Brave Behind Bars: Prison education program focuses on computing skills for women
MIT computer scientists and mathematicians offer an introductory computing and career-readiness program for incarcerated women in New England.
Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL)
When should someone trust an AI assistant’s predictions?
Researchers have created a method to help workers collaborate with artificial intelligence systems.
How well do explanation methods for machine-learning models work?
Researchers develop a way to test whether popular methods for understanding machine-learning models are working correctly.
The promise and pitfalls of artificial intelligence explored at TEDxMIT event
MIT scientists discuss the future of AI with applications across many sectors, as a tool that can be both beneficial and harmful.
Q&A: Cathy Wu on developing algorithms to safely integrate robots into our world
Assistant professor of civil engineering describes her career in robotics as well as challenges and promises of human-robot interactions.
From counting blood cells to motion capture, sensors drive patient-centered research
SENSE.nano symposium highlights the importance of sensing technologies in medical studies.
Nonsense can make sense to machine-learning models
Deep-learning methods confidently recognize images that are nonsense, a potential problem for medical and autonomous-driving decisions.
Machine-learning system flags remedies that might do more harm than good
The system could help physicians select the least risky treatments in urgent situations, such as treating sepsis.
Machines that see the world more like humans do
A new “common-sense” approach to computer vision enables artificial intelligence that interprets scenes more accurately than other systems do.
A system for designing and training intelligent soft robots
“Evolution Gym” is a large-scale benchmark for co-optimizing the design and control of soft robots that takes inspiration from nature and evolutionary processes.
Technique enables real-time rendering of scenes in 3D
The new machine-learning system can generate a 3D scene from an image about 15,000 times faster than other methods.
Generating a realistic 3D world
A new AI-powered, virtual platform uses real-world physics to simulate a rich and interactive audio-visual environment, enabling human and robotic learning, training, and experimental studies.
Taking some of the guesswork out of drug discovery
A deep learning model rapidly predicts the 3D shapes of drug-like molecules, which could accelerate the process of discovering new medicines.
The intersection of math, computers, and everything else
Senior Shardul Chiplunkar aims to be a translator between the tech world and the rest of society.
Helping people understand and track their health
MIT spinoff Fitnescity makes it easier for users to schedule health tests, work with physicians, and interpret results.