It is a wonderful life
Orientation was a wake-up call. “All the first-year students were assembled beneath the big dome,” he recalls.…
“Every project is a new adventure,” says architectural shape-shifter
Samyn grew up in the Belgian countryside, where his father was a mechanical engineer and his mother was a…
Calculating the costs of war
To fuel such change, Crawford works to make clear the full cost of military activity, providing data on dollars…
Can AI provide better customer service?
Taking on big challenges is nothing new for Tsai, who was just 15 when she arrived at MIT. And while she always…
The art of unearthing history
“I’ll scratch film or cut it up or reassemble it or add things like saffron leaves and petals or tree bark.…
Irene T. Cheng, SM ’78
“Thinking big, aiming high, and making a difference were rules of the road embedded during my time at MIT,”…
The Download: what’s next for AI, and quantum computing challenges
This time last year our AI writers did something reckless. In an industry where nothing stands still, they had…
Which Countries Eat the Most Chocolate
Whether you like a single-serving chocolate bar or enjoy gifting selection boxes for special…
The online art catalogue that chronicles a stolen African heritage
Anne Luther, a digital heritage specialist and one of Digital Benin’s principal investigators, hopes the project…
The hidden climate cost of everything around us
Since 1971, steel demand has tripled, aluminum demand has increased by six, and cement demand has increased…