Better learning with shape-shifting objects
MIT study shows the power of adaptive training tools, like a basketball hoop that shrinks and raises as you make shots.
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Professor Emerita Judith Jarvis Thomson, highly influential philosopher, dies at 91
Longtime MIT moral philosopher was a transformational figure and “the atomic ice-breaker for women in philosophy.”
Lincoln Laboratory is designing a payload to integrate on Japanese satellites
The US will provide sensors to be hosted on board regional navigation satellites that Japan is developing.
Indigenous knowledge and technology at MIT: “Is it wise?”
A week of workshops, lab visits, and pairings matched Indigenous delegates with relevant labs and researchers across MIT.
Neuroscientists find a way to make object-recognition models perform better
Adding a module that mimics part of the brain can prevent common errors made by computer vision models.
This 3D printer doesn’t gloss over the details
New system enables realistic variations in glossiness across a 3D-printed surface. The advance could aid fine art reproduction and the design of prosthetics.
Shrinking massive neural networks used to model language
A new approach could lower computing costs and increase accessibility to state-of-the-art natural language processing.
3 Questions: Joshua Cohen on the qualities of good jobs
MIT Task Force on the Work of the Future research brief examines what makes for “good jobs,” and the public-private policies that can help shape them.
Computer-aided creativity in robot design
MIT researchers’ new system optimizes the shape of robots for traversing various terrain types.
How humans use objects in novel ways to solve problems
What's SSUP? The Sample, Simulate, Update cognitive model developed by MIT researchers learns to use tools like humans do.
Center to advance predictive simulation research established at MIT Schwarzman College of Computing
MIT is among nine universities selected as part of a program sponsored by the DoE to support science-based modeling and simulation and exascale computing technologies.
Six MIT faculty elected 2020 AAAS Fellows
Choucri, Drennan, Fisher, Gershenfeld, Li, and Rus are recognized for their efforts to advance science.
Lincoln Laboratory establishes Biotechnology and Human Systems Division
Will focus on responding to disasters and humanitarian crises, defending against biothreats, addressing climate change, and improving human health and performance.
3Q: Christine Walley on the evolving perception of robots in the US
Anthropologist touches on the history of tech-related job displacement and explores how other countries approach policies on robots, skills, and learning.
Why we shouldn’t fear the future of work
MIT task force wraps up with a final conference, sounds note of optimism that new ideas, better policies can help sustain good careers.