In-home wireless device tracks disease progression in Parkinson’s patients

By continuously monitoring a patient’s gait speed, the system can assess the condition’s severity between visits to the doctor’s office.

Adam Zewe | MIT News Office • mit
Sept. 21, 2022 ~9 min

Visualizing migration stories

“Distance Unknown,” an exhibition by MIT’s Civic Data Design Lab, documents the often challenging journeys migrants undertake to gain economic opportunity and food security.

School of Architecture and Planning • mit
Sept. 21, 2022 ~6 min


AI that can learn the patterns of human language

On its own, a new machine-learning model discovers linguistic rules that often match up with those created by human experts.

Adam Zewe | MIT News Office • mit
Aug. 30, 2022 ~10 min

Taking a magnifying glass to data center operations

Lincoln Laboratory Supercomputing Center dataset aims to accelerate AI research into managing and optimizing high-performance computing systems.

Kylie Foy | MIT Lincoln Laboratory • mit
Aug. 24, 2022 ~10 min

Researchers discover major roadblock in alleviating network congestion

Algorithms designed to ensure multiple users share a network fairly can’t prevent some users from hogging all the bandwidth.

Adam Zewe | MIT News Office • mit
Aug. 4, 2022 ~8 min

A technique to improve both fairness and accuracy in artificial intelligence

Methods that make a machine-learning model’s predictions more accurate overall can reduce accuracy for underrepresented subgroups. A new approach can help.

Adam Zewe | MIT News Office • mit
July 20, 2022 ~7 min

Teaching AI to ask clinical questions

Researchers have made strides toward machine-learning models that can help doctors more efficiently find information in a patient’s health record.

Adam Zewe | MIT News Office • mit
July 14, 2022 ~8 min

Hurricane-resistant construction may be undervalued by billions of dollars annually

Failing to consider neighborhood texture in hurricane-related wind loss models may undervalue stronger construction by over 80 percent.

MIT Concrete Sustainability Hub • mit
July 11, 2022 ~7 min


Building explainability into the components of machine-learning models

Researchers develop tools to help data scientists make the features used in machine-learning models more understandable for end users.

Adam Zewe | MIT News Office • mit
June 30, 2022 ~7 min

Robots play with play dough

A new system lets robots manipulate soft, deformable material into various shapes from visual inputs, which could one day enable better home assistants.

Rachel Gordon | MIT CSAIL • mit
June 23, 2022 ~6 min

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