Researchers at MIT, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and Duke University have developed a method for identifying the protein transporters different drugs use to traverse the digestive tract. This could help to avoid dangerous drug interactions and enhance patient treatment as two medications that use the same transporter may interact negatively if prescribed together. The method…
Jospin Hassan, a resident of Dzaleka Refugee Camp in Malawi, realized the lack of educational opportunities in his environment, particularly in cutting-edge fields like data science and artificial intelligence that can offer employment opportunities and solutions to local challenges. This led him to establish his organization, ADAI Circle, after he earned a spot in the…
MIT researchers have developed a deep-learning model to help robots navigate crowded warehouses, where congestion can slow operations and even lead to crashes. The model does this by dividing the robots into smaller groups and using a path-finding algorithm to decongest each group more quickly. Researchers described the process as being similar to mitigating traffic…
MIT student Sadhana Lolla has been awarded the renowned Gates Cambridge Scholarship. This prestigious scholarship was created in 2000 and covers all costs for post-graduate study at UK’s Cambridge University for exceptional students from countries outside of the UK. It aims to nurture a global community of aspiring leaders dedicated to enhancing the lives of…
MIT's Shaping the Future of Work Initiative officially launched on January 22. Co-directed by MIT Professors Daron Acemoglu, David Autor, and Simon Johnson, the initiative seeks to examine the factors negatively impacting job quality and employment opportunities for workers without a completed four-year college education. The goal is to propose novel solutions that set the…
Tamara Broderick, a once participant of the Women's Technology Program at MIT, found her path back to the institution years later, but as a faculty member. Broderick, a tenured associate professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), works in the field of Bayesian inference, which is a statistical approach to measure…
As traditional semiconductor technologies approach their physical limits, the demand for computing power continues to rise, largely driven by the rapid expansion of artificial intelligence (AI). Addressing this conundrum, Lightmatter, a company founded by three MIT alumni, has developed pioneering computing technology that harnesses the properties of light to bolster data processing and transport.
Lightmatter’s…