Month: January 2024

Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), a rare genetic disease usually diagnosed in young boys, gradually weakens muscles across the body until the […]

Creating a good customer experience increasingly means creating a good digital experience. But metrics like pageviews and clicks offer limited insight […]

Routing is one of the most studied problems in operations research; even small improvements in routing efficiency can save companies money […]

MIT PhD students Aziza Almanakly and Belinda Li have been selected as the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) […]

Scientist, writer, policy advocate, YouTuber – before Jordan Harrod established her many successful career identities, her first role was as a […]

MIT spinoff OpenSpace invented automated 360-degree video jobsite capture and mapping. “It’s not exactly an amazing observation,” says CEO Jeevan Kalanithi, […]

Neural networks (NNs) are increasingly being used to predict new materials, the rate and yield of chemical reactions, and drug-target interactions, […]

When Obiageli “Oby” Nwodoh arrived at MIT, she already felt at home. A native of Bedford, Massachusetts, she was the daughter […]

Dina Katabi is designing the next generation of smart wireless devices that will sit in the background of a given room, […]

The Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer (FLC) awarded their 2021 Excellence in Technology Transfer Award for the Northeast region to […]

Electronic health records have been widely adopted with the hope they would save time and improve the quality of patient care. […]

The existential threat of Covid-19 has highlighted an acute need to develop working therapeutics against emerging health concerns. One of the […]

Getting a quick and accurate reading of an X-ray or some other medical images can be vital to a patient’s health […]

The share of federal spending on infrastructure has reached an all-time low, falling from 30 percent in 1960 to just 12 […]

A busy commuter is ready to walk out the door, only to realize they’ve misplaced their keys and must search through […]

The proliferation of big data across domains, from banking to health care to environmental monitoring, has spurred increasing demand for machine […]

There’s a lot of excitement at the intersection of artificial intelligence and health care. AI has already been used to improve […]

In the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention produced a simple chart to illustrate […]

Today’s world is one big maze, connected by layers of concrete and asphalt that afford us the luxury of navigation by […]

Rujul Gandhi’s love of reading blossomed into a love of language at age 6, when she discovered a book at a […]

More and more people are doing their shopping from home these days, and whether they’re ordering groceries, home office equipment, or […]

Neural networks can learn to solve all sorts of problems, from identifying cats in photographs to steering a self-driving car. But […]

The growing popularity of 3D printing for manufacturing all sorts of items, from customized medical devices to affordable homes, has created […]

Artificial intelligence is transforming industries around the world — and health care is no exception. A recent Mayo Clinic study found […]

Using machine learning, a computer model can teach itself to smell in just a few minutes. When it does, researchers have […]

A loping cheetah dashes across a rolling field, bounding over sudden gaps in the rugged terrain. The movement may look effortless, […]

Last year, Charlene Xia ’17, SM ’20 found herself at a crossroads. She was finishing up her master’s degree in media […]

In the past few years, artificial intelligence models of language have become very good at certain tasks. Most notably, they excel […]

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that one in seven children in the United States experienced abuse or […]

An oncoming tsunami of data threatens to overwhelm huge data-rich research projects on such areas that range from the tiny neutrino […]

If your Uber driver takes a shortcut, you might get to your destination faster. But if a machine learning model takes […]

The demand for computing-related training is at an all-time high. At MIT, there has been a remarkable tide of interest in […]

Automated speech-recognition technology has become more common with the popularity of virtual assistants like Siri, but many of these systems only […]

At just one year old, a baby is more dexterous than a robot. Sure, machines can do more than just pick […]

Nine technologies developed at MIT Lincoln Laboratory have been selected as R&D 100 Award winners for 2021. Since 1963, this awards […]

In the 1960s, the advent of computer-aided design (CAD) sparked a revolution in design. For his PhD thesis in 1963, MIT […]

When the cloud storage firm Dropbox decided to shut down its offices with the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, co-founder and […]

When humans look at a scene, they see objects and the relationships between them. On top of your desk, there might […]

In their quest to discover effective new medicines, scientists search for drug-like molecules that can attach to disease-causing proteins and change […]

While standing in a kitchen, you push some metal bowls across the counter into the sink with a clang, and drape […]

Humans are pretty good at looking at a single two-dimensional image and understanding the full three-dimensional scene that it captures. Artificial […]

As a building material, concrete withstands the test of time. Its use dates back to early civilizations, and today it is […]