CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Sept. 16 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * A new community for computational science and engineering * For the past decade, MIT has offered doctoral-level study in computational science and engineering (CSE) exclusively through an interdisciplinary program designed for students applying computation within a specific science or engineering field. As interest grew among students focused primarily on advancing CSE methodolo more PR

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Sept. 16 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * Decoding the sounds of battery formation and degradation * Before batteries lose power, fail suddenly, or burst into flames, they tend to produce faint sounds over time that provide a signature of the degradation processes going on within their structure. But until now, nobody had figured out how to interpret exactly what those sounds meant, and how to distinguish between ordinary more PR

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Sept. 16 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * How to build AI scaling laws for efficient LLM training and budget maximization * When researchers are building large language models (LLMs), they aim to maximize performance under a particular computational and financial budget. Since training a model can amount to millions of dollars, developers need to be judicious with cost-impacting decisions about, for instance, the model ar more PR

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Sept. 16 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * How to get your business into the flow * In the late 1990s, a Harley-Davidson executive named Donald Kieffer became general manager of a company engine plant near Milwaukee. The iconic motorcycle maker had forged a celebrated comeback, and Kieffer, who learned manufacturing on the shop floor, had been part of it. Now Kieffer wanted to make his facility better. So he arranged for a more PR

BOSTON, Massachusetts, Sept. 17 (TNSrep) -- Bain and Co., a management consulting firm, issued the following news release: * * * Luxury's tech evolution continues, brands seek to invest smarter to transform faster--Bain & Company and Comite Colbert * Technology has become a key function in luxury's transformation: 85% of CEOs consider it important to executing their strategy, and 8% deem it truly critical * 37% of luxury houses report having already largely put in place the technological cap more PR

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Sept. 16 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * MIT geologists discover where energy goes during an earthquake * The ground-shaking that an earthquake generates is only a fraction of the total energy that a quake releases. A quake can also generate a flash of heat, along with a domino-like fracturing of underground rocks. But exactly how much energy goes into each of these three processes is exceedingly difficult, if not imposs more PR

BOSTON, Massachusetts, Sept. 17 (TNSrep) -- Bain and Co., a management consulting firm, issued the following news release: * * * Store strikes back as a connected, AI-powered space--Bain & Company and VusionGroup * The store is back at the center of retail strategies with 75% of executives planning a large-scale store transformation in the next 2 years * From bottom-line improvements to enhanced experiences, tech-enabled stores are delivering big wins for retailers and customers on efficienc more PR