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  Giving medicine a dose of AI

  MIT’s J-Clinic and an alum’s nonprofit are working to help machine learning realize its promise in health care.

  
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  The geek

  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.

  
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  Tech Reunions

  Facts and figures about the annual pilgrimage to campus

  
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  Rising to the AI challenge

  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.

  
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  Democracy dividend

  Researchers find vast gains in economic growth after countries reject authoritarianism.

  

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