
Consortium including MIT awarded $110M national grant to …
2015年7月27日 · MIT will also host AIM Photonics’ program in education and workforce development, which Kimerling will direct. This will include developing educational materials — ranging from K-12 through continuing education — to prepare future employees for this emerging industry, including teaching on the design of integrated photonic devices.
Bridging philosophy and AI to explore computing ethics
2025年2月11日 · Class 6.C40/24.C40 (Ethics of Computing) is an MIT course that lets students tackle moral dilemmas of the digital age. It is co-taught by professors of philosophy and of computer science.
Aligning AI with human values - MIT News
2025年2月4日 · MIT senior Audrey Lorvo's research into AI safety aims to reduce risks associated with artificial intelligence, its implementation, and human impacts.
Introducing the MIT Generative AI Impact Consortium
2025年2月3日 · The MIT Generative AI Impact Consortium is a collaboration between MIT, founding member companies, and researchers across disciplines who aim to develop open-source generative AI solutions, accelerating innovations in education, research, and industry.
“Life is short, so aim high” - MIT News
2024年3月29日 · Caption: “I’d say life is short, so aim high,” Jaramillo says. “As scientists and engineers that means tackling the hard problems because the easy ones have been solved and, besides, there’s little satisfaction in them.”
The multifaceted challenge of powering AI - MIT News
2025年1月21日 · The sudden need for more data centers to power AI presents a massive challenge to the technology and energy industries, government policymakers, and everyday consumers. Researchers at the MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI) are …
Explained: Carbon credits - MIT News
2024年2月28日 · Similarly, projects that aim to capture carbon dioxide emissions and inject them into the ground are sometimes used to justify increasing the production of petroleum or natural gas, negating the intended climate mitigation of the process.
Innovative projects aim to boost safety, efficiency of nuclear power ...
2006年9月20日 · With U.S. electricity demand projected to increase by nearly 50 percent over the next 25 years, the Bush administration and others see nuclear power as an increasingly attractive energy option.
Cutting urban carbon emissions by retrofitting buildings
2023年7月13日 · PhD candidate Zachary Berzolla SM ’21 (left), Professor Christoph Reinhart (right), and their colleagues have launched online simulation tools that enable urban policymakers to determine what building-retrofit incentives and other measures are needed to bring about a targeted reduction in their city’s carbon emissions.
Generative AI imagines new protein structures - MIT News
2023年7月12日 · “The aim, with respect to this new capacity of generating synthetic protein structures, opens up a myriad of enhanced capabilities, such as better binders. This means engineering proteins that can attach to other molecules more efficiently and selectively, with widespread implications related to targeted drug delivery and biotechnology, where ...