Chris Schmandt ’73, SM ’80, spent four decades “playing around” at the Media Lab, inventing interactive speech interfaces for computers and the first in-car navigation system that told drivers where to go.
MIT must prepare students for a world in which computation is as fundamental as math—and make sure AI is developed responsibly, for the good of society.
Researchers find vast gains in economic growth after countries reject authoritarianism.
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