6 月 9 日, 《波士顿环球报》发布了 2026 年“Tech Power Players” 名单,，表彰了马萨诸塞州 50 位有影响力的当地技术和商业领导者。该名单包括麻省理工学院的八名附属机构，包括校长 Sally Kornbluth, Daniela Rus 教授(CSAIL 主任), Regina Barzilay 教授, Yet-Ming Jiang 教授, Max Tegmark 教授, Ana Bakshi (Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship 执行董事), Katie Rae Engine 首席执行官兼执行合伙人Ventures), 和高级讲师 Brian Halligan, 以及一些 MIT 校友。
On June 9, The Boston Globe released its 2026 “Tech Power Players” list, recognizing 50 influential local leaders in technology and business across Massachusetts. The list includes eight MIT affiliates including President Sally Kornbluth, Prof. Daniela Rus (director of CSAIL), Prof. Regina Barzilay, Prof. Yet-Ming Chiang, Prof. Max Tegmark, Ana Bakshi (executive director of the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship), Katie Rae CEO and Managing Partner of Engine Ventures), and Senior Lecturer Brian Halligan, along with a number of MIT alumni.
除了表彰个人领导者,之外，“实力玩家”的报道还强调了麻省理工学院’的研究实验室,其创新和创业文化,行业联系,新的人工智能计划,以及研究所’对保持马萨诸塞州’技术领先地位的坚定承诺。
In addition to recognizing individual leaders, the Power Players coverage highlights MIT的 research labs, its culture of innovation and entrepreneurship, industry connections, new AI initiatives, and the Institute的 deep commitment to maintaining Massachusetts technological leadership.
“马萨诸塞州绝对可以引领下一波浪潮,” 总统 Kornbluth, 指出，未来是光明的，在从制造, 生命和健康科学到为全国美国人服务的量子技术和能源等领域推进技术发展的机会不断涌现。
“Massachusetts can absolutely lead in this next wave,” says President Kornbluth, noting that the future is bright with burgeoning opportunities to advance technologies in fields from manufacturing, life and health sciences to quantum technologies and energy in service of Americans across the country.
谈到人工智能,，麻省理工学院“致力于推动人工智能在该地区最强的领域,从生物技术和机器人技术到国防和清洁能源。它的还试图通过‘从宿舍到创业’推动,创建支持服务管道 — 从黑客马拉松到风险投资—来扩大创业范围，以帮助学生在罗伯特·韦斯曼为《环球报》撰文：class,”。
When it comes to AI, MIT is “working to drive artificial intelligence forward in sectors where the region is strongest, from biotechnology and robotics to defense and clean energy. It的 also trying to broaden entrepreneurship through a ‘dorm-to-startup push, creating a pipeline of support services — from hack-a-thons to venture funding — to help students to start companies between classes,” writes Robert Weisman for The Globe.
展望未来, 《环球报》强调了麻省理工学院如何致力于继续成为高等教育领域人工智能进步的核心驱动力。
Looking ahead, The Globe highlights how MIT aims to remain a central driver of AI advancement within higher ed.
“P 校长 Sally Kornbluth 正在重振学校的 对当地创新生态系统的支持,” 写道 Aaron Pressman, 指出 MIT 如何�%9推出专门针对 AI 的新在线课程 — 免费适合任何人的入门级课程 — 并鼓励更多校园创业。”
“President Sally Kornbluth is reinvigorating the school的 support of the local innovation ecosystem,” writes Aaron Pressman, noting how MIT is “unveiling new online classes dedicated to AI — with free entry-level classes for anyone — and encouraging more entrepreneurship on campus.”
Pressman 写道，MIT 免费的, 在线人工智能课程可以帮助当地技术领导者应对挑战“，以确保人们, 不仅是公司, 从技术中受益,”。
MIT的 free, online AI courses could help local tech leaders in their challenge “to ensure people, not only corporations, benefit from the technology,” writes Pressman.
当谈到将人工智能技术应用于现实世界问题时, 麻省理工学院的目标是确保大波士顿地区保持领先地位。
And when it comes to applying AI technologies to real-world problems, MIT aims to ensure the greater Boston area remains a leader.
“马萨诸塞州的一些学校,（包括 MIT,）正在开辟应用人工智能专业 — 有时称为 ‘AI+X’ — 部署该技术可帮助企业,、医院, 和研究机构提高生产力, 创新, 和科学突破,” 韦斯曼解释道。
“Some schools in Massachusetts, including MIT, are carving out a specialty in applied AI — sometimes called ‘AI+X’ — deploying the technology to help businesses, hospitals, and research institutions to supercharge productivity, innovation, and scientific breakthroughs,” explains Weisman.
Aman Narang ‘04, Toast, 首席执行官补充: “ 超级力量一直是大学系统。波士顿能做的最好的事情就是留住这些人。”
Aman Narang ‘04, CEO of Toast, adds: “The superpower has always been the university system. The best thing Boston can do is keep these people around.”
麻省理工学院的初创企业是该地区的创业生态系统的关键驱动力。为了确保大波士顿地区仍然是创新者的中心并满足学生日益增长的兴趣,，麻省理工学院正在寻求利用其现有的学生创业资源,，包括致力于培育创业社区的 150 多个课程和 85 个中心和项目。此外，, 院长 Sally Kornbluth 和教务长 Anantha Chandrakasan 最近成立了加速翻译和创业委员会 (CATE)，以重新探索该研究所如何最好地支持, 消除, 的障碍，并加速将 MIT的研究和创新发现的想法转化为新企业。
MIT startups are a key driver of the region的 entrepreneurial ecosystem. To ensure the greater Boston area remains a hub for innovators and to respond to growing student interest, MIT is looking to build upon its existing entrepreneurship resources for students, including the more than 150 courses and 85 centers and programs dedicated to fostering an entrepreneurial community. Additionally, President Sally Kornbluth and Provost Anantha Chandrakasan recently formed the Committee on Accelerating Translation and Entrepreneurship (CATE) to explore anew how the Institute can best support, remove barriers to, and accelerate the movement of ideas from MIT的 research and innovative discoveries into new ventures.
此外, 反映了大波士顿科技界的乐观情绪, 《环球报》描述了麻省理工学院马丁信托中心创业加速器计划的申请量比去年增加了一倍, 和近五分之一的麻省理工学院本科生 — 大约 800学生 — 参加了最近的创业招聘会。
Further, reflecting on the optimism surrounding the Greater Boston tech scene, The Globe describes how applications for The Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship的 startup accelerator program have doubled from last year, and nearly one-fifth of MIT undergraduates — about 800 students — attended a recent startup career fair.
简单的蠕虫病毒可以推动人工智能的未来。 This might sound like a squishy premise, but that的 the idea behind MIT startup Liquid AI, which is developing AI models inspired by the brain structure of a simple worm and could significantly reduce AI energy consumption. Liquid AI的 models, “which can uncover financial fraud and pilot autonomous drones, require far less electricity to operate than large language models, saving energy and water, which is used to cool data centers,” Pressman explains.
The simple worm could drive the future of AI. This might sound like a squishy premise, but that的 the idea behind MIT startup Liquid AI, which is developing AI models inspired by the brain structure of a simple worm and could significantly reduce AI energy consumption. Liquid AI的 models, “which can uncover financial fraud and pilot autonomous drones, require far less electricity to operate than large language models, saving energy and water, which is used to cool data centers,” Pressman explains.
The Globe highlights how Liquid AI recently signed a deal with Mercedes-Benz to incorporate its technology into the onboard systems of cars sold in North America.
为了推动新的人工智能技术–并确保全国各地的美国人都能拥有可靠且负担得起的能源–，麻省理工学院的研究人员和一些校友也将注意力转向能源的未来。
To power new AI technologies – and ensure Americans across the country can have reliable and affordable energy sources – researchers at MIT and a number of alumni are also turning their attention to the future of energy.
在蒋业明教授’的实验室,，研究人员正在开发能够在较长时间内储存更多电力的电池,，为风能,太阳能,和其他清洁能源创造“更多机会。”
In Prof. Yet-Ming Chiang的 lab, researchers are developing batteries that can store more electricity over longer periods, creating “more opportunities for wind, solar, and other clean energy sources.”
Weisman 重点介绍了“Chiang的 实验室和其他麻省理工学院研究中心如何致力于微芯片, 关键矿物, 聚变技术, 和国防技术方面的创新。所有这些都是‘艰难的技术’结合科学和工程,的项目的例子，Chiang说‘处于波士顿生态系统的最佳位置。’“
Weisman highlights how “Chiang的 lab and other MIT research centers are also working on innovations in microchips, critical minerals, fusion technology, and defense tech. All are examples of ‘tough tech projects combining science and engineering, which Chiang says ‘are in the sweet spot of the Boston ecosystem.’“
Soon, 80 MIT students will work as summer interns and employees at GE Vernova, thanks to the MIT-GE Vernova Climate and Energy Alliance, a collaboration aimed at advancing research and education that will accelerate the global energy transition.
GE Vernova CEO Scott Strazik wanted his organization to “plug into the city的 innovation culture,” particularly the MIT campus and community. The company announced it would dedicate $50 million over five years to fund internships and research projects in which students and faculty work alongside GE Vernova engineers and technicians.
大波士顿科技界最有前途的地区
The most promising area for the Greater Boston tech scene
《环球报》最后询问了每位实力玩家，目前大波士顿科技界最有前途的事情是什么。
The Globe concludes by asking each Power Player what the most promising thing about the Greater Boston tech scene is right now.
对于 Rus,，答案是: “ 人才。 Boston has the best AI researchers in the world, and they're producing genuinely new ideas, not incremental ones,” she explains.
For Rus, the answer is: “talent. Boston has the best AI researchers in the world, and they're producing genuinely new ideas, not incremental ones,” she explains.
当谈到实现聚变能源的潜力,时，Bob Mumgaard SM’15, Commonwealth Fusion Systems,联合创始人兼首席执行官解释说，由于该地区’在工程,设计,和制造硬件和设备以及与大学研究人员的接触方面的专业知识’，他不可能’在马萨诸塞州以外的任何地方建立公司。
When it comes to realizing the potential of fusion energy, Bob Mumgaard SM ’15, co-founder and CEO of Commonwealth Fusion Systems, explains that he couldn’t have built the company anywhere but Massachusetts thanks to the region的 expertise in engineering, designing, and manufacturing hardware and equipment and access to university researchers.
“The ecosystem has the building blocks,” says Mumgaard. “Massachusetts is the strongest in the nation in innovation in energy.”
科恩布鲁斯总统提到了量子。
President Kornbluth points to quantum.
“目前没有’比量子科学技术更重要的技术领域,，波士顿地区是世界上量子人才最集中的,” Kornbluth 强调。
“There isn’t a more important technological field right now than quantum science and technology, and the Boston area has the greatest concentration of quantum talent anywhere in the world,” Kornbluth emphasizes.