Validation technique could help scientists make more accurate forecasts

MIT researchers developed a new approach for assessing predictions with a spatial dimension, like forecasting weather or mapping air pollution.

Adam Zewe | MIT News • mit
Feb. 7, 2025 ~7 min

Even Bill Gates thinks AI is a little scary

Tech pioneer visits campus with his new memoir to discuss beauty of math, dropping out of College, founding Microsoft, value of curiosity

Harvard Gazette • harvard
Feb. 6, 2025 ~7 min


Streamlining data collection for improved salmon population management

Assistant Professor Sara Beery is using automation to improve monitoring of migrating salmon in the Pacific Northwest.

Avery Plachcinski | Abdul Latif Jameel Water and Food Systems Lab • mit
Feb. 6, 2025 ~13 min

Physicists measure a key aspect of superconductivity in “magic-angle” graphene

By determing how readily electron pairs flow through this material, scientists have taken a big step toward understanding its remarkable properties.

Jennifer Chu | MIT News • mit
Feb. 5, 2025 ~9 min

Introducing the MIT Generative AI Impact Consortium

The consortium will bring researchers and industry together to focus on impact.

Liam McDonnell | Office of Innovation • mit
Feb. 3, 2025 ~12 min

User-friendly system can help developers build more efficient simulations and AI models

By automatically generating code that leverages two types of data redundancy, the system saves bandwidth, memory, and computation.

Adam Zewe | MIT News • mit
Feb. 3, 2025 ~6 min

With generative AI, MIT chemists quickly calculate 3D genomic structures

A new approach, which takes minutes rather than days, predicts how a specific DNA sequence will arrange itself in the cell nucleus.

Anne Trafton | MIT News • mit
Jan. 31, 2025 ~8 min

AI gives nonprogrammers a boost in writing computer code

Writing computer code is helpful for people in many disciplines, but learning to program is hard. Large language models can help nonprogrammers skip the difficult details.

Daniel Zingaro, Associate Professor of Mathematical and Computational Sciences, University of Toronto • conversation
Jan. 31, 2025 ~5 min


MIT engineers help multirobot systems stay in the safety zone

New research could improve the safety of drone shows, warehouse robots, and self-driving cars.

Jennifer Chu | MIT News • mit
Jan. 31, 2025 ~9 min

How satellites and AI help fight wildfires today

Fire spotters used to watch with binoculars from forest towers. Now, technology can help forecast fire behavior, but human experience is still essential.

John W. Daily, Research Professor in Thermo Fluid Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder • conversation
Jan. 30, 2025 ~6 min

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