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ScienceDaily
1 month ago
Artificial intelligence

Engineering household robots to have a little common sense

Robots learn household tasks through imitation but struggle to handle disruptions.
MIT engineers develop a method connecting robot motion data with 'common sense knowledge' of large language models. [ more ]
Techxplore
3 months ago
Artificial intelligence

Stratospheric safety standards: How aviation could steer regulation of AI in health

The likelihood of dying in a plane crash is very low, with an industry fatality risk of 0.11.
MIT scientists are looking to the highly regulated aviation industry as a model for regulating artificial intelligence in healthcare. [ more ]
Open Data Science - Your News Source for AI, Machine Learning & more
3 months ago
Artificial intelligence

ODSC's AI Weekly Recap: Week of January 19th

MIT researchers introduce AI method using automated interpretability agents
Apple plans to reorganize AI team [ more ]
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Chicago Tribune
5 months ago
Education

Editorial: University presidents proved spectacularly inept on Capitol Hill. Resignations should follow.

Elise Stefanik, a US representative, posed a question to the presidents of Harvard, MIT, and Penn about calling for the genocide of Jews violating campus rules on bullying and harassment.
The presidents refused to answer the question directly, leading to criticism of their leadership abilities and suggestions that they may be unfit for their positions. [ more ]
Acm
5 months ago
Digital life

Using LLMs to Code New Tasks for Robots

Researchers at MIT have developed a tool called GenSim that uses large language models (LLMs) to code new tasks for robots and simulate them.
GenSim can generate new behaviors and train robotic arms to execute tasks with a higher success rate than other methods. [ more ]
Theregister
5 months ago
Artificial intelligence

Text-to-image models learn more efficiently with fake data

Synthetic images can help AI models learn visual representations more accurately than real photos.
The MIT-Google team developed StableRep, which uses AI-made pictures to train neural networks in generating images from written descriptions. [ more ]
The New York Sun
6 months ago
Education

MIT Refuses to Suspend Disruptive Anti-Israel Protesters For Fear of Creating 'Visa Issues' For Foreign Students

MIT is reversing its decision to suspend students involved in anti-Israel protests on its campus.
The school cited concerns about potential visa issues for non-American students as the reason for the reversal. [ more ]
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www.nytimes.com
1 week ago
US news

Pro-Palestinian Protesters Resist Order to Clear Encampment at M.I.T.

Pro-Palestinian protesters at MIT resisted eviction deadline, leading to clashes with police and disruptions in traffic. [ more ]
www.nytimes.com
1 week ago
US news

Police Arrest M.I.T. Protesters After Suspensions Ramp Up Tension

Students at M.I.T. protested in support of the pro-Palestinian encampment, leading to arrests and suspensions by the university. [ more ]
www.nytimes.com
4 months ago
US news

The Next Battle in Higher Ed May Strike at Its Soul: Scholarship

Higher education is facing increased scrutiny over issues of integrity, including plagiarism and admissions scandals.
There have been accusations of plagiarism and controversies surrounding admissions processes at prestigious universities such as Stanford, Harvard, and M.I.T. [ more ]
www.theguardian.com
1 week ago
Education

Pro-Palestinian student protesters break through police fencing at MIT

Pro-Palestinian protesters at MIT broke through police blockades calling for an end to Gaza violence. Columbia University cancels commencement amidst pro-Palestinian protests. [ more ]
www.mercurynews.com
1 week ago
Education

Protesters breach barricades, re-occupy MIT encampment

Pro-Palestinian protesters at MIT encampment and Columbia University cancel commencement due to protests. [ more ]
Boston.com
1 week ago
Education

Live updates: MIT protesters reenter encampment after university tries to clear tents

Protesters occupied MIT despite deadline. [ more ]
Intelligencer
2 months ago
Education

What Does an SAT Score Mean Anymore?

MIT reinstated SAT/ACT scores requirement after pandemic disruptions.
Shift in standardized testing requirements among elite colleges. [ more ]
www.nytimes.com
2 months ago
Education

Yale to Require Standardized Test Scores for Admissions

Yale University and Dartmouth College are reverting to requiring standardized test scores for admissions.
Institutions like MIT are reinstating testing requirements while many others are keeping test-optional policies amidst declining SAT takers. [ more ]
Boston.com
5 months ago
Education

So far, no major fallout for MIT president after contentious testimony

MIT President Sally Kornbluth receives strong support from the university's governing board and faculty despite controversy surrounding her testimony on antisemitism on campus.
Some students and alumni express frustration and concern over Kornbluth's leadership and the board's endorsement of her. [ more ]
Theregister
1 month ago
Data science

MIT develops 3D printing method to adapt to various material

MIT researchers developed a new 3D printing method that reduces machine adaptation time for using different materials. [ more ]
designboom | architecture & design magazine
1 month ago
Design

MIT-born 'harness the heat' presents thermally active urban urniture

Harnessing wasted heat for outdoor comfort
Creating targeted cooling zones using intelligent material choices. [ more ]
Yanko Design - Modern Industrial Design News
4 months ago
Design

MIT researchers developing open source hydrogen powered motorcycle for other developers to improve on - Yanko Design

Hydrogen-powered drivetrains are seen as a more sustainable alternative to electric batteries for vehicles.
MIT has developed a hydrogen-powered electric motorcycle prototype that is open source for other developers to test and innovate upon. [ more ]
The New Yorker
2 months ago
Business

How I Learned to Concentrate

The Theory of Computation group at M.I.T. focused on writing equations over coding.
The environment at M.I.T. was filled with highly intelligent and accomplished individuals, including prodigies and award-winning professors. [ more ]
ReadWrite
3 months ago
Artificial intelligence

AI chatbots could converse all day without crashing, new research finds

MIT researchers have found a solution to the problem of AI chatbots' deteriorating conversations.
Their approach modifies the key-value cache to allow conversations to flow without the need to restart the software. [ more ]
Engadget
4 months ago
Artificial intelligence

MIT experts develop AI models that can detect pancreatic cancer early

MIT researchers developed a neural network called PRISM that can detect pancreatic cancer at a higher rate than current diagnostic standards.
PRISM was trained on diverse sets of real electronic health records, surpassing the scale of information typically used for AI models in this field. [ more ]
Acm
5 months ago
Digital life

Engineers Design Robotic Replica of the Heart's Right Chamber

MIT engineers have developed a robotic replica of the heart's right ventricle that mimics its beating and blood-pumping action.
The robotic right ventricle combines real heart tissue with artificial muscles to observe how the ventricle functions in healthy and diseased states. [ more ]
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