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The phrase “practice makes perfect” is usually reserved for humans, but it’s also a great maxim for robots newly deployed in […]
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Read More →A few years ago, Gevorg Grigoryan PhD ’07, then a professor at Dartmouth College, had been pondering an idea for data-driven […]
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Read More →Mark Hamilton, an MIT PhD student in electrical engineering and computer science and affiliate of MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence […]
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Read More →The School of Engineering welcomes 15 new faculty members across six of its academic departments. This new cohort of faculty members, […]
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