Chair design + climate action simulator + better AI images

[view in browser]( MIT Daily [MIT Logo] March 22, 2024 Greetings! Here’s the latest from the MIT community. Have feedback to share? Email mitdailyeditor@mit.edu. Chair Challenge #[Three students sit in unique wood chairs against a white background]( Students in MIT course [4.500 (Design Computation)]( create their own chairs using computational tools like 3D modeling, rendering, and animation, while carefully considering the chair user’s experience. “A chair is the best product for learning design,” says Professor Larry Sass. 🪑 [Full story via MIT News →]( Top Headlines A new way to help business leaders visualize climate actions The free En-ROADS simulator uses climate data and modeling to visualize the impact of environmental policies and industry actions (or inactions) through 2100. [Full story via MIT Sloan →]( [MIT Heat Island]( AI generates high-quality images 30 times faster in a single step A novel method makes tools like Stable Diffusion and DALL-E-3 faster by simplifying the image-generating process to a single step while maintaining or enhancing image quality. [Full story via MIT News →]( [MIT Heat Island]( MIT announces financial aid and tuition rates for the 2024–25 academic year Financial aid increased, more than offsetting a 3.75 percent increase in tuition. [Full story via MIT News →](#) [MIT Heat Island]( #ThisisMIT #[Instagram photo of the outside of a stone and glass building with ivy on the ground and an abstract bronze sculpture nearby on a sunny day. Text via @mitscience: Friday photo dump]( [Follow @mitscience on Instagram →]( In the Media A nuts-and-bolts guide to Boston’s AI revolution // Boston Magazine Boston Magazine spotlights MIT’s leading role in the AI revolution in Greater Boston. In the 1960s, researchers at what is now MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) led “groundbreaking machine-learning projects such as the creation of Eliza, a psychotherapy-based computer program that could process languages and establish emotional connections with users (a primordial chatbot, essentially).” [Full story via Boston Magazine →]( Gigantic new aircraft design aims to create the largest plane ever to fly // CNN Radia, an energy startup founded by Mark Lundstrom ’91, SM ’93, MBA ’93, has developed the Windrunner, an airplane designed to deliver 300-foot-blades directly to wind farms. In an effort to “help the world meet its decarbonization targets, it’ll use sustainable aviation fuel and need only a simple packed-dirt or gravel runway to land on.” [Full story via CNN →]( This edition of the MIT Daily was brought to you by [office hours with Addie](. 🐶 Thanks for reading, and have a relaxing weekend! —MIT News [Forward This Email]( [Subscribe]( [MIT Logo] This email was sent to {EMAIL} because of your affiliation with MIT, or because you signed up for our newsletters. [subscribe]( [update preferences]( [unsubscribe]( [view in browser]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Youtube]( [Instagram]( MIT News Office · 77 Massachusetts Avenue · Cambridge, MA 02139 · USA