
Consortium including MIT awarded $110M national grant to …
Jul 27, 2015 · MIT will also host AIM Photonics’ program in education and workforce development, which Kimerling will direct. This will include developing educational materials — …
Simple, solar-powered water desalination - MIT News
Feb 6, 2020 · A completely passive solar-powered desalination system developed by researchers at MIT and in China could provide more than 1.5 gallons of fresh drinking water per hour for …
“Life is short, so aim high” - MIT News
Mar 29, 2024 · 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 …
Explained: The 1.5 C climate benchmark - MIT News
Aug 27, 2023 · In 2015, in response to the growing urgency of climate impacts, nearly every country in the world signed onto the Paris Agreement, a landmark international treaty under …
Innovative projects aim to boost safety, efficiency of nuclear power ...
Sep 20, 2006 · 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 …
Generative AI imagines new protein structures - MIT News
Jul 12, 2023 · “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 …
Bridging philosophy and AI to explore computing ethics
Feb 11, 2025 · 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 …
MIT’s Center for Constructive Communication takes aim at the ...
May 10, 2023 · The MIT Center for Constructive Communication (CCC) and the closely affiliated nonprofit Cortico today announced the launch of a broad-based effort that draws on expertise …
Six MIT students selected as spring 2024 MIT-Pillar AI ... - MIT News
Feb 6, 2024 · The MIT-Pillar AI Collective has announced six fellows for the spring 2024 semester. With support from the program, the graduate students, who are in their final year of …
Cutting urban carbon emissions by retrofitting buildings
Jul 13, 2023 · PhD candidate Zachary Berzolla SM ’21 (left), Professor Christoph Reinhart (right), and their colleagues have launched online simulation tools that enable urban policymakers to …