Category: Machine learning

Imagine a world in which some important decision — a judge’s sentencing recommendation, a child’s treatment protocol, which person or business […]

Boosting the performance of solar cells, transistors, LEDs, and batteries will require better electronic materials, made from novel compositions that have […]

Mark Hamilton, an MIT PhD student in electrical engineering and computer science and affiliate of MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence […]

Climate models are a key technology in predicting the impacts of climate change. By running simulations of the Earth’s climate, scientists […]

When robots come across unfamiliar objects, they struggle to account for a simple truth: Appearances aren’t everything. They may attempt to […]

When Tomás Vega SM ’19 was 5 years old, he began to stutter. The experience gave him an appreciation for the adversity […]

Let’s say you want to train a robot so it understands how to use tools and can then quickly learn to […]

The internet is awash in instructional videos that can teach curious viewers everything from cooking the perfect pancake to performing a […]

When water freezes, it transitions from a liquid phase to a solid phase, resulting in a drastic change in properties like […]

Since its launch in 2022, the MIT Morningside Academy for Design (MAD) has supported MIT graduate students with a fellowship, allowing […]

The School of Engineering welcomes 15 new faculty members across six of its academic departments. This new cohort of faculty members, […]

Researchers from the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and Google Research may have just performed digital sorcery — […]

Imagine a slime-like robot that can seamlessly change its shape to squeeze through narrow spaces, which could be deployed inside the […]

Imagine you and a friend are playing a game where your goal is to communicate secret messages to each other using […]

The recent ransomware attack on Change Healthcare, which severed the network connecting health care providers, pharmacies, and hospitals with health insurance […]

A single photograph offers glimpses into the creator’s world — their interests and feelings about a subject or space. But what […]

How is the field of artificial intelligence evolving and what does it mean for the future of work, education, and humanity? […]

The allure of whales has stoked human consciousness for millennia, casting these ocean giants as enigmatic residents of the deep seas. […]

How can MIT’s community leverage generative AI to support learning and work on campus and beyond? At MIT’s Festival of Learning […]

The return of spring in the Northern Hemisphere touches off tornado season. A tornado’s twisting funnel of dust and debris seems […]

For nearly a decade, a team of MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) researchers have been seeking to uncover […]

MIT faculty members Roger Levy, Tracy Slatyer, and Martin Wainwright are among 188 scientists, artists, and scholars awarded 2024 fellowships from […]

New research from the group of MIT Professor Brett McGuire has revealed the presence of a previously unknown molecule in space. […]

Health-monitoring apps can help people manage chronic diseases or stay on track with fitness goals, using nothing more than a smartphone. […]

To build AI systems that can collaborate effectively with humans, it helps to have a good model of human behavior to […]

Although the troposphere is often thought of as the closest layer of the atmosphere to the Earth’s surface, the planetary boundary […]

Lauren Aguilar knew she wanted to study energy systems at MIT, but before Course 1-12 (Climate System Science and Engineering) became […]

According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, aquaculture in the United States represents a $1.5 billion industry annually. Like land-based […]

On Vassar Street, in the heart of MIT’s campus, the MIT Stephen A. Schwarzman College of Computing recently opened the doors […]

Across the country, hundreds of thousands of drivers deliver packages and parcels to customers and companies each day, with many click-to-door […]

A user could ask ChatGPT to write a computer program or summarize an article, and the AI chatbot would likely be […]

In biomedicine, segmentation involves annotating pixels from an important structure in a medical image, like an organ or cell. Artificial intelligence […]

For those in need of one, an organ transplant is a matter of life and death.  Every year, the medical procedure […]

Without a map, it can be just about impossible to know not just where you are, but where you’re going, and […]

Since the 1970s, modern antibiotic discovery has been experiencing a lull. Now the World Health Organization has declared the antimicrobial resistance […]

Last summer, MIT President Sally Kornbluth and Provost Cynthia Barnhart issued a call for papers to “articulate effective roadmaps, policy recommendations, […]

Large language models, such as those that power popular artificial intelligence chatbots like ChatGPT, are incredibly complex. Even though these models […]

From wiping up spills to serving up food, robots are being taught to carry out increasingly complicated household tasks. Many such […]

To assess a community’s risk of extreme weather, policymakers rely first on global climate models that can be run decades, and […]

Audio deepfakes have had a recent bout of bad press after an artificial intelligence-generated robocall purporting to be the voice of […]

Cancer Grand Challenges recently announced five winning teams for 2024, which included five researchers from MIT: Michael Birnbaum, Regina Barzilay, Brandon […]

Imagine yourself glancing at a busy street for a few moments, then trying to sketch the scene you saw from memory. […]

In our current age of artificial intelligence, computers can generate their own “art” by way of diffusion models, iteratively adding structure […]

Cells rely on complex molecular machines composed of protein assemblies to perform essential functions such as energy production, gene expression, and […]

Tamara Broderick first set foot on MIT’s campus when she was a high school student, as a participant in the inaugural […]

Our ability to cram ever-smaller transistors onto a chip has enabled today’s age of ubiquitous computing. But that approach is finally […]

Generative AI is getting plenty of attention for its ability to create text and images. But those media represent only a […]

Peripheral vision enables humans to see shapes that aren’t directly in our line of sight, albeit with less detail. This ability […]

Hundreds of robots zip back and forth across the floor of a colossal robotic warehouse, grabbing items and delivering them to […]

As Media Lab students in 2010, Karthik Dinakar SM ’12, PhD ’17 and Birago Jones SM ’12 teamed up for a […]