Five MIT researchers—Michael Birnbaum, Regina Barzilay, Brandon DeKosky, Seychelle Vos, and Ömer Yilmaz—are part of winning teams for Cancer Grand Challenges 2024. Each team, made up of international, interdisciplinary cancer researchers, will receive $25 million over five years.
Associate Professor of Biological Engineering Michael Birnbaum is heading Team MATCHMAKERS, comprised of co-investigators Regina Barzilay (Engineering Distinguished…
The "Generative AI: Shaping the Future" symposium, the kickoff event of MIT’s Generative AI Week, drew hundreds of attendees both from academia and industry. Rodney Brooks, iRobot co-founder and keynote speaker, warned attendees against uncritically overestimating the capabilities of generative AI, a technology increasingly powering tools such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Bard.
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In late November, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) held a Generative AI Week involving faculty, staff, and students from the institution. The event served as a platform to discuss the opportunities and important applications of generative artificial intelligence technologies across varied disciplines. The week's agenda included a main symposium and four subject-specific symposia. MIT President…
Justin Solomon, an associate professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), is making use of modern geometric techniques to address intricate problems, many of which don't appear to be linked to shapes. He extrapolates from the foundations laid more than 2,000 years ago by the…
In 2023, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has had a busy and eventful year. Under the leadership of newly inaugurated President Sally Kornbluth, the institute saw significant advances in a range of fields, such as artificial intelligence (AI), clean energy solutions, disease detection, and even the science of kindness. Professor Moungi Bawendi was a notable…
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is poised to transform various sectors, including the world of arts and design. A sold-out panel discussion held on October 26 at MIT explored the future and impact of generative AI in the creative industry. The panel comprised Ziv Epstein, a multimedia artist, Ana Miljački, an architecture professor, and Alex Reben, an…
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…
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…
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…