MIT announces five flagship projects in first-ever Climate Grand Challenges competition
The portfolio of multiyear projects focuses on delivering breakthrough solutions.
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Q&A: Climate Grand Challenges finalists on using data and science to forecast climate-related risk
Faculty leaders highlight innovations that can close longstanding knowledge gaps and reimagine how the world responds to the climate crisis.
An optimized solution for face recognition
When artificial intelligence is tasked with visually identifying objects and faces, it assigns specific components of its network to face recognition — just like the human brain.
Does this artificial intelligence think like a human?
A new technique compares the reasoning of a machine-learning model to that of a human, so the user can see patterns in the model’s behavior.
Robots dress humans without the full picture
MIT researchers design a robot that has a trick or two up its sleeve.
Study reveals the dynamics of human milk production
A new analysis shows how milk-producing cells change over time in nursing mothers.
What Russia’s invasion of Ukraine means for the world
An expert panel explores the war’s impact, from a refugee crisis to China’s role and nuclear tensions.
System helps severely motor-impaired individuals type more quickly and accurately
For individuals who communicate using a single switch, a new interface learns how they make selections, and then self-adjusts accordingly.
School of Engineering welcomes Thomas Tull as visiting innovation scholar
Primary focus will be to advance and promote technology, innovation, and entrepreneurship across the school.
Dan Huttenlocher ponders our human future in an age of artificial intelligence
For the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing dean, bringing disciplines together is the best way to address challenges and opportunities posed by rapid advancements in computing.
Solving the challenges of robotic pizza-making
A new technique could enable a robot to manipulate squishy objects like pizza dough or soft materials like clothing.
Fighting discrimination in mortgage lending
A new technique for removing bias in datasets can enable machine-learning models to make loan approval predictions that are both fair and accurate.
New program bolsters innovation in next-generation artificial intelligence hardware
MIT AI Hardware Program launches with five inaugural companies to advance AI technologies for the next decade.
Security tool guarantees privacy in surveillance footage
“Privid” could help officials gather secure public health data or enable transportation departments to monitor the density and flow of pedestrians, without learning personal information about people.
3 Questions: How the MIT mini cheetah learns to run
CSAIL scientists came up with a learning pipeline for the four-legged robot that learns to run entirely by trial and error in simulation.