MIT Technology and Policy Program

TPP addresses societal challenges through research and education at the intersection of technology and policy. Our goal is to mobilize science and engineering to inform intelligent, responsible strategies and policies to benefit communities from local to global.

Slice of MIT | April 3, 2025

Water Planning for Droughts, Floods, and More

TPP alum Sarah Fletcher SM ’12, PhD ’18 focuses on the challenge of water insecurity.
NAACL | March 6, 2025

LLM-Supported Natural Language to Bash Translation

TPP student Finnian Westenfelder is a member of the Anyscale Learning For All (ALFA) group at MIT-CSAIL, and co-author of a recent paper emphasizing the importance of dataset quality, execution-based evaluation and translation method for advancing NL2SH translation.
February 14, 2025

Cultivators of research

Professors Maria Yang and IDSS faculty Kenneth Oye are honored as “Committed to Caring” for their mentorship of graduate students.

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