MIT researchers look to the future
Strung together by a series of clever video clips showing the MIT campus being explored by flying drones, a hopping “super mini cheetah” robot, Tim the Beaver, and assorted other guides, a symposium at Kresge auditorium on Tuesday provided an array of brief talks that gave an inspiring and extraordinarily varied sampling of the research and creativity to be found on every corner of the campus. The event was one of several celebrations marking the 100th anniversary of MIT’s move to its Cambridge campus; the Institute relocated from Boston in 1916 onto newly reclaimed land that had been a tidal mud flat. The symposium, said MIT President L. Rafael Reif in his introduction to the event, was an attempt to convey the breadth of interests and work in the MIT community, made up of people who are “so intense, so passionate, so driven, so curious.” Every top research institution has a handful...