MIT launches Task Force on the Work of the Future
Institute-wide effort will study the evolution of jobs in an age of technological advancement.
Robo-picker grasps and packs
New robotic system could lend a hand with warehouse sorting and other picking or clearing tasks.
Neural networks everywhere
New chip reduces neural networks’ power consumption by up to 95 percent, making them practical for battery-powered devices.
Study finds gender and skin-type bias in commercial artificial-intelligence systems
Examination of facial-analysis software shows error rate of 0.8 percent for light-skinned men, 34.7 percent for dark-skinned women.
Alumni call on MIT to champion artificial intelligence education
Leadership urged to consider societal and ethical questions alongside the technical.
Automating materials design
With new approach, researchers specify desired properties of a material, and a computer system generates a structure accordingly.
3Q: Daron Acemoglu on technology and the future of work
"We need to look to the past in the face of modern innovations in machine learning, robotics, artificial intelligence, big data, and beyond," says the economist.
Institute launches the MIT Intelligence Quest
New Institute-wide initiative will advance human and machine intelligence research.
Play Labs accelerator announces second annual open call for submissions
Digital currency and blockchain technology added to this year’s list of “playful tech” eligible startups.
Engineers design artificial synapse for “brain-on-a-chip” hardware
Design is major stepping stone toward portable artificial-intelligence devices.
From undisciplined to interdisciplinary
Math professor Philippe Rigollet, once a “not very disciplined” student, moves between computer science and statistics.
Can computers help us synthesize new materials?
Machine-learning system finds patterns in materials “recipes,” even when training data is lacking.
Inventing the “Google” for predictive analytics
Platform analyzes big data to answer plain-language business queries in minutes instead of months.