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MIT News — AI research 2mo ago

Building AI models that understand chemical principles

Connor Coley works at the interface of chemistry and machine learning, to discover and design new drug compounds.

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MIT News — AI research 2mo ago

Justin Solomon appointed associate dean of engineering education

MIT faculty member in electrical engineering and computer science to focus on innovation in engineering education and new pedagogical approaches.

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MIT News — AI research 3mo ago

Two from MIT named 2026 Knight-Hennessy Scholars

The prestigious fellowship funds graduate studies at Stanford University.

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MIT News — AI research 3mo ago

Q&A: Expanding MIT’s global reach through Universal Learning

Dimitris Bertsimas and Megan Mitchell discuss the motivation behind Universal Learning, and what sets the new MIT Open Learning educational initiative apart.

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MIT News — AI research 3mo ago

Universal AI is “a pathway to AI fluency that’s accessible and approachable to anyone, anywhere”

New AI education program from MIT Open Learning debuts with AI-powered personalization and a free introductory course for learners everywhere.

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MIT News — AI research 3mo ago

Study: Firms often use automation to control certain workers’ wages

MIT economists found US companies tend to target employees earning a “wage premium,” which increases inequality but not necessarily productivity.

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MIT News — AI research 3mo ago

Games people — and machines — play: Untangling strategic reasoning to advance AI

Assistant Professor Gabriele Farina mines the foundations of decision-making in complex multi-agent scenarios.

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MIT News — AI research 3mo ago

Beacon Biosignals is mapping the brain during sleep

Founded by Jake Donoghue PhD ’19 and former MIT researcher Jarrett Revels, the company is creating an AI-driven platform to help diagnose and treat disease.

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MIT News — AI research 3mo ago

Improving understanding with language

MIT senior Olivia Honeycutt investigates how the ways we communicate can shape our views of the world.

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MIT News — AI research 3mo ago

Making the case for curiosity-driven science

President Sally Kornbluth spoke in front of a packed crowd about growing challenges to the U.S. research ecosystem as funding for America’s top research universities becomes increasingly strained.

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MIT News — AI research 3mo ago

Solving the “Whac-a-mole dilemma”: A smarter way to debias AI vision models

A new debiasing technique called WRING avoids creating or amplifying biases that can occur with existing debiasing approaches.

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MIT News — AI research 3mo ago

The MIT-IBM Computing Research Lab launches to shape the future of AI and quantum computing

Building on a long-standing MIT–IBM collaboration, the new lab will chart the convergence of AI, algorithms, and quantum computing.

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MIT News — AI research 3mo ago

Enabling privacy-preserving AI training on everyday devices

A new method could bring more accurate and efficient AI models to high-stakes applications like health care and finance, even in under-resourced settings.

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MIT News — AI research 3mo ago

A faster way to estimate AI power consumption

The “EnergAIzer” method generates reliable results in seconds, enabling data center operators to efficiently allocate resources and reduce wasted energy.

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MIT News — AI research 3mo ago

MIT scientists build the world’s largest collection of Olympiad-level math problems, and open it to everyone

New dataset of 30,000-plus competition math problems from 47 countries gives AI researchers a harder test — and students worldwide a better training ground.

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MIT News — AI research 3mo ago

Teaching AI models to say “I’m not sure”

A new training method improves the reliability of AI confidence estimates without sacrificing performance, addressing a root cause of hallucination in reasoning models.

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MIT News — AI research 3mo ago

Jacob Andreas and Brett McGuire named Edgerton Award winners

The associate professors of EECS and chemistry, respectively, are honored for exceptional contributions to teaching, research, and service at MIT.

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MIT News — AI research 3mo ago

Bringing AI-driven protein-design tools to biologists everywhere

Founded by Tristan Bepler PhD ’20 and former MIT professor Tim Lu PhD ’07, OpenProtein.AI offers researchers open-source models and other tools for protein engineering.

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MIT News — AI research 4mo ago

Human-machine teaming dives underwater

Researchers are developing hardware and algorithms to improve collaboration between divers and autonomous underwater vehicles engaged in maritime missions.

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MIT News — AI research 4mo ago

Q&A: MIT SHASS and the future of education in the age of AI

As the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences marks 75 years, Dean Agustín Rayo reflects on how AI is reshaping higher education and why SHASS disciplines continue to be central to MIT’s mission.

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MIT News — AI research 4mo ago

A philosophy of work

As the NC Ethics of Technology Postdoctoral Fellow, Michal Masny is advancing dialogue, teaching, and research into the social and ethical dimensions of new computing technologies.

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MIT News — AI research 4mo ago

New technique makes AI models leaner and faster while they’re still learning

Researchers use control theory to shed unnecessary complexity from AI models during training, cutting compute costs without sacrificing performance.

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MIT News — AI research 4mo ago

Sixteen new START.nano companies are developing hard-tech solutions with the support of MIT.nano

Startup accelerator program grows to over 30 companies, almost half of them with MIT pedigrees.

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MIT News — AI research 4mo ago

Helping data centers deliver higher performance with less hardware

Researchers developed a system that intelligently balances workloads to improve the efficiency of flash storage hardware in a data center.

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MIT News — AI research 4mo ago

Working to advance the nuclear renaissance

Dean Price, assistant professor in the Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering, sees a bright future for nuclear power, and believes AI can help us realize that vision.

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MIT News — AI research 4mo ago

Evaluating the ethics of autonomous systems

MIT researchers developed a testing framework that pinpoints situations where AI decision-support systems are not treating people and communities fairly.

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MIT News — AI research 4mo ago

Preview tool helps makers visualize 3D-printed objects

By quickly generating aesthetically accurate previews of fabricated objects, the VisiPrint system could make prototyping faster and less wasteful.

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MIT News — AI research 4mo ago

MIT researchers use AI to uncover atomic defects in materials

A new model measures defects that can be leveraged to improve materials’ mechanical strength, heat transfer, and energy-conversion efficiency.

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MIT News — AI research 4mo ago

Seeing sounds

Mariano Salcedo ’25, a master’s student in the new Music Technology and Computation Graduate Program, is designing an AI to visualize and express music and other sounds.

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MIT News — AI research 4mo ago

MIT engineers design proteins by their motion, not just their shape

An AI model generates novel proteins based on how they vibrate and move, opening new possibilities for dynamic biomaterials and adaptive therapeutics.

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MIT News — AI research 4mo ago

AI system learns to keep warehouse robot traffic running smoothly

This new approach adapts to decide which robots should get the right of way at every moment, avoiding congestion and increasing throughput.

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MIT News — AI research 4mo ago

Augmenting citizen science with computer vision for fish monitoring

MIT Sea Grant works with the Woodwell Climate Research Center and other collaborators to demonstrate a deep learning-based system for fish monitoring.

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MIT News — AI research 4mo ago

Wristband enables wearers to control a robotic hand with their own movements

By moving their hands and fingers, users can direct a robot to play piano or shoot a basketball, or they can manipulate objects in a virtual environment.

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MIT News — AI research 4mo ago

How to create “humble” AI

An MIT-led team is designing artificial intelligence systems for medical diagnosis that are more collaborative and forthcoming about uncertainty.

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MIT News — AI research 4mo ago

Advancing international trade research and finding community

Sojun Park, a postdoc at the Center for International Studies, has learned much from his research on intellectual property as well as his interactions with students and mentors at MIT.

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MIT News — AI research 4mo ago

On algorithms, life, and learning

Operations research expert Dimitris Bertsimas delivered the annual Killian Lecture, providing a look at the past and future of his work.

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MIT News — AI research 4mo ago

What’s the right path for AI?

Conference speakers discussed the unfolding trajectory of AI and the benefits of shaping technology to meet people’s needs.

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MIT News — AI research 4mo ago

MIT and Hasso Plattner Institute establish collaborative hub for AI and creativity

Jointly led by the MIT Morningside Academy for Design, MIT Schwarzman College of Computing, and the Hasso Plattner Institute in Potsdam, the hub will foster a dynamic community where computing, creativity, and human-centered innovation meet.

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MIT News — AI research 4mo ago

Generative AI improves a wireless vision system that sees through obstructions

With this new technique, a robot could more accurately detect hidden objects or understand an indoor scene using reflected Wi-Fi signals.

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MIT News — AI research 4mo ago

A better method for identifying overconfident large language models

This new metric for measuring uncertainty could flag hallucinations and help users know whether to trust an AI model.

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MIT News — AI research 4mo ago

Sustaining diplomacy amid competition in US-China relations

At MIT, former U.S. ambassador to China Nicholas Burns highlights climate change as an area for diplomatic engagement, while exploring areas including China's emphasis on STEM education.

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MIT News — AI research 4mo ago

MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab seed to signal: Amplifying early-career faculty impact

Academia-industry relationship is an early-stage accelerator, supporting professional progress and research.

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MIT News — AI research 5mo ago

Can AI help predict which heart-failure patients will worsen within a year?

Researchers at MIT, Mass General Brigham, and Harvard Medical School developed a deep-learning model to forecast a patient’s heart failure prognosis up to a year in advance.

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MIT News — AI research 5mo ago

New MIT class uses anthropology to improve chatbots

MIT computer science students design AI chatbots to help young users become more social, and socially confident.

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MIT News — AI research 5mo ago

A better method for planning complex visual tasks

A new hybrid system could help robots navigate in changing environments or increase the efficiency of multirobot assembly teams.

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MIT News — AI research 5mo ago

3 Questions: Building predictive models to characterize tumor progression

Assistant Professor Matthew Jones is working to decode molecular processes on the genetic, epigenetic, and microenvironment levels to anticipate how and when tumors evolve to resist treatment.

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MIT News — AI research 5mo ago

How Joseph Paradiso’s sensing innovations bridge the arts, medicine, and ecology

From early motion-sensing platforms to environmental monitoring, the professor and head of the Program in Media Arts and Sciences has turned decades of cross-disciplinary research into real-world impact.

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MIT News — AI research 5mo ago

Improving AI models’ ability to explain their predictions

A new approach could help users know whether to trust a model’s predictions in safety-critical applications like health care and autonomous driving.

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MIT News — AI research 5mo ago

A “ChatGPT for spreadsheets” helps solve difficult engineering challenges faster

The approach could help engineers tackle extremely complex design problems, from power grid optimization to vehicle design.

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MIT News — AI research 5mo ago

New method could increase LLM training efficiency

By leveraging idle computing time, researchers can double the speed of model training while preserving accuracy.

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Building AI models that understand chemical principles

Justin Solomon appointed associate dean of engineering education

Two from MIT named 2026 Knight-Hennessy Scholars

Q&A: Expanding MIT’s global reach through Universal Learning

Universal AI is “a pathway to AI fluency that’s accessible and approachable to anyone, anywhere”

Study: Firms often use automation to control certain workers’ wages

Games people — and machines — play: Untangling strategic reasoning to advance AI

Beacon Biosignals is mapping the brain during sleep

Improving understanding with language

Making the case for curiosity-driven science

Solving the “Whac-a-mole dilemma”: A smarter way to debias AI vision models

The MIT-IBM Computing Research Lab launches to shape the future of AI and quantum computing

Enabling privacy-preserving AI training on everyday devices

A faster way to estimate AI power consumption

MIT scientists build the world’s largest collection of Olympiad-level math problems, and open it to everyone

Teaching AI models to say “I’m not sure”

Jacob Andreas and Brett McGuire named Edgerton Award winners

Bringing AI-driven protein-design tools to biologists everywhere

Human-machine teaming dives underwater

Q&A: MIT SHASS and the future of education in the age of AI

A philosophy of work

New technique makes AI models leaner and faster while they’re still learning

Sixteen new START.nano companies are developing hard-tech solutions with the support of MIT.nano

Helping data centers deliver higher performance with less hardware

Working to advance the nuclear renaissance

Evaluating the ethics of autonomous systems

Preview tool helps makers visualize 3D-printed objects

MIT researchers use AI to uncover atomic defects in materials

Seeing sounds

MIT engineers design proteins by their motion, not just their shape

AI system learns to keep warehouse robot traffic running smoothly

Augmenting citizen science with computer vision for fish monitoring

Wristband enables wearers to control a robotic hand with their own movements

How to create “humble” AI

Advancing international trade research and finding community

On algorithms, life, and learning

What’s the right path for AI?

MIT and Hasso Plattner Institute establish collaborative hub for AI and creativity

Generative AI improves a wireless vision system that sees through obstructions

A better method for identifying overconfident large language models

Sustaining diplomacy amid competition in US-China relations

MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab seed to signal: Amplifying early-career faculty impact

Can AI help predict which heart-failure patients will worsen within a year?

New MIT class uses anthropology to improve chatbots

A better method for planning complex visual tasks

3 Questions: Building predictive models to characterize tumor progression

How Joseph Paradiso’s sensing innovations bridge the arts, medicine, and ecology

Improving AI models’ ability to explain their predictions

A “ChatGPT for spreadsheets” helps solve difficult engineering challenges faster

New method could increase LLM training efficiency