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MIT Professor’s IoT Sensors Make Roads Safer

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Back in 2005, before smartphones were generally available, MIT Professor Hari Balakrishnan was so fed up with commuting delays in Boston that he built a mobile system to monitor road conditions. This was before iPhones , Androids , and Google Maps.” They later founded CMT, with Madden serving as its chief scientist.

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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 initiative supports organizations that work to address gender barriers.

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MIT, QCRI use AI to enrich digital maps to improve GPS navigation; RoadTagger

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A model developed by Researchers at MIT and Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI) have developed a model that uses satellite imagery to tag road features in digital maps to help improve GPS navigation. Then, they gathered the corresponding satellite images from a Google Maps dataset.

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Berkeley Lab and MIT launch the Materials Project search engine to speed development of new materials

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Researchers from the Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) jointly launched a new online tool called the Materials Project, which operates like a “Google” of material properties, enabling scientists and engineers from universities, national laboratories (..)

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AI Doesn’t Have to Be This Way

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One researcher who stands opposite technology’s cheerleaders is MIT economist Daron Acemoglu. Daron Acemoglu, MIT In theory, high demand and tight supply are supposed to result in higher prices—in this case, higher salary offers. Daron Acemoglu, MIT Let me give you another example more relevant to the political discourse.

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Two Oddball Ideas for a Megaqubit Quantum Computer

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Computing giants such as IBM , Google , and Intel hope to solve that problem with cyrogenic silicon chips that can operate close to the qubits themselves. Researchers at MIT, led by associate profess of electrical and computer engineering Ruonan Han , tested a scheme that would use terahertz waves instead.

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Jakarta study finds HOV policy reduced number of cars in city

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The sudden halt provided a team from Harvard and MIT with valuable insights into how carpooling affects traffic flow within the megacity. In March 2016, Jakarta, Indonesia, with a population of more than 30 million, abruptly ended a high-occupancy vehicle (HOV) policy that required three passengers in a car during peak hours.

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