HPI-MIT design research collaboration creates powerful teams
Together, the Hasso Plattner Institute and MIT are working toward novel solutions to the world’s problems as part of the Designing for Sustainability research program.
Innovation and Entrepreneurship (I&E)
MIT faculty, instructors, students experiment with generative AI in teaching and learning
At MIT’s Festival of Learning 2024, panelists stressed the importance of developing critical thinking skills while leveraging technologies like generative AI.
Does technology help or hurt employment?
Combing through 35,000 job categories in U.S. census data, economists found a new way to quantify technology’s effects on job loss and creation.
Most work is new work, long-term study of U.S. census data shows
The majority of U.S. jobs are in occupations that have emerged since 1940, MIT research finds — telling us much about the ways jobs are created and lost.
Using generative AI to improve software testing
MIT spinout DataCebo helps companies bolster their datasets by creating synthetic data that mimic the real thing.
Startup accelerates progress toward light-speed computing
Lightmatter, founded by three MIT alumni, is using photonic technologies to reinvent how chips communicate and calculate.
Brain surgery training from an avatar
MIT.nano Immersion Lab works with AR/VR startup to create transcontinental medical instruction.
Putting AI into the hands of people with problems to solve
Alumni-founded Pienso has developed a user-friendly AI builder so domain experts can build solutions without writing any code.
Safer skies with self-flying helicopters
Autonomous helicopters made by Rotor Technologies, a startup led by MIT PhDs, take the human out of risky commercial missions.
Six MIT students selected as spring 2024 MIT-Pillar AI Collective Fellows
The graduate students will aim to commercialize innovations in AI, machine learning, and data science.