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Economist Antoine Levy is all over the...

August 21, 2020

Some of the stereotypical differences between the United States and France do check out, according to Antoine Levy: The weather and the food are much worse in New England, he says, and the people are much more welcoming. But for Levy, who is about to start the fifth year of his MIT PhD program in economics, the U.S. is starting to feel like his native France in some ways. “For a long time, I thought France was obsessed by...

Real-time data for a better response to...

August 21, 2020

Kinsa was founded by MIT alumnus Inder Singh MBA ’06, SM ’07 in 2012, with the mission of collecting information about when and where infectious diseases are spreading in real-time. Today the company is fulfilling that mission along several fronts. It starts with families. More than 1.5 million of Kinsa’s “smart” thermometers have been sold or given away across the country, including hundreds of thousands to families from low-income school districts. The thermometers link to an app that helps users...

Two projects receive funding for technologies that...

August 20, 2020

The Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage Center, one of the MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI)’s Low-Carbon Energy Centers, has awarded $900,000 in funding to two new research projects to advance technologies that avoid carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions into the atmosphere and help address climate change. The winning project is receiving $750,000, and an additional project receives $150,000. The winning project, led by principal investigator Asegun Henry, the Robert N. Noyce Career Development Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, and...

The factory of the future, batteries not...

August 20, 2020

Many analysts have predicted an explosion in the number of industrial “internet of things” (IoT) devices that will come online over the next decade. Sensors play a big role in those forecasts. Unfortunately, sensors come with their own drawbacks, many of which are due to the limited energy supply and finite lifetime of their batteries. Now the startup Everactive has developed industrial sensors that run around the clock, require minimal maintenance, and can last over 20 years. The company...

Are we still listening to space?

August 19, 2020

When LIGO, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, and its European counterpart, Virgo, detect a gravitational ripple from space, a public alert is sent out. That alert lets researchers know with a decently high confidence that this ripple was probably caused by an exceptional cosmic event, such as the collision of neutron stars or the merging of black holes, somewhere in the universe. Then starts the scramble. A pair of researchers is assigned to the incoming event, analyzing the data...

3 Questions: Historian Emma Teng on face...

August 19, 2020

As The Washington Post has reported, “at the heart of the dismal U.S. coronavirus response” is a “fraught relationship with masks.” With this “meaning of masks” series, which explores the myriad historic, creative, and cultural meanings of masks, we aim to offer our fellow Americans more ways to appreciate and practice protective masking — a primary means for containing the Covid-19 pandemic. Emma J. Teng is the T.T. and Wei Fong Chao Professor of Asian Civilizations at MIT and...

For student researchers, no pause for the...

August 18, 2020

In mid-March, when the Covid-19 pandemic darkened MIT classrooms and labs, lights switched on for undergraduate research taking place remotely. Zooming in from time zones often distant from Cambridge, Massachusetts, many students were able to continue undergraduate research opportunities (UROPs) made possible by nuclear science and engineering faculty. Advancing projects begun during January independent activities period or the start of spring semester, students overcame significant obstacles to make their research experiences meaningful while working from home — whether that...

Rewriting the rules of machine-generated art

August 18, 2020

Horses don’t normally wear hats, and deep generative models, or GANs, don’t normally follow rules laid out by human programmers. But a new tool developed at MIT lets anyone go into a GAN and tell the model, like a coder, to put hats on the heads of the horses it draws. In a new study appearing at the European Conference on Computer Vision this month, researchers show that the deep layers of neural networks can be edited, like so many lines of...

Fostering friendships and films from across the...

August 18, 2020

What do you do when a pandemic shuts down international travel, and you can’t do your internship in Japan? For MIT International Science and Technology Initiatives (MISTI) students this summer, the answer was the Virtual Language Conversation Exchange with the Tokyo Institute of Technology (also known as Tokyo Tech). MIT Japan’s managing director, Christine Pilcavage, and MIT’s global language senior instructor, Takako Aikawa, collaborated with Professor Eri Ota and Naoko Goto of Center of International Education at Tokyo Tech...

Mobility Systems Center awards four projects for...

August 18, 2020

The Mobility Systems Center (MSC), one of the MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI)’s Low-Carbon Energy Centers, will fund four new research projects that will allow for deeper insights into achieving a decarbonized transportation sector. “Based on input from our Mobility Systems Center members, we have selected an excellent and diverse set of projects to initiate this summer,” says Randall Field, the center’s executive director. “The awarded projects will address a variety of pressing topics including the impacts of Covid-19 on urban...

A scientific approach to education reform

August 18, 2020

The Covid-19 pandemic has upended educational systems around the world, from kindergartens through graduate schools. Classes with students packed into seats and a teacher giving lessons from the front were suddenly transformed into some combination of online Zoom lessons, home instruction by parents, or solitary work. When things eventually stabilize and return to “normal,” what will that normal be? Sanjay Sarma, MIT’s vice president for open learning, sees this unprecedented upheaval as a moment to get rid of outmoded...

Getting set for September, together

August 18, 2020

The following letter was sent to the MIT community today by President L. Rafael Reif. To the members of the MIT community, For those undergraduates who will return to campus this semester, the next ten days will be full of planning, packing, logistics and checklists – and that image is a useful way to think about these next two weeks for MIT overall: We are getting ready, together, for an important journey that will be both familiar and strange....

Thea Keith-Lucas named interim chaplain to the...

August 17, 2020

Episcopal chaplain Reverend Thea Keith-Lucas has been named interim chaplain to the Institute as MIT pauses its search for a full-time chaplain, which launched last fall. “I am honored to serve alongside our dedicated and creative chaplains to support the religious identities, spiritual well-being, and ethical growth of our students in this challenging time,” says Keith-Lucas. Since 2013, Keith-Lucas has led the Lutheran Episcopal Ministry at MIT, a joint ministry that she shares with MIT’s Lutheran chaplain Reverend Andrew...

Nergis Mavalvala named School of Science dean

August 17, 2020

Astrophysicist Nergis Mavalvala has been named the new dean of MIT’s School of Science, effective Sept. 1. She will succeed Michael Sipser, who will return to the faculty as the Donner Professor of Mathematics, after six years of service. Mavalvala, the Curtis and Kathleen Marble Professor of Astrophysics, is renowned for her pioneering work in gravitational-wave detection, which she conducted as a leading member of LIGO, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory. She has received numerous awards and honors for...

Louis Kampf, professor emeritus of literature and...

August 14, 2020

Louis Kampf, professor emeritus of literature and women’s and gender studies at MIT, died in hospice care on May 30 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, at the age of 91. The cause was cardiac arrest. The only child of Oscar and Helen Kampf, he was born on May 12, 1929 in Vienna, where his orthodox Jewish parents had migrated from Galicia, Poland. Between 1938 and 1942, he and his parents fled the Nazis, first going to Antwerp, Belgium, and thereafter to...

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