Month: January 2024

Computer vision systems sometimes make inferences about a scene that fly in the face of common sense. For example, if a […]

Machine learning provides powerful tools to researchers to identify and predict patterns and behaviors, as well as learn, optimize, and perform […]

In the ongoing race to develop ever-better materials and configurations for solar cells, there are many variables that can be adjusted […]

Sepsis claims the lives of nearly 270,000 people in the U.S. each year. The unpredictable medical condition can progress rapidly, leading […]

Waiting for a holiday package to be delivered? There’s a tricky math problem that needs to be solved before the delivery […]

For all that neural networks can accomplish, we still don’t really understand how they operate. Sure, we can program them to […]

Cathy Wu is the Gilbert W. Winslow Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and a member of the MIT Institute […]

New research from MIT neuroscientists suggests that natural soundscapes have shaped our sense of hearing, optimizing it for the kinds of […]

Launched in October of 2020, the MIT and Accenture Convergence Initiative for Industry and Technology underscores the ways in which industry […]

To make fusion energy a viable resource for the world’s energy grid, researchers need to understand the turbulent motion of plasmas: […]

Machine-learning algorithms are often referred to as a “black box.” Once data are put into an algorithm, it’s not always known […]

Scientists, students, and community members came together last month to discuss the promise and pitfalls of artificial intelligence at MIT’s Computer […]

Adedolapo Adedokun has a lot to look forward to in 2023. After completing his degree in electrical engineering and computer science […]

“Hey, Alexa! Are you trustworthy?” #Machinelearning According to Hacker.top Team researched from news.mit.edu

Imagine a team of physicians using a neural network to detect cancer in mammogram images. Even if this machine-learning model seems […]

Researchers have discovered a novel way to perform “general inverse design” with reasonably high accuracy. This breakthrough paves the way for […]

In a busy hospital, a radiologist is using an artificial intelligence system to help her diagnose medical conditions based on patients’ […]

In the first millionths of a second after the Big Bang, the universe was a roiling, trillion-degree plasma of quarks and […]

While mammograms are currently the gold standard in breast cancer screening, swirls of controversy exist regarding when and how often they […]

There are few environments as unforgiving as the ocean. Its unpredictable weather patterns and limitations in terms of communications have left […]

Much of Anuradha Annaswamy’s research hinges on uncertainty. How does cloudy weather affect a grid powered by solar energy? How do […]

A machine-learning expert and a psychology researcher/clinician may seem an unlikely duo. But MIT’s Rosalind Picard and Massachusetts General Hospital’s Paola […]

Neural networks are sometimes called black boxes because, despite the fact that they can outperform humans on certain tasks, even the […]

The human brain is finely tuned not only to recognize particular sounds, but also to determine which direction they came from. […]

Born into a family of architects, Nina Andrejević loved creating drawings of her home and other buildings while a child in […]

Antibodies, small proteins produced by the immune system, can attach to specific parts of a virus to neutralize it. As scientists […]

In fall 2020, MIT’s School of Engineering and Takeda Pharmaceuticals Company Limited launched the MIT-Takeda Program, a collaboration to support members […]

While working toward her dissertation in computer science at MIT, Marzyeh Ghassemi wrote several papers on how machine-learning techniques from artificial […]

Imagine a ball thrown in the air: It curves up, then down, tracing an arc to a point on the ground […]

The direct conversion of methane gas to liquid methanol at the site where it is extracted from the Earth holds enormous […]

A new study by researchers at MIT and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) suggests the day may be approaching when advanced artificial […]

While people turn to digital media for news at high rates, algorithms for manipulating media continue to grow more powerful. In […]

Automation has been around since ancient Greece. Its form changes, but the intent of having technology take over repetitive tasks has […]

Artificial intelligence systems may be able to complete tasks quickly, but that doesn’t mean they always do so fairly. If the […]

Scintillators are materials that emit light when bombarded with high-energy particles or X-rays. In medical or dental X-ray systems, they convert […]

When it comes to treatment strategies for critically ill patients, clinicians want to be able to consider all their options and […]

Identifying a malfunction in the nation’s power grid can be like trying to find a needle in an enormous haystack. Hundreds […]

If a machine-learning model is trained using an unbalanced dataset, such as one that contains far more images of people with […]

Which companies deploy machine intelligence (MI) and data analytics successfully for manufacturing and operations? Why are those leading adopters so far […]

Perhaps computer vision and human vision have more in common than meets the eye? Research from MIT suggests that a certain […]

Understanding the broader societal context of technology is becoming ever more critical as advances in computing show no signs of slowing. […]

Despite the sheer number of genes that each human cell contains, these so-called “coding” DNA sequences comprise just 1 percent of […]

Huge amounts of data are needed to train machine-learning models to perform image classification tasks, such as identifying damage in satellite […]

It’s been roughly 23 years since one of the first robotic animals trotted on the scene, defying classical notions of our […]

Quantum computing continues to advance at a rapid pace, but one challenge that holds the field back is mitigating the noise […]

Superconductors have long been considered the principal approach for realizing electronics without resistivity. In the past decade, a new family of […]