Inspired by a hitchhiking fish that uses a specialized suction organ to latch onto other marine animals, MIT engineers designed a mechanical adhesive device that attaches to soft, slippery surfaces and remains there for days or weeks. The device could be used to deliver drugs in the GI tract or monitor aquatic environments.| MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Since much economic growth comes from tech innovation, the way societies use artificial intelligence is of keen interest to MIT Institute Professor Daron Acemoglu, who has published several papers on AI economics in recent months.| MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Science journalist Usha Lee McFarling will be the next director of the Knight Science Journalism Program at MIT. She will succeed Deborah Blum, award-winning author and co-founder of Undark magazine, after 10 years as director.| MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The PhysicsGen system developed by MIT CSAIL researchers tailors robot training data to specific machines, helping them find the most efficient movements for a task. The system can multiply a few dozen virtual reality demonstrations into thousands of simulations for household and factory robots.| MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
A new technique can synchronize media streams from different networks to multiple devices with less than 10 milliseconds of delay. The technique was demonstrated on cloud gaming, but could also be applied in AR/VR applications.| MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
An MIT robotic probe quickly measures photoconductance in new semiconductor materials. By dramatically increasing the speed at which scientists can characterize these materials, this system could spur the development of solar panels that produce more electricity.| MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MIT engineers developed an atmospheric water harvester that captures water vapor and produces safe drinking water across a range of relative humidities, including dry desert air.| MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The MIT Energy Initiative's annual research spring symposium explored artificial intelligence as both a problem and solution for the clean energy transition.| MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Philip Erickson has been named the new director of MIT Haystack Observatory. In leading the radio science observatory in Westford, Mass., Erickson succeeds longtime director Colin Lonsdale, who plans to step down.| MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MIT biological engineers have demonstrated a way to easily retrieve data files stored as DNA. This could be a step toward using DNA archives to store enormous quantities of photos, images, and other digital content.| MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Edward and Joyce Linde Music Building at a MIT, designed by Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa of SANAA, which won the 2010 Pritzker Architecture Prize, is scheduled to open in February 2025.| MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The MIT Generative AI Impact Consortium is a collaboration between MIT, founding member companies, and researchers across disciplines who aim to develop open-source generative AI solutions, accelerating innovations in education, research, and industry.| MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
During its Generative AI Week in November 2023, MIT hosted symposia and events aimed at examining the implications and possibilities of generative artificial intelligence.| MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MIT launched its Initiative for New Manufacturing, an Institute-wide effort to help infuse U.S. industrial production with leading-edge technologies, while creating good jobs. The initiative will encompass advanced research, education programs, and partnership with companies across many sectors, in a bid to help transform manufacturing and elevate its impact.| MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The world’s first covalent organic framework sensors can detect pH changes in living plants, which can provide early warning of drought stress in plants up to 48 hours before traditional methods.| MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
A microneedle-based drug delivery technique for plants that can deliver controlled amounts of agrochemicals to plant tissues could be used to improve crop quality and disease management. The work was developed at SMART, MIT, and Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory.| MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MIT Admissions announced that it will reinstate its requirement that applicants submit scores from an SAT or ACT exam. The office’s research shows the standardized tests are an important factor in assessing the academic preparation of applicants from all backgrounds, says Dean of Admissions and Student Financial Services Stuart Schmill.| MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MIT researchers find artificial intelligence can pick out racial identity from medical images — even when no clear indication of race is present.| MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
By listening in on rat brains, the Picower Institute neuroscientist tries to understand the role of sleep in learning and memory| MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jerome Bert Wiesner, president emeritus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, former science adviser to President John F. Kennedy, and a leader for decades in shaping the nation's science and technology policies, died late Friday night (October 21) at his home in Watertown of heart failure. He was 79 years old.| MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MIT News explores the environmental and sustainability implications of generative AI technologies and applications.| MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MIT researchers have developed a machine-learning algorithm that can register brain scans and other 3-D images more than 1,000 times more quickly using novel learning techniques.| MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
An MIT study teases apart the many factors that have caused the costs of solar photovoltaic modules to drop by 99 percent over the last 40 years.| MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
A new study from MIT cognitive scientists offers an answer to why legal documents such as contracts or deeds are often so impenetrable.| MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Most U.S. workers are in occupations that have only emerged widely since 1940, according to a large-scale study of 80 years of U.S. census data, led by MIT economist David Autor.| MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Undergraduates with family income below $200,000 can expect to attend MIT tuition-free starting next fall, thanks to newly expanded financial aid. Eighty percent of American households meet this income threshold.| MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MIT Dean of Admissions Stu Schmill provides an update on the Institute’s newest incoming class in the wake of the 2023 Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA) v. Harvard Supreme Court ruling.| MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MIT and Harvard University announced a major transition for edX, the online platform for university courses: edX’s assets are to be acquired by education technology company 2U, and reorganized as a public benefit company. 2U will transfer $800 million to a nonprofit organization, led by MIT and Harvard, to explore the next generation of online education.| MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Researchers from MIT and elsewhere developed an easy-to-use tool that enables someone to perform complicated statistical analyses on tabular data using just a few keystrokes. Their method combines probabilistic AI models with the programming language SQL to provide faster and more accurate results than other methods.| MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Researchers have discovered the first programmable RNA-guided system discovered in eukaryotes. The technology, known as Fanzor, has the potential to be more easily delivered to cells and tissues than CRISPR-Cas systems, and further refinements could make them a valuable new technology for human genome editing.| MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MIT researchers find the biggest factor in the dramatic cost decline for lithium-ion batteries in recent decades was research and development, particularly in chemistry and materials science. This outweighed gains achieved through economies of scale, which was the second-largest category of reductions.| MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
A new paper from the MIT Media Lab's Joy Buolamwini shows that three commercial facial-analysis programs demonstrate gender and skin-type biases, and suggests a new, more accurate method for evaluating the performance of such machine-learning systems.| MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
What do people mean when they say “generative AI,” and why are these systems finding their way into practically every application imaginable? MIT AI experts help break down the ins and outs of this increasingly popular, and ubiquitous, technology.| MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Joseph Weizenbaum, a professor emeritus of computer science at MIT who grew skeptical of artificial intelligence after creating a program that made many users feel like they were speaking with an empathic psychologist, died March 5 in Berlin. He was 85.| MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
A new study by three MIT scholars has found that false news spreads more rapidly on the social network Twitter than real news does - and by a substantial margin.| MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
“Deep learning,” the machine-learning technique behind the best-performing artificial-intelligence systems of the past decade, is really a revival of the 70-year-old concept of neural networks.| MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
