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February 13, 2025
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Farming With Microbes
Pivot Bio, co-founded by Professor Chris Voigt, has developed a nitrogen product that is replacing synthetic fertilizer across millions of acres of American farmland. Based on nitrogen-producing microbes, the technology is helping to make farming more sustainable and efficient.
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Validation technique could help scientists make more accurate forecasts
MIT researchers developed a new approach for assessing predictions with a spatial dimension, like forecasting weather or mapping air pollution.
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Puzzling out climate change
Accenture Fellow Shreyaa Raghavan applies machine learning and optimization methods to explore ways to reduce transportation sector emissions.
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MIT students’ works redefine human-AI collaboration
Projects from MIT course 4.043/4.044 (Interaction Intelligence) were presented at NeurIPS, showing how AI transforms creativity, education, and interaction in unexpected ways.
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MIT launches Artfinity Festival by opening new music building // The Boston Globe
MIT’s Artfinity Festival kicks off Saturday, Feb. 15, with a celebration of the new Edward and Joyce Linde Music Building and Thomas Tull Concert Hall, featuring a free afternoon open house and evening concert. “What this building brings to us is support for performance of all different types of music, whether it’s classical or jazz or world music, and then the ability to support various functions with our students,” says Keeril Makan, associate dean of SHASS and head of the Music and Theater Arts Section. Makan notes that during the Artfinity Festival, “almost every Saturday night, there’s a really exciting event happening in the concert hall.”
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In a new episode of the MIT CSAIL Alliances Podcast, professor of economics David Autor shares his vision for how AI will change everyday jobs, including his biggest worries, the greatest upside scenarios, and how he believes we should be approaching AI as a tool. Later in the podcast, PhD student Sharut Gupta describes how self-supervised learning might bring about truly adaptable models that can respond to fast-changing environments, like consumer preferences.
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