Regina Barzilay wins $1M Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Squirrel AI award
MIT professor announced as award’s first recipient for work in cancer diagnosis and drug synthesis.
MIT named No. 4 university by U.S. News for 2021
Undergraduate engineering and computer science programs are No. 1; undergraduate business program is No. 2.
Monitoring sleep positions for a healthy rest
Wireless device captures sleep data without using cameras or body sensors; could aid patients with Parkinson’s disease, epilepsy, or bedsores.
MIT-led team to develop software to help forecast space storms
National Science Foundation awards proposal for space weather modeling.
Helping companies prioritize their cybersecurity investments
By securely aggregating sensitive data from cyber-attacks, the SCRAM platform from MIT CSAIL can quantify an organization’s level of security and suggest what to prioritize.
Six strategic areas identified for shared faculty hiring in computing
New faculty in these areas will connect the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing and a department or school.
MIT partners with national labs on two new National Quantum Information Science Research Centers
Co-design Center for Quantum Advantage and Quantum Systems Accelerator are funded by the U.S. Department of Energy to accelerate the development of quantum computers.
Cosmic rays may soon stymie quantum computing
Building quantum computers underground or designing radiation-proof qubits may be needed, researchers find.
Toward a machine learning model that can reason about everyday actions
Researchers train a model to reach human-level performance at recognizing abstract concepts in video.
Real-time data for a better response to disease outbreaks
The startup Kinsa uses its smart thermometers to detect and track the spread of contagious illness before patients go to the hospital.
The factory of the future, batteries not included
Everactive provides an industrial “internet of things” platform built on its battery-free sensors.
For student researchers, no pause for the pandemic
Undergraduates Aljazzy Alahmadi, Andrea Garcia, and Quynh Nguyen are sustaining the nuclear science and engineering research mission from around the world.
Rewriting the rules of machine-generated art
An artificial intelligence tool lets users edit generative adversarial network models with simple copy-and-paste commands.
Data systems that learn to be better
Storage tool developed at MIT CSAIL adapts to what its datasets’ users want to search.
Shrinking deep learning’s carbon footprint
Through innovation in software and hardware, researchers move to reduce the financial and environmental costs of modern artificial intelligence.