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3 Questions: Claude Grunitzky MBA '12 on...

March 9, 2021

Shortly after he sold TRACE, the fast-growing, New York-based media company he founded at age 24, Claude Grunitzky came to MIT as a Sloan Fellow. He chose MIT because he wanted to learn more about digital media and the ways he could leverage it for his next company. He was also interested in MIT’s approach to building new technologies that could scale through network effects. While at MIT Sloan, the Togolese-American entrepreneur spent considerable time at the MIT Media...

Reflecting on a year of loss, grit,...

March 9, 2021

The pivotal email from President L. Rafael Reif arrived in the inboxes of the MIT community on March 10, 2020. After weeks of monitoring the emerging coronavirus, it was decision time: “We have come to see that our community has a significant role to play in the concerted public health response to this regional, national and global threat,” he wrote. The full extent of that role wasn’t yet clear as students immediately prepared to leave campus, followed by the...

Yo-yos offer a first foray into manufacturing...

March 9, 2021

Each semester, the machine shop in MIT’s Laboratory for Manufacturing and Productivity churns out hundreds of yo-yos. The yo-yos come in all shapes and sizes. They often have a theme – this past semester there were beach-themed yo-yos adorned with sharks and starfish, as well as a Star Wars-themed yo-yos, complete with rotating lightsabers. These yo-yos are the creation of mechanical engineering students in class 2.008 (Design and Manufacturing II). In the class, students learn about the manufacturing processes...

Innovation for aviation

March 8, 2021

The new normal has set in motion a sustained urgency to re-imagine how we learn, how we engage in teamwork, and how to solve real-world problems collaboratively. For the Entrepreneurship and Maker Skills Integrator (MEMSI), the MIT Hong Kong Innovation Node’s flagship hardware systems entrepreneurship program, what was originally designed as a two-week residential experience held during Independent Activities Period in Hong Kong shifted gears to hybrid mode. This hybrid learning format was “a real experiment for us,” says Charlie...

3 Questions: Task Force 2021 and the...

March 8, 2021

This is part two in a series of interviews with co-chairs of Task Force 2021 and Beyond workstreams. Part one is available here. MIT’s Task Force 2021 and Beyond has been at work for seven months, charged by President L. Rafael Reif with exploring “how MIT might invent a thriving new future” in a post-Covid world. The effort’s Finance and Data Workstream, which looked at the future of MIT’s finances, was co-chaired by Glenn Ellison, the Gregory K. Palm...

Algorithm helps artificial intelligence systems dodge “adversarial”...

March 8, 2021

In a perfect world, what you see is what you get. If this were the case, the job of artificial intelligence systems would be refreshingly straightforward. Take collision avoidance systems in self-driving cars. If visual input to on-board cameras could be trusted entirely, an AI system could directly map that input to an appropriate action — steer right, steer left, or continue straight — to avoid hitting a pedestrian that its cameras see in the road. But what if...

Startup empowers women to improve access to...

March 7, 2021

In Ghana’s Northern Region, thousands of villages rely on water from artificial ponds during the region’s long dry season. The water is unsafe to drink and results in thousands of water-borne illnesses each year. Worse yet, the situation is totally preventable. Cheap, locally available water treatment solutions exist to make the region’s abundant surface water safely drinkable. The challenge lies in getting families in rural villages to use those solutions exclusively and over the long run. Those were the...

Elisabeth Reynolds tapped for White House role,...

March 5, 2021

Elisabeth Beck Reynolds PhD ’10, executive director of MIT’s Industrial Performance Center (IPC), has accepted a senior post in the Biden administration’s National Economic Council (NEC), the White House announced today. Reynolds will serve as Special Assistant to the President for Manufacturing and Economic Development at the NEC. “I intend to help strengthen and expand U.S. manufacturing capabilities, and to help create good jobs with sustained career paths in the process,” Reynolds told MIT News. “We have an incredible...

Lincoln Laboratory earns a 2020 Stratus Award...

March 5, 2021

MIT Lincoln Laboratory is among the winners of the 2020 Stratus Awards for Cloud Computing. The Business Intelligence Group presented 38 companies, services, and executives with these awards that recognize leaders in cloud-based technology. The laboratory won for developing TRACER (Timely Randomization Applied to Commodity Executables at Runtime), software that prevents cyber attackers from remotely attacking Windows applications. Since 2012, the Business Intelligence Group has acknowledged industry leaders with several awards for innovation in technology and services. With the...

An IAP class in four-part harmony

March 5, 2021

Just a few months shy of February graduation during the pandemic and the start of a fifth-year master’s program, senior Jeana Choi realized that she had never taught a class during the January Independent Activities Period (IAP). “I thought, wow, I can’t end my college experience like this,” she says. An electrical engineering and computer science major who minored in music, Choi, a violinist, became excited by the prospect of teaching about something she loved: classical music. The result...

Pondering the unknowable

March 5, 2021

In 1929, astronomer Edwin Hubble, using data from the Mount Wilson Observatory in California, found that the universe is expanding. This was “probably the most important cosmic discovery of all time,” writes Alan Lightman in his new book, “Probable Impossibilities: Musings on Beginnings and Endings.” Certainly it is among the most thought-provoking. Hubble’s discovery complicates how we grasp space and time. Can you picture a universe that expands infinitely? And if it is expanding, it must have had a...

Kevin Costello: Exploring the intersections of math...

March 5, 2021

“Good night, Kev. Think big.” His father smiled, tucking him in and closing the door. The next day, 13-year-old Kevin Costello III arrived for the first time to MIT. But his visit wasn’t for the average campus tour. Costello, a three-time Rubik’s Cube national champion, had come to compete. Tension grew in the competition room as the final round approached. Costello knew he had less than six seconds to solve the cube drawing from the 300 solving algorithms he...

Retrofitting MIT’s deep learning “boot camp” for...

March 4, 2021

Deep learning is advancing at lightning speed, and Alexander Amini ’17 and Ava Soleimany ’16 want to make sure they have your attention as they dive deep on the math behind the algorithms and the ways that deep learning is transforming daily life. Last year, their blockbuster course, 6.S191 (Introduction to Deep Learning) opened with a fake video welcome from former President Barack Obama. This year, the pair delivered their lectures “live” from Stata Center — after taping them weeks...

Study reveals how egg cells get so...

March 4, 2021

Egg cells are by far the largest cells produced by most organisms. In humans, they are several times larger than a typical body cell and about 10,000 times larger than sperm cells. There’s a reason why egg cells, or oocytes, are so big: They need to accumulate enough nutrients to support a growing embryo after fertilization, plus mitochondria to power all of that growth. However, biologists don’t yet understand the full picture of how egg cells become so large....

Eyeless roundworms sense color

March 4, 2021

Roundworms don’t have eyes or the light-absorbing molecules required to see. Yet, new research shows they can somehow sense color. The study, published on March 5 in the journal Science, suggests worms use this ability to assess the risk of feasting on potentially dangerous bacteria that secrete blue toxins. The researchers pinpointed two genes that contribute to this spectral sensitivity and are conserved across many organisms, including humans. “It’s amazing to me that a tiny worm — with neither...

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