Cracking open the black box of automated machine learning

Interactive tool lets users see and control how automated model searches work.

Rob Matheson | MIT News Office • mit
May 31, 2019 ~7 min

Empowering African farmers with data

Research from the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society aims to help African farmers increase their production and profits with better prediction.

Scott Murray | Institute for Data, Systems, and Society • mit
May 30, 2019 ~6 min


Building a community for statistics and data science at MIT and beyond

Third annual MIT Statistics and Data Science conference gathers a growing interdisciplinary community of researchers and practitioners.

Scott Murray | Institute for Data, Systems, and Society • mit
May 10, 2019 ~5 min

Designing water infrastructure for climate uncertainty

A new method identifies opportunities to learn and adapt to changing temperature and precipitation trends.

Mark Dwortzan | Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change • mit
April 22, 2019 ~7 min

Explaining the plummeting cost of solar power

Researchers uncover the factors that have caused photovoltaic module costs to drop by 99 percent.

David L. Chandler | MIT News Office • mit
Nov. 20, 2018 ~7 min

Study: Impact of mercury-controlling policies shrinks with every five-year delay

Toxin will accumulate in the environment, particularly in remote regions, as countries delay implementing emissions controls.

Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office • mit
Nov. 1, 2018 ~8 min

Model paves way for faster, more efficient translations of more languages

New system may open up the world’s roughly 7,000 spoken languages to computer-based translation.

Rob Matheson | MIT News Office • mit
Oct. 30, 2018 ~7 min

Noelle Selin named director of the MIT Technology and Policy Program | MIT News

Selin will spearhead the master's program for students whose research addresses societal challenges at the intersection of technology and policy.

Scott Murray | Institute for Data, Systems, and Society • mit
Aug. 24, 2018 ~4 min


Chip upgrade helps miniature drones navigate | MIT News

Low-power design will allow devices as small as a honeybee to determine their location while flying.

Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office • mit
June 20, 2018 ~7 min

Method man | MIT News

Alberto Abadie refines the tools of economics — and gets some interesting results along the way.

Peter Dizikes | MIT News Office • mit
June 18, 2018 ~6 min

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