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The 2025 MIT Mongolia Symposium invites participants to explore how artificial intelligence can be applied thoughtfully to drive smarter decision-making, more adaptive organizations, and resilient industrial systems. This program focuses on frameworks and strategies that prioritize critical thinking, system dynamics, and organizational learning over speed of adoption. Sessions will examine how aligning AI with real-world operational contexts enables more effective implementation, and how well-crafted prompts can surface blind spots, outdated workflows, and new possibilities for collaboration and performance. Rather than treating prompting as a technical skill or adoption as a purely technological challenge, the symposium emphasizes AI as a catalyst for deeper reflection, better questions, and more intentional futures.
This Leading Edge webinar explores the dynamic relationship between AI and human behavior, uncovering how algorithms influence decision-making, shape societal norms, and even alter cognitive processes.
City governments and planners alike commonly seek to increase pedestrian activity on city streets as part of broader sustainability, community building and economic development strategies. Though walkability has received ample attention in planning literature, most practitioners still lack methods and tools for predicting how development proposals could impact pedestrian activity on specific streets or public spaces at different times of the day. Cities typically require traffic impact assessments, but not pedestrian impact assessments. In this presentation I discuss a methodology for estimating pedestrian trip generation and distribution between detailed origins and destinations in both existing and planned built environments. I demonstrate its application in Cambridge, MA and Melbourne, Australia, where I compare estimated foot-traffic during lunch and evening peak periods to observed pedestrian counts and show how the model can be used to predict changes in foot-traffic that results from changes in real-estate development.
Amidst rapid technological advancements, the internet of things is transforming the way we live and work. In our nine-week Industrial Internet of Things: From Theory to Applications program, you’ll explore real-life case studies and the latest research in order to deepen your understanding of the digital tools that are enabling a new generation of sensors—including fundamental sensing, computing, and communication software technologies.