In MIT visit, Dropbox CEO Drew Houston ’05 explores the accelerated shift to distributed work
Houston discusses leading the company through the pandemic in a fireside chat hosted by the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing.
Design’s new frontier
Mechanical engineers are using cutting-edge computing techniques to re-imagine how the products, systems, and infrastructures we use are designed.
MIT Lincoln Laboratory wins nine R&D 100 Awards for 2021
A life-detecting radar, a microscale motor, and a quantum network architecture are among this year's most innovative new technologies.
Electrochemistry, from batteries to brains
Professor Bilge Yildiz finds patterns in the behavior of ions across applications.
Dexterous robotic hands manipulate thousands of objects with ease
Model-free framework reorients over 2,000 diverse objects with a hand facing both upward and downward, in a step toward more human-like manipulation.
Toward speech recognition for uncommon spoken languages
Reducing the complexity of a powerful machine-learning model may help level the playing field for automatic speech-recognition around the world.
3 Questions: Blending computing with other disciplines at MIT
The Common Ground for Computing Education is facilitating collaborations to develop new classes for students to pursue computational knowledge within the context of their fields of interest.
Taming the data deluge
A National Science Foundation-funded team will use artificial intelligence to speed up discoveries in physics, astronomy, and neuroscience.
3 Questions: Investigating a long-standing neutrino mystery
Graduate student Nicholas Kamp describes the MicroBooNE experiment and its implications for our understanding of fundamental particles.
Making machine learning more useful to high-stakes decision makers
A visual analytics tool helps child welfare specialists understand machine learning predictions that can assist them in screening cases.
Artificial intelligence sheds light on how the brain processes language
Neuroscientists find the internal workings of next-word prediction models resemble those of language-processing centers in the brain.
Saving seaweed with machine learning
PhD candidate Charlene Xia is developing a low-cost system to monitor the microbiome of seaweed farms and identify diseases before they spread.
At Mass STEM Week kickoff, MIT RAISE announces Day of AI
Artificial intelligence is top-of-mind as Governor Baker, President Reif encourage students to “see yourself in STEM.”
One giant leap for the mini cheetah
A new control system, demonstrated using MIT’s robotic mini cheetah, enables four-legged robots to jump across uneven terrain in real-time.