Three from MIT elected to the National Academy of Sciences for 2020
Faculty members Abhijit Banerjee, Bonnie Berger, and Roger Summons elected by peers for outstanding contributions to research.
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Faculty members Abhijit Banerjee, Bonnie Berger, and Roger Summons elected by peers for outstanding contributions to research.
Researchers unveil a pruning algorithm to make artificial intelligence applications run faster.
Researchers show that computers can “write” algorithms that adapt to radically different environments better than algorithms designed by humans.
Mathematician and CEO of web services company Akamai looks ahead to how the pandemic-driven shift to remote working might change society.
CSAIL's Conduct-A-Bot system uses muscle signals to cue a drone’s movement, enabling more natural human-robot communication.
Prestigious honor society announces more than 250 new members.
Based on crowdsourced data, app helps patients, EMTs, and physicians determine real-time availability of hospital resources.
The Audacious Project commitment will support the development of new classes of antibiotics to treat the world’s deadliest bacterial pathogens.
CSAIL director and MIT Schwarzman College of Computing deputy dean of research will serve on the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.
An ad hoc team of engineers and doctors has developed a low-cost, open-source alternative, now ready for rapid production.
Startup Posh has created chatbots that use “conversational memory” to have more natural exchanges.
Congestion control system could help streaming video, mobile games, and other applications run more smoothly.
A system that enables smartphones to transmit “chirps” to nearby devices could notify people if they have been near an infected person.
CSAIL's SprayableTech system lets users create large-scale interactive surfaces with sensors and displays using airbrushed inks.
Nearly 300 students join an open course that applies data science, artificial intelligence, and mathematical modeling using the Julia language to study Covid-19.