Tunable ultrasound propagation in microscale metamaterials(news.mit.edu)

24 points by XzetaU8 1 year ago | 4 comments

A Multimodal Automated Interpretability Agent(arxiv.org)

64 points by el_duderino 2 years ago | 7 comments

Desalination system could produce freshwater that is cheaper than tap water(news.mit.edu)

275 points by abathur 3 years ago | 162 comments

Arvind has died(news.mit.edu)

231 points by bookofjoe 2 years ago | 51 comments

Startup enables 100-year bridges with corrosion-resistant steel(news.mit.edu)

29 points by rbanffy 1 year ago | 35 comments

MIT class project turns into an FDA-cleared treatment for tremors(news.mit.edu)

260 points by zdw 13 days ago | 53 comments

MIT News article on Encora Therapeutics, whose FDA-cleared wristband for treating tremors began as a project in MIT's 2.009 product-design class.

The Controversial Class That MIT Is Paying a Professor Not to Teach(nytimes.com)

10 points by mikhael 14 days ago | 0 comments

New York Times article about MIT paying professor Michel DeGraff not to teach a controversial course related to Palestine.

MIT leaders describe the experience of not renewing Elsevier contract(sparcopen.org)

498 points by nabla9 2 years ago | 173 comments

SPARC resource profiling how MIT Libraries handled ending its Big Deal subscription contract with Elsevier, part of its unbundling profiles knowledge base.

MIT asks arXiv to withdraw preprint of paper on AI and scientific discovery(economics.mit.edu)

351 points by carabiner 1 year ago | 176 comments

MIT Economics statement announcing it asked arXiv and the QJE to withdraw a preprint on AI, scientific discovery, and product innovation after an internal integrity review.

Boston mayor announces residential conversion program for office buildings(bostonplans.org)

445 points by toss1 3 years ago | 309 comments

Boston Planning & Development Agency news release announcing Mayor Wu's pilot program to incentivize converting downtown office buildings to housing.

ArXiv receives $10M for upgrades(news.cornell.edu)

509 points by JohnHammersley 3 years ago | 136 comments

Cornell Chronicle article announcing that arXiv received over $10 million from the Simons Foundation and NSF to fund upgrades.

Failing grades soar with AI usage, dwindling math skills in Berkeley CS classes(dailycal.org)

712 points by littlexsparkee 4 months ago | 673 comments

Daily Californian news article reporting rising failing grades in UC Berkeley computer science classes, which professors link to greater AI usage and weaker math skills.