Fueled by friendly competition, students in MechE’s popular course 2.155/156 apply AI theory to real-world engineering design challenges, from bike frames to city grids. The class has “opened the curtains” on machine learning, Ilan Moyer says. Watch video
MIT has been named a top school for return on investment. CNBC noted that as of this year, “families earning $200,000 a year or less will pay $0 for tuition and families earning $100,000 or less will have fees like housing and meals covered as well.”
A new self-assembling material could be the key to recyclable EV batteries. “If we can start to recycle lithium-ion batteries from battery waste at scale, it’ll have the same effect as opening lithium mines in the U.S.,” says Yukio Cho PhD ’23.
A new MIT report captures the state of quantum computing. The report from the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy is a comprehensive assessment of the technology and the global landscape, from patents to the quantum workforce.
“The U.S. government has invested in energy grids, railroads and the internet,” Daniela Rus told Politico. “In the AI age, it must treat high-performance compute, data stewardship and model evaluation pipelines as public infrastructure as well.”
In a world without MIT, radar wouldn’t have been available to help win World War II. We might not have email, CT scans, time-release drugs, photolithography, or GPS. And we’d lose over 30,000 companies, employing millions of people. Can you imagine?
Since its founding, MIT has been key to helping American science and innovation lead the world. Discoveries that begin here generate jobs and power the economy — and what we create today builds a better tomorrow for all of us.