Artificial intelligence

First row, left to right: Suvrit Sra, Frances Ross, Pulkit Agrawal, Kevin O’Brien, Richard Linares, and Cathy Wu. Second row, left to right: Negar Reiskarimian, Jacob Andreas, Giovanni Traverso, Manya Ghobadi, and Ashwin Gopinath.

School of Engineering welcomes new faculty

Eleven new professors join the MIT community.

January 9, 2019

MIT student Ben Bloomberg stands behind the soundboard at a Jacob Collier concert, December 2018.

Sound and technology unlock innovation at MIT

Cross-disciplinary projects at MIT probe the technological and aesthetic limits of sound.

December 26, 2018

Building site identified for MIT Stephen A. Schwarzman College of Computing

Headquarters would replace Building 44, forming an “entrance to computing” near the intersection of Vassar and Main streets.

December 19, 2018

Aleksander Madry is a leader in the emerging field of building guarantees into artificial intelligence, which has nearly become a branch of machine learning in its own right.

3Q: Aleksander Madry on building trustworthy artificial intelligence

A recent MIT symposium explores methods for making artificial intelligence systems more reliable, secure, and transparent.

December 14, 2018

From an original transparent etching (far right), engineers produced a photograph in the dark (top left), then attempted to reconstruct the object using first a physics-based algorithm (top right), then a trained neural network (bottom left), before combining both the neural network with the physics-based algorithm to produce the clearest, most accurate reproduction (bottom right) of the original ...

Deep-learning technique reveals “invisible” objects in the dark

Method could illuminate features of biological tissues in low-exposure images.

December 12, 2018

Video from "The Laughing Room," an interactive installation at Cambridge Public Library, was shown live on monitors at Hayden Library and streamed online.

Inside "The Laughing Room"

An artificial intelligence-powered laugh track amuses and unsettles in interactive installations by Jonny Sun.

December 5, 2018

The RePaint system reproduces paintings by combining two approaches called color-contoning and halftoning, as well as a deep learning model focused on determining how to stack 10 different inks to recreate the specific shades of color.

Reproducing paintings that make an impression

CSAIL's new RePaint system aims to faithfully recreate your favorite paintings using deep learning and 3-D printing.

November 29, 2018

Professor and MIT Virtuality Director Fox Harrell is seeking to determine how MIT could use extended reality technologies, both on campus and beyond, to better serve human needs through artful innovation of virtual experiences.

MIT Open Learning launches Center for Advanced Virtuality

The new center will explore how MIT can use virtual reality and artificial intelligence and other technologies to better serve human needs.

November 27, 2018

At a recent meeting, the MIT AI Ethics Reading Group debated options for teaching ethics in a traditional computer science curriculum. Postdoc Abby Jaques (left) is developing ethics modules that can be incorporated into existing coursework.

Student group explores the ethical dimensions of artificial intelligence

MIT AI Ethics Reading Group was founded by students who saw firsthand how technology developed with good intentions could be problematic.

November 27, 2018

Neural representations of task rules are maintained in the prefrontal cortex, the part of the brain responsible for planning action.

How the brain switches between different sets of rules

When you slow down after exiting the highway, or hush your voice in the library, you’re using this brain mechanism.

November 19, 2018

Jessy Lin, an MIT senior double-majoring in electrical engineering and computer science and in philosophy.

I think, therefore I code

Senior Jessy Lin, a double major in EECS and philosophy, is programming for social good.

November 15, 2018