As students at the Media Lab in 2010, Karthik Dinakar SM ’12, PhD ’17 and Birago Jones SM ’12 embarked on a project to build a tool for moderating content on platforms such as Twitter and YouTube. The project received so much attention that they were invited to demonstrate it at a cyberbullying summit at…
Researchers at MIT have developed an artificial intelligence tool to improve the efficiency of robotic warehouses. The researchers, drawing from their work in moderating traffic congestion, created a deep-learning model that can process information about the warehouse, including robot paths, tasks, and obstacles, to optimize warehouse functionality. By grouping the robots into smaller units, the…
Tomás Vega, MIT alum and CEO of Augmental, found technology a great equalizer when he dealt with a stuttering disorder at a young age. Vega began programming at age 12 and continued to use technology to augment human abilities throughout high school and college. He made it his mission to help people with disabilities live…
Snowflake recently introduced the Polaris Catalog, a new open-source catalog for Apache Iceberg designed to boost data interoperability across multiple engines and cloud services. The release illustrates Snowflake's commitment to granting businesses more control, flexibility, and security in their data management.
The data sector has grown increasingly fond of open-source file and table formats due to…
Drug efficacy in humans can be heavily influenced by how it interacts with various digestive system transporters. Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Duke University, and Brigham and Women’s Hospital have developed a method that identifies the interactions between drugs and these transporters. These interactions can potentially result in adverse effects if two…