Despite what you might see in movies, today’s robots are still very limited in what they can do. They can be […]

MIT and IBM jointly announced today a 10-year agreement to create the MIT–IBM Watson AI Lab, a new collaboration for research […]

IBM and MIT today announced that IBM plans to make a 10-year, $240 million investment to create the MIT–IBM Watson AI […]

Artificial-intelligence research has been transformed by machine-learning systems called neural networks, which learn how to perform tasks by analyzing huge volumes […]

How can online businesses leverage vast historical data, computational power, and sophisticated machine-learning techniques to quickly analyze and forecast demand, and […]

Antonio Torralba has been named MIT director of the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab effective immediately, announced Anantha Chandrakasan, dean of the […]

Anyone who’s downloaded an update to a computer program or phone app knows that most commercial software has bugs and security […]

Light lets us see the things that surround us, but what if we could also use it to see things hidden […]

Robert Granetz has been a research scientist in MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center for more than 40 years. He recently gave […]

In the analysis of big data sets, the first step is usually the identification of “features” — data points with particular […]

We live in the age of big data, but most of that data is “sparse.” Imagine, for instance, a massive table […]

In recent years, research efforts such as the Materials Genome Initiative and the Materials Project have produced a wealth of computational […]

On a recent Monday morning, Vivienne Sze, an associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science at MIT, spoke with enthusiasm […]

The recommendation systems at websites such as Amazon and Netflix use a technique called “collaborative filtering.” To determine what products a […]

Neural networks, which learn to perform computational tasks by analyzing huge sets of training data, have been responsible for the most […]

Josh Tenenbaum, a professor of brain and cognitive sciences at MIT, directs research on the development of intelligence at the Center […]

The tremendous recent growth of data science — both as a discipline and an application — can be attributed, in part, […]

Companies often employ number-crunching data scientists to gather insights such as which customers want certain services or where to open new […]

Last month, three MIT materials scientists and their colleagues published a paper describing a new artificial-intelligence system that can pore through […]

This spring, the MIT School of Science welcomes three new professors in the departments of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, and Earth, […]

In 1996, when he was a high school senior in the small town of Cluny, in the Burgundy region of France, […]

When it comes to processing power, the human brain just can’t be beat. Packed within the squishy, football-sized organ are somewhere […]

Play Labs and the MIT Game Lab have announced that applications are now open for the second batch of startups within […]

MIT today announced the launch of the MIT Intelligence Quest, an initiative to discover the foundations of human intelligence and drive […]

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

K. Daron Acemoglu, the Elizabeth and James Killian Professor of Economics at MIT, is a leading thinker on the labor market […]

For decades, materials scientists have taken inspiration from the natural world. They’ll identify a biological material that has some desirable trait […]

In the weeks before the launch of the MIT Intelligence Quest, an initiative that will advance the science and engineering of […]

Three commercially released facial-analysis programs from major technology companies demonstrate both skin-type and gender biases, according to a new paper researchers […]

Most recent advances in artificial-intelligence systems such as speech- or face-recognition programs have come courtesy of neural networks, densely interconnected meshes […]

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Today MIT launched its Task Force on the Work of the Future, an Institute-wide effort to understand and shape the evolution […]

MIT and SenseTime today announced that SenseTime, a leading artificial intelligence (AI) company, is joining MIT’s efforts to define the next […]

MIT will work with JDA, leveraging their business domain expertise and client base, to advance research in intelligent supply chains. The […]

Alphabet senior advisor and former executive chairman and CEO of Google Eric Schmidt and his wife, Wendy, have pledged to help […]

Today, when an enterprise wants to use machine learning to solve a problem, they have to call in the cavalry. Even […]

“In the history of science and technology, there are moments of opportunity,” MIT President L. Rafael Reif told a packed Kresge […]

Carrying your smartphone around everywhere has become a way of life. In doing so, you produce a surprising amount of data […]

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 […]