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A piano outfitted with technology to play back a performance with exquisite fidelity gave students and researchers a new view into their craft. “We are able to come to an understanding about how it is that pianists are able to do what they do,” Mi-Eun Kim says. Watch video
One of the world’s leading experts on multiple sclerosis, Stephen Hauser ’71 is unequivocal about MIT’s influence: “There was nothing in my education before or after that came close to the impact that MIT had on me. It was life changing.”
Engineers have developed a tamper-proof ID tag, based on terahertz waves, that can reveal with near-perfect accuracy whether an item is real or fake. The key is in the glue on the back of the tag.
Via @lincoln_laboratory on Instagram: “On Saturday, as part of Lincoln Laboratory’s series of Black History Month events, members of our community volunteered at the Greater Boston Food Bank.”
Political science and physics major Leela Fredlund wants to ensure fairness and justice prevail in humanity's leap into space: “I realized that I could raise very interesting questions at the intersection of astronomy and political science,” she says.
Aided by machine learning, researchers developed a method to remotely map crop types in low- or middle-income countries where agricultural data are sparse. The work fills “a longstanding gap in knowledge about what is grown around the world,” Sherrie Wang says.
As a mechanical engineer at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Phillip Daniel ’13, SM ’15, PhD ’22 conducts research for the US Department of Defense that involves exploring the deepest oceans and the farthest skies.