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The Federal Laboratory Consortium (FLC) has chosen MIT Lincoln Laboratory’s Timely Address Space Randomization (TASR) as one of many recipients of their 2024 Excellence in Technology Transfer Award. This cybersecurity know-how was transferred in 2019 and 2021 to 2 firms that develop cloud-based providers. TASR has the potential to assist harden many cloud-based servers and […] More

The time period “fog of struggle” expresses the chaos and uncertainty of the battlefield. Often, it’s only in hindsight that individuals can grasp what was unfolding round them. Now, extra readability in regards to the Iraq War has arrived within the type of a brand new e-book by MIT political scientist Roger Petersen, which dives […] More

Four excellent undergraduate academics and mentors have been named MacVicar Faculty Fellows: professor {of electrical} engineering and laptop science (EECS) Karl Berggren, professor of political science Andrea Campbell, affiliate professor of music Emily Richmond Pollock, and professor of EECS Vinod Vaikuntanathan. For greater than 30 years, the MacVicar Faculty Fellows Program has acknowledged exemplary and […] More

In early 2022, economist Catherine Wolfram was at her desk within the U.S. Treasury constructing. She might see the east wing of the White House, simply steps away. Russia had simply invaded Ukraine, and Wolfram was fascinated by Russia, oil, and sanctions. She and her colleagues had been tasked with determining find out how to […] More

To obtain the aspirational aim of the Paris Agreement on local weather change — limiting the rise in international common floor temperature to 1.5 levels Celsius above preindustrial ranges — would require its 196 signatories to dramatically cut back their greenhouse gasoline (GHG) emissions. Those greenhouse gases differ broadly of their international warming potential (GWP), […] More

From college students crafting essays and engineers writing code to name heart operators responding to clients, generative synthetic intelligence instruments have prompted a wave of experimentation over the previous yr. At MIT, these experiments have raised questions — some new, some ages previous — about how these instruments can change the best way we stay […] More

On Vassar Street, within the coronary heart of MIT’s campus, the MIT Stephen A. Schwarzman College of Computing just lately opened the doorways to its new headquarters in Building 45. The constructing’s central location and welcoming design will assist type a brand new cluster of connectivity at MIT and allow the house to have a […] More

The King Climate Action Initiative (Ok-CAI) is the flagship local weather change program of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), which innovates, exams, and scales options on the nexus of local weather change and poverty alleviation, along with coverage companions worldwide. Claire Walsh is the affiliate director of coverage at J-PAL Global at […] More

Lauren Aguilar knew she wished to review power methods at MIT, however earlier than Course 1-12 (Climate System Science and Engineering) grew to become a brand new undergraduate main, she did not see an apparent path to review the methods elements of power, coverage, and local weather related to the power transition. Aguilar was drawn […] More

If you’re a resident of Hull, Lynn, Salem, or different Massachusetts cities at present uncovered to noise from plane approaching Boston Logan Airport, you could discover the skies getting a little bit quieter this yr. Over the final decade, enhancements to plane navigation expertise have allowed departing and arriving plane to observe extremely exact routes […] More

Anna Russo likes puzzles. They require persistence, group, and a view of the large image. She brings an investigator’s eye to huge institutional and societal challenges whose options can have wide-ranging, long-term impacts. Russo’s path to MIT started with questions. She didn’t have the entire image but. “I had no concept what I needed to […] More

A brand new ruling from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), referred to as the Cybersecurity Risk Management, Strategy, Governance, and Incident Disclosure, went into impact final fall. The ruling requires public corporations to reveal whether or not their boards of administrators have members with cybersecurity experience. Specifically, registrants are required to reveal whether […] More