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March 19, 2024
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Materials for Computing
Associate Professor Jeehwan Kim aims to push electronics past silicon, whose performance faces limits as more computing power is packed into ever-smaller devices. His group is exploring materials, devices, and systems that could take over where silicon leaves off.
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Making the clean energy transition work for everyone
At the 2024 MIT Energy Conference, participants grappled with the key challenges and trends shaping our fight to prevent the worst effects of climate change.
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Exploring the cellular neighborhood
New software allows scientists to model shapeshifting proteins in native cellular environments.
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How free online courses from MIT can “transform the future of the world”
MIT OpenCourseWare’s YouTube channel inspires millions of learners across the globe to expand their knowledge and develop new skills for free.
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The AI boom in executive education: What you can study right now at the world’s top B-schools // Poets and Quants for Executives 
Professor Thomas Malone discusses the executive education course he teaches with Professor Daniela Rus that aims to provide senior-level managers with a better sense of how AI works. “We are certainly not trying to teach people to understand the details of how to write AI programs, though some of those in the course may know that already,” Malone says. “What we are trying to do is give them a sense of when it is easy and when it is hard to use AI technology at various times for different kinds of business applications.” 
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Over Independent Activities Period (IAP), Jessica Rosenkrantz ’05 and Jesse Louis-Rosenberg, co-founders of generative design studio Nervous System, offered a weeklong workshop where MIT students could build unique structures though mathematics and digital fabrication. In addition to building their own pieces, the 15 students worked on “Building Complex Curvature from Flat Sheets,” a striking aluminum sculpture made from flat metal panels, currently on display in the courtyard of Building N52. On Nervous System’s varied work with mathematicians, scientists, craftspeople, and artists, Rosenkrantz mentions that “design seems to be a thing that naturally bridges between these different disciplines.”
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