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This week the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) elected Tomás Lozano-Pérez, MIT School of Engineering Professor in Teaching Excellence and CSAIL principal investigator, as a member for his work in robot motion planning and molecular design.
Proteins are the workhorses that keep our cells running, and there are many thousands of types of proteins in our cells, each performing a specialized function. Researchers have long known that the structure of a protein determines what it can do.
During a meeting of class 6.C40/24.C40 (Ethics of Computing), Professor Armando Solar-Lezama poses the same impossible question to his students that he often asks himself in the research he leads with the Computer Assisted Programming Group at MIT: