
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.
“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.”
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.
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 ...
Explained: The 1.5 C climate benchmark - MIT News
2023年8月27日 · 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 which 195 nations pledged to hold the Earth’s temperature to “well below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels,” and going further, aim to “limit the temperature ...
MIT’s Center for Constructive Communication takes aim at the ...
2023年5月10日 · 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 in face-to-face human dialogue, digital networks, and machine learning to develop safe and trusted spaces for meaningful, nonpolarizing human connection and civic impact.
Six MIT students selected as spring 2024 MIT-Pillar AI ... - MIT News
2024年2月6日 · 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 a master’s or PhD program, will conduct research in the areas of AI, machine learning, and data science with the aim of commercializing their innovations.
Using artificial intelligence to generate 3D holograms in real-time
2021年3月10日 · Caption: This figure shows the experimental demonstration of 2D and 3D holographic projection. The left photograph is focused on the mouse toy (in yellow box) closer to the camera, and the right photograph is focused on the perpetual desk calendar (in blue box).
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.