Tag: Funding

Gift from Sebastian Man ’79, SM ’80 supports MIT Stephen A. Schwarzman College of Computing building

The MIT Stephen A. Schwarzman College of Computing has received substantial support for its striking new headquarters on Vassar Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts. A major gift from Sebastian Man ’79, SM ’80 will be recognized with the naming of a key space in the building, enriching the academic and research activities of the MIT Schwarzman […]

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Introducing the MIT Generative AI Impact Consortium

From crafting complex code to revolutionizing the hiring process, generative artificial intelligence is reshaping industries faster than ever before — pushing the boundaries of creativity, productivity, and collaboration across countless domains. Enter the MIT Generative AI Impact Consortium, a collaboration between industry leaders and MIT’s top minds. As MIT President Sally Kornbluth highlighted last year, the […]

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Remember When Trump Vowed Not to Touch Medicaid? It’s Already Begun.

The spending suspension, directed by OMB, is expected to impact 2,600 accounts across the government and pause the distributions of tens of billions of dollars to programs across the nation, until Trump decides the agencies distributing the money fall in line with his agenda. Some of the programs dependent on the congressionally appropriated funds could […]

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MIT Press’ Direct to Open opens access to over 80 new monographs

The MIT Press has announced that Direct to Open (D2O) will open access to over 80 new monographs and edited book collections in the spring and fall publishing seasons, after reaching its full funding goal for 2025. “It has been one of the greatest privileges of my career to contribute to this program and demonstrate that […]

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Is this the new playbook for curing rare childhood diseases?

“There is no treatment available for your son. We can’t do anything to help him.” When Fernando Goldsztein MBA ’03 heard those words, something inside him snapped. “I refused to accept what the doctors were saying. I transformed my fear into my greatest strength and started fighting.” Goldsztein’s 12-year-old son Frederico was diagnosed with relapsing […]

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Pipeshift cuts GPU usage for AI inferences 75% with modular interface engine

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More DeepSeek’s release of R1 this week was a watershed moment in the field of AI. Nobody thought a Chinese startup would be the first to drop a reasoning model matching OpenAI’s o1 and open-source it (in […]

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How RapidCanvas automates 70% of data tasks for gen AI projects

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Ever since ChatGPT emerged, enterprises have been all about AI and how it can help them address critical business challenges. It all started with large language model (LLM)-powered chatbots and search tools, which allow users to […]

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Q&A: Transforming research through global collaborations

The MIT Global Seed Funds (GSF) program fosters global research collaborations with MIT faculty and their peers abroad — creating partnerships that tackle complex global issues, from climate change to health-care challenges and beyond. Administered by the MIT Center for International Studies (CIS), the GSF program has awarded more than $26 million to over 1,200 faculty […]

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Ubitium tackles edge AI and more with new universal processor

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More As enterprises continue to explore different ways to optimize how they handle different workloads in the data center and at the edge, a new startup, Ubitium, has emerged from stealth with an interesting, cost-saving computing approach: […]

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J-PAL North America announces new evaluation incubator collaborators from state and local governments

J-PAL North America recently selected government partners for the 2024-25 Leveraging Evaluation and Evidence for Equitable Recovery (LEVER) Evaluation Incubator cohort. Selected collaborators will receive funding and technical assistance to develop or launch a randomized evaluation for one of their programs. These collaborations represent jurisdictions across the United States and demonstrate the growing enthusiasm for evidence-based […]

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A new focus on understanding the human element

A new MIT initiative aims to elevate human-centered research and teaching, and bring together scholars in the humanities, arts, and social sciences with their colleagues across the Institute. The MIT Human Insight Collaborative (MITHIC) launched earlier this fall. A formal kickoff event for MITHIC was held on campus Monday, Oct. 28, before a full audience in […]

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Lemelson-MIT awards 2024-25 InvenTeam grants to eight high school teams

The Lemelson-MIT Program has announced the 2024-25 InvenTeams — eight teams of high school students, teachers, and mentors from across the country. Each team will each receive $7,500 in grant funding and year-long support to build a technological invention to solve a problem of their own choosing. The students’ inventions are inspired by real-world problems […]

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MIT to lead expansion of regional innovation network

The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) has selected MIT to lead a new Innovation Corps (I-Corps) Hub to support a partnership of eight New England universities committed to expanding science and technology entrepreneurship across the region, accelerating the translation of discoveries into new solutions that benefit society. NSF announced the five-year cooperative agreement of up […]

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