3Q: Institute Professor John Deutch on maintaining US leadership in technological innovation
Putting limits on foreign students or technical publications would be counterproductive, write Deutch and Condoleezza Rice.
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Unlocking marine mysteries with artificial intelligence
Students put their AI software for underwater vehicles to the test on the Charles River.
Computer systems predict objects’ responses to physical forces
Results may help explain how humans do the same thing.
Calculating the cost of tech-fueled discrimination
Math graduate student’s Data for Black Lives conference provides numbers behind the technologies that enable exclusion.
Four from MIT named 2017 Association for Computing Machinery Fellows
Professors Goldwasser, Lozano-Perez, Micali, and Sipser honored for "providing key knowledge" to computing.
Reading a neural network’s mind
Technique illuminates the inner workings of artificial-intelligence systems that process language.
School of Engineering welcomes new faculty
Sixteen new professors join seven of the school’s departments.
Asu Ozdaglar named head of Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
She succeeds Anantha Chandrakasan, who was named dean of engineering, as leader of MIT’s largest academic department.
Researchers establish long-sought source of ocean methane
An abundant enzyme in marine microbes may be responsible for production of the greenhouse gas.
A bipartisan message of clean energy progress
In the face of global challenges, leading women in energy and climate convene at the C3E 2017 Clean Energy Symposium.
Four from MIT are named 2018 IEEE Fellows
Researchers from across MIT are honored by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
Featured video: Learning lessons from teaching others
Computer science major Melanie Chen serves as teaching assistant, curriculum developer, and mentor to high school students in a unique MIT program.
Building the hardware for the next generation of artificial intelligence
Class taught by Vivienne Sze and Joel Emer brings together traditionally separate disciplines for advances in deep learning.
Harnessing a “meritocracy of great ideas”
Using a broad design approach, students are developing and evaluating changes to the first-year undergraduate experience.
Making others’ voices heard through education and journalism
Senior Drew Bent hopes to level the educational playing field of the future.