Zero-trust architecture may hold the answer to cybersecurity insider threats

MIT Lincoln Laboratory study explores a new approach to securing systems.

Nathan Parde | MIT Lincoln Laboratory • mit
May 17, 2022 ~6 min

Technique protects privacy when making online recommendations

Researchers devise an efficient protocol to keep a user’s private information secure when algorithms use it to recommend products, songs, or shows.

Adam Zewe | MIT News Office • mit
May 12, 2022 ~7 min


MIT to launch new Office of Research Computing and Data

Professor Peter Fisher will lead effort to grow and enhance computing infrastructure and services for MIT’s research community.

Office of the Vice President for Research • mit
May 5, 2022 ~7 min

Artificial intelligence system learns concepts shared across video, audio, and text

A machine-learning model can identify the action in a video clip and label it, without the help of humans.

Adam Zewe | MIT News Office • mit
May 4, 2022 ~7 min

Estimating the informativeness of data

MIT researchers can now estimate how much information data are likely to contain, in a more accurate and scalable way than previous methods.

Rachel Paiste | Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences • mit
April 25, 2022 ~7 min

A new state of the art for unsupervised vision

MIT CSAIL scientists created an algorithm to solve one of the hardest tasks in computer vision: assigning a label to every pixel in the world, without human supervision.

Rachel Gordon | MIT CSAIL • mit
April 21, 2022 ~9 min

Frequent encounters build familiarity

PhD student Paige Bollen finds urban street networks that encourage encounters among strangers link to lower ethnic tensions and anti-immigrant hostility.

Leda Zimmerman | Department of Political Science • mit
April 14, 2022 ~8 min

Does this artificial intelligence think like a human?

A new technique compares the reasoning of a machine-learning model to that of a human, so the user can see patterns in the model’s behavior.

Adam Zewe | MIT News Office • mit
April 6, 2022 ~7 min


Ocean vital signs

MIT scientists hope to deploy a fleet of drones to get a better sense of how much carbon the ocean is absorbing, and how much more it can take.

EAPS • mit
April 5, 2022 ~5 min

Generating new molecules with graph grammar

An efficient machine-learning method uses chemical knowledge to create a learnable grammar with production rules to build synthesizable monomers and polymers.

Lauren Hinkel | MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab • mit
April 1, 2022 ~7 min

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