| Smart Scooters | | | | | | The micromobility industry has been hit hard by upkeep costs for its fleets of rentable electric scooters. In its quest to improve urban mobility, MIT spinout Superpedestrian has developed a smarter scooter, featuring autonomous diagnostics. Full story via MIT News → |
| 3 Questions: Heather Hendershot on the state of US political discourse Media historian and expert on conservatism considers the end of rational dialog. Full story via MIT News → | |
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| MIT-Delft University of Technology team places third in Formula Student Germany driverless competition Teams were scored on speed, construction, performance, and financial planning at one of the world’s largest student engineering competitions. Full story via MIT News → | |
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| From streams to teams Graduate student Maya Stokes, a geomorphology expert and ultimate frisbee coach, shows her passion for teaching in the field and on the field. Full story via MIT News → | |
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| Study: Climate change could pose danger for Muslim pilgrimage When the Hajj comes in summertime, in some years it may not be safe for participants to remain outdoors. Full story via MIT News → | |
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| MIT Sloan introduces five new faculty members New faculty members focus on areas from social science to the sharing economy. Full story via MIT Sloan → |
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| How Payal Kadakia danced her way to a $600 million startup // The New York Times Payal Kadakia ’05 discusses her startup ClassPass, a platform that allows users to access a myriad of fitness classes. “[T]he curriculum is so mathematical,” she says of MIT. “Everything is numbers. It was this idea of this world that I lived in.” Full story via The New York Times → |
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| A financial revolution is almost upon us // Financial Times Graduate student Daniel Aronoff examines the impact of the FedNow banking service, which aims to process and settle individual payments within seconds. He notes the plan will have a “revolutionary impact on the banking industry and monetary policy.” Full story via Financial Times → |
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| How one city saved $5 million by routing school buses with an algorithm // Route Fifty MIT researchers developed an algorithm for the bus routes used by Boston Public Schools. Designed to cut costs and improve on-time performance rates, the algorithm “has created dramatic results.” Full story via Route Fifty → |
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| With Alzheimer’s research at a crossroads, artificial intelligence might point the way forward // STAT MIT researchers have developed an AI system that can predict Alzheimer’s risk by forecasting how patients will perform on a test measuring cognitive decline up to two years in advance. Full story via STAT → |
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| 5 | | Number of MIT massive open online courses (MOOCs) listed among Class Central’s “Top 100 Online Courses of All Time,” in which MIT is tied for first among institutions represented Full list via Class Central → |
| | | | | My goal for college and going to MIT is trying to figure out which problems in the world around us are the most important ones to solve, and trying to figure out the right thought process and the right course of action to employ to be able to solve those problems. | | —Anjali Chadha, incoming MIT first-year student and founder of Empowered, a nonprofit helping high school girls gain tech skills Full story via WAVE 3 News → |
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