Study: Much of the surface ocean will shift in color by end of 21st century

Climate-driven changes in phytoplankton communities will intensify the blue and green regions of the world’s oceans.

Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office • mit
Feb. 4, 2019 ~8 min

MIT robot combines vision and touch to learn the game of Jenga

Machine-learning approach could help robots assemble cellphones and other small parts in a manufacturing line.

Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office • mit
Jan. 30, 2019 ~7 min


Learning to teach to speed up learning

An algorithm that teaches robot agents how to exchange advice to complete a task helps them learn faster.

Kim Martineau | MIT Quest for Intelligence • mit
Jan. 29, 2019 ~6 min

MIT adds computational Earth, atmospheric, and planetary sciences to its PhD offerings

New EAPS thesis field is the most recent to join the computational science and engineering doctoral program within the Center for Computational Engineering.

Lauren Hinkel | EAPS • mit
Jan. 9, 2019 ~4 min

Location, location, location: researchers develop model to predict retail failure

Researchers have used a combination of location and transport data to predict the likelihood that a given retail business will succeed or fail. 

Krittika D’Silva • cambridge
Oct. 9, 2018 ~5 min

Recognizing the partially seen | MIT News

Advances in computer vision inspired by human physiological and anatomical constraints are improving pattern completion in machines.

Kris Brewer | Center for Brains, Minds and Machines • mit
Sept. 20, 2018 ~4 min

“Blind” Cheetah 3 robot can climb stairs littered with obstacles | MIT News

Improved design may be used for exploring disaster zones and other dangerous or inaccessible environments.

Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office • mit
July 4, 2018 ~8 min

How many people can China feed? | MIT News

Graduate student Tiziana Smith studies links between water availability and crop yields in the world’s most populous country.

Fatima Husain | MIT News correspondent • mit
May 30, 2018 ~7 min


Fundamental equations guide marine robots to optimal sampling sites | MIT News

New principled approach helps autonomous underwater vehicles explore the ocean in an intelligent, energy-efficient manner.

MIT News Office • mit
May 9, 2018 ~9 min

Automating materials design | MIT News

With new approach, researchers specify desired properties of a material, and a computer system generates a structure accordingly.

Larry Hardesty | MIT News Office • mit
Feb. 2, 2018 ~6 min

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