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| MIT DailyMarch 13, 2026 | 
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| Greetings, and happy Pi Day Eve! Here's the latest from the MIT community.
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| | | On a typical photonic chip, light travels in wires, but a new system developed at MIT precisely broadcasts light off the chip into free space in a scalable way. This could lead to advanced displays, high-speed optical communications, and larger-scale quantum computers. |
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| | 3 Questions: Fortifying our planetary defenses |
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| MIT astronomers are developing a new way to detect, monitor, and mitigate the threats posed by smaller asteroids to our critical space infrastructure. |
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| How Joseph Paradiso's sensing innovations bridge the arts, medicine, and ecology |
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| From early motion-sensing platforms to environmental monitoring, the professor and head of the Program in Media Arts and Sciences has turned decades of cross-disciplinary research into real-world impact. |
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| A better method for planning complex visual tasks |
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| A new hybrid system could help robots navigate in changing environments or increase the efficiency of multirobot assembly teams. |
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| | | | Happy birthday to the telephone — oh, how you've grown in 150 years! // NPR |
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| Florencia Pierri, associate curator of science and technology at the MIT Museum, takes listeners back in time to the world's first telephone call, which took place 150 years ago this week. Inventor Alexander Graham Bell "didn't set out to create a telephone," explains Pierri. "He set out to create a better telegraph. But still had this idea of, like, 'Wouldn't it be cool if I could talk to somebody, even if I wasn't right there in the room with them?'" |
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| | | | Not far away, one can visit the Massachusetts Institute of Tasteology, which offers courses such as 18.01 (Single Variable Cake-ulus), 8.01 (Crustical Mechanics), 3.091 (Introduction to Solid-State Crumbistry), 6.1010 (Fun-dough-mentals of Programming), 18.200 (Principles of DisCrepe Mathematics), 21M.011 (Introduction to Western Meringue), and many more. One student recently visited, meeting many pi(e)s along the way. |
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| | | Every year, MIT releases undergraduate admissions decisions on Pi Day, March 14, in the spirit of the mathematical constant. Decisions for the Class of 2030 will be released on 3/14 at 1:59 p.m. EDT in the year '26, which follows the sequence of digits in pi. Located at the Charles River Esplanade in Boston across from the Institute, this plaque next to a park bench features the first 100-plus digits of pi. Can you spot tomorrow's date and decision release time? Happy Pi Day, everyone! |
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