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Martin Wainwright, a widely recognized leader in statistics and machine learning, has been named the new director of MIT's Institute for Data, Systems, and Society.
An MIT study shows that if U.S. nuclear power plants are retired, the burning of coal, oil, and natural gas to fill the energy gap could cause more than 5,000 premature deaths.
Health benefits associated with wind power could more than quadruple if operators turned down output from the most polluting fossil-fuel-based power plants when energy from wind is available. However, compared to wealthier communities, disadvantaged communities would reap a smaller share of these benefits.
Stacy Springs has been named executive director and Richard Braatz is the new associate faculty director at MIT’s Center for Biomedical Innovation.