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Class pairs students with military officers to build mission-critical solutions

MIT course 15.362/6.9160 (Engineering Innovation: Global Security Systems) gives students an inside look at military problems and empowers them to build prototypes.

May 15, 2025

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Drug injection device wins MIT $100K Competition

CoFlo Medical’s low-cost device could administer advanced biologic treatments more quickly to people with cancers, autoimmune diseases, and more.

May 14, 2025

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MIT Department of Economics to launch James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Center on Inequality and Shaping the Future of Work

With support from the Stone Foundation, the center will advance cutting-edge research and inform policy.

May 13, 2025

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Ping pong bot returns shots with high-speed precision

In addition to training future players, the technology could expand the capabilities of other humanoid robots, such as for search and rescue.

May 8, 2025

Using AI to explore the 3D structure of the genome

Two meters of DNA is crammed into the nucleus of every human cell. Bin Zhang wants to know how gene expression works in this minuscule space.

May 7, 2025

Three scenes from AI-created videos: Three panels reveal different AI-created scenes: colorful monsters dancing; wooly mammoths roaming an arctic tundra; and a miniature character in an antique deep-sea diving suit walks on leaves.

Hybrid AI model crafts smooth, high-quality videos in seconds

The CausVid generative AI tool uses a diffusion model to teach an autoregressive (frame-by-frame) system to rapidly produce stable, high-resolution videos.

May 6, 2025

Q&A: A roadmap for revolutionizing health care through data-driven innovation

A new book coauthored by MIT’s Dimitris Bertsimas explores how analytics is driving decisions and outcomes in health care.

May 5, 2025

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New tool evaluates progress in reinforcement learning

“IntersectionZoo,” a benchmarking tool, uses a real-world traffic problem to test progress in deep reinforcement learning algorithms.

May 5, 2025

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Novel AI model inspired by neural dynamics from the brain

New type of “state-space model” leverages principles of harmonic oscillators.

May 2, 2025

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TeleAbsence: Poetic encounters with the past

MIT researchers lay out design principles behind the TeleAbsence vision, how it could help people cope with loss and plan for how they might be remembered.

May 2, 2025

Making AI models more trustworthy for high-stakes settings

A new method helps convey uncertainty more precisely, which could give researchers and medical clinicians better information to make decisions.

May 1, 2025

AI-enabled translations initiative empowers Ukrainian learners with new skills

Ukrainian students and collaborators provide high-quality translations of MIT OpenCourseWare educational resources.

April 30, 2025

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The MIT-Portugal Program enters Phase 4

New phase will support continued exploration of ideas and solutions in fields ranging from AI to nanotech to climate — with emphasis on educational exchanges and entrepreneurship.

April 30, 2025

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At the Venice Biennale, design through flexible thinking

The renowned architecture exhibition, curated this year by MIT’s Carlo Ratti, puts an emphasis on adaptive intelligence.

April 29, 2025

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Merging design and computer science in creative ways

MAD Fellow Alexander Htet Kyaw connects humans, machines, and the physical world using AI and augmented reality.

April 28, 2025

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