MIT Open Learning launches Center for Advanced Virtuality
The new center will explore how MIT can use virtual reality and artificial intelligence and other technologies to better serve human needs.
The new center will explore how MIT can use virtual reality and artificial intelligence and other technologies to better serve human needs.
We welcomed award-winning comics creator Brian Michael Bendis, New York Times bestseller and one of the most successful writers working in mainstream comics.
Parks with a Genius Grant, an alum gives the MIT Ph.D. commencement address, and the relaunch of Media in Transition and the Media Spectacle.
Marisa Morán Jahn is a multi-media artist, writer, educator and activist, whose colorful, often humorous uses of personae and media create imaginative pathways to civic awareness of urgent public issues.
MIT health care economist Amy Finkelstein and CMS/W media studies scholar Parks are the latest MIT faculty to nab prestigious “genius grants.”
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From Professor T.L. Taylor comes her look at the revolution in game live streaming and esports broadcasting.
Present current research into the nature, character and behavior of emerging typologies of connected and intelligent objects within adaptive systems.
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Thesis by TJ Dimacali S.M., Science Writing, 2018
Keywords: archaeology, exploration, linguistics, Philippines, seafaring
Modern Filipinos — who are even now making their first tentative steps into space — are heirs to a rich heritage of exploration, the story of which has yet to be fully told.
Thesis by Frankie Schembri S.M., Science Writing, 2018
Keywords: ed tech, Kettle Moraine School District
The Kettle Moraine School District’s success in creating personalized learning experiences for their students is a case study for how other districts might approach homegrown disruptions of their own.
Thesis by Heather Mongilio S.M., Science Writing, 2018
Keywords: chronic traumatic encephalopathy, domestic violence, traumatic brain injuries
Although domestic violence researchers suggest that the population will develop chronic traumatic encephalopathy, which is only diagnosed post-mortem, a lack of donated brains means the disease has yet to be found among domestic violence victims.
Thesis by Ashley Junger S.M., Science Writing, 2018
Keywords: Clover Food Lab, diet, food, Impossible Foods, meat
Opposing strategies reveal the promises and pitfalls of trying to reform the American diet and that above all else our food system is unsustainable.
Thesis by Fatima Husain S.M., Science Writing, 2018
Keywords: biology, geochemistry, mining, oceans, science
It is time to assess the paradoxical nature of seafloor mining: to mine the seafloor to support sustainable and efficient technological development on the land above.
Thesis by Laura Castañón S.M., Science Writing, 2018
Keywords: Baja, Cabo Pulmo, Cabo Pulmo National Park, Mexico
The story of Cabo Pulmo’s struggles and triumphs can provide valuable lessons for community-based conservation efforts around the world.
The University of Texas’ Roderick Hart argues that disagreements – endless, raucous disagreements – draw citizens in, or at least enough of them to sustain civic hope.