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Armando Solar-Lezama stands at the bottom of a circular stairwell for a photo.

Armando Solar-Lezama named inaugural Distinguished Professor of Computing

EECS professor appointed to new professorship in the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing.

July 17, 2023

Closeup of a hand holding a smartphone, scanning a barcode on a carton of vegetable oil.

System tracks movement of food through global humanitarian supply chain

Unique barcodes scannable in a mobile application will enable food-aid stakeholders to follow individual items from production through delivery.

July 17, 2023

Illustration with four panels shows 3D models of robots performing various tasks. From top left: a pan of potatos on top of stove, with a robot holding a food item. To the right is a robot standing in front of a cabinent. In the bottom left, a robot stands in front of a full kitchen and reaches for a pot. In the bottom right quadrant, a robotic gripper reaches into the sink for an item, next to two water bottles.

AI helps household robots cut planning time in half

PIGINet leverages machine learning to streamline and enhance household robots' task and motion planning, by assessing and filtering feasible solutions in complex environments.

July 14, 2023

3 faces are made of glowing green lines and rendered in polygons. Floating polygonal shapes appear over the dark purple background.

How an “AI-tocracy” emerges

In China, the use of AI-driven facial recognition helps the regime repress dissent while enhancing the technology, researchers report.

July 13, 2023

Alejandro Cabrales and Evan Kramer stand on a rooftop with the SpinAp space telescope hardware testbed between them. A purple/blue night sky can be seen in the background. To the right, a tall building is seen with an orange countdown clock illuminated toward the top with a number in the 300 billions appearing.

Astro Portraits: Pointing the lens toward our future

Evan Kramer’s latest foray into urban astrophotography puts the focus on his fellow researchers.

July 11, 2023

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Thirty-four community members receive 2023 MIT Excellence Awards, Collier Medal, and Staff Award for Distinction in Service

Prestigious awards recognize community support of MIT’s goals, values, and mission.

July 10, 2023

Sussman stands on the left side of the photo, outdoors with blurry green foliage in background. On right, a shiny building’s surface subtly reflects the scene.

Building connections

PhD student Will Sussman studies wireless networks while fostering community networks.

July 7, 2023

Illustration shows purple and orange balls, floating and connected like a neural network or like molecules. White molecule figures are also floating against the dark background.

Learning the language of molecules to predict their properties

This AI system only needs a small amount of data to predict molecular properties, which could speed up drug discovery and material development.

July 7, 2023

Monotone image of a human eye with grahic representations of a computer network superimposed

When computer vision works more like a brain, it sees more like people do

Training artificial neural networks with data from real brains can make computer vision more robust.

June 30, 2023

Aleksander Madry stands in front of a whiteboard speaking to a classroom full of participants

Educating national security leaders on artificial intelligence

Experts from MIT’s School of Engineering, Schwarzman College of Computing, and Sloan Executive Education educate national security leaders in AI fundamentals.

June 30, 2023