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(L-R) Stephen A. Schwarzman and MIT president L. Rafael Reif in a conversation moderated by Becky Quick of CNBC

For founders of new college of computing, the human element is paramount

Stephen A. Schwarzman and MIT President L. Rafael Reif discuss the Institute’s historic new endeavor.

March 1, 2019

Institute Professor Barbara Liskov (right) was one of the academic and industry leaders who participated in Tuesday’s “Perspectives from Luminaries” panel, part of the celebration of the new MIT Stephen A. Schwarzman College of Computing. Professors Stefanie Mueller (left) and Vivienne Sze (center) moderated the panel.

Lighting the path

Luminaries in computing and cognition discuss their journeys and share their insights.

February 28, 2019

“We’re in the midst of a global transformation that’s catalyzed by the rapid acceleration of digital technologies, including unprecedented access to computation and data,” said Farnam Jahanian, president of Carnegie Mellon University, in a keynote address during the three-day celebration for the MIT Stephen A. Schwarzman College of Computing.

The future of education in a world of pervasive computing

Conference celebrating new MIT Schwarzman College of Computing explores the changing face of higher ed.

February 28, 2019

MIT Chancellor Cynthia Barnhart and Dean of Engineering Anantha Chandrakasan visited with MIT students in the Ray and Maria Stata Center yesterday during the Computing Exposition that kicked off a three-day celebration of the MIT Stephen A. Schwarzman College of Computing.

Taking the lead in shaping the future of computing and artificial intelligence

Popular expo highlights student creativity and ambition as celebration of the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing gets underway.

February 27, 2019

Sang-won Leigh PhD '18, left, works with second-year student Ethan Nevidomsky, an electrical engineering and computer science major, on ArtMatr’s oil-based printing system during the Computing Connections Challenges.

Student challenges kick off celebration of MIT Stephen A. Schwarzman College of Computing

“We see an incredible future where the College of Computing channels the collaborative potential of disciplines,” says grad student Matthew Claudel.

February 25, 2019

Whirlwind I, the first digital computer capable of real-time computation

Twenty-five ways in which MIT has transformed computing

From digital circuits to ingestible robots, the Institute has helped spearhead key innovations in the technology revolution.

February 25, 2019

Students participating in the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program include: (clockwise from top left) Veronica Boyce, Nicholas Bonaker, Alexandra Dima, Neeraj Prasad, Elizabeth Weeks, and Alexander Denmark.

Exploring the nature of intelligence

Undergraduate research projects show how students are advancing research in human and artificial intelligence, and applying intelligence tools to other disciplines.

February 21, 2019

Judith Barry's installation "Study for the Mirror and Garden" uses video and special effects, along with architectural mirroring, to evoke the secret gardens, hidden meanings, and picaresque narratives of the “converso” tradition in Spanish literature and culture — which allowed banished cultures to survive by hiding in plain sight.

Creating new spaces for art

Professor Judith Barry’s attention-grabbing installations create thought-provoking experiences for viewers.

February 11, 2019

President Reif calls for federal funding, focused education to address “opportunity and threat” of AI

In Financial Times op-ed, MIT president says higher education must teach students to be “AI bilingual.”

February 11, 2019

Peering under the hood of fake-news detectors

Study uncovers language patterns that AI models link to factual and false articles; underscores need for further testing.

February 6, 2019

Lara Baladi, lecturer in the MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology (left), and Noelle LaCharite of Microsoft

New collaboration sparks global connections to art through artificial intelligence

MIT designers, researchers, and students collaborate with The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Microsoft to improve the connection between people and art.

February 5, 2019

Using a new cooperative learning technique, MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab researchers cut by half the time it took a pair of robot agents to learn to maneuver to opposite sides of a virtual room.

Learning to teach to speed up learning

An algorithm that teaches robot agents how to exchange advice to complete a task helps them learn faster.

January 29, 2019

A model by MIT and Microsoft researchers identifies instances where autonomous systems have “learned” from training examples that don’t match what’s actually happening in the real world, which can be used to identify which learned actions could cause costly errors.

Identifying artificial intelligence “blind spots”

Model identifies instances when autonomous systems have learned from examples that may cause dangerous errors in the real world.

January 24, 2019

Professor Antonio Torralba, MIT director of the MIT—IBM Watson AI Lab and the inaugural director of the MIT Quest for Intelligence, addresses the audience at the MIT AI Policy Congress on Jan. 15.

AI, the law, and our future

MIT “Policy Congress” examines the complex terrain of artificial intelligence regulation.

January 18, 2019

Leo Celi, a researcher at MIT and a physician at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, leads a global series of health care hackathons, or datathons, to bring doctors and data scientists together and encourage hospitals to make use of their electronic medical records.

Democratizing artificial intelligence in health care

Hackathons promote doctor-data scientist collaboration and expanded access to electronic medical-records to improve patient care.