MIT announces leadership of its Quest for Intelligence
Faculty from across the Institute tapped to lead new initiative in human and machine intelligence.
An unexpected ambition borne from MIT experience
Annamarie Bair, a premed student turned computer science major, is drawn to the promise of artificial intelligence and health care.
Revolutionizing everyday products with artificial intelligence
Mechanical engineering researchers are using AI and machine learning technologies to enhance the products we use in everyday life.
AI-based method could speed development of specialized nanoparticles
Neural network could expedite complex physics simulations.
Teaching chores to an artificial agent
Activity simulator could eventually teach robots tasks like making coffee or setting the table.
Making driverless cars change lanes more like human drivers do
Algorithm computes “buffer zones” around autonomous vehicles and reassess them on the fly.
Researchers develop virtual-reality testing ground for drones
With new system, drones navigate through an empty room, avoiding crashes while “seeing” a virtual world.
Celebrating 21st century statistics
MIT Statistics and Data Science Conference highlights new approaches and varied applications.
Self-driving cars for country roads
Today’s autonomous vehicles require hand-labeled 3-D maps, but CSAIL’s MapLite system enables navigation with just GPS and sensors.
Building AI systems that make fair decisions
Harini Suresh, a PhD student at MIT CSAIL, studies how to make machine learning algorithms more understandable and less biased.
A new way to automatically build road maps from aerial images
“RoadTracer” system from the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory could reduce workload for developers of apps like Google Maps.
Pioneering digital collaborations
MIT hosts a summit on transformative artificial intelligence technologies in biomedical sciences and health care.
Artificial intelligence in action
At the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab, researchers are training computers to recognize dynamic events.
Computer system transcribes words users “speak silently”
Electrodes on the face and jaw pick up otherwise undetectable neuromuscular signals triggered by internal verbalizations.
Computer searches telescope data for evidence of distant planets
Machine-learning system uses physics principles to augment data from NASA crowdsourcing project.