A wearable ultrasound scanner, incorporated into a bra, could allow more regular monitoring of patients at high risk for breast cancer. “With more frequent screening, our goal is to increase the survival rate to up to 98 percent,” says Canan Dagdeviren.

The AP covered the premiere of Jay Scheib’s augmented reality-infused production of Richard Wagner’s “Parsifal” at the Bayreuth Festival in Germany. “We sort of focus on a future society in which myth has become possible again," Scheib said.

PhD student Lisa Ho ’17 studies the barriers limiting women’s participation in the labor force in India. “I want to be an economist whose work is grounded in challenges that come up in people’s everyday lives — especially women’s and children’s,” she says.

“The four years I spent as an undergrad and two years as a grad … it was just a magical experience that changed my life,” says R. Robert Wickham ’93, SM ’95, the new president of the MIT Alumni Association. “But the most important thing that I got out of my experience was learning how to learn.”

A new machine-learning technique can efficiently learn to control a robot, leading to better performance with fewer data. Using this method, “we’re able to naturally create controllers that function much more effectively in the real world,” Navid Azizan says.

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