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Daniel Wang, Institute Professor and pioneer in...

September 2, 2020

Daniel I.C. Wang, an MIT Institute Professor who was considered one of the founding fathers of the field of biochemical engineering, died Saturday in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was 84. During his long career at MIT, Wang contributed to many aspects of biochemical engineering — a field that involves genetically engineering microbes and human cells to produce useful proteins. His research spanned all phases of the process, including fermentation, monitoring and control of bioprocesses, enzyme technology, product purification, and protein...

Donald Blackmer, professor emeritus of political science...

September 1, 2020

Donald L. M. Blackmer, professor emeritus of political science at MIT, died on Aug. 14. He was 91. A highly regarded scholar in international studies, he was also a longtime leader at MIT, serving variously as executive director of the Center for International Studies, head of the Department of Political Science, associate dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences (now the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences), director of the Program in Science, Technology, and Society, and head of MIT Foreign Languages and Literatures...

Making health care more personal

September 1, 2020

The health care system today largely focuses on helping people after they have problems. When they do receive treatment, it’s based on what has worked best on average across a huge, diverse group of patients. Now the company Health at Scale is making health care more proactive and personalized — and, true to its name, it’s doing so for millions of people. Health at Scale uses a new approach for making care recommendations based on new classes of machine-learning...

Addressing shared challenges for MIT this fall

September 1, 2020

The following letter was sent to the MIT community today by President L. Rafael Reif. To the members of the MIT community, Focus feels hard to come by. With the nation torn by so much struggle, uncertainty, turmoil and injustice, and the planet in such peril, a great many outward events deserve and demand our individual attention. Yet somehow, as a community, we also need to concentrate on crucial work close to home. As we start the new semester,...

A fall semester welcome to undergraduates

September 1, 2020

On Monday, MIT welcomed undergraduates back to a new fall semester with the annual President’s Welcome Convocation. More than 9,000 people around the world tuned in to watch the live, virtual event. The event opened with “Together Everywhere: An MIT Convideocation” — a preproduced video that featured a flyover of MIT in Minecraft, the virtual campus that was constructed by MIT students at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic. President L. Rafael Reif welcomed undergraduates to the Institute, speaking...

Six strategic areas identified for shared faculty...

August 31, 2020

Nearly every aspect of the modern world is being transformed by computing. As computing technology continues to revolutionize the way people live, work, learn, and interact, computing research and education are increasingly playing a role in a broad range of academic disciplines, and are in turn being shaped by this expanding breadth. To connect computing and other disciplines in addressing critical challenges and opportunities facing the world today, the MIT Stephen A. Schwarzman College of Computing is planning to...

MIT partners with national labs on two...

August 31, 2020

Early this year, the U.S. Department of Energy sent out a call for proposals as it announced it would award up to $625 million in funding over the next five years to establish multidisciplinary National Quantum Information Science (QIS) Research Centers. These awards would support the National Quantum Initiative Act, passed in 2018 to accelerate the development of quantum science and information technology applications. Now, MIT is a partner institute on two QIS Research Centers that the Department of Energy...

Toward a machine learning model that can...

August 31, 2020

The ability to reason abstractly about events as they unfold is a defining feature of human intelligence. We know instinctively that crying and writing are means of communicating, and that a panda falling from a tree and a plane landing are variations on descending. Organizing the world into abstract categories does not come easily to computers, but in recent years researchers have inched closer by training machine learning models on words and images infused with structural information about the...

Robot takes contact-free measurements of patients’ vital...

August 31, 2020

The research described in this article has been published on a preprint server but has not yet been peer-reviewed by scientific or medical experts. During the current coronavirus pandemic, one of the riskiest parts of a health care worker’s job is assessing people who have symptoms of Covid-19. Researchers from MIT and Brigham and Women’s Hospital hope to reduce that risk by using robots to remotely measure patients’ vital signs. The robots, which are controlled by a handheld device,...

Bringing MIT magic to first-years everywhere

August 28, 2020

“What I want to reiterate about this year is, it’s going to be strange. It is going to be a transition for the entire MIT community. But as 2024s, you are absolutely being prioritized in a number of ways, and there are so many people out there who are really, really excited to have you here and are ready to help you.” That’s how MIT senior Danielle Grey-Stewart sought to reassure incoming students and their families at the July...

A new platform for controlled delivery of...

August 28, 2020

In work that could have a major impact on several industries — from pharmaceuticals to cosmetics and even food — MIT engineers have developed a novel platform for the controlled delivery of certain important drugs, nutrients, and other substances to human cells. The researchers believe that their simple approach, which creates small capsules containing thousands of nanosized droplets loaded with a drug or other active ingredient, will be easy to transition from the lab to industry. The active ingredients...

How to help urban street commerce thrive

August 28, 2020

How many retail, food, and service establishments are there on the streets of New York City? How about Evanston, Illinois? Or Sacramento, California? It turns out the amount of urban street commerce is strikingly related to population size. The biggest metro areas in the U.S. have one retail, food, or service establishment for roughly every 120 people, while the smallest metro areas have roughly one for every 100 people. Store clusters also tend to occur in predictable spatial patterns...

National Science Foundation announces MIT-led Institute for...

August 26, 2020

The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) announced today an investment of more than $100 million to establish five artificial intelligence (AI) institutes, each receiving roughly $20 million over five years. One of these, the NSF AI Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Fundamental Interactions (IAIFI), will be led by MIT’s Laboratory for Nuclear Science (LNS) and become the intellectual home of more than 25 physics and AI senior researchers at MIT and Harvard, Northeastern, and Tufts universities. By merging research...

Face-specific brain area responds to faces even...

August 26, 2020

More than 20 years ago, neuroscientist Nancy Kanwisher and others discovered that a small section of the brain located near the base of the skull responds much more strongly to faces than to other objects we see. This area, known as the fusiform face area, is believed to be specialized for identifying faces. Now, in a surprising new finding, Kanwisher and her colleagues have shown that this same region also becomes active in people who have been blind since...

Covid-19 testing ramps up as MIT enters...

August 24, 2020

As MIT moves forward with phase 2 of its campus reopening plan, MIT Medical has bolstered Covid-19 testing capacity to fulfill the Institute’s policy of testing everyone on campus one or two times per week, depending on how much time they spend on campus. Last week’s testing ramp-up included opening a second testing trailer and doubling the number of staff performing tests. With this infrastructure in place, MIT conducted just over 8,000 tests last week, approximately 10 percent of...

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