14 cybersecurity predictions for 2022 and beyond
While the covid-19 pandemic upended workplaces and ushered in rapid digital transformation, the turmoil around…
2021 was the year of monster AI models
It’s been a year of supersized AI models. When OpenAI released GPT-3, in June 2020, the neural…
The architect making friends with flooding
For years, Beijing landscape architect Yu Kongjian was ridiculed by his fellow citizens as a…
How to save our social media by treating it like a city
Being on social media can feel a bit like living in a new kind of…
El Paso was “drought-proof.” Climate change is pushing its limits.
About 20 miles outside El Paso, Texas, on a warm afternoon just before the fall…
A campus exhibition
“Leslie Thornton: Begin Again, Again,” at the MIT List Center through February 13, is the…
Raj Tahil ’81 and Mary Jo Wrenn
Raj Tahil credits MIT with sparking his entrepreneurial instincts. “I learned to see problems as…
Improving access to healthy, fast-casual food
Cassandria Campbell, MCP ’11, traces her interest in food to her first summer job working…
Energy from the earth, for the earth
Geothermal power is a promising energy source limited by factors including the need to locate…
Schooling teachers in the realities of urban education
When Jesse Solomon ’91 first started teaching at a middle school in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in…