Month: January 2024

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The research described in this article has been published on a preprint server but has not yet been peer-reviewed by scientific […]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

For engineers developing new materials or protective coatings, there are billions of different possibilities to sort through. Lab tests or even […]

Many decisions are made and details sorted out in a productive business meeting. But in order for that meeting to translate […]

Tissue biopsy slides stained using hematoxylin and eosin (H&E) dyes are a cornerstone of histopathology, especially for pathologists needing to diagnose […]

The coronavirus pandemic has driven us apart physically while reminding us of the power of technology to connect. When MIT shut […]

On land, it’s fairly obvious where one ecological region ends and another begins, for instance at the boundary between a desert […]

What seizes your attention at first glance might change with a closer look. That elephant dressed in red wallpaper might initially grab your […]

The following was issued as a joint release from the MIT AgeLab and Toyota Collaborative Safety Research Center. How can we […]

MIT’s Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation hosted IdeaStream, an annual showcase of technologies being developed across MIT, online for the first […]

We listen to music with our ears, but also our eyes, watching with appreciation as the pianist’s fingers fly over the […]

More children are being vaccinated around the world today than ever before, and the prevalence of many vaccine-preventable diseases has dropped […]

Uncertainty about the course of the Covid-19 pandemic continues, with more than 2,500,000 known cases and 126,000 deaths in the United […]

Artificial intelligence has the power to help put an end to the Covid-19 pandemic. Not only can techniques of machine learning […]

Can you recognize a digitally manipulated video when you see one? It’s harder than most people realize. As the technology to […]

Md Sami Hasnine is in the business of understanding people. From his research developing and building predictive models of human behavior, […]

Art is often heralded as the greatest journey into the past, solidifying a moment in time and space; the beautiful vehicle […]

In recent years, entire industries have popped up that rely on the delicate interplay between human workers and automated software. Companies […]

In June, OpenAI unveiled the largest language model in the world, a text-generating tool called GPT-3 that can write creative fiction, translate legalese […]

Big data has gotten really, really big: By 2025, all the world’s data will add up to an estimated 175 trillion […]

Horses don’t normally wear hats, and deep generative models, or GANs, don’t normally follow rules laid out by human programmers. But […]

Kinsa was founded by MIT alumnus Inder Singh MBA ’06, SM ’07 in 2012, with the mission of collecting information about […]

The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) announced today an investment of more than $100 million to establish five artificial intelligence (AI) […]

Nearly every aspect of the modern world is being transformed by computing. As computing technology continues to revolutionize the way people […]

The health care system today largely focuses on helping people after they have problems. When they do receive treatment, it’s based […]

George Konidaris still remembers his disheartening introduction to robotics. “When you’re a young student and you want to program a robot, […]

For more than 100 years Nobel Prizes have been given out annually to recognize breakthrough achievements in chemistry, literature, medicine, peace, […]

Even in ordinary times, scientific process is stressful, with its demand for open-ended exploration and persistence in the face of failure. […]

Milo Phillips-Brown, a postdoc in MIT Philosophy, was recently named the inaugural recipient of the MAC3 Society and Ethics in Computing […]

Every year, roughly one out of eight U.S. deaths is caused at least in part by heart failure. One of acute […]

Researchers from Critical Analytics for Manufacturing Personalized-Medicine (CAMP), an interdisciplinary research group at Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART), MIT’s […]