What to do about AI in health?
Although artificial intelligence in health has shown great promise, pressure is mounting for regulators around the world to act, as AI tools demonstrate potentially harmful outcomes.
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Electrical engineering and computer science (EECS)
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Researchers improve blood tests’ ability to detect and monitor cancer
The advance makes it easier to detect circulating tumor DNA in blood samples, which could enable earlier cancer diagnosis and help guide treatment.
New hope for early pancreatic cancer intervention via AI-based risk prediction
MIT CSAIL researchers develop advanced machine-learning models that outperform current methods in detecting pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma.
Reasoning and reliability in AI
PhD students interning with the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab look to improve natural language usage.
Self-powered sensor automatically harvests magnetic energy
A system designed at MIT could allow sensors to operate in remote settings, without batteries.
Stratospheric safety standards: How aviation could steer regulation of AI in health
An interdisciplinary team of researchers thinks health AI could benefit from some of the aviation industry’s long history of hard-won lessons that have created one of the safest activities today.
The future of motorcycles could be hydrogen
MIT Electric Vehicle Team builds a unique hydrogen fuel cell–powered electric motorcycle.
Multiple AI models help robots execute complex plans more transparently
A multimodal system uses models trained on language, vision, and action data to help robots develop and execute plans for household, construction, and manufacturing tasks.
Inhalable sensors could enable early lung cancer detection
The diagnostic, which requires only a simple urine test to read the results, could make lung cancer screening more accessible worldwide.
Researchers 3D print components for a portable mass spectrometer
Lightweight and inexpensive, miniaturized mass filters are a key step toward portable mass spectrometers that could identify unknown chemicals in remote settings.
MIT community members elected to the National Academy of Inventors for 2023
MIT Koch Institute researchers Daniel Anderson and Ana Jaklenec, plus 11 MIT alumni, are honored for inventions that have made a tangible impact on society.
AI agents help explain other AI systems
MIT researchers introduce a method that uses artificial intelligence to automate the explanation of complex neural networks.
Building technology that empowers city residents
Kwesi Afrifa, a senior majoring in urban planning and computer science, wants to create cultural hubs that are inviting to everyone.
Leveraging language to understand machines
Master’s students Irene Terpstra ’23 and Rujul Gandhi ’22 use language to design new integrated circuits and make it understandable to robots.
Professor Emeritus Frederick Hennie, expert in computation and leader within MIT EECS, dies at 90
The highly influential professor served for 25 years as executive officer of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.