“I wanted to work on something that didn’t exist”
In 2017 Polina Anikeeva, PhD ’09, was invited to a conference in the Netherlands to give a talk about magnetic
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A linguistic warning sign for dementia
Older people with mild cognitive impairment, especially when characterized by episodic memory loss, are at increased risk for dementia due
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An invisibility cloak for would-be cancers
One of the immune system’s roles is to detect and kill cells that have acquired cancerous mutations. However, some early-stage
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The energy transition’s effects on jobs
A county-by-county analysis by MIT researchers shows the places in the US that stand to see the biggest economic changes
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The silver-platter season
In the spring of 1974, I was new to both MIT and rugby football. As a Course 2 graduate student,
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What’s one memento you kept from your time at MIT?
Alumni leave MIT armed with knowledge and a whole lot of memories. During Tech Reunions in 2023, the MIT Alumni
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I went to COP28. Now the real work begins.
As an international student at MIT, I find that the privileges I’ve experienced in the States have made me even
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Purpose-built AI builds better customer experiences
In the bygone era of contact centers, the customer experience was tethered to a singular channel—the phone call. The journey
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The robots are coming. And that’s a good thing.
In this excerpt from the new book, The Heart and the Chip: Our Bright Future with Robots, CSAIL Director Daniela
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