Four researchers with MIT ties earn 2023 Schmidt Science Fellowships
The illustrious prize supports early-career scientists and engineers as they pursue interdisciplinary work.
Study reveals new ways for exotic quasiparticles to “relax”
A perovskite-based device that combines aspects of electronics and photonics may open doors to new kinds of computer chips or quantum qubits.
Five MIT faculty elected to the National Academy of Sciences for 2023
Joshua Angrist, Gang Chen, Catherine Drennan, Dina Katabi, and Gregory Stephanopoulos are recognized by their peers for their outstanding contributions to research.
3 Questions: Jacob Andreas on large language models
The CSAIL scientist pushes forward natural language processing research by creating state-of-the-art machine learning models and investigating how language can enhance other types of artificial intelligence.
Adventures in the Pappalardo Lab
Daniel Braunstein, director of the Pappalardo Undergraduate Teaching Laboratories, found his calling at MIT's hands-on mechanical engineering space.
Like ancient mariners, ancestors of Prochlorococcus microbes rode out to sea on exoskeleton particles
A new study shows the carbon-capturing phytoplankton colonized the ocean by rafting on particles of chitin.
Success at the intersection of technology and finance
Citadel founder and CEO Ken Griffin visits MIT, discusses how technology will continue to transform trading and investing.
Study: AI models fail to reproduce human judgements about rule violations
Models trained using common data-collection techniques judge rule violations more harshly than humans would, researchers report.
Inaugural J-WAFS Grand Challenge aims to develop enhanced crop variants and move them from lab to land
Matt Shoulders will lead an interdisciplinary team to improve RuBisCO — the photosynthesis enzyme thought to be the holy grail for improving agricultural yield.
Three from MIT named 2023 Knight-Hennessy Scholars
The fellowship funds graduate studies at Stanford University.