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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

Startup’s autonomous drones precisely track warehouse inventories

Corvus Robotics, founded by Mohammed Kabir ’21, is using drones that can navigate in GPS-denied environments to expedite inventory management.

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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MIT engineers grow “high-rise” 3D chips

An electronic stacking technique could exponentially increase the number of transistors on chips, enabling more efficient AI hardware.

December 18, 2024

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3 Questions: Tracking MIT graduates’ career trajectories

Deborah Liverman, executive director of MIT Career Advising and Professional Development, offers a window into undergraduate and graduate students’ post-graduation paths.

December 17, 2024

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MIT researchers introduce Boltz-1, a fully open-source model for predicting biomolecular structures

With models like AlphaFold3 limited to academic research, the team built an equivalent alternative, to encourage innovation more broadly.

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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In a unique research collaboration, students make the case for less e-waste

SERC Scholars from around the MIT community examine the electronic hardware waste life cycle and climate justice.

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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MIT community in 2024: A year in review

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

Startup’s autonomous drones precisely track warehouse inventories

MIT affiliates receive 2025 IEEE honors

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

Need a research hypothesis? Ask AI.

MIT engineers grow “high-rise” 3D chips

3 Questions: Tracking MIT graduates’ career trajectories

MIT researchers introduce Boltz-1, a fully open-source model for predicting biomolecular structures

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

In a unique research collaboration, students make the case for less e-waste

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

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