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Dan Sturtevant SDM ’07 was featured in MIT News for his work on making large, complex codebases more understandable and more modular. His company Silverthread spun out of
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Susan Conover SDM ’15 was featured in MIT News for her work on the startup she co-founded, Piction Health. Piction is an app that assists doctors in identifying and managing
![Portrait of Indrayud Mandal](https://sdm.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Indro-trimmed-600x350.jpeg)
Indrayud Mandal, a current SDM fellow, will co-present a pre-conference workshop at the CSUN Assistive Technology Conference on March 6th and 7th, 2021. “Using Tactile
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Submitted by Jean-Michel Prouillet-Leplat. Abstract: The pace of technology development shapes the landscape of almost every industry today. The words innovation, digital
![Rendering of dome-shaped buildings on Martian landscape](https://sdm.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/BIGIdeaChallenge-trim-600x350.jpeg)
An MIT team, including one SDM fellow, took second place in NASA’s 2019 BIG Idea Challenge. Tommy Smith joined SDM in 2018 and participated in the student team’s
![Thesis: A strategic perspective on the commercialization of artificial intelligence](https://sdm.mit.edu/wp-content/themes/sdm-mit-child/images/placeholder-image-rpthumb.jpg)
Submitted by Siddhartha Ray Barua. Abstract: Many companies are increasing their focus on Artificial Intelligence as they incorporate Machine Learning and Cognitive technologies
![Thesis: Investigating the use of digital twins in networked commercial UAVs](https://sdm.mit.edu/wp-content/themes/sdm-mit-child/images/placeholder-image-rpthumb.jpg)
Submitted by Kautilya Vemulapalli. Abstract: The Commercial UAS industry is relatively new and has significant growth potential as new technology are incorporated into it, new
![Thesis: Evaluation of the smoothing activation function in neural networks for business applications](https://sdm.mit.edu/wp-content/themes/sdm-mit-child/images/placeholder-image-rpthumb.jpg)
Thesis: Evaluation of the smoothing activation function in neural networks for business applications
Submitted by Jun Siong Ang. With vast improvements in computational power, increased accessibility to big data, and rapid innovations in computing algorithms, the use of neural