“I wanted to work on something that didn’t exist”
Mice “would normally eat ferociously” when given access to food after fasting. “But if you stimulate those cells in the gut, they would feel full.” Together they developed a way to distribute...
Purpose-built AI builds better customer experiences
Once the interaction begins, we can use data, artificial intelligence, to measure sentiment, customer sentiment. And in the course of the interaction, an agent can get a notification from their supervisor that says, "Here's...
The Download: heat pumps, and getting drugs to the brain
1 Microsoft briefly usurped Apple as the world’s most valuable companyThe AI boom has investors laughing all the way to the bank. (FT $)+ Microsoft is growing more quickly than its old rival. (Reuters)+...
The Download: how to fight pandemics, and a top scientist turned-advisor
2 Google has launched a new anti-terrorism content toolAltitude gives smaller platforms the ability to track, detect and remove terror content. (Wired $)+ Google has a new tool to outsmart authoritarian internet censorship. (MIT...
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Alan ’72 and Joan Henricks
“MIT was a very humbling experience for me,” says Alan Henricks, one of the first generation in his Midwestern family to attend college. “But at the end of four years, it also gave me...
MIT’s new design hub
The MIT Morningside Academy for Design, an interdisciplinary center that aims to build on the Institute’s leadership in design-focused education and become a global hub for design research, thinking, and entrepreneurship, will launch in...
Energy from the earth, for the earth
Geothermal power is a promising energy source limited by factors including the need to locate plants in areas where reservoirs of hot water deep below the earth’s surface are easily accessible. Carlos Araque is...
Improving access to healthy, fast-casual food
Cassandria Campbell, MCP ’11, traces her interest in food to her first summer job working with the Food Project on farms in Lincoln, Massachusetts, and Roxbury, the Boston neighborhood where she grew up. “I...
Raj Tahil ’81 and Mary Jo Wrenn
Raj Tahil credits MIT with sparking his entrepreneurial instincts. “I learned to see problems as interesting opportunities,” says the president of Torpac Capsules, which specializes in custom capsules and pharmaceutical equipment. In the spirit...
