The micromobility industry has been hit hard by upkeep costs for its fleets of rentable electric scooters. In its quest to improve urban mobility, MIT spinout Superpedestrian has developed a smarter scooter, featuring autonomous diagnostics.
How Payal Kadakia danced her way to a $600 million startup // The New York Times
Payal Kadakia ’05 discusses her startup ClassPass, a platform that allows users to access a myriad of fitness classes. “[T]he curriculum is so mathematical,” she says of MIT. “Everything is numbers. It was this idea of this world that I lived in.”
A financial revolution is almost upon us // Financial Times
Graduate student Daniel Aronoff examines the impact of the FedNow banking service, which aims to process and settle individual payments within seconds. He notes the plan will have a “revolutionary impact on the banking industry and monetary policy.”
How one city saved $5 million by routing school buses with an algorithm // Route Fifty
MIT researchers developed an algorithm for the bus routes used by Boston Public Schools. Designed to cut costs and improve on-time performance rates, the algorithm “has created dramatic results.”
With Alzheimer’s research at a crossroads, artificial intelligence might point the way forward // STAT
MIT researchers have developed an AI system that can predict Alzheimer’s risk by forecasting how patients will perform on a test measuring cognitive decline up to two years in advance.
Number of MIT massive open online courses (MOOCs) listed among Class Central’s “Top 100 Online Courses of All Time,” in which MIT is tied for first among institutions represented
My goal for college and going to MIT is trying to figure out which problems in the world around us are the most important ones to solve, and trying to figure out the right thought process and the right course of action to employ to be able to solve those problems.
—Anjali Chadha, incoming MIT first-year student and founder of Empowered, a nonprofit helping high school girls gain tech skills
