Spotlight: Jan 9, 2023
Stefanie Jegelka seeks to unpack AI’s “black box” — to better understand how machine-learning models behave, and help researchers build more robust models for applications in biology, computer vision, optimization, and more.
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Via @MIT_SHASS on Twitter: “Joyous, Rigorous, Welcoming: The MIT Music program teaches both conservatory-level musicians and beginners — and everyone in between! Learn more about MIT's transformative music program: @ArtsatMIT"
CLIMATE ACTION
Josué C. Velázquez Martínez, the director of MIT’s Sustainable Supply Chain Lab, investigates how customer-facing supply chains can be made more environmentally and socially sustainable.
IN THE MEDIA
PBS NewsHour highlighted the scientific advancements on display at the MIT Museum. “We’re here to turn MIT inside out,” John Durant said. “We want people to understand what contemporary research and innovation are all about.”
RESEARCH NEWS
A new quantum computing architecture could help to connect large-scale devices: RLE work on extensible quantum interconnects marks a crucial first step toward building larger-scale machines from smaller individual components.
FEATURED VIDEO
This week, Sally Kornbluth, MIT’s 18th president, arrived at her new office on MIT’s campus. “I look forward to meeting as many of you as I can,” she wrote in her first letter to the community.
ALUMNI IN ACTION
A passion for robotics brought Rosalie Phillips ’21 to MIT, where she discovered product design. Now she’s a designer for the nation’s largest supplier of cordless power tools.