Bringing the social and ethical responsibilities of computing to the forefront

The inaugural SERC Symposium convened experts from multiple disciplines to explore the challenges and opportunities that arise with the broad applicability of computing in many aspects of society.

Terri Park | MIT Schwarzman College of Computing • mit
June 8, 2023 ~12 min

MIT researchers make language models scalable self-learners

The scientists used a natural language-based logical inference dataset to create smaller language models that outperformed much larger counterparts.

Rachel Gordon | MIT CSAIL • mit
June 8, 2023 ~8 min


Scaling audio-visual learning without labels

A new multimodal technique blends major self-supervised learning methods to learn more similarly to humans.

Lauren Hinkel | MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab • mit
June 5, 2023 ~9 min

Study doubles the number of known repeating fast radio bursts

Statistics tools support the idea that all radio bursts may repeat if observed long enough.

MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research • mit
May 25, 2023 ~4 min

J-WAFS announces 2023 seed grant recipients

Fifteen principal investigators from across MIT will conduct early work to solve issues ranging from water contamination to aquaculture monitoring and management.

Maria Paula Acosta Bello | Abdul Latif Jameel World Water and Food Systems Lab • mit
May 17, 2023 ~19 min

A better way to study ocean currents

A new machine-learning model makes more accurate predictions about ocean currents, which could help with tracking plastic pollution and oil spills, and aid in search and rescue.

Adam Zewe | MIT News Office • mit
May 17, 2023 ~8 min

Success at the intersection of technology and finance

Citadel founder and CEO Ken Griffin visits MIT, discusses how technology will continue to transform trading and investing.

MIT Career Advising and Professional Development • mit
May 10, 2023 ~7 min

Study: AI models fail to reproduce human judgements about rule violations

Models trained using common data-collection techniques judge rule violations more harshly than humans would, researchers report.

Adam Zewe | MIT News Office • mit
May 10, 2023 ~8 min


Researchers create a tool for accurately simulating complex systems

The system they developed eliminates a source of bias in simulations, leading to improved algorithms that can boost the performance of applications.

Adam Zewe | MIT News Office • mit
May 4, 2023 ~8 min

Researchers develop novel AI-based estimator for manufacturing medicine

A collaborative research team from the MIT-Takeda Program combined physics and machine learning to characterize rough particle surfaces in pharmaceutical pills and powders.

School of Engineering • mit
May 3, 2023 ~7 min

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