Learning how to predict rare kinds of failures

Researchers are developing algorithms to predict failures when automation meets the real world in areas like air traffic scheduling or autonomous vehicles.

MIT Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems • mit
May 21, 2025 ~10 min

Deploying a practical solution to space debris

Researchers share the design and implementation of an incentive-based Space Sustainability Rating.

Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics | Media Lab • mit
May 14, 2025 ~6 min


Designing a new way to optimize complex coordinated systems

Using diagrams to represent interactions in multipart systems can provide a faster way to design software improvements.

MIT Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems • mit
April 24, 2025 ~10 min

Sometimes, when competitors collaborate, everybody wins

Engineers developed a planning tool that can help independent entities decide when they should invest in joint projects.

Adam Zewe | MIT News • mit
Feb. 27, 2025 ~8 min

New computational chemistry techniques accelerate the prediction of molecules and materials

With their recently-developed neural network architecture, MIT researchers can wring more information out of electronic structure calculations.

Steve Nadis | Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering • mit
Jan. 14, 2025 ~9 min

Creating and verifying stable AI-controlled systems in a rigorous and flexible way

Neural network controllers provide complex robots with stability guarantees, paving the way for the safer deployment of autonomous vehicles and industrial machines.

Alex Shipps | MIT CSAIL • mit
July 17, 2024 ~7 min

Fotini Christia named director of the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society

Known for building connections between the social sciences, data science, and computation, the political science professor will lead IDSS into its next chapter.

MIT Schwarzman College of Computing • mit
June 27, 2024 ~5 min

Characterizing social networks

A new method to measure homophily in large group interactions offers insights into how groups might interact in the future.

Stephanie Martinovich | Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering • mit
April 2, 2024 ~6 min


MIT engineers are on a failure-finding mission

The team’s new algorithm finds failures and fixes in all sorts of autonomous systems, from drone teams to power grids.

Jennifer Chu | MIT News • mit
Nov. 9, 2023 ~8 min

AI copilot enhances human precision for safer aviation

Designed to ensure safer skies, “Air-Guardian” blends human intuition with machine precision, creating a more symbiotic relationship between pilot and aircraft.

Rachel Gordon | MIT CSAIL • mit
Oct. 3, 2023 ~5 min

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