Category: Machine learning

The growing popularity of 3D printing for manufacturing all sorts of items, from customized medical devices to affordable homes, has created […]

Artificial intelligence is transforming industries around the world — and health care is no exception. A recent Mayo Clinic study found […]

Using machine learning, a computer model can teach itself to smell in just a few minutes. When it does, researchers have […]

A loping cheetah dashes across a rolling field, bounding over sudden gaps in the rugged terrain. The movement may look effortless, […]

Last year, Charlene Xia ’17, SM ’20 found herself at a crossroads. She was finishing up her master’s degree in media […]

In the past few years, artificial intelligence models of language have become very good at certain tasks. Most notably, they excel […]

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that one in seven children in the United States experienced abuse or […]

An oncoming tsunami of data threatens to overwhelm huge data-rich research projects on such areas that range from the tiny neutrino […]

If your Uber driver takes a shortcut, you might get to your destination faster. But if a machine learning model takes […]

The demand for computing-related training is at an all-time high. At MIT, there has been a remarkable tide of interest in […]

Automated speech-recognition technology has become more common with the popularity of virtual assistants like Siri, but many of these systems only […]

At just one year old, a baby is more dexterous than a robot. Sure, machines can do more than just pick […]

Nine technologies developed at MIT Lincoln Laboratory have been selected as R&D 100 Award winners for 2021. Since 1963, this awards […]

In the 1960s, the advent of computer-aided design (CAD) sparked a revolution in design. For his PhD thesis in 1963, MIT […]

When the cloud storage firm Dropbox decided to shut down its offices with the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, co-founder and […]

When humans look at a scene, they see objects and the relationships between them. On top of your desk, there might […]

In their quest to discover effective new medicines, scientists search for drug-like molecules that can attach to disease-causing proteins and change […]

While standing in a kitchen, you push some metal bowls across the counter into the sink with a clang, and drape […]

Humans are pretty good at looking at a single two-dimensional image and understanding the full three-dimensional scene that it captures. Artificial […]

As a building material, concrete withstands the test of time. Its use dates back to early civilizations, and today it is […]

Computer vision systems sometimes make inferences about a scene that fly in the face of common sense. For example, if a […]

Machine learning provides powerful tools to researchers to identify and predict patterns and behaviors, as well as learn, optimize, and perform […]

In the ongoing race to develop ever-better materials and configurations for solar cells, there are many variables that can be adjusted […]

Sepsis claims the lives of nearly 270,000 people in the U.S. each year. The unpredictable medical condition can progress rapidly, leading […]

Waiting for a holiday package to be delivered? There’s a tricky math problem that needs to be solved before the delivery […]

For all that neural networks can accomplish, we still don’t really understand how they operate. Sure, we can program them to […]

Cathy Wu is the Gilbert W. Winslow Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and a member of the MIT Institute […]

New research from MIT neuroscientists suggests that natural soundscapes have shaped our sense of hearing, optimizing it for the kinds of […]

Launched in October of 2020, the MIT and Accenture Convergence Initiative for Industry and Technology underscores the ways in which industry […]

To make fusion energy a viable resource for the world’s energy grid, researchers need to understand the turbulent motion of plasmas: […]

Machine-learning algorithms are often referred to as a “black box.” Once data are put into an algorithm, it’s not always known […]

Scientists, students, and community members came together last month to discuss the promise and pitfalls of artificial intelligence at MIT’s Computer […]

Adedolapo Adedokun has a lot to look forward to in 2023. After completing his degree in electrical engineering and computer science […]

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Imagine a team of physicians using a neural network to detect cancer in mammogram images. Even if this machine-learning model seems […]

Researchers have discovered a novel way to perform “general inverse design” with reasonably high accuracy. This breakthrough paves the way for […]

In a busy hospital, a radiologist is using an artificial intelligence system to help her diagnose medical conditions based on patients’ […]

In the first millionths of a second after the Big Bang, the universe was a roiling, trillion-degree plasma of quarks and […]

While mammograms are currently the gold standard in breast cancer screening, swirls of controversy exist regarding when and how often they […]

There are few environments as unforgiving as the ocean. Its unpredictable weather patterns and limitations in terms of communications have left […]

Much of Anuradha Annaswamy’s research hinges on uncertainty. How does cloudy weather affect a grid powered by solar energy? How do […]

A machine-learning expert and a psychology researcher/clinician may seem an unlikely duo. But MIT’s Rosalind Picard and Massachusetts General Hospital’s Paola […]

Neural networks are sometimes called black boxes because, despite the fact that they can outperform humans on certain tasks, even the […]

The human brain is finely tuned not only to recognize particular sounds, but also to determine which direction they came from. […]

Born into a family of architects, Nina Andrejević loved creating drawings of her home and other buildings while a child in […]

Antibodies, small proteins produced by the immune system, can attach to specific parts of a virus to neutralize it. As scientists […]

In fall 2020, MIT’s School of Engineering and Takeda Pharmaceuticals Company Limited launched the MIT-Takeda Program, a collaboration to support members […]

While working toward her dissertation in computer science at MIT, Marzyeh Ghassemi wrote several papers on how machine-learning techniques from artificial […]

Imagine a ball thrown in the air: It curves up, then down, tracing an arc to a point on the ground […]

The direct conversion of methane gas to liquid methanol at the site where it is extracted from the Earth holds enormous […]