Month: January 2024

Surveillance cameras have an identity problem, fueled by an inherent tension between utility and privacy. As these powerful little devices have […]

Growing up in Spain’s Catalonia region, Alberto Rodriguez loved taking things apart and putting them back together. But it wasn’t until […]

Although the U.S. Equal Credit Opportunity Act prohibits discrimination in mortgage lending, biases still impact many borrowers. One 2021 Journal of […]

When we think of climate change, one of the most dramatic images that comes to mind is the loss of glacial […]

Imagine a pizza maker working with a ball of dough. She might use a spatula to lift the dough onto a […]

Chemical engineers and materials scientists are constantly looking for the next revolutionary material, chemical, and drug. The rise of machine-learning approaches […]

What does it mean to be human in an age where artificial intelligence agents make decisions that shape human actions? That’s […]

In 1995, French fashion magazine editor Jean-Dominique Bauby suffered a seizure while driving a car, which left him with a condition […]

Robots are already adept at certain things, such as lifting objects that are too heavy or cumbersome for people to manage. […]

In machine learning, understanding why a model makes certain decisions is often just as important as whether those decisions are correct. […]

The human brain seems to care a lot about faces. It’s dedicated a specific area to identifying them, and the neurons […]

As robots evolve, society’s collective imagination forever ponders what else robots can do, with recent fascinations coming to life as self-driving […]

As she was looking for a camp last summer, Yabesra Ewnetu, who’d just finished eighth grade, found a reference to MIT’s […]

On Monday, MIT announced five multiyear flagship projects in the first-ever Climate Grand Challenges, a new initiative to tackle complex climate […]

Perovskites are a family of materials that are currently the leading contender to potentially replace today’s silicon-based solar photovoltaics. They hold […]

Aimed at driving diversity and inclusion in artificial intelligence, the MIT Stephen A. Schwarzman College of Computing is launching Break Through […]

Students in the MIT course 6.036 (Introduction to Machine Learning) study the principles behind powerful models that help physicians diagnose disease […]

Humans may be one of the biggest roadblocks keeping fully autonomous vehicles off city streets. If a robot is going to […]

When the 2015 Paris Agreement set a long-term goal of keeping global warming “well below 2 degrees Celsius, compared to pre-industrial […]

With e-commerce orders pouring in, a warehouse robot picks mugs off a shelf and places them into boxes for shipping. Everything […]

Not all data are created equal. But how much information is any piece of data likely to contain? This question is […]

A smarter way to develop new drugs #Machinelearning According to Hacker.top Team researched from news.mit.edu

MIT research scientists Pablo Rodriguez-Fernandez and Nathan Howard have just completed one of the most demanding calculations in fusion science — […]

The voracious appetite for energy from the world’s computers and communications technology presents a clear threat for the globe’s warming climate. […]

Waves break once they swell to a critical height, before cresting and crashing into a spray of droplets and bubbles. These […]

From “Star Wars” to “Happy Feet,” many beloved films contain scenes that were made possible by motion capture technology, which records […]

Humans observe the world through a combination of different modalities, like vision, hearing, and our understanding of language. Machines, on the […]

Modern machine-learning models, such as neural networks, are often referred to as “black boxes” because they are so complex that even […]

Some people pass the time with hobbies like crossword puzzles or Sudoku. When Chris Rackauckas has a spare moment, he often […]

No one likes sitting at a red light. But signalized intersections aren’t just a minor nuisance for drivers; vehicles consume fuel […]

Even as rapid improvements in artificial intelligence have led to speculation over significant changes in the health care landscape, the adoption […]

Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS) student Sarah Cen remembers the lecture that sent her down the track to an […]

The Abdul Latif Jameel Water and Food Systems Lab (J-WAFS) at MIT has awarded eight MIT principal investigators with 2022 J-WAFS […]

The Gruber Foundation announced on May 17 that Emery N. Brown, the Edward Hood Taplin Professor of Medical Engineering and Computational […]

Inside the womb, fetuses can begin to hear some sounds around 20 weeks of gestation. However, the input they are exposed […]

As artificial intelligence gets better at performing tasks once solely in the hands of humans, like driving cars, many see teaming intelligence […]

In bias we trust? #Machinelearning According to Hacker.top Team researched from news.mit.edu