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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 the work
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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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by Stephanie Schorow R. Chadwick Holmes, SDM ’20, parlayed a youthful fascination with rocks, minerals and fossils into an abiding curiosity about what lies deep under the
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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
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Elizabeth White Baker, SDM ’19 alumna, was interviewed for Peter Coy’s newsletter in the New York Times discussing her research into hospital safety procedures and medical
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Alumnus Chad Holmes SDM ’20 has authored a paper in the Special Issue on Machine Learning Applications in Petroleum Industries and Geothermal Systems in the journal Energies.
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Alumnus Erwin Franz SDM ’19 has co-authored a paper in the proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society
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Alumnus Anuraag Singh SDM ’18 is the lead author on a paper in Research Policy that offers a new way to assess the performance of future technological improvements. Singh
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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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Pankhuri Sen, SDM ’20 and a research assistant in MIT’s AutoID Laboratory was featured in MIT News for the laboratory’s work on RFID sensors that could be
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Submitted by Aravind Asokan. Abstract: Commercial flight operations have seen the consistent reduction of flight crew from five to two over the past several decades. As technology