MIT Museum curiosities + state of quantum + AI vs. the flu

By rahmat hidayat

Selasa, 02 September 2025

view in browser MIT Daily September 2, 2025 Greetings, and welcome to a new semester at MIT! Here’s the latest from around the community.   Have feedback to share? Email mitdailyeditor@mit.edu. Collecting Curiosities Debbie Douglas, senior director of collections and curator of science and technology at the MIT Museum, is driven by a question: “Why are things the way they are today?” With some 1.5 million objects from throughout MIT’s history, the museum holds broad appeal for anyone who is, as Douglas says, “insanely curious.” Watch the video → Top Headlines New report captures the state of quantum computing Report from the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy is a comprehensive assessment of the technology and the global landscape, from patents to the quantum workforce. Full story via MIT Sloan → MIT researchers develop AI tool to improve flu vaccine strain selection VaxSeer uses machine learning to predict virus evolution and antigenicity, aiming to make vaccine selection more accurate and less reliant on guesswork. Full story via MIT News → Musical visionary, a life in community The late Jamshied Sharifi ’83, a Tony Award-winning composer and frequent collaborator on MIT projects, sought transcendence in music-making. Full story via MIT SHASS → #ThisisMIT Instagram post via @aljosajurinic → In the Media Five questions for Daniela Rus on the future of AI // Politico Professor Daniela Rus, director of CSAIL and “one of the world’s foremost thinkers on the intersection of machines and artificial intelligence,” shares her views on the promise of embodied intelligence, which would allow machines to adapt in real-time; the development of AI agents; and how the U.S. can lead on the development of AI technologies. “The U.S. government has invested in energy grids, railroads and the internet. In the AI age, it must treat high-performance compute, data stewardship and model evaluation pipelines as public infrastructure as well,” Rus explains. Full story via Politico → Art @ Home The Student Lending Art Program is a unique tradition that allows MIT students to borrow original artwork from MIT’s List Visual Arts Center for the academic year. The extensive collection contains more than 700 framed works of art, primarily prints and photographs, and is made available to students each September. Students from the program’s 2024-25 cohort recently described the artwork they selected and how it impacted them. Read the stories via MIT List Visual Arts Center → This edition of the MIT Daily was brought to you by studying ocean science at MIT. 🌊 Thanks for reading, and enjoy your day! —MIT News Forward This Email Subscribe This email was sent to rh3252705.pese@blogger.com because of your affiliation with MIT, or because you signed up for our newsletters. subscribe update preferences unsubscribe view in browser MIT News Office · 77 Massachusetts Avenue · Cambridge, MA 02139 · USA

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