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MIT School of Engineering Announces Third Quarter 2023 Awards
Faculty and researchers across MIT’s School of Engineering receive many awards in recognition of their scholarship, service, and overall excellence. The School of Engineering periodically recognizes their achievements by highlighting the…
MIT’s Role in Realizing Martin Puryear’s Innovative Brick Sculpture…
In the Hudson River Valley, on a hill inside the Storm King Art Center, a new addition to the country’s leading outdoor sculpture collection was unveiled this fall. “Lookout,” by the eminent American sculptor Martin Puryear, is a…
Cultivating Well-Rounded Communicators Among Engineers
For MIT engineering students and postdocs, tasks like writing grant proposals, applying to jobs, and presenting research findings require not only technical expertise but also the ability to clearly communicate.
For the last 10 years,…
Brain Learning Mirrors Computational Models: Similar Approaches to Understanding the World
To make our way through the world, our brain must develop an intuitive understanding of the physical world around us, which we then use to interpret sensory information coming into the brain.
How does the brain develop that intuitive…
Innovative Techniques Speed Up Sparse Tensor Processing for Large-Scale AI Models
Researchers from MIT and NVIDIA have developed two techniques that accelerate the processing of sparse tensors, a type of data structure that’s used for high-performance computing tasks. The complementary techniques could result in…
Boosting AI Speed While Safeguarding Data Security
With the proliferation of computationally intensive machine-learning applications, such as chatbots that perform real-time language translation, device manufacturers often incorporate specialized hardware components to rapidly move…
Engineers Pave the Way for Efficient Fuel Production from Carbon Dioxide
The search is on worldwide to find ways to extract carbon dioxide from the air or from power plant exhaust and then make it into something useful. One of the more promising ideas is to make it into a stable fuel that can replace fossil…
Promising Results: Light-Activated Muscle Grafts Aid Muscle Recovery After Trauma
Severe traumatic injuries that destroy large volumes of muscle can impact a person’s health, mobility, and quality of life for a lifetime. Promising new research co-led by Ritu Raman, the d’Arbeloff Career Development Assistant Professor of…
MIT Celebrates New Record of Wins at the Math Prize for Girls Competition
Florida Virtual School senior Jessica Wan was the winner of the 15th Math Prize for Girls (MP4G) annual contest for female-identifying contestants, held Oct. 6-8 at MIT.
She scored 17 out of 20 questions, which added up to make…
Surprising Study Reveals Light’s Ability to Cause Water Evaporation Without Heat
Evaporation is happening all around us all the time, from the sweat cooling our bodies to the dew burning off in the morning sun. But science’s understanding of this ubiquitous process may have been missing a piece all this time.
In…