Hands on the Wheel
Excerpts from new faculty books pose questions we must answer as AI begins to reshape society
Topics: Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Breaking the Bottleneck in Genetic Engineering
A startup backed by The Engine harnesses microfluidics to reprogram cells with unprecedented speed
The MIT Intelligence Quest
New Institute-wide initiative will advance human and machine intelligence research
Education Meets Innovation
Hemant ’97, MNG ’99 and Jessica Taneja
Rooted in Personal History, a Gift for Today’s Students
Caroline Huang SM ’85, PhD ’91 and Mike Phillips
Why Do You Ask?
The power of wanting to know
How Can Computers Apply What They’ve Learned to New Situations?
Developing this capacity in machine learning could better equip it for human interaction and a host of medical applications
Prototyping Real-World Problems
An excerpt from Luis Perez-Breva’s “doer’s manifesto” on innovating
A (How Not to) Crash Course
The basics of DIY electric vehicles
The Magnetism of a Digital-Era Campus
A graduate student analyzes MIT’s physical pathways of collaboration