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How MIT LGO alumni are powering Amazon’s...

August 5, 2025

If you’ve urgently ordered a package from Amazon — and exhaled when it arrived on your doorstep hours later — you likely have three graduates of the MIT Leaders for Global Operations (LGO) program to thank: John Tagawa SM ’99; Diego Méndez de la Luz MNG ’04, MBA ’11, SM ’11; or Chuck Cummings MBA ’11, SM ’11. Each holds critical roles within the company. Tagawa oversees Amazon’s North American operations. Méndez de la Luz heads up operations in...

MIT tool visualizes and edits “physically impossible”...

August 4, 2025

M.C. Escher’s artwork is a gateway into a world of depth-defying optical illusions, featuring “impossible objects” that break the laws of physics with convoluted geometries. What you perceive his illustrations to be depends on your point of view — for example, a person seemingly walking upstairs may be heading down the steps if you tilt your head sideways. Computer graphics scientists and designers can recreate these illusions in 3D, but only by bending or cutting a real shape and positioning...

Youssef Marzouk appointed associate dean of MIT...

August 1, 2025

Youssef Marzouk ’97, SM ’99, PhD ’04, the Breene M. Kerr (1951) Professor in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AeroAstro) at MIT, has been appointed associate dean of the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing, effective July 1. Marzouk, who has served as co-director of the Center for Computational Science and Engineering (CCSE) since 2018, will work in his new role to foster a stronger community among bilingual computing faculty across MIT. A key aspect of this work will...

Ultrasmall optical devices rewrite the rules of...

August 1, 2025

In the push to shrink and enhance technologies that control light, MIT researchers have unveiled a new platform that pushes the limits of modern optics through nanophotonics, the manipulation of light on the nanoscale, or billionths of a meter. The result is a class of ultracompact optical devices that are not only smaller and more efficient than existing technologies, but also dynamically tunable, or switchable, from one optical mode to another. Until now, this has been an elusive combination...

Ushering in a new era of suture-free...

August 1, 2025

When surgeons repair tissues, they’re currently limited to mechanical solutions like sutures and staples, which can cause their own damage, or meshes and glues that may not adequately bond with tissues and can be rejected by the body. Now, Tissium is offering surgeons a new solution based on a biopolymer technology first developed at MIT. The company’s flexible, biocompatible polymers conform to surrounding tissues, attaching to them in order to repair torn tissue after being activated using blue light....

How government accountability and responsiveness affect tax...

July 31, 2025

A fundamental problem for governments is getting citizens to comply with their laws and policies. They can’t monitor everyone and catch all the rule-breakers. “It’s a logistical impossibility,” says Lily L. Tsai, MIT’s Ford Professor of Political Science and the director and founder of the MIT Governance Lab. Instead, governments need citizens to choose to follow the rules of their own accord. “As a government, you have to rely on them to voluntarily comply with the laws, policies, and...

School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences...

July 31, 2025

Dean Agustín Rayo and the MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (SHASS) recently welcomed 14 new professors to the MIT community. They arrive with diverse backgrounds and vast knowledge in their areas of research. Naoki Egami joins MIT as an associate professor in the Department of Political Science. He is also a faculty affiliate of the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society. Egami specializes in political methodology and develops statistical methods for questions in political science and...

How the brain distinguishes oozing fluids from...

July 31, 2025

Imagine a ball bouncing down a flight of stairs. Now think about a cascade of water flowing down those same stairs. The ball and the water behave very differently, and it turns out that your brain has different regions for processing visual information about each type of physical matter. In a new study, MIT neuroscientists have identified parts of the brain’s visual cortex that respond preferentially when you look at “things” — that is, rigid or deformable objects like...

Mapping cells in time and space: New...

July 30, 2025

All life is connected in a vast family tree. Every organism exists in relationship to its ancestors, descendants, and cousins, and the path between any two individuals can be traced. The same is true of cells within organisms — each of the trillions of cells in the human body is produced through successive divisions from a fertilized egg, and can all be related to one another through a cellular family tree. In simpler organisms, such as the worm C....

“FUTURE PHASES” showcases new frontiers in music...

July 29, 2025

Music technology took center stage at MIT during “FUTURE PHASES,” an evening of works for string orchestra and electronics, presented by the MIT Music Technology and Computation Graduate Program as part of the 2025 International Computer Music Conference (ICMC). The well-attended event was held last month in the Thomas Tull Concert Hall within the new Edward and Joyce Linde Music Building. Produced in collaboration with the MIT Media Lab’s Opera of the Future Group and Boston’s self-conducted chamber orchestra A...

Why animals are a critical part of...

July 28, 2025

A lot of attention has been paid to how climate change can drive biodiversity loss. Now, MIT researchers have shown the reverse is also true: Reductions in biodiversity can jeopardize one of Earth’s most powerful levers for mitigating climate change. In a paper published in PNAS, the researchers showed that following deforestation, naturally-regrowing tropical forests, with healthy populations of seed-dispersing animals, can absorb up to four times more carbon than similar forests with fewer seed-dispersing animals. Because tropical forests...

Famous double-slit experiment holds up when stripped...

July 28, 2025

MIT physicists have performed an idealized version of one of the most famous experiments in quantum physics. Their findings demonstrate, with atomic-level precision, the dual yet evasive nature of light. They also happen to confirm that Albert Einstein was wrong about this particular quantum scenario. The experiment in question is the double-slit experiment, which was first performed in 1801 by the British scholar Thomas Young to show how light behaves as a wave. Today, with the formulation of quantum mechanics,...

InvenTeams turns students into inventors

July 25, 2025

In 2023, students from Calistoga Junior/Senior High School in California entered a year-long invention project run by the Lemelson-MIT Program. Tasked with finding problems to solve in their community, the students settled on an invention to keep firefighters and agricultural workers cool in hot working conditions. Over the next 12 months, the students learned more about the problem from the workers, developed a prototype cooling system, and filed a patent for their invention. After presenting their solution at the...

3 Questions: Applying lessons in data, economics,...

July 24, 2025

Gevorg Minasyan MAP ’23 first discovered the MITx MicroMasters Program in Data, Economics, and Design of Policy (DEDP) — jointly led by the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) and MIT Open Learning — when he was looking to better understand the process of building effective, evidence-based policies while working at the Central Bank of Armenia. After completing the MicroMasters program, Minasyan was inspired to pursue MIT’s Master’s in Data, Economics, and Design of Policy program. Today, Minasyan is the...

Robot, know thyself: New vision-based system teaches...

July 24, 2025

In an office at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), a soft robotic hand carefully curls its fingers to grasp a small object. The intriguing part isn’t the mechanical design or embedded sensors — in fact, the hand contains none. Instead, the entire system relies on a single camera that watches the robot’s movements and uses that visual data to control it. This capability comes from a new system CSAIL scientists developed, offering a different perspective on...

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