Artificial-intelligence research revives its old ambitions
A new interdisciplinary research center at MIT, funded by the National Science Foundation, aims at nothing less than unraveling the mystery of intelligence.
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Four from MIT named to ‘AI’s 10 to Watch’ list
Ranking celebrates rising researchers in the field of artificial intelligence
Three from CSAIL named to ‘AI’s 10 to Watch’ list
Ranking celebrates rising researchers in the field of artificial intelligence
Teaching robots lateral thinking
New algorithms could help household robots work around their physical shortcomings.
My connectome, myself
Neuroscientist Sebastian Seung is on a quest to map brain connections that reveal how our memories and personalities take root.
Putting the ‘art’ in artificial intelligence
CSAIL associate professor develops AI systems that can interpret images.
Inside an innovation ecosystem
History, proximity and serendipity make Kendall Square fertile ground for the next big idea.
Game puts artificial intelligence in the mind of the beholder
What if developing certain kinds of AI didn’t have to be so laborious?
Andrew Lo joins CSAIL
Economist hopes to merge the fields of computer science and artificial intelligence with research on financial markets and risk.
New Artificial Intelligence Hall of Fame inducts four MIT professors
IEEE Computer Society magazine honors AI pioneers in inaugural Hall of Fame.
Of minds and machines
Final installment of MIT’s 150th anniversary symposia explores intelligence — both human and artificial.
Language barrier
To take advantage of multicore chips, programmers will need software development systems that let them express themselves in fundamentally new ways.
Computing, Sudoku-style
Computer scientists generally see computation as something like following a recipe. Alexey Radul sees it as more like a puzzle with interconnecting parts.