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Marcel Torne Villasevil and Pulkit Agrawal stand in front of a robotic arm, which is picking up a cup

Precision home robots learn with real-to-sim-to-real

CSAIL researchers introduce a novel approach allowing robots to be trained in simulations of scanned home environments, paving the way for customized household automation accessible to anyone.

July 31, 2024

Arvind, longtime MIT professor and prolific computer scientist, dies at 77

The dedicated teacher and academic leader transformed research in computer architectures, parallel computing, and digital design, enabling faster and more efficient computation.

June 18, 2024

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Using ideas from game theory to improve the reliability of language models

A new “consensus game,” developed by MIT CSAIL researchers, elevates AI’s text comprehension and generation skills.

May 14, 2024

Julie Shah poses next to a large orange robotic arm

Julie Shah named head of the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics

An expert in robotics and AI, Shah succeeds Steven Barrett at AeroAstro.

April 29, 2024

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Mapping the brain pathways of visual memorability

For the first time, researchers use a combination of MEG and fMRI to map the spatio-temporal human brain dynamics of a visual image being recognized.

April 23, 2024

A glowing neural network is in background with a text input box near center

A faster, better way to prevent an AI chatbot from giving toxic responses

Researchers create a curious machine-learning model that finds a wider variety of prompts for training a chatbot to avoid hateful or harmful output.

April 10, 2024

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Eight from MIT named 2024 Sloan Research Fellows

Fellows honored for creativity, innovation, and research accomplishments.

February 29, 2024

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Stratospheric safety standards: How aviation could steer regulation of AI in health

An interdisciplinary team of researchers thinks health AI could benefit from some of the aviation industry’s long history of hard-won lessons that have created one of the safest activities today.

January 17, 2024

Digital illustration of a white robot with a magnifying glass, looking at a circuit-style display of a battery with a brain icon. The room resembles a lab with a white table, and there are two tech-themed displays on the wall showing abstract neural structures in glowing turquoise. A wire connects the robot's magnifying glass to the larger display.

AI agents help explain other AI systems

MIT researchers introduce a method that uses artificial intelligence to automate the explanation of complex neural networks.

January 3, 2024

3 rows show how a cat’s tail is animated in 3 ways. The rows are labeled, from top to bottom: Dirichlet, Weighted TV, and ARAP. The rows show very similar versions of the cat’s tail enclosed in polygonal mesh marking animation points.

A flexible solution to help artists improve animation

This new method draws on 200-year-old geometric foundations to give artists control over the appearance of animated characters.

December 20, 2023

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MIT Generative AI Week fosters dialogue across disciplines

During the last week of November, MIT hosted symposia and events aimed at examining the implications and possibilities of generative AI.

December 11, 2023

Three MIT affiliates receive Schmidt awards

Jörn Dunkel and Surya Ganguli ’98, MNG ’98 receive Science Polymath awards; Josh Tenenbaum is named AI2050 Senior Fellow.

November 20, 2023

Jonathan Zong is sitting at a desk, typing on a keyboard connected to a printing machine delivering large amounts of paper where letters of different sizes are visible.

Improving accessibility of online graphics for blind users

Open-source software by MIT MAD Fellow Jonathan Zong and others in the MIT Visualization Group reveals online graphics’ embedded data in the user’s preferred degree of granularity.

October 2, 2023

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Five MIT faculty members named 2023 Simons Investigators

The program supports “outstanding theoretical scientists.”

September 26, 2023

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Artificial intelligence for augmentation and productivity

The MIT Schwarzman College of Computing awards seed grants to seven interdisciplinary projects exploring AI-augmented management.

August 18, 2023

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