- Francis Fan Lee, former professor and interdisciplinary speech processing inventor, dies at 96The former EECS professor and RLE affiliate helped to develop a machine that read text out loud and won an Emmy for work on subtly speeding up film and audio without a noticeable loss of pitch.
- Fostering research, careers, and community in materials scienceMICRO internship program expands, brings undergraduate interns from other schools to campus.
- Natural language boosts LLM performance in coding, planning, and roboticsThree neurosymbolic methods help language models find better abstractions within natural language, then use those representations to execute complex tasks.
- Nuno Loureiro named director of MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion CenterA lauded professor, theoretical physicist, and fusion scientist, Loureiro is keenly positioned to advance the center’s research and education goals.
- Studies in empathy and analyticsSenior James Simon wants to effect change in two ways: by quantifying societal issues and working directly with disadvantaged communities.
- Science communication competition brings research into the real world“We need more scientists who can explain their work clearly, explain science to the public, and help us build a science-literate world.”
- To understand cognition — and its dysfunction — neuroscientists must learn its rhythmsA new framework describes how thought arises from the coordination of neural activity driven by oscillating electric fields — a.k.a. brain “waves” or “rhythms.”
- MITdesignX and MISTI in DubaiThe Institute’s “mind and hand” ethos has found a home in the United Arab Emirates.
- Alison Badgett named director of the Priscilla King Gray Public Service CenterWith decades of experience in the nonprofit sector, she will lead the center as MIT boosts social impact experiential learning opportunities.
- Offering clean energy around the clockMIT spinout 247Solar is building high-temperature concentrated solar power systems that use overnight thermal energy storage to provide power and heat.
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