Month: February 2024

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of its founding, the Center for Theoretical Physics (CTP) hosted a symposium on Saturday, March 24. […]

As part of an effort to identify distant planets hospitable to life, NASA has established a crowdsourcing project in which volunteers […]

MIT researchers have developed a computer interface that can transcribe words that the user verbalizes internally but does not actually speak aloud. […]

A person watching videos that show things opening — a door, a book, curtains, a blooming flower, a yawning dog — […]

Using a machine-learning system known as a deep neural network, MIT researchers have created the first model that can replicate human […]

The MIT Statistics and Data Science Center (SDSC), a part of the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS), announced two […]

A growing body of research has demonstrated that algorithms and other types of software can be discriminatory, yet the vague nature […]

Navigating roads less traveled in self-driving cars is a difficult task. One reason is that there aren’t many places where self-driving […]

In recent years Southeast Asia has seen a significant increase in the intensity and frequency of haze events, or days in […]

Observing the world’s oceans is increasingly a mission assigned to autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) — marine robots that are designed to […]

MIT continues its efforts to transform the process of drug design and manufacturing with a new MIT-industry consortium, the Machine Learning […]

In the field of self-driving cars, algorithms for controlling lane changes are an important topic of study. But most existing lane-change […]

For many people, household chores are a dreaded, inescapable part of life that we often put off or do with little […]

A new technique developed by MIT physicists could someday provide a way to custom-design multilayered nanoparticles with desired properties, potentially for […]

“Who is Bram Stoker?” Those three words demonstrated the amazing potential of artificial intelligence. It was the answer to a final […]

Antonio Torralba has been named the inaugural director of the MIT Quest for Intelligence, effective immediately, Provost Martin Schmidt announced today […]

X-ray vision has long seemed like a far-fetched sci-fi fantasy, but over the last decade a team led by Professor Dina […]

With the push of a button, months of hard work were about to be put to the test. Sixteen teams of […]

Have you ever plugged in a vacuum cleaner, only to have it turn off without warning before the job is done? […]

Medical image registration is a common technique that involves overlaying two images, such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans, to compare […]

Children with autism spectrum conditions often have trouble recognizing the emotional states of people around them — distinguishing a happy face […]

“In some ways you can compare what we are trying to do to self-driving cars.” MIT postdoc Cristina Rea is describing […]

Designing new molecules for pharmaceuticals is primarily a manual, time-consuming process that’s prone to error. But MIT researchers have now taken […]

The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF), a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science User Facility, has selected 10 data […]

The atmosphere of a given space — the light, sounds, and sensorial qualities that make it distinct from other spaces — […]

The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has honored Connor Coley, who is currently pursuing his graduate degree in chemical engineering, […]

MIT Media Lab researchers have developed a machine-learning model that takes computers a step closer to interpreting our emotions as naturally […]

MIT researchers are employing novel machine-learning techniques to improve the quality of life for patients by reducing toxic chemotherapy and radiotherapy […]

A novel encryption method devised by MIT researchers secures data used in online neural networks, without dramatically slowing their runtimes. This […]

After years of tinkering, the dynamic programming language Julia 1.0 was officially released to the public during JuliaCon, an annual conference of Julia […]

In intensive care units, where patients come in with a wide range of health conditions, triaging relies heavily on clinical judgment. […]

To diagnose depression, clinicians interview patients, asking specific questions — about, say, past mental illnesses, lifestyle, and mood — and identify the […]

Software applications provide people with many kinds of automated decisions, such as identifying what an individual’s credit risk is, informing a […]

A child is presented with a picture of various shapes and is asked to find the big red circle. To come […]

Today, MIT and Community Jameel, the social enterprise organization founded and chaired by Mohammed Abdul Latif Jameel ’78, launched the Abdul […]

MIT computer scientists have developed a system that learns to identify objects within an image, based on a spoken description of […]

Have you ever used your credit card at a new store or location only to have it declined? Has a sale […]

Three technology trends are quickly changing global supply chains, revenue management, and the retail industry as a whole: digitization, analytics, and […]

Regina Barzilay and James Collins have been named the faculty co-leads of the Abdul Latif Jameel Clinic for Machine Learning in […]

When moving through a crowd to reach some end goal, humans can usually navigate the space safely without thinking too much. […]

MIT today announced a new $1 billion commitment to address the global opportunities and challenges presented by the prevalence of computing […]

This set of FAQs offers information about the founding of the MIT Stephen A. Schwarzman College of Computing, announced today, and […]