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PostOctober 14, 2020

3 Questions: The price of privacy in ride-sharing app performance

Masking location data helps avoid the identification of users in case of a security breach, but this loss of information can also lead to poorer quality of service in a location-based ride-sharing app.

PostOctober 13, 2020

Our midcentury climate goals require radical change today

MIT Technology Review

PostOctober 5, 2020

Comparing the benefits of scooter-sharing vs. bike-sharing

Based on usage trajectories, MIT and SMART researchers found scooter-sharing more popular than bike-sharing in two areas of Singapore. Seen here: scooters for rent in the United States.

PostOctober 1, 2020

MIT Energy Initiative Fall Colloquium: Net-zero emissions and social equity...

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PostSeptember 23, 2020

National Science Foundation Convergence Accelerator awards two grants to MI...

The National Science Foundation Convergence Accelerator program is designed to foster global cross-disciplinary and cross-sector workshops on emerging areas of critical societal importance.

PostSeptember 3, 2020

“The Emerald Tutu” wins NSF grant for design to protect Boston’s coas...

Aerial view photo montage of the Emerald Tutu in Boston Harbor, here shown flanking and protecting the waterfront areas of East Boston.

PostAugust 10, 2020

3 Questions: Asegun Henry on five “grand thermal challenges” to stem th...

MIT’s Asegun Henry on tackling five “grand thermal challenges” to stem the global warming tide: “Our mission here is to save humanity from extinction due to climate change.”

PostAugust 7, 2020

Shrinking deep learning’s carbon footprint

Deep learning has driven much of the recent progress in artificial intelligence, but as demand for computation and energy to train ever-larger models increases, many are raising concerns about the financial and environmental costs. To address the problem, researchers at MIT and the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab are experimenting with ways to make software and hardware more energy efficient, and in some cases, more like the human brain.

PostAugust 6, 2020

When the chemical industry met modern architecture

MIT graduate student Jessica Varner has explored how the chemical industry wooed the building and construction industry with new synthetic materials at the turn of the 20th century. The result, she writes in her dissertation, was “one of the most successful, and toxic, material transformations in modern history.”

PostJune 11, 2020

Stiffer roadways could improve truck fuel efficiency

Map shows the potential reductions in overall greenhouse gas emissions from the transportation sector, state by state, that could be achieved by policies emphasizing the use of stiffer road surfaces. The greatest potential gains are seen across the southern part of the country.

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