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Officials outline how federal legislation is expected to affect students, faculty, staff, and MIT.
Driven by curiosity, former auto mechanic Ryan Kohn now pursues a PhD in biology.
Two-day workshop featuring island leaders explores ways to rebuilt better, more resilient infrastructure.
MIT’s Janelle Knox-Hayes studies the cultural issues behind climate policy.
Putting limits on foreign students or technical publications would be counterproductive, write Deutch and Condoleezza Rice.
Alumni of the Graduate Program in Science Writing engage the public in critical issues ranging from medical breakthroughs to climate change.
Boston Globe reporter David Abel reports on Puerto Rico Governor Ricardo Rosselló's ’01 visit to MIT for the Conference for the Resilient Construction of the Caribbean. The governor shared his frustration with proposed federal tax policies while expressing optimism about working with MIT on solutions for climate-resilient reconstruction after this fall’s hurricanes.
In an article for Fortune, Senior Lecturer Sharmila C. Chatterjee writes that brick-and-mortar stores can compete with online retailers by focusing on designing an attractive shopping experience for customers. “By focusing on their core competencies—one-on-one, human-to-human customer service, sensory-stimulating in-store experiences, and promise of instant gratification—traditional stores have an opportunity to excel where websites falter.”
Boston Globe reporter Tim Logan writes that Roche Bros. Supermarkets will open a Brothers Market in MIT’s One Broadway Building. Steve Marsh, managing director of MIT’s Real Estate Group, explained that a grocery store was, “so important to those who live and work in Kendall that we worked to incorporate it in the earliest possible phase of our development.”
Research engineer Bryan Reimer speaks with Ashley Halsey of The Washington Post about the need for a national conversation to determine how safe driverless cars should be before they become more widely available. “Unless we have defined how safe is safe enough — and we are in agreement — the nature of politics is that fingers will point at each other,” says Reimer.
Students put their AI software for underwater vehicles to the test on the Charles River.
A new automated machine-learning system performs as well or better than its human counterparts — and works 100 times faster.
Approach could bypass the time-consuming steps currently needed to test new photovoltaic materials.
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