Assistant Professor Benjamin Lindquist studies how engineers deliberately injected randomness into early AI, giving rise to deep-learning models that sometimes hallucinate.

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“X-Hinges” helps design and 3D print items like lamps and gloves with an interactive twist: automatically embedded sensors that perceive and adaptively respond to human contact.

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A model developed by researchers at MIT and Boston Children's Hospital adjusts scans on the fly to track fetal movement, potentially sparing families repeat hospital visits.

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New research can help AI models understand crystalline materials in 3D and reason about their properties.

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The 18th annual Kendall Square Association Annual Meeting explored how new technologies could be a force for shared prosperity in society.

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MIT's Center for Transportation and Logistics finds sustainability commitments are strong, but governance gaps and external disruptions prevent execution.

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A new computational approach reveals how cells communicate to assemble into tissues. This could accelerate stem cell engineering, improve disease models, and inform therapies.

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In a new book, Professor Eric So explores how the technology affects our thinking skills.

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A new machine-learning approach broke records for weather forecasting for an important time frame in emergency planning.

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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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Roadshow event highlights Massachusetts' defense-biotechnology ecosystem.

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

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

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

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

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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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