Associate Professor Jonathan Ragan-Kelley at the MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science is a creator behind many innovative technologies used in photographic image processing and editing. Ragan-Kelley has contributed to the visual effects industry and was instrumental in designing the Halide programming language, a tool widely used in the photo editing sector.
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Artificial intelligence (AI) has increasingly become a pivotal tool in the medical industry, assisting clinicians with tasks such as diagnosing patients, planning treatments, and staying up-to-date with the latest research. Despite this, current AI models face challenges in efficiently analyzing the wide array of medical data which includes images, videos and electronic health records (EHRs).…
The recent ransomware attack on ChangeHealthcare underscores the disruptive nature of supply chain attacks. Such attacks are becoming increasingly prominent and often target large corporations through the small and medium-sized vendors in their corporate supply chains. Researchers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI) in Potsdam, Germany, are investigating different organizational…
Multi-layer perceptrons (MLPs), also known as fully-connected feedforward neural networks, are foundational models in deep learning. They are used to approximate nonlinear functions and despite their significance, they have a few drawbacks. One of the limitations is that in applications like transformers, MLPs tend to control parameters and they lack interpretability compared to attention layers.…
Google's Graph Mining team has developed a new processing algorithm, TeraHAC, capable of clustering extremely large data sets with hundreds of billions, or even trillions, of data points. This process is commonly used in activities such as prediction and information retrieval and involves the categorization of similar items into groups to better comprehend the relationships…
Google's Graph Mining team has unveiled TeraHAC, a clustering algorithm designed to process massive datasets with hundreds of billions of data points, which are often utilized in prediction tasks and information retrieval. The challenge in dealing with such massive datasets is the prohibitive computational cost and limitations in parallel processing. Traditional clustering algorithms have struggled…
Researchers from MIT, led by neuroscience associate professor Evelina Fedorenko, have used an artificial language network to identify which types of sentences most effectively engage the brain’s language processing centers. The study showed that sentences of complex structure or unexpected meaning created strong responses, while straightforward or nonsensical sentences did little to engage these areas.…
A recent study released by an interdisciplinary team led by computer scientists Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor from Princeton University brings into sharp focus the potential harm that AI could do to scientific research. The researchers argue that the lack of properly outlined best practices in using machine learning within scientific fields is threatening the…
PyTorch recently launched the alpha version of its state-of-the-art solution, ExecuTorch, enabling the deployment of intricate machine learning models on resource-limited edge devices such as smartphones and wearables. Poor computational power and limited resources have traditionally hindered deploying such models on edge devices. PyTorch's ExecuTorch Alpha aims to bridge this gap, optimizing model execution on…
Gene editing, a vital aspect of modern biotechnology, allows scientists to precisely manipulate genetic material, which has potential applications in fields such as medicine and agriculture. The complexity of gene editing creates challenges in its design and execution process, necessitating deep scientific knowledge and careful planning to avoid adverse consequences. Existing gene editing research has…