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Five MIT faculty elected to the National...

July 14, 2025

The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) has elected 120 members and 30 international members, including five MIT faculty members and 13 MIT alumni. Professors Rodney Brooks, Parag Pathak, Scott Sheffield, Benjamin Weiss, and Yukiko Yamashita were elected in recognition of their “distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.” Membership to the National Academy of Sciences is one of the highest honors a scientist can receive in their career. Elected MIT alumni include: David Altshuler ’86, Rafael Camerini-Otero ’66, Kathleen...

Simulation-based pipeline tailors training data for dexterous...

July 11, 2025

When ChatGPT or Gemini give what seems to be an expert response to your burning questions, you may not realize how much information it relies on to give that reply. Like other popular generative artificial intelligence (AI) models, these chatbots rely on backbone systems called foundation models that train on billions, or even trillions, of data points. In a similar vein, engineers are hoping to build foundation models that train a range of robots on new skills like picking...

How an MIT professor introduced hundreds of...

July 11, 2025

From the very beginning, MIT Professor Mark Bear’s philosophy for the textbook “Neuroscience: Exploring the Brain” was to provide an accessible and exciting introduction to the field while still giving undergraduates a rigorous scientific foundation. In the 30 years since its first print printing in 1995, the treasured 975-page tome has gone on to become the leading introductory neuroscience textbook, reaching hundreds of thousands of students at hundreds of universities around the world. “We strive to present the hard...

Gift from Dick Larson establishes Distinguished Professorship...

July 10, 2025

The MIT Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS) announced the creation of a new endowed chair made possible by the generosity of IDSS professor post-tenure and “MIT lifer” Richard “Dick” Larson. Effective July 1, the fund provides a full professorship for senior IDSS faculty: the Distinguished Professorship in Data, Systems, and Society. “As a faculty member, MIT has not only accepted but embraced my several mid-career changes of direction,” says Larson. “I have called five different academic departments...

Walk-through screening system enhances security at airports...

July 10, 2025

A new security screener that people can simply walk past may soon be coming to an airport near you. Last year, U.S. airports nationwide began adopting HEXWAVE — a commercialized walkthrough security screening system based on microwave imaging technology developed at MIT Lincoln Laboratory — to satisfy a new Transportation Security Administration (TSA) mandate for enhanced employee screening to detect metallic and nonmetallic threats. The TSA is now in the process of evaluating HEXWAVE as a potential replacement of...

Designing across cultural and geographic divides

July 10, 2025

In addition to the typical rigors of MIT classes, Terrascope Subject 2.00C/1.016/EC.746 (Design for Complex Environmental Issues) poses some unusual hurdles for students to navigate: collaborating across time zones, bridging different cultural and institutional experiences, and trying to do hands-on work over Zoom. That’s because the class includes students from not only MIT, but also Diné College in Tsaile, Arizona, within the Navajo Nation, and the University of Puerto Rico-Ponce (UPRP). Despite being thousands of miles apart, students work...

Supporting mission-driven space innovation, for Earth and...

July 10, 2025

As spaceflight becomes more affordable and accessible, the story of human life in space is just beginning. Aurelia Institute wants to make sure that future benefits all of humanity — whether in space or here on Earth. Founded by Ariel Ekblaw SM ’17, PhD ’20; Danielle DeLatte ’11; and former MIT research scientist Sana Sharma, the nonprofit institute serves as a research lab for space technology and architecture, a center for education and outreach, and a policy hub dedicated...

Changing the conversation in health care

July 9, 2025

Generative artificial intelligence is transforming the ways humans write, read, speak, think, empathize, and act within and across languages and cultures. In health care, gaps in communication between patients and practitioners can worsen patient outcomes and prevent improvements in practice and care. The Language/AI Incubator, made possible through funding from the MIT Human Insight Collaborative (MITHIC), offers a potential response to these challenges. The project envisions a research community rooted in the humanities that will foster interdisciplinary collaboration across MIT...

Collaborating with the force of nature

July 9, 2025

Common sense tells us to run from molten lava flowing from active volcanoes. But MIT professors J. Jih, Cristina Parreño Alonso, and Skylar Tibbits — faculty in the Department of Architecture at the School of Architecture and Planning — have their bags packed to head to southwest Iceland in anticipation of an imminent volcanic eruption. The Nordic island nation is currently experiencing a period of intense seismic activity; seven volcanic eruptions have taken place in its southern peninsula in...

Processing our technological angst through humor

July 9, 2025

The first time Steve Jobs held a public demo of the Apple Macintosh, in early 1984, scripted jokes were part of the rollout. First, Jobs pulled the machine out of a bag. Then, using speech technology from Samsung, the Macintosh made a quip about rival IBM’s mainframes: “Never trust a computer you can’t lift.” There’s a reason Jobs was doing that. For the first few decades that computing became part of cultural life, starting in the 1950s, computers seemed...

Study could lead to LLMs that are...

July 8, 2025

For all their impressive capabilities, large language models (LLMs) often fall short when given challenging new tasks that require complex reasoning skills. While an accounting firm’s LLM might excel at summarizing financial reports, that same model could fail unexpectedly if tasked with predicting market trends or identifying fraudulent transactions. To make LLMs more adaptable, MIT researchers investigated how a certain training technique can be strategically deployed to boost a model’s performance on unfamiliar, difficult problems. They show that test-time...

Professor Emeritus Barry Vercoe, a pioneering force...

July 7, 2025

MIT Professor Emeritus Barry Lloyd Vercoe, a pioneering force in computer music, a founding faculty member of the MIT Media Lab, and a leader in the development of MIT’s Music and Theater Arts Section, passed away on June 15. He was 87. Vercoe’s life was a rich symphony of artistry, science, and innovation that led to profound enhancements of musical experience for expert musicians as well as for the general public — and especially young people. Born in Wellington,...

Professor Emeritus Barry Vercoe, a pioneering force...

July 7, 2025

MIT Professor Emeritus Barry Lloyd Vercoe, a pioneering force in computer music, a founding faculty member of the MIT Media Lab, and a leader in the development of MIT’s Music and Theater Arts Section, passed away on June 15. He was 87. Vercoe’s life was a rich symphony of artistry, science, and innovation that led to profound enhancements of musical experience for expert musicians as well as for the general public — and especially young people. Born in Wellington,...

Professor Emeritus Barry Vercoe, a pioneering force...

July 7, 2025

MIT Professor Emeritus Barry Lloyd Vercoe, a pioneering force in computer music, a founding faculty member of the MIT Media Lab, and a leader in the development of MIT’s Music and Theater Arts Section, passed away on June 15. He was 87. Vercoe’s life was a rich symphony of artistry, science, and innovation that led to profound enhancements of musical experience for expert musicians as well as for the general public — and especially young people. Born in Wellington,...

New postdoctoral fellowship program to accelerate innovation...

July 7, 2025

The MIT Health and Life Sciences Collaborative (MIT HEALS) is launching the Biswas Postdoctoral Fellowship Program to advance the work of outstanding early-career researchers in health and life sciences. Supported by a gift from the Biswas Family Foundation, the program aims to help apply cutting-edge research to improve health care and the lives of millions. The program will support exceptional postdocs dedicated to innovation in human health care through a full range of pathways, such as leveraging AI in...

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