Stacked transistors + Commencement speaker + proteins and disease

By rahmat hidayat

Kamis, 11 Desember 2025

view in browser MIT Daily December 11, 2025 Greetings! Here’s the latest from the MIT community.   Have feedback to share? Email mitdailyeditor@mit.edu. Stacked Transistors MIT researchers can now fabricate transistors and memory devices in one compact stack on a semiconductor chip, so data don’t need to travel between components. This eliminates wasted energy while boosting the speed of computation. Full story via MIT News → Top Headlines Lisa Su ’90, SM ’91, PhD ’94 to deliver MIT’s 2026 Commencement address An electrical engineer by training, Su is the chair and CEO of the semiconductor company AMD. Full story via MIT News → Alternate proteins from the same gene contribute differently to health and rare disease New findings may help researchers identify genetic mutations that contribute to rare diseases, by studying when and how single genes produce multiple versions of proteins. Full story via MIT News → When it comes to language, context matters MIT researchers identified three cognitive skills that we use to infer what someone really means. Full story via MIT News → #ThisisMIT Post via @synsation_ on Instagram→ In the Media Scientists discover secrets of ancient Roman concrete at Pompeii // Reuters By studying a workshop that was buried in Pompeii almost 2,000 years ago, Associate Professor Admir Masic and colleagues uncovered how ancient Romans created self-healing and long-lasting concrete. “Studying it truly felt as if I had traveled back in time and was standing beside the workers as they mixed and placed their concrete,” Masic recalls. He adds that: “Modern concretes generally lack intrinsic self-healing capability, which is increasingly important as we seek longer-lasting, lower-maintenance infrastructure. So while the ancient process itself is not a direct replacement for modern standards, the principles revealed can inform the design of next-generation durable, low-carbon concretes.” Full story via Reuters→ Watch This In honor of the traditional December public broadcasting of the classic “The Sound of Music,” we bring you a delightful MIT remake of the song “Do Re Mi.” This 2018 rendition recreates the original, shot for shot, around the MIT campus, occasionally replacing lyrics related to music education with engineering terms. The parody video was created for the mechanical engineering class 2.009 (Product Engineering Processes) and features students representing color teams along with legendary instructor Professor David Wallace. Watch the video→ This edition of the MIT Daily was brought to you by paths to urban planning 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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