The civil servants participated in...

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