Month: January 2024

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 […]

The pandemic reached a new milestone this spring with the rollout of Covid-19 vaccines. MIT Professor Markus Buehler marked the occasion […]

Anesthestic drugs act on the brain, but most anesthesiologists rely on heart rate, respiratory rate, and movement to infer whether surgery […]

Disinformation campaigns are not new — think of wartime propaganda used to sway public opinion against an enemy. What is new, […]

Matthew Johnston was a physics senior looking to postpone his entry into adulting. He had an intense four years at MIT; […]

Health care is at a junction, a point where artificial intelligence tools are being introduced to all areas of the space. […]

Whether it’s computer chips, smartphone components, or camera parts, the hardware in many products is constantly getting smaller. The trend is […]

Improved computing power and an exponential increase in data have helped fuel the rapid rise of artificial intelligence. But as AI […]

In his research and in other parts of life, Ankur Moitra likes to journey off the beaten path. His explorer mentality […]

It’s no secret that a manufacturer’s ability to maintain and ideally increase production capability is the basis for long-run competitive success. […]

Discovering a drug, material, or anything new requires finding and understanding molecules. It’s a time- and labor-intensive process, which can be […]

Robots can solve a Rubik’s cube and navigate the rugged terrain of Mars, but they struggle with simple tasks like rolling […]

When General Richard D. Clarke, commander of the U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM), visited MIT in fall 2019, he had artificial […]

In Jenna Sutela’s work, which ranges from computational poetry to experimental music to installations and performance, the MIT Center for Art, […]

Four MIT-affiliated researchers are among 28 around the world to have been named to a competitive Schmidt Science Fellowship, an award […]

The U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) recently announced the names of 83 scientists who have been selected for their 2021 Early […]

MIT’s Hockfield Court is bordered on the west by the ultramodern Stata Center, with its reflective, silver alcoves that jut off […]

For most people, the task of identifying an object, picking it up, and placing it somewhere else is trivial. For robots, […]

As the Chemistry-Kayak (affectionately known as the ChemYak) swept over the Arctic estuary waters, Victoria Preston was glued to a monitor […]

Boiling is not just for heating up dinner. It’s also for cooling things down. Turning liquid into gas removes energy from […]

Take it from U.S. Air Force Captain Kyle McAlpin when he says that scheduling C-17 aircraft crews is a headache. An […]

When someone close to rising MIT junior Eeshan Tripathii and his sister, engineer Vini Tripathii, had their hand amputated, the siblings […]

The MIT Stephen A. Schwarzman College of Computing has awarded two inaugural chaired appointments to Dina Katabi and Aleksander Madry in […]

As the Covid-19 pandemic has shown, we live in a richly connected world, facilitating not only the efficient spread of a […]

Launched in October 2020, the MIT and Accenture Convergence Initiative for Industry and Technology is intended to demonstrate how the convergence […]

The societal impacts of technological change can be seen in many domains, from messenger RNA vaccines and automation to drones and […]

David Kaiser and Julie Shah are on a mission to prepare students and facilitate research to address the broad challenges and […]

As a teenager, Kristy Johnson thought she had her career all planned out. Raised in a small town in Indiana, she […]

The justice system, banks, and private companies use algorithms to make decisions that have profound impacts on people’s lives. Unfortunately, those […]

If you follow autonomous drone racing, you likely remember the crashes as much as the wins. In drone racing, teams compete […]