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MIT Energy Initiative launches the Future Energy Systems Center - MIT - Tansportation (Jan 24, 2022) |
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Jan 24, 2022 · d="M12.132,61.991a5.519,5.519,0,0,1-5.866,5.753A5.554,5.554,0,0,1,.4,61.854a5.809,5.809,0,0,1,1.816-4.383,6.04,6.04,0,0,1,4.05-1.37C9.9,55.965,12.132,58.43,12.132,61.991Zm-8.939-.137c0,2.328,1.117,3.7,3.073,3.7s3.073-1.37,3.073-3.7-1.117-3.835-3.073-3.835C4.45,58.156,3.193,59.526,3.193,61.854Z" transform="translate(-0.4 -55.965)" fill="#333"/> d="M17.884,67.531l-3.352-5.753-1.257-2.191v7.944H10.9V56.3h2.793l3.212,5.616c.419.822.7,1.37,1.257,2.328V56.3h2.374V67.531Z" transform="translate(3.765 -55.889)" fill="#333"/> ... Read more ...
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A voice for diversity, equity, and inclusion in civil and environmental engineering - MIT - Tansportation (Jul 20, 2020) |
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Jul 20, 2020 · Md Sami Hasnine is in the business of understanding people. From his research developing and building predictive models of human behavior, to his work in MIT’s diversity, equity, and inclusion community, the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) postdoc has displayed both a passion for, and some considerable skill in, promoting equality and diversity, and helping to drive change within his community.
Hasnine is an engineer at heart; he’s got a passion for the work that seems to run in his family. In his home country of Bangladesh, Hasnine’s father is a civil engineer as well - this early exposure helped Hasnine discover a love for the work and define his ... Read more ...
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MIT and Toyota release innovative dataset to accelerate autonomous driving research - MIT - Tansportation (Jun 18, 2020) |
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Jun 18, 2020 · DriveSeg contains precise, pixel-level representations of many common road objects, but through the lens of a continuous video driving scene.
The following was issued as a joint release from the MIT AgeLab and Toyota Collaborative Safety Research Center.
How can we train self-driving vehicles to have a deeper awareness of the world around them? Can computers learn from past experiences to recognize future patterns that can help them safely navigate new and unpredictable situations?
These are some of the questions researchers from the AgeLab at the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics and the Toyota Collaborative Safety Research Center (CSRC) are trying to ... Read more ...
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"Inactive" pill ingredients could raise the dose of your medication - MIT - Tansportation (Mar 17, 2020) |
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Mar 17, 2020 · They fed the system the chemical structures of the FDA's 800 inactive ingredients, as well as millions of drugs and other compounds known to interfere with enzyme functioning. They then asked the platform to predict which food and drug additives would be most likely to disrupt P-gp and UGT2B7 and alter a drug's potency by letting more into the body, in the case of P-gp, or slowing its exit, as in UGT2B7.
"While further tests are necessary to understand how strong these effects are in humans, our algorithms drew new conclusions that could have immediate impact," says Reker. "Drug discovery is such a long and costly process, we're excited that machine learning can help to ... Read more ...
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To self-drive in the snow, look under the road - MIT - Tansportation (Feb 26, 2020) |
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Feb 26, 2020 · Car companies have been feverishly working to improve the technologies behind self-driving cars. But so far even the most high-tech vehicles still fail when it comes to safely navigating in rain and snow.
This is because these weather conditions wreak havoc on the most common approaches for sensing, which usually involve either lidar sensors or cameras. In the snow, for example, cameras can no longer recognize lane markings and traffic signs, while the lasers of lidar sensors malfunction when there's, say, stuff flying down from the sky.
A team from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) has developed a new system that uses an existing ... | By Adam Conner-Simons MIT CSAIL Read more ...
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Study: To slow an epidemic, focus on handwashing - MIT - Tansportation (Feb 06, 2020) |
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Feb 06, 2020 · The findings, which deal with infectious diseases in general including the flu, were published in late December, just before the recent coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan, China, but the study's authors say that its results would apply to any such disease and are relevant to the current outbreak.
The study, which is based on epidemiological modeling and data-based simulations, appears in the journal Risk Analysis. The authors are Professor Christos Nicolaides PhD '14 of the University of Cyprus, who is also a fellow at the MIT Sloan School of Management; Professor Ruben Juanes of MIT's Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering; and three others.
"Seventy percent of ... | By School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences Read more ...
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Improving pavement networks by predicting the future - MIT - Tansportation (Feb 05, 2020) |
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Feb 05, 2020 · With around 4.18 million miles of roads in the United States, planning pavement maintenance can seem like a daunting process.
Currently, departments of transportation (DOTs) tend to rely on past practices or expert opinion to make maintenance decisions. But with a $420 billion backlog of repairs for U.S. highways, these conventional methods are becoming less effective. Instead, DOTs require more quantitative approaches to manage their tight budgets and fix their aging roadways.
Comfortable with uncertainty
Paving is fraught with uncertainty. From the deterioration of pavements to the price of materials, DOTs cannot be sure of what things will look like in five, 10, ... Read more ...
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Study: Commercial air travel is safer than ever - MIT - Tansportation (Jan 23, 2020) |
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Jan 23, 2020 · It has never been safer to fly on commercial airlines, according to a new study by an MIT professor that tracks the continued decrease in passenger fatalities around the globe.
The study finds that between 2008 and 2017, airline passenger fatalities fell significantly compared to the previous decade, as measured per individual passenger boardings — essentially the aggregate number of passengers. Globally, that rate is now one death per 7.9 million passenger boardings, compared to one death per 2.7 million boardings during the period 1998-2007, and one death per 1.3 million boardings during 1988-1997.
Going back further, the commercial airline fatality risk was one death ... | By Peter Dizikes | MIT News Office Read more ...
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Using artificial intelligence to enrich digital maps - MIT - Tansportation (Jan 23, 2020) |
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Jan 23, 2020 · Showing drivers more details about their routes can often help them navigate in unfamiliar locations. Lane counts, for instance, can enable a GPS system to warn drivers of diverging or merging lanes. Incorporating information about parking spots can help drivers plan ahead, while mapping bicycle lanes can help cyclists negotiate busy city streets. Providing updated information on road conditions can also improve planning for disaster relief.
But creating detailed maps is an expensive, time-consuming process done mostly by big companies, such as Google, which sends vehicles around with cameras strapped to their hoods to capture video and images of an area's roads. Combining ... | By Rob Matheson | MIT News Office Read more ...
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Tracking contagion in cities, using mobile phone data - MIT - Tansportation (Nov 20, 2019) |
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Nov 20, 2019 · Given the numbers of mosquitoes and the infection rates, the scholars found that two of these four models - the one using mobile phone data, and the "radiation" model - performed the best, consistently approximating the spatial distribution of dengue cases that had occurred, over time, during the outbreaks.
"Authorities would be able to identify which urban areas have a higher risk of contagion," Kondor says, adding that officials could craft policies that range from "focusing the resources spent on mosquito population control, to informing citizens so that they can be more alert [to aid] prevention."
To be clear, dengue fever comes from mosquitoes themselves, and is not ... Read more ...
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