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TbD-net solves the visual reasoning problem by breaking it down to a chain of subtasks. The answer to each subtask is shown in heat maps highlighting the objects of interest, allowing analysts to see the network's thought process.

Artificial intelligence system uses transparent, human-like reasoning to solve problems

Model from MIT Lincoln Laboratory Intelligence and Decision Technologies Group sets a new standard for understanding how a neural network makes decisions.

September 11, 2018

The MIT Quest for Intelligence will fund up to 100 students to participate in Quest-themed UROP projects each semester.

MIT undergraduates to embark on The Quest

Up to 100 Quest-funded UROP projects aim to crack the code of human and machine intelligence.

September 7, 2018

The MIT-SenseTime Alliance on Artificial Intelligence, a program within the MIT Quest for Intelligence, has announced funding for 27 projects involving about 50 principal investigators from departments and labs within engineering, science, architecture and planning, management, and the humanities and social sciences.

MIT-SenseTime Alliance funds projects from all five schools

Interdisciplinary work will advance research in human and machine intelligence.

August 24, 2018

MIT professor of electrical engineering and computer science Dina Katabi (far left) gives a tour of her lab to A.R. Rahman (center) and Anantha Chandrakasan (right), dean of the School of Engineering.

Music as a gateway to shared humanity

Iconic composer A. R. Rahman visits MIT campus to learn more about new technologies.

August 2, 2018

After 12 years of service at MIT, Senior Vice President and Secretary of the MIT Corporation R. Gregory Morgan (right) will step down at the end of this year. He will be succeeded by Suzanne Glassburn (left), who has been an attorney in MIT’s Office of the General Counsel since 2008.

Senior Vice President and Corporation Secretary Greg Morgan to retire

Suzanne Glassburn of MIT’s Office of the General Counsel will assume role.

July 30, 2018

MIT professor Silvio Micali, one of the leaders of the new FinTech@CSAIL initiative, speaks to industry leaders at the Stata Center.

CSAIL launches new initiative for financial technology

FinTech@CSAIL industry collaboration will work to improve business models, access to data, and security in the finance sector.

July 26, 2018

Journal of Design and Science winning essays cover a range of disciplines and perspectives, from design and tech, to health and gender, to AI and morality.

Reveling in a complex, unknowable future

MIT Media Lab and MIT Press announce winners of the Journal of Design and Science essay competition.

July 23, 2018

Techstars Impact, a new accelerator, has accepted three MIT-incubated ventures and their founders: (l-r) Nick Gomez and Cory Siskind (Base Operations); Genevieve Barnard Oni and Soga Oni (MDaaS Global); and Nisheeth Singh, Anirudh Sharma, and Nitesh Kadyan (Graviky Labs).

Three MIT-incubated ventures chosen for first Techstars Impact class

Base Operations, MDaaS Global, and Graviky Labs will head to Texas to be part of the first class at the new elite accelerator.

July 12, 2018

A new AI system can look at an image and determine which set of pixels are responsible for making specific sets of soundwaves.

An AI system for editing music in videos

Given a video of a musical performance, CSAIL’s deep-learning system can make individual instruments louder or softer.

July 5, 2018

An example of a therapy session augmented with humanoid robot NAO [SoftBank Robotics], which was used in the EngageMe study. Tracking of limbs/faces was performed using the CMU Perceptual Lab's OpenPose utility.

Personalized “deep learning” equips robots for autism therapy

Machine learning network offers personalized estimates of children’s behavior.

June 27, 2018

MIT Professor and CSAIL Director Daniela Rus (left) and iFlyTek Chairman and CEO Qingfeng Liu sign a five-year research agreement between the two organizations.

CSAIL launches new five-year collaboration with iFlyTek

Lab will work with Chinese company on research in artificial intelligence, language processing, and human-computer interaction.

June 15, 2018

Using wireless signals, RF-Pose could serve as a health care system to monitor patients' movements from the other side of a wall.

Artificial intelligence senses people through walls

Wireless smart-home system from the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory could monitor diseases and help the elderly “age in place.”

June 12, 2018

On a mission to build the uncrashable car

Ryan Eustice PhD '05 and his team at the Toyota Research Institute are using artificial intelligence technologies to develop a car incapable of causing accidents.

June 11, 2018

MIT announces leadership of its Quest for Intelligence

Faculty from across the Institute tapped to lead new initiative in human and machine intelligence.

June 11, 2018

An unexpected ambition borne from MIT experience

Annamarie Bair, a premed student turned computer science major, is drawn to the promise of artificial intelligence and health care.

June 6, 2018

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