Consortium including MIT awarded $110M national grant to promote . . . 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
MIT’s Center for Constructive Communication takes aim at . . . - MIT News 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
Generative AI imagines new protein structures - MIT News “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
Prank research paper makes the grade - MIT News "Our aim here is to maximize amusement, rather than coherence," say the three on their web site They were so amused when the paper was accepted that they told their story on the web, asking people for donations to help them attend the conference in Orlando, Fla , July 10-13 to present the "Rooter" paper
Math research team maps E8 - MIT News The E 8 calculation is part of an ambitious project sponsored by AIM and the National Science Foundation known as the Atlas of Lie Groups and Representations The goal of the Atlas project is to determine the unitary representations-roughly speaking, symmetries of a quantum mechanical system-of all the Lie groups (E 8 is the largest of the
Introducing the MIT Generative AI Impact Consortium 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
How forests can cut carbon, restore ecosystems, and create jobs Among other things, funders aim to minimize operational risk (e g , Will newly planted trees survive and grow?), political risk (e g , Just how secure is their access to the land where trees will be planted?); and reputational risk (e g , Will the project be perceived as an exercise in “greenwashing,” or fall way short of its promised
Explained: Carbon credits - MIT News 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
Math enthusiasts take aim at STEM glass ceiling - MIT News A good math problem is like a walled, secret garden, according to Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) head and MIT Professor Asu Ozdaglar, who was addressing an audience of middle and high school female-identifying mathematics contestants at the 14th annual Math Prize for Girls (MP4G) event