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MIT community in 2024: A year in review

Top stories highlighted the Climate Project at MIT and two new Institute collaborative projects; free tuition for most new undergraduates; Nobels and other major awards; a solar eclipse over campus; and more.

December 24, 2024

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Ecologists find computer vision models’ blind spots in retrieving wildlife images

Biodiversity researchers tested vision systems on how well they could retrieve relevant nature images. More advanced models performed well on simple queries but struggled with more research-specific prompts.

December 20, 2024

MIT affiliates receive 2025 IEEE honors

Five MIT faculty and staff, along with 19 additional alumni, are honored for electrical engineering and computer science advances.

December 19, 2024

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MIT Schwarzman College of Computing welcomes Frida Polli as visiting innovation scholar

The neuroscientist turned entrepreneur will focus on advancing the intersection of behavioral science and AI across MIT.

December 19, 2024

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Need a research hypothesis? Ask AI.

MIT engineers developed AI frameworks to identify evidence-driven hypotheses that could advance biologically inspired materials.

December 19, 2024

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When MIT’s interdisciplinary NEET program is a perfect fit

Junior Katie Spivakovsky describes her path through New Engineering Education Transformation to biomedical research and beyond.

December 17, 2024

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MIT spinout Commonwealth Fusion Systems unveils plans for the world’s first fusion power plant

The company has announced that it will build the first grid-scale fusion power plant in Chesterfield County, Virginia.

December 17, 2024

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Study reveals AI chatbots can detect race, but racial bias reduces response empathy

Researchers at MIT, NYU, and UCLA develop an approach to help evaluate whether large language models like GPT-4 are equitable enough to be clinically viable for mental health support.

December 16, 2024

Lara Ozkan named 2025 Marshall Scholar

The MIT senior will pursue graduate studies in the UK at Cambridge University and Imperial College London.

December 16, 2024

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MIT affiliates named 2024 Schmidt Sciences AI2050 Fellows

Five MIT faculty members and two additional alumni are honored with fellowships to advance research on beneficial AI.

December 13, 2024

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Teaching a robot its limits, to complete open-ended tasks safely

The “PRoC3S” method helps an LLM create a viable action plan by testing each step in a simulation. This strategy could eventually aid in-home robots to complete more ambiguous chore requests.

December 12, 2024

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AI in health should be regulated, but don’t forget about the algorithms, researchers say

In a recent commentary, a team from MIT, Equality AI, and Boston University highlights the gaps in regulation for AI models and non-AI algorithms in health care.

December 12, 2024

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Study: Some language reward models exhibit political bias

Research from the MIT Center for Constructive Communication finds this effect occurs even when reward models are trained on factual data.

December 10, 2024

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Daniela Rus wins John Scott Award

MIT CSAIL director and EECS professor named a co-recipient of the honor for her robotics research, which has expanded our understanding of what a robot can be.

December 9, 2024

Introducing MIT HEALS, a life sciences initiative to address pressing health challenges

The MIT Health and Life Sciences Collaborative will bring together researchers from across the Institute to deliver health care solutions at scale.

December 9, 2024

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Need a research hypothesis? Ask AI.

When MIT’s interdisciplinary NEET program is a perfect fit

MIT spinout Commonwealth Fusion Systems unveils plans for the world’s first fusion power plant

Study reveals AI chatbots can detect race, but racial bias reduces response empathy

Lara Ozkan named 2025 Marshall Scholar

MIT affiliates named 2024 Schmidt Sciences AI2050 Fellows

Teaching a robot its limits, to complete open-ended tasks safely

AI in health should be regulated, but don’t forget about the algorithms, researchers say

Study: Some language reward models exhibit political bias

Daniela Rus wins John Scott Award

Introducing MIT HEALS, a life sciences initiative to address pressing health challenges

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