Bob Pozen Endows Summer Internship Program for MIT Undergraduate Entrepreneurs
Cambridge, MA, February 12, 2018 — The Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship is pleased to announce the endowment of its annual summer entrepreneurship internship program for MIT undergraduate students thanks to a generous gift from Robert (Bob) Pozen. The program was launched in the summer of 2016 as the MIT ...
This MIT Sloan Startup is Developing a Device Reminding Women to Take the Pill
from BostInno by Lucia Maffei While taking the birth control pill has a lot of advantages, it has a catch: the pill needs to be taken every day at approximately the same time to display its full benefits, including protection from unplanned pregnancies. Aagya Mathur, a graduate student at MIT ...
Why Machine Learning is a Delivery Driver’s Best Friend
from Fortune by Larissa Zimberoff Despite radical advances in technology, many companies still plan routes for their delivery trucks the same way they did a decade ago. Managers create itineraries the day before, and then hand printouts to drivers to follow or add them to the hand-held devices that their ...
Lightmatter aims to reinvent AI-specific chips with photonic computing and $11M in funding
from TechCrunch by Devin Coldewey It takes an immense amount of processing power to create and operate the “AI” features we all use so often, from playlist generation to voice recognition. Lightmatter is a startup that is looking to change the way all that computation is done — and not in a ...
Meet the Four MIT Students Working to Disrupt the Expert Network Industry
from Forbes by Frederick Daso If you’re a C-suite executive or institutional investor, chances are you’ve face a problem that you personally couldn’t solve on your own. Your immediate circle of co-workers and colleagues in your industry aren't able to find an answer either. Going through your Rolodex, you're unable to ...
Our Favorite MBA Professors of 2017
from Poets & Quants by Jeff Schmitt Bill Aulet (MIT) Bill Aulet is fond of saying that you learn more from failure than success. He should know. Before he became the managing director of the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship, he ran a startup himself – right into the ...
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