Computer vision models have learned to identify objects in photos so accurately that some can outperform humans on some datasets. But […]

When your mother calls your name, you know it’s her voice — no matter the volume, even over a poor cell […]

Knowing a company’s true sales can help determine its value. Investors, for instance, often employ financial analysts to predict a company’s […]

A new museum is coming to New York City in 2023, the year of hip-hop’s 50th birthday, and an MIT team […]

A new study co-authored by an MIT economist shows that improved translation software can significantly boost international trade online — a […]

With billions of books, news stories, and documents online, there’s never been a better time to be reading — if you […]

MIT researchers have invented a machine-learning tool that predicts how fast computer chips will execute code from various applications.   To get […]

A new MIT study finds “health knowledge graphs,” which show relationships between symptoms and diseases and are intended to help with […]

In a step toward practical quantum computing, researchers from MIT, Google, and elsewhere have designed a system that can verify when […]

A model invented by researchers at MIT and Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI) that uses satellite imagery to tag road features […]

After a patient has a heart attack or stroke, doctors often use risk models to help guide their treatment. These models […]

Materials called perovskites show strong potential for a new generation of solar cells, but they’ve had trouble gaining traction in a […]

A human can likely tell the difference between a turtle and a rifle. Two years ago, Google’s AI wasn’t so sure. […]

Mohammad Haft-Javaherian planned to spend an hour at the Green AI Hackathon — just long enough to get acquainted with MIT’s new supercomputer, Satori. […]

Suppose you look briefly from a few feet away at a person you have never met before. Step back a few […]

Most people only think about the systems that power their cities when something goes wrong. Unfortunately, many people in the San […]

A system created by MIT researchers could be used to automatically update factual inconsistencies in Wikipedia articles, reducing time and effort […]

For the first time, MIT researchers have enabled a soft robotic arm to understand its configuration in 3D space, by leveraging […]

Artificial intelligence is reshaping how we live, learn, and work, and this past fall, MIT undergraduates got to explore and build […]

Richard Mansfield Dudley, MIT professor emeritus of mathematics, died on Jan. 19 following a long illness. He was 81. Dudley served […]

Using a machine-learning algorithm, MIT researchers have identified a powerful new antibiotic compound. In laboratory tests, the drug killed many of […]

Being a cybersecurity analyst at a large company today is a bit like looking for a needle in a haystack — […]

Gaby Ecanow loves listening to music, but never considered writing her own until taking 6.S191 (Introduction to Deep Learning). By her […]

When Miguel Brechner started planning a new ambitious plan to foster a new generation of data scientists in Uruguay and Latin […]

Car companies have been feverishly working to improve the technologies behind self-driving cars. But so far even the most high-tech vehicles […]

Over the last century, scientists have developed methods to map the structures within the Earth’s crust, in order to identify resources […]

Introductory statistics courses teach us that, when fitting a model to some data, we should have more data than free parameters […]

When we open our eyes, we immediately see our surroundings in great detail. How the brain is able to form these […]

Training interactive robots may one day be an easy job for everyone, even those without programming expertise. Roboticists are developing automated […]

The work of MIT computer scientist Aleksander Madry is fueled by one core mission: “doing machine learning the right way.” Madry’s […]

Suppose you would like to know mortality rates for women during childbirth, by country, around the world. Where would you look? […]

A standard method for testing some of the mechanical properties of materials is to poke them with a sharp point. This […]

The average medication contains a mix of eight “inactive” ingredients added to pills to make them taste better, last longer, and stabilize […]

When searching through theoretical lists of possible new materials for particular applications, such as batteries or other energy-related devices, there are […]

The proteins that make up all living things are alive with music. Just ask Markus Buehler: The musician and MIT professor […]

As technologies like single-cell genomic sequencing, enhanced biomedical imaging, and medical “internet of things” devices proliferate, key discoveries about human health […]

MIT researchers have designed a congestion-control scheme for wireless networks that could help reduce lag times and increase quality in video […]

The research described in this article has been published on a preprint server but has not yet been peer-reviewed by scientific […]

The comedian Bill Burr has said he refuses to call into automated customer service lines for fear that, years later on […]

What do radiation waves from space, the U.S. Census, and the human genome have in common? All three, like so many […]

Artificial intelligence has become a focus of certain ethical concerns, but it also has some major sustainability issues.  Last June, researchers […]

Driven by an innate curiosity, children pick up new skills as they explore the world and learn from their experience. Computers, […]

As more artificial intelligence applications move to smartphones, deep learning models are getting smaller to allow apps to run faster and […]

Most firetrucks come in red, but it’s not hard to picture one in blue. Computers aren’t nearly as creative. Their understanding […]

The Covid-19 pandemic continues to challenge how societies and institutions function at macro and micro scales. In the United States, the […]

For many of us, our microwaves and dishwashers aren’t the first thing that come to mind when trying to glean health […]

Artificial intelligence could play a decisive role in stopping the Covid-19 pandemic. To give the technology a push, the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab is funding […]