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AI-based data analytics enable business insight

For Sharma, that meant starting from scratch, assembling a team of data scientists and building an AI pipeline. Sharma and his team then created a “smart audience platform” that puts ads touting... Read more »

A Roomba recorded a woman on the toilet. How did screenshots end up on Facebook?

Brookman explains that the legal barriers companies must clear to collect data directly from consumers are fairly low. The FTC, or state attorneys general, may step in if there are either “unfair”... Read more »

Workouts in a pill?

In all three tissue types, mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs), which can differentiate into fat cells and fibroblasts, seemed to control many of the effects they observed. A high-fat diet enhanced MSCs’ capacity... Read more »

A new crop of awards

In September, chemistry professor Danna Freedman and Martin Luther King Jr. Visiting Scholar Moriba Jah received MacArthur Fellowships, often referred to as “genius grants.”  JON FRIEDMAN/FEDERAL RESERVE (BERNACKE), JOHN D. AND CATHERINE... Read more »

What’s in an asteroid

MIT researchers have developed a way to map an asteroid’s interior structure, or density distribution, by analyzing how the asteroid’s spin changes as it makes a close encounter with more massive objects... Read more »

Sound-powered camera

MIT researchers have developed a battery-­free, wireless underwater camera that is about 100,000 times more energy efficient than other undersea cameras. It takes color photos, even in dark underwater environments, and transmits... Read more »

Product designer finds engineers’ playground in Wisconsin

That passion brought Phillips to MIT, where she discovered product design, and from there to a job as a designer for the nation’s largest supplier of cordless power tools, Milwaukee Tool.  Her... Read more »

Recent books from the MIT community

Houdini’s Fabulous Magic (new edition; first published in 1961)By Walter B. Gibson and the late Morris N. Young ’30VINE LEAVES PRESS, 2023, $17.99 Rebels at Sea: Privateering in the American RevolutionBy Eric... Read more »

A gallery of presidents

When Sally Kornbluth becomes MIT’s 18th president on January 1, 2023, she joins a long line of leaders that includes mathematicians, chemists, physicists, engineers, an astronomer, a neurobiologist, two Rad Lab researchers,... Read more »

Mark and Teresa Medearis

After their son Nicky ’22 broke his leg competing for the MIT indoor track team in 2019, Mark and Teresa Medearis, 3,000 miles away in California, were heartened by the outpouring of... Read more »