Paris Smaragdis works on enabling AI to hear and understand sounds like humans do, so machines can listen to music, speech, and noises in the environment. “I like to say that I do the same thing the computer vision folks do, but instead I do it for hearing,” he says.
Founded by Jake Jurewicz ’14, SM ’15, Blue Energy manufactures giant pieces of nuclear reactors at shipyards and ships them on barges for final assembly. The startup aims to rejuvenate the nuclear power industry with a new manufacturing approach.
An MIT spinout is making surgical stitching more like applying tape: SanaHeal has developed a biologically compatible adhesive that sticks to wet tissues. Its product was inspired by sticky materials in nature, like barnacles and spider webs.
AI has reshaped materials science by proposing new structures. But many potential structures are stored in databases, inaccessible to large language models. To overcome this, researchers created a vision-language model for crystalline materials.
Robert E. Hall PhD ’67 and Michael Woodford PhD ’83 share this year’s Nobel prize in economics. The two MIT alumni were honored for work that illuminates how government policy can spur growth in response to economic downturns.
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