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Walter Torous has been named executive director of the MIT Center for Real Estate, effective July 2026, with a focus on enhancing academic programs and technology integration in real estate education.
MIT Quantum Initiative has launched a new postdoctoral fellowship program to accelerate interdisciplinary quantum research and develop the next generation of scientific leaders, supported by a grant from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.
MIT's Ad Hoc Committee report provides guiding principles for integrating generative AI into education and research, highlighting the need for humility, bold action, and a focus on human values.
MIT Lincoln Laboratory's Optical Communications System (O2O) enabled high-speed, crystal-clear data transmission from the Artemis II Orion mission using infrared laser light, allowing livestreams and nearly half a terabyte of lunar data to be downlinked.
Laurie Stach, an MIT alum, founded LaunchX to provide high school students with practical entrepreneurship skills through intensive summer programs, now serving hundreds of students per year.
This tweet recommends MIT's 'Introduction to Machine Learning' course on the Open Learning Library, highlighting its user-friendly interface design and suitability for self-learners.
MIT_CSAIL celebrates the 90th birthday of Margaret Hamilton, a pioneer in software engineering for the Apollo missions.
Richard Stallman recounts a playful hack using six chopsticks to illustrate the true meaning of hacking as playful cleverness and exploration, and traces the origins of hacker culture at MIT.
Reports that another open problem from the FrontierMath benchmark has been solved, linking to a research paper by MIT mathematician Bjorn Poonen.
MIT researchers developed a scalable fabrication technique that integrates delicate molecular materials into electronic devices without damage, combining conventional semiconductor manufacturing with self-assembly. The method, demonstrated with over 1,000 devices and published in Nature Nanotechnology, could enable next-generation computing, photonic, and quantum technologies.
MIT researchers led by Ju Li identified an electrolyte solvent that improves sodium-metal battery stability and fast cycling, offering a cheaper and more abundant alternative to lithium-ion batteries.
Alexander Rakhlin has been named director of the MIT Statistics and Data Science Center, succeeding Ankur Moitra, and will lead interdisciplinary statistics and AI research efforts.
Daniela Rus, director of MIT CSAIL, receives the 2026 Bavarian Minister-President's High-Tech Prize for her pioneering contributions to robotics, AI, and autonomous systems, including soft robotics and liquid neural networks.
MIT students and postdocs traveled to Washington to advocate for federal science funding, meeting with 62 congressional offices as part of the annual Congressional Visit Days program.
A tweet highlights a MIT student-compiled PDF known as the 'Quant Bible,' praised as one of the best quant interview resources, with the full version shared in replies.
An MIT-developed medical database evolved into PhysioNet, a global biomedical data repository used by thousands of researchers worldwide, as detailed in a recent Nature Health paper.
MIT researchers developed VLASH, a method enabling vision-language-action models to predict future robot states, doubling speed and reducing lag in tasks like pick-and-place and table tennis.
MIT offers the free textbook 'Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs' (SICP) for learning computer science fundamentals like recursion, abstraction, and language design.
MIT doctoral student Lauren Fortier is developing remote operation protocols for autonomous control of nuclear plants, aiming to make nuclear power more economical.
A tweet recounts the famous 1986 MIT lectures by Gerald Sussman and Harold Abelson for Hewlett-Packard engineers, where they taught abstraction and recursion rather than job skills, with Sussman famously wearing a wizard hat.