Sustaining diplomacy amid competition in US-China relations
The United States and China “are the two largest emitters of carbon in the world,” said Nicholas Burns, former U.S.…
MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab seed to signal: Amplifying early-career faculty impact
The early years of faculty members’ careers are a formative and exciting time in which to establish a firm footing…
Can AI help predict which heart-failure patients will worsen within a year?
Characterized by weakened or damaged heart musculature, heart failure results in the gradual buildup of fluid in a patient’s lungs,…
3 Questions: On the future of AI and the mathematical and physical sciences
Curiosity-driven research has long sparked technological transformations. A century ago, curiosity about atoms led to quantum mechanics, and eventually the…
New MIT class uses anthropology to improve chatbots
Young adults growing up in the attention economy — preparing for adult life, with social media and chatbots competing for…
A better method for planning complex visual tasks
MIT researchers have developed a generative artificial intelligence-driven approach for planning long-term visual tasks, like robot navigation, that is about…
3 Questions: Building predictive models to characterize tumor progression
Just as Darwin’s finches evolved in response to natural selection in order to endure, the cells that make up a…
How Joseph Paradiso’s sensing innovations bridge the arts, medicine, and ecology
Joseph Paradiso thinks that the most engaging research questions usually span disciplines. Paradiso was trained as a physicist and completed his…
Improving AI models’ ability to explain their predictions
In high-stakes settings like medical diagnostics, users often want to know what led a computer vision model to make a…
A “ChatGPT for spreadsheets” helps solve difficult engineering challenges faster
Many engineering challenges come down to the same headache — too many knobs to turn and too few chances to…