Month: January 2024

Since he was young, Chih-Wei Joshua Liu ’22 always knew he wanted to be a “physician-scientist,” pursuing research at the intersection of […]

As babies, we babble and imitate our way to learning languages. We don’t start off reading raw text, which requires fundamental […]

Collin M. Stultz, the Nina T. and Robert H. Rubin Professor in Medical Engineering and Science at MIT, has been named […]

Malicious agents can use machine learning to launch powerful attacks that steal information in ways that are tough to prevent and […]

From their early days at MIT, and even before, Emma Liu ’22, MNG ’22, Yo-whan “John” Kim ’22, MNG ’22, and […]

The inner child in many of us feels an overwhelming sense of joy when stumbling across a pile of the fluorescent, […]

When you picture a hospital radiologist, you might think of a specialist who sits in a dark room and spends hours […]

Chelsi Cocking is an interdisciplinary artist who explores the human body with the help of computers. For her work, she develops […]

Members of the public sector, private sector, and academia convened for the second AI Policy Forum Symposium last month to explore […]

For humans, finding a lost wallet buried under a pile of items is pretty straightforward — we simply remove things from […]

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

Explanation methods that help users understand and trust machine-learning models often describe how much certain features used in the model contribute […]

At the age of 22, when Susan Conover wanted to get a strange-looking mole checked out, she was told it would […]

Using a novel fabrication process, MIT researchers have produced smart textiles that snugly conform to the body so they can sense […]

Moore’s Law needs a hug. The days of stuffing transistors on little silicon computer chips are numbered, and their life rafts […]

The entirety of the known universe is teeming with an infinite number of molecules. But what fraction of these molecules have […]

Physicians often query a patient’s electronic health record for information that helps them make treatment decisions, but the cumbersome nature of […]

The MIT Stephen A. Schwarzman College of Computing has named Costis Daskalakis as the inaugural holder of the Avanessians Professorship. His […]

Four researchers with MIT ties — Juncal Arbelaiz, Xiangkun (Elvis) Cao, Sandya Subramanian, and Hannah Zlotnick ’17 — have been honored […]

For workers who use machine-learning models to help them make decisions, knowing when to trust a model’s predictions is not always […]

About a decade ago, deep-learning models started achieving superhuman results on all sorts of tasks, from beating world-champion board game players […]

More than a decade ago, Ted Adelson set out to create tactile sensors for robots that would give them a sense […]

As scientists push the boundaries of machine learning, the amount of time, energy, and money required to train increasingly complex neural […]

Scientists and engineers are constantly developing new materials with unique properties that can be used for 3D printing, but figuring out […]

Multivariable calculus, differential equations, linear algebra — topics that many MIT students can ace without breaking a sweat — have consistently […]

It is a problem that has beguiled scientists for a century. But, buoyed by a $625,000 Distinguished Early Career Award from […]

Caspar Hare and Georgia Perakis have been appointed the new associate deans of the Social and Ethical Responsibilities of Computing (SERC), […]

MIT researchers have developed a method for 3D printing materials with tunable mechanical properties, that sense how they are moving and […]

Mary Ellen Zurko remembers the feeling of disappointment. Not long after earning her bachelor’s degree from MIT, she was working her […]

To help combat climate change, many car manufacturers are racing to add more electric vehicles in their lineups. But to convince […]

As it continues in its mission to improve global health through the development and implementation of biomedical innovation, the MIT Center […]

When the MIT Lincoln Laboratory Supercomputing Center (LLSC) unveiled its TX-GAIA supercomputer in 2019, it provided the MIT community a powerful new resource […]

Zeolites are a class of minerals used in everything from industrial catalysts and chemical filters to laundry detergents and cat litter. […]

Human languages are notoriously complex, and linguists have long thought it would be impossible to teach a machine how to analyze […]

The first step in choosing the appropriate treatment for a cancer patient is to identify their specific type of cancer, including […]

Over the past few decades, very few new antibiotics have been developed, largely because current methods for screening potential drugs are […]

Training a machine-learning model to effectively perform a task, such as image classification, involves showing the model thousands, millions, or even […]

The Abdul Latif Jameel Water and Food Systems Lab (J-WAFS) has awarded a 2022 J-WAFS Solutions grant to Patrick S. Doyle, […]

The internet had a collective feel-good moment with the introduction of DALL-E, an artificial intelligence-based image generator inspired by artist Salvador […]

The health of the planet is one of the most important challenges facing humankind today. From climate change to unsafe levels […]

The world is facing a maternal health crisis. According to the World Health Organization, approximately 810 women die each day due […]

For over 40 years, the Mayor’s Summer Youth Employment Program (MSYEP, or the Mayor’s Program) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, has been providing teenagers […]

Parkinson’s disease is the fastest-growing neurological disease, now affecting more than 10 million people worldwide, yet clinicians still face huge challenges […]