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This Startup Uses the MIT Inventor App to Teach Girls Coding

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The nonprofit was one of seven winners last year of MIT Solve’s Gender Equity in STEM Challenge. The MIT Solve Gender Equity in STEM Challenge thoroughly vets all applicants—their theories, practices, organizational health, and impact,” Smith says. The workshops tailor technology for Native American culture.

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MIT and Saudi Aramco augment existing collaboration; more energy research

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MIT President Susan Hockfield and Saudi Aramco President and CEO Khalid A. Al-Falih signed a Memorandum of Understanding in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, providing a framework that will greatly expand the research and education partnership between MIT and Saudi Aramco. Several elements of the MOU have been agreed to for implementation.

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MIT systems analysis identifies optimal vehicle platooning strategies

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MIT engineers have studied a simple vehicle-platooning scenario and determined the best ways to deploy vehicles in order to save fuel and minimize delays. We believe that ultimately this thinking will allow us to build new transportation systems in which the cost of transportation will be reduced substantially. —Sertac Karaman.

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Video Friday: Robot Halloween

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[ Berkshire Grey ] LOOK AT ITS LIL FEET [ Paper ] DOFEC (Discharging Of Fire Extinguishing Capsules) is a drone suitable for autonomously extinguishing fires from the exterior of buildings on above-ground floors using its onboard sensors. The system detects fire in thermal images and localizes it.

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Cognition Without Computation

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Yes, I am well aware that the computational theory of mind is a deeply entrenched one, starting with the work in the early 1940s of Warren McCulloch and Walter Pitts in Chicago, and then later at MIT, where they were joined by Jerome Lettvin and Humberto Maturana. Maybe conscious experiences come from some kind of self-organization.

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Cognition Without Computation

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Yes, I am well aware that the computational theory of mind is a deeply entrenched one, starting with the work in the early 1940s of Warren McCulloch and Walter Pitts in Chicago, and then later at MIT, where they were joined by Jerome Lettvin and Humberto Maturana. Maybe conscious experiences come from some kind of self-organization.

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Inventor of AT&T’s Datakit, the First Virtual Connection Switch, Dies at 85

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He was involved with IEEE Canada ’s Teacher-in-Service Program , an initiative that aims to improve elementary and secondary school technical education by offering teachers lesson plans and training workshops. Markus Zahn Professor emeritus at MIT Life Fellow, 75; died 13 March Zahn was a professor of electrical engineering for 50 years.

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