MIT student Sadhana Lolla has been awarded the renowned Gates Cambridge Scholarship. This prestigious scholarship was created in 2000 and covers all costs for post-graduate study at UK’s Cambridge University for exceptional students from countries outside of the UK. It aims to nurture a global community of aspiring leaders dedicated to enhancing the lives of…
MIT's Shaping the Future of Work Initiative officially launched on January 22. Co-directed by MIT Professors Daron Acemoglu, David Autor, and Simon Johnson, the initiative seeks to examine the factors negatively impacting job quality and employment opportunities for workers without a completed four-year college education. The goal is to propose novel solutions that set the…
Dr. Benjamin Warf, a renowned neurosurgeon from Boston Children's Hospital, has been virtually present in Brazil, aiding and mentoring residents as they perform delicate surgery on a model of a baby's brain. This has been made possible through a digital avatar of Dr. Warf, developed by the medical simulator and augmented reality (AR) company, EDUCSIM,…
Tamara Broderick, a once participant of the Women's Technology Program at MIT, found her path back to the institution years later, but as a faculty member. Broderick, a tenured associate professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), works in the field of Bayesian inference, which is a statistical approach to measure…
As traditional semiconductor technologies approach their physical limits, the demand for computing power continues to rise, largely driven by the rapid expansion of artificial intelligence (AI). Addressing this conundrum, Lightmatter, a company founded by three MIT alumni, has developed pioneering computing technology that harnesses the properties of light to bolster data processing and transport.
Lightmatter’s…
Generative AI is being recognized for its capacity to produce both text and images. Establishment and application of generative AI to produce realistic synthetic data about various scenarios can assist businesses to improve services, reroute planes, or upgrading software platforms, especially in cases where tangible-world data is scarce or sensitive.
For the preceding three years, a…
Meta has developed Code Llama, a state-of-the-art language model, aimed at generating code and assisting with coding tasks, and it is now available through Amazon's SageMaker JumpStart. Code Llama operates in Python, C++, Java, PHP, C#, TypeScript, and Bash, with the aim of boosting developers' productivity and streamlining software processes. The model explores three variations…
Modern chatbots are revolutionizing the customer service sector by providing 24/7 support in multiple languages. Their ability to handle concurrent inquiries in real time, provide relevant data-driven insights, and scale effortlessly make them a cost-effective solution for customer engagement. These benefits are magnified when chatbots are integrated with internal knowledge bases and large language models…
Axfood, Sweden's second-largest food retailer, has succeeded in improving the efficiency and scalability of their AI and machine learning operations with the help of Amazon Web Services (AWS) experts using Amazon SageMaker. Despite having numerous data science teams with their own ways of working, the organization saw the need for a new Machine Learning Operations…