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Advances in materials science and engineering are key components of the innovation process. In this four-part series we highlight areas of materials research driving breakthroughs in technology.
Cancer precision medicine seeks to match each individual patient to the most effective available therapy. To date, precision medicine has largely been based on genomic profiling, in which patients with certain pre-defined genetic alterations are identified and matched with drugs targeting those specific abnormalities. Despite early success, progress in identifying additional actionable mutations has been slow, and today less than 20% of patients with metastatic cancer are eligible for FDA-approved genome-guided drugs. How can this be improved? What alternative approaches might there be?
Following last year's successful Silicon Valley Showcase, MIT Startup Exchange is once again excited to feature this October countless advances in innovation, entrepreneurship and industry collaboration to impact not only how companies can do business but also how we function in our daily lives. What exciting new innovations are emerging from the MIT startup ecosystem? How will the latest technology trends affect your business? How can startups help transform a difficult landscape under COVID-19 and beyond? MIT Startup Exchange, an integrated program of MIT Corporate Relations, is hosting a Startup Showcase to feature West Coast startups and their technologies focused on AI and IoT, finance, customer analytics, energy, supply chain and manufacturing, among other key themes. Join us, as this promises to be an excellent forum where potential partnerships between corporates and startups can emerge!
There is no doubt that technology is developing at breakneck speeds. More specifically, artificial intelligence (AI) has propelled us from information technology to transformation technology, aiming to bring us from operational efficiency to scalable predictability. Whilst there are many notable differentiators, one thing Industry 4.0 has in common with prior industrial revolutions is the clear impact on economics and society. Many of us can agree that technology has both the ability to bring us together and to widen the gaps between us. Once again, we are called to the challenge of protecting fundamentals, such as privacy and human rights, to ensure that the resulting decision trees and outcomes uphold ethical virtues.
We invite you to join this conversation with Dr. Hafrey and Prof. Trout, two esteemed MIT faculty practicing and teaching ethics in different yet integral ways. Together, we'll look at professional ethics in history, where we stand today, and our current trajectory. They will tackle questions, such as: How do you practice ethics at work? How can your company practice and model ethics? What are the pitfalls, and in what ways does technology help resolve or enhance them? What can we do to ensure we use AI for summum bonum - supreme good?