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Summaries are not the original full articles. ## Walter Torous named executive director of MIT Center for Real Estate DevFeed: [Walter Torous named executive director of MIT Center for Real Estate]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Author: Denise Brehm | MIT Center for Real Estate | Department of Urban Studies and Planning Published: 2026-09-01T21:25:00Z Content type: news Language: en Sources: [MIT AI News]() Topics: [Finance]() Tags: [academic](), [ai-and-real-estate](), [architecture](), [artificial-intelligence](), [center-for-real-estate](), [civil-and-environmental-engineering](), [education-teaching-academics](), [executive](), [faculty](), [hashim-sarkis](), [leadership](), [machine-learning](), [master-of-science-in-real-estate-development-program-msred](), [media-lab](), [mit-center-for-real-estate](), [mit-cre](), [mit-dusp](), [mit-leadership](), [mit-sloan-school-of-management](), [operations](), [pandemic-effect-on-real-estate](), [program](), [real-estate](), [residential-real-estate](), [school-of-architecture-and-planning](), [school-of-engineering](), [siqi-zheng](), [urban-studies-and-planning](), [walter-torous]() ### AI overview Walter Torous, a senior lecturer at MIT and director of the Master of Science in Real Estate Development Program, became executive director of the MIT Center for Real Estate effective July 1, 2026. He will oversee the center's teaching, consortium activities, fundraising, events, staff, budget, and strategic direction. ### Source excerpt The senior lecturer, already director of the degree program, will now oversee all aspects of the center's activities and operations. ## Ila Kumar: Innovating with communities DevFeed: [Ila Kumar: Innovating with communities]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Author: Gitana Savage | MIT News correspondent Published: 2026-09-01T04:00:00Z Content type: news Language: en Sources: [MIT AI News]() Topics: [digital](), [context]() Tags: [artificial-intelligence](), [assistive-technology](), [child-welfare](), [communities](), [digital](), [engineering-systems](), [graduate-postdoctoral](), [ila-kumar](), [lifelong-kindergarten](), [media-lab](), [mental-health](), [mit-graduate-students](), [profile](), [psychology](), [school-of-architecture-and-planning](), [students](), [tech-for-good](), [technology](), [technology-and-society]() ### AI overview MIT PhD student Ila Kumar researches community-based design, involving young people who have experienced childhood trauma in shaping digital technologies intended to support healing, connection, independence, and well-being. ### Source excerpt The PhD student works to give young people an active role in shaping digital technologies that can support their own well-being. ## 3 Questions: Neural transparency and the future of AI design DevFeed: [3 Questions: Neural transparency and the future of AI design]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Author: Media Lab Published: 2026-07-15T20:25:00Z Content type: article Language: en Sources: [MIT AI News]() Topics: [Artificial Intelligence](), [Neural Network](), [User Interfaces](), [interface](), [Language models]() Tags: [3-questions](), [ai](), [ai-companion](), [ai-empathy](), [ai-hallucinations](), [ai-personalization](), [ai-safety](), [ai-sycophancy](), [ai-toxicity](), [algorithms](), [anthony-baez](), [apps](), [artificial-intelligence](), [behavioral-prediction](), [character-ai](), [chatbot-behavior](), [computer-science-and-technology](), [data](), [ethics](), [faculty](), [human-ai-interaction](), [human-computer-interaction](), [interface](), [interview](), [language-models](), [large-language-models](), [machine-learning](), [mechanistic-interpretability](), [media-lab](), [mental-health](), [mit-faculty-interview](), [mit-media-lab](), [neural](), [neural-transparency](), [pat-pataranutaporn](), [persona-scores](), [persona-vectors](), [personalized-ai](), [research](), [safety](), [school-of-architecture-and-planning](), [sheer-karny](), [sunburst-visualization](), [technology-and-society](), [transparency](), [users]() ### AI overview An MIT Media Lab team introduces "neural transparency," an interface that visualizes internal patterns in AI models to help users anticipate how personalized chatbots may behave. The approach compares model activations associated with contrasting traits such as empathy, honesty, toxicity, hallucination, and sycophancy, then maps custom system prompts onto those behavior directions. ### Source excerpt Assistant Professor Pat Pataranutaporn describes a new interface that lets everyday users glimpse inside an AI's neural network before their chatbot ever says a word. ## Inaugural Music Technology Research Showcase celebrates work of new graduate program's initial students DevFeed: [Inaugural Music Technology Research Showcase celebrates work of new graduate program's initial students]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Author: Dan Pecci | MIT Music and Theater Arts Published: 2026-06-29T19:00:00Z Content type: news Language: en Sources: [MIT AI News]() Topics: [Computing](), [Artificial Intelligence]() Tags: [agustin-rayo](), [ai](), [ai-in-music](), [algorithms](), [anna-huang](), [artificial-intelligence](), [arts](), [electrical-engineering-and-computer-science-eecs](), [electronics](), [eran-egozy](), [event](), [graduate-postdoctoral](), [grisha-coleman](), [hip-hop](), [human-computer-interaction](), [machine-learning](), [mark-rau](), [media-lab](), [mit-class-21m-369-569-tuning-attention-creative-practices-in-movement-sound-and-ai](), [mit-music-and-theater-arts](), [mit-music-technology-and-computation-mtc-graduate-program](), [mit-music-technology-research-showcase](), [mit-schwarzman-college-of-computing](), [mit-shass](), [mit-soe](), [music](), [music-and-theater-arts](), [music-in-eeg-signals](), [music-technology](), [network](), [paris-smaragdis](), [paula-hammond](), [performance](), [performances](), [real-time](), [research](), [school-of-engineering](), [school-of-humanities-arts-and-social-sciences](), [special-events-and-guest-speakers](), [students]() ### AI overview MIT's Music Technology and Computation Graduate Program held its inaugural research showcase on May 13, featuring presentations and performances by its initial students, PhD students, and faculty. Projects included AI-assisted piano improvisation visualization, sound art using noisy network communication, dance-generated music, and EEG-based musical tune identification. ### Source excerpt Associate Professor Anna Huang delivers the keynote address, "In Search of Human-AI Resonance," to a capacity crowd.