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MIT News — AI research 1d ago

How artificial neural networks build their own learning machinery

Machine-learning networks can learn without detailed instructions from a designer. Those that do may offer insight into how the brain reorganizes itself during learning.

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MIT News — AI research 1d ago

MIT Lincoln Laboratory hosts National Security Commission on Emerging Biotechnology

Roadshow event highlights Massachusetts' defense-biotechnology ecosystem.

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MIT News — AI research 1d ago

Q&A: Building accountability behind our words — and AI’s — in civic conversations

Professor Deb Roy contends there should be someone who is “answerable” for every piece of text in public life, no matter its origins.

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MIT News — AI research 5d ago

3 Questions: What is the best path forward for AI in academia?

MIT Statistics and Data Science Center Director Alexander (Sasha) Rakhlin shares important considerations for departments and institutions.

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MIT News — AI research 5d ago

3 Questions: What is the best path forward for AI in academia?

MIT Statistics and Data Science Center Director Alexander (Sasha) Rakhlin shares important considerations for departments and institutions.

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MIT News — AI research 5d ago

3 Questions: What is the best path forward for AI in academia?

MIT Statistics and Data Science Center Director Alexander (Sasha) Rakhlin shares important considerations for departments and institutions.

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MIT News — AI research 6d ago

Using AI to mitigate the growing environmental threat of data centers

By rethinking how large cloud computing systems operate, Associate Professor Christina Delimitrou seeks to make data centers more energy efficient.

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MIT News — AI research 7d ago

Discovering the value of humanistic inquiry

Students in MIT’s Concourse program delve deeply into the human condition, debate challenging questions, and learn to develop judgment about issues that can’t be quantified.

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MIT News — AI research 8d ago

Supercomputing researchers document evolution of AI hardware

An ongoing survey tracks the latest AI accelerator systems to keep hardware relevant for Lincoln Laboratory staff and sponsors.

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MIT News — AI research 8d ago

Chris Bourg named vice provost and Barbara K. Ostrom (1978) Director of the MIT Libraries

As director, Bourg has focused on digital access, open and equitable scholarly publishing, and expanded support for data-intensive research.

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MIT News — AI research 8d ago

MIT announces the MIT for America initiative, to strengthen STEM education across the country

The effort aims to help U.S. learners from kindergarten to community college, with an emphasis on math, making, and the constructive use of AI.

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MIT News — AI research 12d ago

Computational tools for society’s most complex challenges

Associate Professor Cathy Wu uses reinforcement learning to help map out improvements to transportation and other multifaceted systems.

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MIT News — AI research 12d ago

Documenting the tech worker movement

Writing as a participant and researcher, PhD student JS Tan SM ’22 has co-authored a new book about the rise of tech worker protests and the employer backlash that followed.

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MIT News — AI research 12d ago

Documenting the tech worker movement

Writing as a participant and researcher, PhD student JS Tan SM ’22 has co-authored a new book about the rise of tech worker protests and the employer backlash that followed.

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MIT News — AI research 12d ago

3 Questions: A new resource to empower young entrepreneurs

Martin Trust Center Managing Director Bill Aulet introduces Dear Dreamer, a free platform for middle and high school students who want to learn about entrepreneurship.

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MIT News — AI research 12d ago

New tool lets users repair AI-generated 3D models, then fabricate them just the way they want

“InstructMesh” can generate designs for everyday objects that are easy to edit and fabricate for both experts and newcomers to 3D modeling.

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MIT News — AI research 14d ago

MIT Transit Lab to develop an AI platform for public transit agencies

With $2.1 million funding from Google.org, the open-source Public Transit Intelligence Hub will unify public transit monitoring, operations, and passenger communication.

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MIT News — AI research 14d ago

This game-playing AI is the new champ at Stratego

Able to defeat top-ranked human players and more efficient than other models, the new system could help decision-makers in military maneuvers or business negotiations.

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MIT News — AI research 15d ago

The effects of an “algorithmic monoculture” depend on the details

In a study focusing on hiring decisions, MIT researchers found the use of a single algorithm by many firms could benefit job seekers in certain situations.

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MIT News — AI research 15d ago

Who we become when we talk to machines

Professor Sherry Turkle’s new book, “Artificial Intimacy,” offers a withering critique of chatbots and the antisocial dynamics she believes they encourage.

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MIT News — AI research 16d ago

New formulation helps RNA vaccines withstand high temperatures

MIT engineers have found a way to stabilize the lipid nanoparticles used to deliver RNA vaccines, which could allow the vaccines to be more widely distributed.

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MIT News — AI research 19d ago

MIT students gain a humanist lens on technical innovation in Tulsa, Oklahoma

The PKG Center for Social Impact expands Code.Tulsa experiential learning program.

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MIT News — AI research 20d ago

Estimating suicide risk from text

A new language-processing tool could help identify the highest-risk individuals from natural language, enabling swifter interventions.

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MIT News — AI research 20d ago

The promise and peril of using visual AI to study cities

In their new book, “How AI Sees the City,” the leaders of MIT’s Senseable City Lab examine the technology’s implications for researching urban life.

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MIT News — AI research 21d ago

MIT welcomes David Siegel SM ’86, PhD ’91 as its next Innovation Fellow

Computer scientist, entrepreneur, and philanthropist will collaborate with the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing to advance AI and scientific discovery.

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MIT News — AI research 22d ago

Poitras Center to fuel early careers of 50 young scientists dedicated to psychiatric disorders research

Patricia and James Poitras ’63 provide fellowships for graduate students and postdocs who will shape the future of mental health research.

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MIT News — AI research 26d ago

A new chapter for MIT Reads

A new focus on fiction and memoir aims to help the MIT community celebrate the power of storytelling and strengthen social connection.

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MIT News — AI research 28d ago

New AI technique could make minimally invasive surgeries safer and more precise

This patient-specific method, called xvr, helps doctors use X-rays for surgical navigation in fields such as orthopedics and neurosurgery.

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MIT News — AI research 28d ago

Measure by measure, studying society accurately

Naoki Egami has become a standout in political methodology, helping refine tools that give scholars durable results.

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MIT News — AI research 1mo ago

New method enables AI for safety-critical situations

The “HardFlow” algorithm could help generative AI models produce high-quality outputs that obey strict requirements when “pretty close” doesn’t cut it.

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MIT News — AI research 1mo ago

MIT spinout turns plastic waste into resilient building materials

Atlas Building Composites is commercializing MIT research to turn plastic waste into parts for buildings and other infrastructure.

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MIT News — AI research 1mo ago

Lifesaving Lincoln Laboratory device wins 2026 Excellence in Technology Transfer Award

The handheld catheterization device AI-GUIDE, created by Lincoln Laboratory and Massachusetts General Hospital, promises improved health outcomes for injured service members and civilians.

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MIT News — AI research 1mo ago

MIT Schwarzman College of Computing launches pilot to help educators teach AI across disciplines

A weeklong summer workshop brought higher education faculty to campus to explore how AI and machine learning materials can be adapted for their classrooms.

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MIT News — AI research 1mo ago

From MIT to IBM, expediting AI and quantum deployment

MIT affiliates engage with the MIT-IBM Computing Research Lab to bring rigorous theory to production systems.

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MIT News — AI research 1mo ago

System helps humans predict when self-driving cars will make mistakes

A new method, called CW-Net, translates the reasoning process of an autonomous vehicle’s AI system into understandable concepts that explain its behavior.

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MIT News — AI research 1mo ago

Walter Torous named executive director of MIT Center for Real Estate

The senior lecturer, already director of the degree program, will now oversee all aspects of the center’s activities and operations.

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MIT News — AI research 1mo ago

Ila Kumar: Innovating with communities

The PhD student works to give young people an active role in shaping digital technologies that can support their own well-being.

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MIT News — AI research 1mo ago

MIT Quantum Initiative launches postdoctoral fellowship program

The Institute welcomes its first cohort of QMIT Fellows this fall to advance interdisciplinary quantum research.

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MIT News — AI research 1mo ago

How an MIT research project became a global programming language

With millions of users across the world, Julia has been used to conduct cutting-edge research and to design new drugs, jet engines, heat pumps, and more.

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MIT News — AI research 1mo ago

Looking beyond natural sequences

A new machine-learning framework aims to improve the success rate of computational protein design while moving away from results that reproduce sequences found in nature.

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MIT News — AI research 1mo ago

AI helps design new materials that work in the real world

The “CrysVCD” tool developed at MIT could cut the huge amounts of time and money spent on screening out chemically unstable designs.

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MIT News — AI research 1mo ago

Generating scenarios for extreme events, without extreme data

A new algorithm learns to anticipate the unprecedented scenarios that critical infrastructure and global supply chains are least prepared for.

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MIT News — AI research 1mo ago

Paving the way for greener ammonia production

New MIT research could lead to better materials for a fossil-fuel-free process for making the chemical that's essential to fertilizer and other products.

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MIT News — AI research 1mo ago

When AI art has no author: Study finds generated images often can’t be traced to training data

A new method for surgically removing training examples from a model reveals that as datasets grow, the link between what a model learns and what it produces dissolves.

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MIT News — AI research 1mo ago

Q&A: Rethinking how innovation happens

In his latest book, Professor Eugene Fitzgerald examines the forces that turn breakthroughs into value — and why innovation resists simple formulas.

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MIT News — AI research 1mo ago

Q&A: Rethinking how innovation happens

In his latest book, Professor Eugene Fitzgerald examines the forces that turn breakthroughs into value — and why innovation resists simple formulas.

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MIT News — AI research 2mo ago

With a feel for physics, AI models simulate a wider range of real-world scenarios

“GeoPT” helps AI models understand the basics of physics so they can simulate how objects respond to things like wind and water more efficiently and accurately.

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MIT News — AI research 2mo ago

Solving the solvent problem

By focusing on electrolytes, MIT scientists are making sodium-metal batteries a more practical energy storage option.

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MIT News — AI research 2mo ago

The benefits of medical AI assistance vary based on user expertise

Study finds non-experts deferred to LLM-based diagnostic assistance, even when it was wrong, while clinicians caught AI errors.

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MIT News — AI research 2mo ago

Alexander Rakhlin named director of the MIT Statistics and Data Science Center

An expert in machine learning, statistics, and computation, Rakhlin succeeds Professor Ankur Moitra.

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How artificial neural networks build their own learning machinery

MIT Lincoln Laboratory hosts National Security Commission on Emerging Biotechnology

Q&A: Building accountability behind our words — and AI’s — in civic conversations

3 Questions: What is the best path forward for AI in academia?

3 Questions: What is the best path forward for AI in academia?

3 Questions: What is the best path forward for AI in academia?

Using AI to mitigate the growing environmental threat of data centers

Discovering the value of humanistic inquiry

Supercomputing researchers document evolution of AI hardware

Chris Bourg named vice provost and Barbara K. Ostrom (1978) Director of the MIT Libraries

MIT announces the MIT for America initiative, to strengthen STEM education across the country

Computational tools for society’s most complex challenges

Documenting the tech worker movement

Documenting the tech worker movement

3 Questions: A new resource to empower young entrepreneurs

New tool lets users repair AI-generated 3D models, then fabricate them just the way they want

MIT Transit Lab to develop an AI platform for public transit agencies

This game-playing AI is the new champ at Stratego

The effects of an “algorithmic monoculture” depend on the details

Who we become when we talk to machines

New formulation helps RNA vaccines withstand high temperatures

MIT students gain a humanist lens on technical innovation in Tulsa, Oklahoma

Estimating suicide risk from text

The promise and peril of using visual AI to study cities

MIT welcomes David Siegel SM ’86, PhD ’91 as its next Innovation Fellow

Poitras Center to fuel early careers of 50 young scientists dedicated to psychiatric disorders research

A new chapter for MIT Reads

New AI technique could make minimally invasive surgeries safer and more precise

Measure by measure, studying society accurately

New method enables AI for safety-critical situations

MIT spinout turns plastic waste into resilient building materials

Lifesaving Lincoln Laboratory device wins 2026 Excellence in Technology Transfer Award

MIT Schwarzman College of Computing launches pilot to help educators teach AI across disciplines

From MIT to IBM, expediting AI and quantum deployment

System helps humans predict when self-driving cars will make mistakes

Walter Torous named executive director of MIT Center for Real Estate

Ila Kumar: Innovating with communities

MIT Quantum Initiative launches postdoctoral fellowship program

How an MIT research project became a global programming language

Looking beyond natural sequences

AI helps design new materials that work in the real world

Generating scenarios for extreme events, without extreme data

Paving the way for greener ammonia production

When AI art has no author: Study finds generated images often can’t be traced to training data

Q&A: Rethinking how innovation happens

Q&A: Rethinking how innovation happens

With a feel for physics, AI models simulate a wider range of real-world scenarios

Solving the solvent problem

The benefits of medical AI assistance vary based on user expertise

Alexander Rakhlin named director of the MIT Statistics and Data Science Center