Today at MIT: AI at the Olympics, Killian and the Cold War, math and football + more ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏
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| | Jerry Lu MF '24 developed an optical AI system to analyze video of figure skaters' jumps and make recommendations on how to improve. At the 2026 Winter Olympics, Lu, a former MIT Sports Lab researcher, is helping NBC Sports explain judging decisions and demonstrate to its viewers how technically challenging winter sports can be. |
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| | Study: Platforms that rank the latest LLMs can be unreliable |
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| Removing just a tiny fraction of the crowdsourced data that informs online ranking platforms can significantly change the results. |
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| | The Huang-Hobbs BioMaker Space lets students build and create with biology and chemistry. |
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| How MIT's 10th president shaped the Cold War |
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| For several decades beginning in the 1950s, the Killian Report set the frontiers of military technology, intelligence gathering, national security policy, and global affairs. |
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| | | | John Urschel on math and football // GBH |
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| Assistant professor of mathematics John Urschel — a former offensive lineman for the Baltimore Ravens — joined Edgar Herwick III, host of the GBH show The Curiosity Desk, to talk about his love of his family, linear algebra, and football. On how he eventually chose math over football, Urschel quipped: "Well, I hate to break it to you, I like math better. … When I started my PhD at MIT, I just fell in love with the place. I fell in love with this idea of being in this environment [where] everyone loves math, everyone wants to learn. I was just constantly excited every day showing up." |
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| | | Question: When scientists reconstruct ancient climates from ice cores, how do they create an accurate timeline?
Answer via the MIT Climate Portal: When snow falls, it gets buried and compressed in the form of ice and, along with the air bubbles that get trapped inside, has valuable evidence of ancient temperatures, greenhouse gases, and volcanic eruptions. Scientists drill down and remove cylindrical "cores" of ice that can span hundreds and thousands of years, then it's counted backward, one year at a time, to reveal its age. Building a reliable timeline for a core is important — not just to make sense of the ice core itself, but to compare it with other ancient "archives," like seafloor sediments or stalagmites. With knowledge from these comparisons, scientists can investigate causes and effects in the saga of Earth's climate history — piercing together "not just how climate changed, but why it changed," says Professor David McGee. |
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