Month: December 2023

Socrates once said: “It is not the size of a thing, but the quality that truly matters. For it is in […]

Huge libraries of drug compounds may hold potential treatments for a variety of diseases, such as cancer or heart disease. Ideally, […]

There has been a remarkable surge in the use of algorithms and artificial intelligence to address a wide range of problems […]

In the film “Top Gun: Maverick,” Maverick, played by Tom Cruise, is charged with training young pilots to complete a seemingly […]

How are waves of disruptive technologies, such as more advanced versions of artificial intelligence systems, changing the way we work, live, […]

It was an uncharacteristically sunny morning as Marcela Angel MCP ’18, flanked by a drone pilot from the Boston engineering firm […]

The rapid advance of artificial intelligence has generated a lot of buzz, with some predicting it will lead to an idyllic […]

Taylor Baum knows that access is everything. So the fourth-year MIT PhD candidate in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer […]

The MIT-Pillar AI Collective has announced its first six grant recipients. Students, alumni, and postdocs working on a broad range of […]

“Sensing is all around you,” said MIT.nano Associate Director Brian W. Anthony at Ambient Sensing, a half-day symposium presented in May […]

When Erik Duhaime PhD ’19 was working on his thesis in MIT’s Center for Collective Intelligence, he noticed his wife, then […]

Computers possess two remarkable capabilities with respect to images: They can both identify them and generate them anew. Historically, these functions […]

Chart captions that explain complex trends and patterns are important for improving a reader’s ability to comprehend and retain the data […]

Understanding artificial intelligence and how it relates to matters of national security has become a top priority for military and government […]

Is it possible to build machine-learning models without machine-learning expertise? Jim Collins, the Termeer Professor of Medical Engineering and Science in […]

Discovering new materials and drugs typically involves a manual, trial-and-error process that can take decades and cost millions of dollars. To […]

Walking to a friend’s house or browsing the aisles of a grocery store might feel like simple tasks, but they in […]

Biology is a wondrous yet delicate tapestry. At the heart is DNA, the master weaver that encodes proteins, responsible for orchestrating […]

Imagine that a team of scientists has developed a machine-learning model that can predict whether a patient has cancer from lung […]

Amid a huge amount of hype around generative AI, a new study from researchers at MIT sheds light on the technology’s […]

Your brand new household robot is delivered to your house, and you ask it to make you a cup of coffee. […]

The MIT Stephen A. Schwarzman College of Computing named Armando Solar-Lezama as the inaugural Distinguished Professor of Computing, effective July 1.  […]

Imagine purchasing a robot to perform household tasks. This robot was built and trained in a factory on a certain set […]

Researchers from MIT and Stanford University have devised a new machine-learning approach that could be used to control a robot, such […]

As we enter a new era where technologies powered by artificial intelligence can craft and manipulate images with a precision that […]

For a small percentage of cancer patients, doctors are unable to determine where their cancer originated. This makes it much more […]

Cathy Wu has always delighted in systems that run smoothly. In high school, she designed a project to optimize the best […]

Artificial neural networks, ubiquitous machine-learning models that can be trained to complete many tasks, are so called because their architecture is […]

Prior to receiving a PhD in computer science from MIT in 2017, Marzyeh Ghassemi had already begun to wonder whether the […]

Compared to other imaging modalities like X-rays or CT scans, MRI scans provide high-quality soft tissue contrast. Unfortunately, MRI is highly […]

The MIT Stephen A. Schwarzman College of Computing has awarded seed grants to seven projects that are exploring how artificial intelligence […]

Through a collaboration between M’Care, a 2021 Health Security and Pandemics Solver team, and students from MIT, the landscape of child […]

ChatGPT has made headlines around the world with its ability to write essays, email, and computer code based on a few […]

The Singapore MIT-Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART), MIT’s research enterprise in Singapore, has launched a new interdisciplinary research group aimed […]

Imagine you want to carry a large, heavy box up a flight of stairs. You might spread your fingers out and […]

Should artificial intelligence be allowed to make care decisions for patients? Though the future of AI may conjure up doomsday visions […]

As the impacts of climate change continue to grow, so does interest in fusion’s potential as a clean energy source. While […]

The Abdul Latif Jameel Water and Food Systems Lab (J-WAFS) provides Solutions Grants to help MIT researchers launch startup companies or […]

After three years leading biking tours through U.S. National Parks, Jackson Jewett decided it was time for a change. “It was […]