Month: February 2024

The following email was sent today to the MIT community by President L. Rafael Reif. To the members of the MIT […]

The following email was sent today to the MIT faculty from Provost Martin Schmidt. Dear colleagues, As I trust you have […]

Seafaring vessels and offshore platforms endure a constant battery of waves and currents. Over decades of operation, these structures can, without […]

The Tang family of Hong Kong has made a $20 million gift to MIT to name the Tang Family Imaging Suite […]

MIT researchers have developed a cryptographic system that could help neural networks identify promising drug candidates in massive pharmacological datasets, while […]

The MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI) 2018 annual research conference brought together energy researchers, policymakers, and industry members working on cutting-edge technologies […]

MIT researchers have developed a novel “unsupervised” language translation model — meaning it runs without the need for human annotations and guidance […]

Children learn language by observing their environment, listening to the people around them, and connecting the dots between what they see […]

Since announcing the MIT Stephen A. Schwarzman College of Computing, Institute leaders have reached out to the campus and alumni communities […]

Wikipedia has enabled large-scale, open collaboration on the internet’s largest general-reference resource. But, as with many collaborative writing projects, crafting the […]

Researchers from MIT and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) have developed a predictive model that could guide clinicians in deciding when to […]

The new MIT Stephen A. Schwarzman College of Computing will incorporate the modern tools of computing into disciplines across the Institute. […]

School of Engineering faculty are embracing the new MIT Stephen A. Schwarzman College of Computing as a bold response to the […]

To most of us, a 3-D-printed turtle just looks like a turtle; four legs, patterned skin, and a shell. But if […]

For years, the tech industry followed a move-fast-and-break-things approach, and few people seemed to mind as a wave of astonishing new […]

The empty frames hanging inside the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum serve as a tangible reminder of the world’s biggest unsolved art […]

Small imperfections in a wine glass or tiny creases in a contact lens can be tricky to make out, even in […]

An era of rapid evolution of structures and devices driven by new capabilities in machine learning, nanoscale experiments, and economic modeling […]

Machine learning algorithms now underlie much of the software we use, helping to personalize our news feeds and finish our thoughts […]

MIT has identified a preferred location for the new MIT Stephen A. Schwarzman College of Computing headquarters: the current site of […]

The School of Engineering is welcoming 11 new faculty members to its departments, institutes, labs, and centers. With research and teaching activities […]

The MIT Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences (EAPS) has expanded its academic program to include a new doctoral field: […]

As a boy growing up in a small South Indian village, Vinod Vaikuntanathan taught himself calculus by reading books his grandfather […]

An artificial intelligence program that’s better than human doctors at recommending treatment for sepsis may soon enter clinical trials in London. […]

Scientists and policymakers converged at MIT on Tuesday to discuss one of the hardest problems in artificial intelligence: How to govern […]

Judah Cohen, a climatologist and visiting scientist in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, is focused on improving the science […]

A novel model developed by MIT and Microsoft researchers identifies instances in which autonomous systems have “learned” from training examples that […]

MIT researchers have developed a model that can assimilate multiple types of a patient’s health data to help doctors make decisions […]

The first artificial intelligence programs to defeat the world’s best players at chess and the game Go received at least some […]

As the solar industry has grown, so have some of its inefficiencies. Smart entrepreneurs see those inefficiencies as business opportunities and […]

In the basement of MIT’s Building 3, a robot is carefully contemplating its next move. It gently pokes at a tower […]

Few students boast as precocious a start in their field as Andrew Halterman. At age seven, Halterman accompanied his mom, a […]

Researchers from MIT and the Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI) are putting the machine-learning systems known as neural networks under the […]

A unique event took place yesterday at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Museum curators, engineers, designers, and […]

By his own admission, Héctor Javier Vázquez Martínez was underprepared to move to Zurich for a semester during his junior year. […]

The following letter was sent to the MIT community on Feb. 7 by Provost Martin A. Schmidt. To the members of the […]

In an op-ed piece published today in Financial Times, MIT President L. Rafael Reif argues for sustained federal investment in artificial […]

Applying just a bit of strain to a piece of semiconductor or other crystalline material can deform the orderly arrangement of […]

Today, predicting what the future has in store for Earth’s climate means dealing in uncertainties. For example, the core climate projections […]

Dan Huttenlocher SM ’84, PhD ’88, a seasoned builder and leader of new academic entities at Cornell University, has been named as […]

Algorithms modeled loosely on the brain have helped artificial intelligence take a giant leap forward in recent years. Those algorithms, in […]

Transplanting pancreatic islet cells into patients with diabetes is a promising alternative to the daily insulin injections that many of these […]

When MIT graduate student Matthew Claudel learned of the student computing challenges launched to accompany the three-day celebration of the MIT […]

With a box of popcorn in one hand, Hal Abelson, a renowned computer scientist, strolled through the first floor of the […]

Computers have become so pervasive in today’s world that preparing students to work and assume leadership roles in this shifting landscape […]

When she was an MIT undergraduate studying electrical engineering, Jeannette Wing ’78, SM ’79, PhD ’83 took a required computer science […]

The new MIT Stephen A. Schwarzman College of Computing is destined to become a major center of artificial intelligence research. But […]