Month: January 2024

Tool use has long been a hallmark of human intelligence, as well as a practical problem to solve for a vast […]

Although Fernanda De La Torre still has several years left in her graduate studies, she’s already dreaming big when it comes […]

The AI Policy Forum (AIPF) is an initiative of the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing to move the global conversation about […]

The MIT School of Engineering and Pillar VC today announced the MIT-Pillar AI Collective, a one-year pilot program funded by a […]

Neurodegenerative diseases — like amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS, or Lou Gehrig’s disease), Alzheimer’s, and Parkinson’s — are complicated, chronic ailments that […]

Microcontrollers, miniature computers that can run simple commands, are the basis for billions of connected devices, from internet-of-things (IoT) devices to […]

MIT is famous as a factory of ideas. You could also call MIT a factory for learning. But for one group […]

Ask a smart home device for the weather forecast, and it takes several seconds for the device to respond. One reason […]

Topological materials, an exotic class of materials whose surfaces exhibit different electrical or functional properties than their interiors, have been a […]

AI image generators, which create fantastical sights at the intersection of dreams and reality, bubble up on every corner of the […]

Imagine the booming chords from a pipe organ echoing through the cavernous sanctuary of a massive, stone cathedral. The sound a […]

Fusion, which promises practically unlimited, carbon-free energy using the same processes that power the sun, is at the heart of a […]

Neural networks, a type of computing system loosely modeled on the organization of the human brain, form the basis of many […]

Teaching a machine to recognize human actions has many potential applications, such as automatically detecting workers who fall at a construction […]

It’s a dilemma as old as time. Friday night has rolled around, and you’re trying to pick a restaurant for dinner. […]

Last year, MIT researchers announced that they had built “liquid” neural networks, inspired by the brains of small species: a class […]

Many students in MIT’s Leaders for Global Operations (LGO) program return to the workplace primed to tackle complex operational problems. But […]

Picture two teams squaring off on a football field. The players can cooperate to achieve an objective, and compete against other […]

Before a machine-learning model can complete a task, such as identifying cancer in medical images, the model must be trained. Training […]

MIT senior Teresa Gao has been named one of the 12 winners of the George J. Mitchell Scholarship’s Class of 2024. […]

Knowing the magnetic structure of crystalline materials is critical to many applications, including data storage, high-resolution imaging, spintronics, superconductivity, and quantum […]

As machine-learning models become larger and more complex, they require faster and more energy-efficient hardware to perform computations. Conventional digital computers […]

Graphs, a potentially extensive web of nodes connected by edges, can be used to express and interrogate relationships between data, like […]

As a graduate student doing his master’s thesis on speech recognition at the MIT AI Lab (now the MIT Computer Science […]

For the first time, researchers at MIT, Caltech, Harvard University, and elsewhere sent quantum information across a quantum system in what […]

Electronic health records (EHRs) need a new public relations manager. Ten years ago, the U.S. government passed a law that strongly encouraged […]

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

Sketch a doodle of a drum or a saxophone to conjure a multi-instrumental composition. Look into a webcam, speak, and watch […]

It’s no secret that people harbor biases — some unconscious, perhaps, and others painfully overt. The average person might suppose that […]

Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), which measures changes in blood flow throughout the brain, has been used over the past couple […]

Cognitive scientists have long sought to understand what makes some sentences more difficult to comprehend than others. Any account of language […]

The way electrons interact with photons of light is a key part of many modern technologies, from lasers to solar panels […]