Letter to the MIT community regarding Solve at HUBweek
The following email was sent today to the MIT community by Provost Martin Schmidt. To the members of the MIT community, I write to let you know about several upcoming events that belong to the overall effort known as "Solve," and to welcome you to attend the sessions that are of interest to you next week at Solve at HUBweek. Last fall, during Boston's annual HUBweek festival, MIT launched its first Solve conference to bring together technologists, philanthropists, business leaders, policymakers, and change agents to address some of the world's most pressing challenges. Solve is envisioned as a live meeting series organized around four pillars: Fuel, Learn, Cure, and Make. The next major conference, Solve at MIT, will be held in May 2017. In preparation, we will hold a number of events at which potential solutions will be proposed and assessed. Next week, we launch the first of these intermediate events with Solve at...