- From enhancing international business logistics to freeing up more hospital beds to helping farmers, MIT Professor Dimitris Bertsimas SM ’87, PhD ’88 summarized how his work in operations research has helped drive real-world improvements, while delivering the 54th annual James R. Killian Faculty Achievement Award Lecture at MIT on Thursday, March 19.Bertsimas also described how […]
- This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. I was originally going to write this week’s newsletter about AI and Iran, particularly the news we broke last Tuesday that the Pentagon is making plans for AI companies to train on […]
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- An in-depth examination of how rising power density, 3D integration, and novel materials are outpacing legacy thermal measurement — and what advanced metrology must deliver.What Attendees will LearnWhy heat is now the dominant constraint on semiconductor scaling — Explore how heterogeneous integration, 3D stacking, and AI-driven power density have shifted the primary bottleneck from lithography […]
- In early February, animal welfare advocates and AI researchers gathered in stocking feet at Mox, a scrappy, shoes-free coworking space in San Francisco. Yellow and red canopies billowed overhead, Persian rugs blanketed the floor, and mosaic lamps glowed beside potted plants. In the common area, a wildlife advocate spoke passionately to a crowd lounging in […]
- Most people who regularly use AI tools would say they’re making their lives easier. The technology promises to streamline and take over tasks both professionally and personally—whether that’s summarizing documents, drafting deliverables, generating code, or even offering emotional support. But researchers are concerned AI is making some tasks too easy, and that this will come […]
- Wheelchair users with severe disabilities can often navigate tight spaces better than most robotic systems can. A wave of new smart-wheelchair research, including findings presented in Anaheim, Calif., earlier this month, is now testing whether AI-powered systems can, or should, fully close this gap.Christian Mandel—senior researcher at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) […]
- Who benefits from artificial intelligence? This basic question, which has been especially salient during the AI surge of the last few years, was front and center at a conference at MIT on Wednesday, as speakers and audience members grappled with the many dimensions of AI’s impact.In one of the conferences’s keynote talks, journalist Karen Hao […]
- The following is a joint announcement from the MIT School of Architecture and Planning, MIT Schwarzman College of Computing, Hasso Plattner Institute, and Hasso Plattner Foundation.The MIT Morningside Academy for Design (MAD), MIT Schwarzman College of Computing, Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI), and Hasso Plattner Foundation celebrated the launch of the MIT and HPI AI and […]
- OpenAI is refocusing its research efforts and throwing its resources into a new grand challenge. The San Francisco firm has set its sights on building what it calls an AI researcher, a fully automated agent-based system that will be able to go off and tackle large, complex problems by itself. OpenAI says that the new […]
- Light-warping physics made “invisibility cloaks” a possibility. Now two startups hope to harness the science underlying this advance to boost the bandwidth of data centers and speed artificial intelligence.Roughly 20 years ago, scientists developed the first structures capable of curving light around objects to conceal them. These are composed of optical metamaterials—materials with structures smaller […]
- One morning in May 2019, a cardiac surgeon stepped into the operating room at Boston Children’s Hospital more prepared than ever before to perform a high-risk procedure to rebuild a child’s heart. The surgeon was experienced, but he had an additional advantage: He had already performed the procedure on this child dozens of times—virtually. He […]
- MIT researchers have spent more than a decade studying techniques that enable robots to find and manipulate hidden objects by “seeing” through obstacles. Their methods utilize surface-penetrating wireless signals that reflect off concealed items.Now, the researchers are leveraging generative artificial intelligence models to overcome a longstanding bottleneck that limited the precision of prior approaches. The […]
- Large language models (LLMs) can generate credible but inaccurate responses, so researchers have developed uncertainty quantification methods to check the reliability of predictions. One popular method involves submitting the same prompt multiple times to see if the model generates the same answer.But this method measures self-confidence, and even the most impressive LLM might be confidently […]
- Always-on vision systems might be used in autonomous vehicles, robotics, or to help consumer electronics save power by turning screens off when no one’s around. But to be used in such a way, these systems need to minimize their own power consumption.An always-on computer vision system developed by Nvidia researchers can detect human faces in […]
- The United States and China “are the two largest emitters of carbon in the world,” said Nicholas Burns, former U.S. ambassador to the People’s Republic of China, at a recent MIT seminar. “We need to work with each other for the good of both of our countries.” During the MITEI Presents: Advancing the Energy Transition presentation, […]
- The Pentagon is discussing plans to set up secure environments for generative AI companies to train military-specific versions of their models on classified data, MIT Technology Review has learned. AI models like Anthropic’s Claude are already used to answer questions in classified settings; applications include analyzing targets in Iran. But allowing models to train on […]
- The early years of faculty members’ careers are a formative and exciting time in which to establish a firm footing that helps determine the trajectory of researchers’ studies. This includes building a research team, which demands innovative ideas and direction, creative collaborators, and reliable resources. For a group of MIT faculty working with and on artificial […]
- Birds’ chirps, trills, and warbles echo through the air, while whales’ boings, “biotwangs,” and whistles vibrate underwater. Despite the variations in sounds and the medium through which they travel, both birdsong and whale vocalizations can be classified by Perch 2.0, an AI audio model from Google DeepMind.As a bioacoustics foundation model, Perch 2.0 was trained […]
- This week, over 30,000 people are descending upon San Jose, Calif., to attend Nvidia GTC, the so-called Superbowl of AI—a nickname that may or may not have been coined by Nvidia. At the main event Jensen Huang, Nvidia CEO, took the stage to announce (among other things) a new line of next generation Vera Rubin […]