Venture capitalist Katie Rae next month starts her job as head of MIT’s “The Engine,” whch will fund entrepreneurs’ big ideas. The 155-year-old university has helped pioneer water treatment, the radar systems key to the Allies’ victory in World War II, cybersecurity, speech recognition, navigation systems that helped Apollo astronauts reach the moon, genomics, the Scratch programming language for kids, and robots for the home and factory.
Category: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
More Growth, Less Labor:
The paper, by Daron Acemoglu of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Pascual Restrepo of Boston University, argues aging populations have not had a negative effect on the growth of per-capita gross domestic product. In fact, some aging countries have seen faster growth.
Driverless Cars Face a Moral Dilemma
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For driverless cars, a moral dilemma: Who lives or dies?
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are asking human drivers worldwide how they’d handle life-or-death decisions in hopes of creating better algorithms to guide autonomous vehicles. BOSTON – Imagine you’re behind the wheel when your brakes fail.
For driverless cars, a moral dilemma: Who lives or dies?
To continue reading up to 10 premium articles, you must register , or sign up and take advantage of this exclusive offer: In this Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2017, photo, an autonomous vehicle is driven by an engineer on a street through an industrial park, in Boston. Researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology are asking human drivers how they’d handle life-or-death decisions in hopes of creating better algorithms to guide autonomous vehicles.
For driverless cars, a moral dilemma: Who lives or dies?
Imagine you’re behind the wheel when your brakes fail. As you speed toward a crowded crosswalk, you’re confronted with an impossible choice: veer right and mow down a large group of elderly people, or veer left into a woman pushing a stroller.