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An MIT profile of Paris Smaragdis points to applications extending beyond speech transcription.

A university interview links infrastructure planning with changing technology, climate conditions and complex dependencies.

MIT’s account of a facilities meeting highlights the software and coordination work behind access to advanced research equipment.

Inventory, ownership and a tested transition can make end-of-support work more deliberate and less disruptive.

A bounded, repetitive problem can offer a clearer path to learning than a demonstration designed to do everything.

A detailed virtual representation needs a purpose, validated assumptions and a clear relationship to the physical system.

The useful question is how access decisions are made for a resource, rather than whether a network has a fashionable label.

Knowing where a build came from helps organizations ask better questions about the software they depend on.

Generation capacity is one part of an electricity system that must balance timing, networks and demand.

A smart device joins an operating environment that will outlive its launch-day features.

A storage project makes more sense when its intended service, duration and operating conditions are explicit.

The commercial value of a research invention depends on adaptation, operating conditions and a customer who needs the result.