“I was raised in a family where literally everyone was an engineer,” MIT Sloan’s Nikos Trichakis says. “So I guess I have the virus of problem-solving.” He now designs systems that balance efficiency and fairness in domains from medicine to finance.
Via @mit_engineering on Instagram: “Relaxing on the front steps on a beautiful day”
In a Q&A published in Slate, research fellow Laura Grego discussed the growing need to implement policies that help preserve space for all: “It’s not exactly any one person’s responsibility, it’s a shared resource,” she said.
When Hayden Library was dedicated in 1950, composer Bohuslav Martinů wrote his “Piano Trio in D Minor” to mark the occasion. Now, 71 years later, a trio of current students performed a movement from the piece to celebrate Hayden’s renovation.
A new machine-learning model, developed at CSAIL, could help robots understand interactions in the world much as humans do. The work moves the field one step closer to enabling machines that can learn from and interact with their environments.
The 2021 Nobel Peace Prize recognized journalists under fire, laureate Maria Ressa said in a talk at the Legatum Center for Development & Entrepreneurship. She spoke of building a new media company, changing business models, and weathering opposition.
Via @MIT on Twitter: “Congrats to @NASA’s #DartMission on a successful launch to asteroid Dimorphos this morning! Investigation Team Co-Lead Andy Rivkin ’91 @asrivkin, who began studying asteroids at @eapsMIT, is now ‘a leading voice in this field.’”