You don’t need a sledgehammer to crack a nut. Jonathan Frankle is researching artificial intelligence — not noshing pistachios — but […]

Computer vision models known as convolutional neural networks can be trained to recognize objects nearly as accurately as humans do. However, […]

Some of the research described in this article has been published on a preprint server but has not yet been peer-reviewed […]

In a classic experiment on human social intelligence by psychologists Felix Warneken and Michael Tomasello, an 18-month old toddler watches a […]

Buildings account for about 40 percent of U.S. energy consumption, and are responsible for one-third of global carbon dioxide emissions. Making […]

Antonio Torralba, faculty head of Artificial Intelligence and Decision Making within the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) and […]

The field of artificial intelligence is moving at a staggering clip, with breakthroughs emerging in labs across MIT. Through the Undergraduate […]

Contemporary robots can move quickly. “The motors are fast, and they’re powerful,” says Sabrina Neuman. Yet in complex situations, like interactions […]

MIT researchers have developed a type of neural network that learns on the job, not just during its training phase. These […]

To catch cancer earlier, we need to predict who is going to get it in the future. The complex nature of […]

Cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) allows scientists to produce high-resolution, three-dimensional images of tiny molecules such as proteins. This technique works best for […]

There’s a mesmerizing video animation on YouTube of simulated, self-driving traffic streaming through a six-lane, four-way intersection. Dozens of cars flow […]

Human language can be inefficient. Some words are vital. Others, expendable. Reread the first sentence of this story. Just two words, […]

When the Covid-19 pandemic struck in early 2020, doctors and researchers rushed to find effective treatments. There was little time to […]

Numerous studies have shown that trained dogs can detect many kinds of disease —  including lung, breast, ovarian, bladder, and prostate […]

In October, a modified Dallara-15 Indy Lights race car programmed by MIT Driverless will hit the famed Indianapolis Motor Speedway at […]

Traditional computer scientists and engineers are trained to develop solutions for specific needs, but aren’t always trained to consider their broader […]

MIT researchers analyzed more than 800,000 online school reviews using advanced natural language processing, determining that reviews were largely associated with schools’ […]

Deep learning is advancing at lightning speed, and Alexander Amini ’17 and Ava Soleimany ’16 want to make sure they have […]

In a perfect world, what you see is what you get. If this were the case, the job of artificial intelligence […]

Despite years of hype, virtual reality headsets have yet to topple TV or computer screens as the go-to devices for video […]

For all the progress that’s been made in the field of artificial intelligence, the world’s most flexible, efficient information processor remains […]

Drugs can only work if they stick to their target proteins in the body. Assessing that stickiness is a key hurdle […]

There are some tasks that traditional robots — the rigid and metallic kind — simply aren’t cut out for. Soft-bodied robots, […]

Explaining, interpreting, and understanding the human mind presents a unique set of challenges.  Doing the same for the behaviors of machines, […]

The potential of artificial intelligence to bring equity in health care has spurred significant research efforts. Racial, gender, and socioeconomic disparities have […]

Materials called perovskites are widely heralded as a likely replacement for silicon as the material of choice for solar cells, but […]

Small-molecule therapeutics treat a wide variety of diseases, but their effectiveness is often diminished because of their pharmacokinetics — what the […]

In recent years there have been exciting breakthroughs in wearable technologies, like smartwatches that can monitor your breathing and blood oxygen […]

In a September 2020 essay in Nature Energy, three scientists posed several “grand challenges” — one of which was to find […]

Melanoma is a type of malignant tumor responsible for more than 70 percent of all skin cancer-related deaths worldwide. For years, […]

Over the past decade, hospitals and other health care providers have put massive amounts of time and energy into adopting electronic […]

Whatever business a company may be in, software plays an increasingly vital role, from managing inventory to interfacing with customers. Software […]

Strategic use of data is vital for progress in science, commerce, and even politics, but at the same time, citizens are […]

“MIT’s work to understand and improve human health spans decades and covers the Institute,” said W. Eric L. Grimson PhD ’80, at MIT Better […]

Isaac Newton may have met his match. For centuries, engineers have relied on physical laws — developed by Newton and others […]

Not so long ago, watching a movie on a smartphone seemed impossible. Vivienne Sze was a graduate student at MIT at […]

Deep neural networks excel at finding patterns in datasets too vast for the human brain to pick apart. That ability has […]

In work that could someday turn cell phones into sensors capable of detecting viruses and other minuscule objects, MIT researchers have […]

Last October, the White House released the National Action Plan to Combat Human Trafficking. The plan was motivated, in part, by […]

Researchers at the Future Urban Mobility (FM) interdisciplinary research group at Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART), MIT’s research enterprise […]

MIT researchers have created a new system that automatically cleans “dirty data” —  the typos, duplicates, missing values, misspellings, and inconsistencies […]

An artificial intelligence framework built by MIT researchers can give an “early-alert” signal for future high-impact technologies, by learning from patterns […]

A new cross-disciplinary research initiative at MIT aims to promote the understanding and use of AI across all segments of society. […]

When starting a vaccine program, scientists generally have anecdotal understanding of the disease they’re aiming to target. When Covid-19 surfaced over […]

At any given moment, many thousands of new videos are being posted to sites like YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram. An increasing […]