Mariano Salcedo SB ’25, SM ’26, an alumnus of MIT’s undergraduate artificial intelligence and decision making program and music technology and computation graduate program, is designing an AI to visualize and express music and other sounds. “I want users to feel movement and explore sounds and their impact more fully,” he says.

In the new economics course 14.163 (Algorithms and Behavioral Science), students investigate the deployment of machine-learning tools and their potential to understand people, reduce bias, and improve society.

MIT anthropologist and program head Chris Walley developed a project for people in Southeast Chicago to tell their histories — an approach any community can adopt. “People tend to experience history in their day-to-day lives not through books written by experts, but by telling stories around family objects and photos,” Walley says.

David Mindell, an MIT professor of aeronautics and astronautics and in the Program in Science, Technology, and Society, worked with students in course 16.445J/STS.468J (Entrepreneurship in Aerospace and Mobility Systems) to produce the report “Entrepreneurship in Aerospace,” which provides comprehensive insight into what it actually takes to build an aerospace venture today, and makes predictions about what is needed in the near future.