Demystifying artificial intelligence
Doctoral candidate Natalie Lao wants to show that anyone can learn to use AI to make a better world.
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Finding a good read among billions of choices
As natural language processing techniques improve, suggestions are getting speedier and more relevant.
Students push to speed up artificial intelligence adoption in Latin America
To help the region catch up, students organize summit to bring Latin policymakers and researchers to MIT.
Better fact-checking for fake news
New research reveals biases in fake news datasets and improves the use of automatic detectors.
What a little more computing power can do
Commercial cloud service providers give artificial intelligence computing at MIT a boost.
Why did my classifier just mistake a turtle for a rifle?
Two longtime friends explore how computer vision systems go awry.
MIT Press and Harvard Data Science Initiative launch the Harvard Data Science Review
Open access journal to promote the latest research, educational resources, and commentary from leading minds in data science.
Four 2019 40 Under 40 award winners are from Lincoln Laboratory
The Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association recognizes innovation and leadership in science and technology.
Q&A: Phillip Isola on the art and science of generative models
Image-translation pioneer discusses the past, present, and future of generative adversarial networks, or GANs.
3 Questions: The social implications and responsibilities of computing
In helping envision the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing, working group is focusing on ethical and societal questions.
3 Questions: Faculty appointments and the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing
Working group studies options for creating a new set of faculty hires for MIT’s new college.
Artificial intelligence shines light on the dark web
New tools can find patterns in vast online data to track and identify users on illicit forums.
IDEAS challenge showcases social ventures at MIT
Ten student teams receive $100,000 in combined awards to pursue their impact-driven projects.
Can science writing be automated?
A neural network can read scientific papers and render a plain-English summary.
Exercises in amazement: Discovering deep learning
A popular student-coordinated class draws a capacity crowd from across the MIT campus and beyond.