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Suborbital space tourism finally arrives | FCC prepares to run public C-band auction | The big four in the U.S. launch industry — United Launch Alliance, SpaceX, Blue Origin and Northrop Grumman — hope to be one of two providers that will receive five-year contracts later this year to launch national security payloads starting in 2022. | China’s launch rate stays high | The International Space Station is the largest ever crewed object in space.

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Networking on a global scale

November 4, 2021

While international travel continues to be limited in much of the world, MIT International Science and Technology Initiatives (MISTI) sought to capitalize on the increased digital connectivity brought about by the pandemic by developing cutting-edge virtual programs designed to allow students to be exposed to international education and build connections around the world. MISTI is MIT’s flagship international education program, with internship and research opportunities spanning more than 25 countries across six continents. In a typical year, MISTI facilitates...

Toward speech recognition for uncommon spoken languages

November 4, 2021

Automated speech-recognition technology has become more common with the popularity of virtual assistants like Siri, but many of these systems only perform well with the most widely spoken of the world’s roughly 7,000 languages. Because these systems largely don’t exist for less common languages, the millions of people who speak them are cut off from many technologies that rely on speech, from smart home devices to assistive technologies and translation services. Recent advances have enabled machine learning models that...

MIT collaborates with Biogen on three-year, $7...

November 3, 2021

MIT and Biogen have announced that they will collaborate with the goal to accelerate the science and action on climate change to improve human health. This collaboration is supported by a three-year, $7 million commitment from the company and the Biogen Foundation. The biotechnology company, headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts’ Kendall Square, discovers and develops therapies for people living with serious neurological diseases. “We have long believed it is imperative for Biogen to make the fight against climate change central...

3 Questions: Maaya Prasad and Kathleen Esfahany...

November 3, 2021

If you’re a frequent commuter through Kendall Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts, or a visitor to Massachusetts General Hospital, you might catch a glimpse of an art exhibit featuring some familiar faces. The exhibit, “The Poetry of Science,” pairs photographs of notable scientists, including MIT students and researchers, with poems about their research areas of interest. Two MIT students in electrical engineering and computer science (EECS), Kathleen Esfahany and Suparnamaaya “Maaya” Prasad, were recently invited to participate in the program,...

News from the Future #64

November 3, 2021

IFTF Foresight Essentials LEARN WITH IFTF FORESIGHT ESSENTIALSNovember 10 | 1:00 PM PST Join Institute for the Future’s renowned foresight learning experts Lyn Jeffery and Sara Skvirsky on Tuesday, November 10th at 1pm Pacific Time for a live 30-minute introductory webinar to see for yourself how IFTF Foresight Essentials builds world-ready, future-ready skills and mindsets. We can help you build foresight and foresight leadership into your daily work and practices!Register here. >> TRAININGIFTF Foresight EssentialsNovember 30–December 15 Finish 2021 with a futures...

Mark Vogelsberger: Simulating galaxy formation for clues...

November 3, 2021

For all its brilliant complexity, the Milky Way is rather unremarkable as galaxies go. At least, that’s how Mark Vogelsberger sees it. “Our galaxy has a couple features that might be a bit surprising, like the exact number of structures and satellites around it,” Vogelsberger muses. “But if you average over a lot of metrics, the Milky Way is actually a rather normal place.” He should know. Vogelsberger, a newly tenured associate professor in MIT’s Department of Physics, has...

Arthur Mattuck, professor emeritus of mathematics, dies...

November 2, 2021

Arthur Paul Mattuck, emeritus professor of mathematics at MIT, passed away on Friday, Oct. 8, at the age of 91. Mattuck came to MIT as a CLE Moore Instructor, a position he held from 1955 to 1957. He joined the faculty in 1958 and retired after 52 years of service in 2010. He continued to teach through fall 2019. In his specialty, algebraic geometry, Mattuck contributed to the theory of curves and abelian varieties, and to the Riemann-Roch theorem....

Meet Research Director Leah Zaidi!

November 2, 2021

Oct 29, 2021 Leah Zaidi, Research Director Leah Zaidi has lived in Canada since the age of six, and brings to IFTF her extensive expertise in marketing, foresight strategy, systems thinking, and global development. While studying at Ontario College of Art & Design University’s Master of Design in Strategic Foresight and Innovation program, Leah became acquainted with IFTF when instructors frequently cited our work as examples of how futures thinking can be applied to complex problems. “It’s really important...

2021 Ten-Year Forecast Summit Highlights

November 2, 2021

What does K-pop fandom tell us about the future of belonging, the shifting of competitive dynamics in business, and the long-term prospects for democracy? What can you do today to prepare for the massive social challenges climate change will bring about in the coming decade+? What are the ethical implications of face-swapping apps? Are NFTs a scam or the future of … X? How would an octopus caption a New Yorker cartoon? And what do these questions have to...

3 Questions: Blending computing with other disciplines...

November 2, 2021

The demand for computing-related training is at an all-time high. At MIT, there has been a remarkable tide of interest in computer science programs, with heavy enrollment from students studying everything from economics to life sciences eager to learn how computational techniques and methodologies can be used and applied within their primary field. Launched in 2020, the Common Ground for Computing Education was created through the MIT Stephen A. Schwarzman College of Computing to meet the growing need for...

Avoiding shortcut solutions in artificial intelligence

November 2, 2021

If your Uber driver takes a shortcut, you might get to your destination faster. But if a machine learning model takes a shortcut, it might fail in unexpected ways. In machine learning, a shortcut solution occurs when the model relies on a simple characteristic of a dataset to make a decision, rather than learning the true essence of the data, which can lead to inaccurate predictions. For example, a model might learn to identify images of cows by focusing...

A new way to generate light using...

November 1, 2021

Researchers from the Low Energy Electronic Systems (LEES) interdisciplinary research group at the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART), MIT’s research enterprise in Singapore, together with collaborators at MIT, National University of Singapore (NUS), and Nanyang Technological University (NTU), have discovered a new method of generating long-wavelength (red, orange, and yellow) light using intrinsic defects in semiconducting materials, with potential applications as direct light emitters in commercial light sources and displays. This technology would be an improvement on current...

School of Science appoints 11 faculty members...

November 1, 2021

The School of Science has announced that 11 faculty members have been appointed to named professorships. These positions offer additional support to professors to advance their research and develop their careers. Andrew Babbin was named a Cecil and Ida Green Career Development Professor. A marine biogeochemist, Babbin studies the processes that return fixed nitrogen in the ocean back to nitrogen gas, exploring marine nitrogen’s control on life in the ocean and its effects on climate. His research sheds light...

Differences in T cells’ functional states determine...

November 1, 2021

Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is the most common type of lung cancer in humans. Some patients with NSCLC receive a therapy called immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) that helps kill cancer cells by reinvigorating a subset of immune cells called T cells, which are “exhausted” and have stopped working. However, only about 35 percent of NSCLC patients respond to ICB therapy. Stefani Spranger’s lab at the MIT Department of Biology explores the mechanisms behind this resistance, with the goal...

Cures for the health insurance enrollment blues

November 1, 2021

Some countries with national health insurance plans face a basic problem: Not enough people sign up for those programs, and the ones who do tend to have worse-than-average health. That is a public health matter, but also a fiscal issue. When more healthy people enroll in health care plans, and thus pay premiums, those plans gain a better fiscal footing. What’s a good way to address this challenge? A recently published study in Indonesia led by MIT economists yields...

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