Merging machine learning and the life sciences
Through computing, senior and Marshall Scholar Anna Sappington seeks answers to biological questions.
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Solution for remotely monitoring oil wells wins MIT $100K
MIT startup Acoustic Wells earned the grand prize at the annual entrepreneurship competition.
Public opinion study in Europe shows drop in anti-immigration sentiment, among other changes
Surveys spanning recent decades also reveal geographic differences and gender gap in economic views.
MIT and KTH will collaborate on urban planning and development in Stockholm
Project will use new ways of collecting and analyzing data to make Stockholm more livable and sustainable.
Recreating ancient minerals
New research demonstrates how to make the rock dolomite, preserving fine microbial textures in marine environments and solving the dolomite problem.
Building a community for statistics and data science at MIT and beyond
Third annual MIT Statistics and Data Science conference gathers a growing interdisciplinary community of researchers and practitioners.
Ambient plant illumination could light the way for greener buildings
Collaboration between MIT architect and chemical engineer could be at the center of new sustainable infrastructure for buildings.
Explosions of universe’s first stars spewed powerful jets
Instead of ballooning into spheres, as once thought, early supernovae ejected jets that may have seeded new stars.
Smarter training of neural networks
MIT CSAIL project shows the neural nets we typically train contain smaller “subnetworks” that can learn just as well, and often faster.
Breakthrough in boiling
High-fidelity simulations by MIT nuclear researchers point the way to optimizing heat transfer in current and next-generation reactors.
Robots that can sort recycling
CSAIL’s "RoCycle" system uses in-hand sensors to detect if an object is paper, metal or plastic.
Working together as a “virtual telescope,” observatories around the world produce first direct images of a black hole
Images reveal supermassive black hole at the heart of the Messier 87 galaxy.
Driving toward success
Through MIT Professional Education’s Advanced Study Program, Ernie Ho found the tools — and the community — he needed to realize his vision and launch his career.
The future of agriculture is computerized
Machine learning can reveal optimal growing conditions to maximize taste and other features.
Machine learning moves popular data elements into a bucket of their own
Counting search queries isn’t easy, but MIT CSAIL’s new LearnedSketch system for “frequency-estimation” aims to help.