Foray Bioscience grows plant products from single cells to create new materials and protect endangered species. “We need new strategies to ensure lasting access to the plant products and ecosystems we depend on,” Ashley Beckwith SM ’18, PhD ’22 says.
Despite growth in US factories and employment in recent years, real productivity has declined. MIT experts suggest three solutions: invest in AI, use government defense contracts as a lever for technology investment, and reexamine industrial policy.
TPP graduate student Strahinja Janjusevic brings an international perspective and US Naval Academy education to his work in maritime cybersecurity. He aims to strengthen ties between the US and its allies on national security, AI, and cybersecurity.
By exposing biases, moods, personalities, and abstract concepts hidden in large language models, a new method developed in part by an MIT mathematician could root out vulnerabilities and improve AI safety and performance.
MechE student Kiyoko “Kik” Hayano’s path — from Wyoming to MIT to Arkansas via D-Lab — reflects a common trajectory of U.S. innovation: talent emerging from rural places, developing on the nation’s campuses, and returning know-how to its heartland.
In a world without MIT, radar wouldn’t have been available to help win World War II. We might not have email, CT scans, time-release drugs, photolithography, or GPS. And we’d lose over 30,000 companies, employing millions of people. Can you imagine?
Since its founding, MIT has been key to helping American science and innovation lead the world. Discoveries that begin here generate jobs and power the economy — and what we create today builds a better tomorrow for all of us.