Credits: Photo: Kelley Travers/MITEI Caption: Karen Tapia-Ahumada, a research scientist and digital learning fellow at MITEI, presents at MITEI’s 2019 Annual Research Conference. Credits: Photo: Kelley Travers/MITEI Caption: Pablo Duenas-Martinez, a research scientist at MITEI, is focused on the long-term outlook for energy systems and how to provide reliable and affordable electricity to all. Credits: Photo: Adelaida Nogales
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Pablo Duenas-Martinez and Dharik Mallapragrada first met on opposite sides of a sponsored research project through the MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI). They worked together to define a project to study the long-term evolution of the electricity sector in India and the impacts of technological and policy drivers. Duenas-Martinez guided the research direction on MITEI’s
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Shafi Goldwasser, the RSA Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at MIT, a co-leader of the cryptography and information security group, and a member of the complexity theory group within the Theory of Computation Group and the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, has been named the laureate for North America in this year’s 2021 L Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science International Awards.
The award celebrates Goldwasser’s groundbreaking work in cryptography, which has enabled secure communication and verification over the internet and collaborative computation on private data. Goldwasser is also known of her pioneering work on interactive and probabilistic proof verification. In announcing the award, the organizers said that Goldwasser s research has a significant impact on our understanding of large classes of problems for which computers can
Credits: Photo: John Freidah Caption: Once at MIT, Coombs explored research opportunities that improved the lives of others. Her work on medical devices in the MIT Media Lab and with a startup helping rural dairy farmers in India both had a tangible impact, but didn’t quite satisfy her goal of reducing inequality and making a difference on a global scale. Credits: Photo: John Freidah Caption: Coombs developed a computational model to better understand a method of desalination known as osmotically assisted reverse osmosis. The model could lead to improved desalination systems in the future, which in turn could reduce water scarcity in developing nations.
3 Questions: Thomas Malone and Daniela Rus on how AI will change work MIT Task Force on the Work of the Future releases research brief Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Work. MIT Task Force on the Work of the Future Publication Date:
January 21, 2021 Caption: Thomas Malone (left) is director of the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence and the Patrick J. McGovern Professor of Management. Daniela Rus is director of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, the Andrew and Erna Viterbi Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and a member of the MIT Task Force on the Work of the Future. Not pictured: Robert Laubacher, associate director of the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence.