Deep learning helps predict new drug combinations to fight Covid-19

Neural network identifies synergistic drug blends for treating viruses like SARS-CoV-2.

Rachel Gordon | MIT CSAIL • mit
Sept. 24, 2021 ~6 min

Toward a smarter electronic health record

An AI-enhanced system enables doctors to spend less time searching for clinical information and more time treating patients.

Adam Zewe | MIT News Office • mit
Sept. 23, 2021 ~9 min


Making health and motion sensing devices more personal

An electrical impedance tomography toolkit lets users design and fabricate health and motion sensing devices.

Rachel Gordon | MIT CSAIL • mit
Sept. 22, 2021 ~5 min

Engineers create 3D-printed objects that sense how a user is interacting with them

Advance incorporates sensing directly into an object’s material, with applications for assistive technology and “intelligent” furniture.

Adam Zewe | MIT News Office • mit
Sept. 14, 2021 ~6 min

Who can bend light for cheaper internet?

ARROW, a reconfigurable fiber optics network developed at MIT, aims to take on the end of Moore’s law.

Rachel Gordon | MIT CSAIL • mit
Aug. 30, 2021 ~7 min

Smart laser cutter system detects different materials

“SensiCut,” a smart material-sensing platform for laser cutters, can differentiate between 30 materials commonly found in makerspaces and workshops.

Rachel Gordon | MIT CSAIL • mit
Aug. 19, 2021 ~5 min

Exact symbolic artificial intelligence for faster, better assessment of AI fairness

Probabilistic programming language allows for fast, error-free answers to hard AI problems, including fairness.

Rachel Paiste | Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences • mit
Aug. 9, 2021 ~6 min

Life in space: Preparing for an increasingly tangible reality

The Space Exploration Initiative supports research across and beyond MIT in two microgravity flights this spring.

Sarah Beckmann | MIT Media Lab • mit
July 28, 2021 ~10 min


Contact-aware robot design

A novel method to represent robotic manipulators helps optimize complex and organic shapes for future machines.

Rachel Gordon | MIT CSAIL • mit
July 19, 2021 ~5 min

Getting dressed with help from robots

A human-aware motion planning algorithm addresses the safety gap in collaboration between robots and humans.

Rachel Gordon | MIT CSAIL • mit
July 14, 2021 ~5 min

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