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Muriel Médard, EECS MIT Professor, discusses how blockchain follows a pattern of de-centralization similar to that observed every other successful in networks, but follows a different approach where one moves equations and lets math decide what is reconstructed on the other side.
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Dr. Ravikiran Raju, MIT researcher and faculty at Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, explores the link between the environment, social determinants of health, and life expectancy, and how the right scientific solutions can address this.
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Associate Scientific Director of The MIT Center for Gynepathology Research, Mikki Tal, challenges existing clinical tools’ failure to detect illness and provides a solution: measure everything so that we can detect anything.
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Manolis Kellis, MIT Professor of CS and PI at the MIT and Harvard Broad Institute discusses the geometry that encodes function, action, and every aspect of human existence.
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Liyam Chitayat, a PhD candidate in computational biology at MIT, talks about her work engineering mergers to help expand the capabilities of living biological systems.
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Leonard P. Guarente, Novartis Professor of Biology at MIT, talks about how for the first time, we have science to slow aging. This would entail using NAD-boosting pills, along with good diet and exercise, to extend the healthy period of our lives.
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Director of the MIT Age Lab, Joe Couglin, challenges the audience to think about how they could design a system to make the best of the later years of their lives now that science has increased longevity.
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Florencia Pierri, associate curator of science and technology at the MIT Museum, tells the story of the 1968 Great Electric Car Race across the country between MIT and CalTech and its impact on electric vehicle development today.
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Debbie Douglas, senior Director of Collections and Curator at MIT museum, celebrates the 100th anniversary of Robert Goddard's liquid-fuel rocket launch and explores the influence of aerospace on the liftoff countdown.
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Davy Deng, PhD student at Harvard-MIT HS&T and an Emerson Consequential Scholar, examines mind-uploading, breaking down the problem to its simplest form: a 1 mm worm, where whole-brain emulation can be a real d science.
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Dina Katabi, Professor at MIT CSAIL and MacArthur Fellow, shares how to turn one night of sleep into treatment for disease with wireless signals and using AI to translate nocturnal breathing into EEG.
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Caitlin Mueller, MIT Professor of Architecture and Civil and Environmental Engineering, explores the opportunity to use computational tools to simulate complex, lightweight shapes under gravity to enable innovation in art and material efficiency.
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