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In his first years as an acquisitions editor at the MIT Press in the late 1980s, Bob Prior helped handle a burgeoning computer science list. Thirty-six years later, Prior has edited hundreds of trade and scholarly books in areas as diverse as neuroscience, natural history, electronic privacy, evolution, and design — including one single…
Patients with intractable cancers, chronic pain sufferers, and people who depend on battery-powered medical implants may all benefit from the ideas presented at the 2023-24 MIT-Royalty Pharma Prize Competition’s recent awards. This year’s top prizes went to researchers and biotech entrepreneurs Anne Carpenter, Frederike Petzschner, and Betar Gallant ’08, SM ’10, PhD ’13. MIT…
A trip to Ghana changed Sofia Martinez Galvez’s life. In 2021, she volunteered at a nonprofit that provides technology and digital literacy training to people in the West African country. As she was setting up computers and connecting cables, Martinez SM ʼ23 witnessed extreme poverty. The experience was transformative. That same year, she left…
The MIT School of Architecture and Planning (SA+P) and the LUMA Foundation announced today the establishment of the MIT-LUMA Lab to advance paradigm-shifting innovations at the nexus of art, science, technology, conservation, and design. The aim is to empower innovative thinkers to realize their ambitions, support local communities as they seek to address climate-related…
In the early 1600s, the officials running Durham Cathedral, in England, had serious financial problems. Soaring prices had raised expenses. Most cathedral income came from renting land to tenant farmers, who had long leases so officials could not easily raise the rent. Instead, church leaders started charging periodic fees, but these often made tenants…
A group led by string theory veterans Burt Ovrut of the University of Pennsylvania and Andre Lukas of Oxford went further. They too started with Ruehle’s metric-calculating software, which Lukas had helped develop. Building on that foundation, they added an array of 11 neural networks to handle the different types of sprinkles. These networks…
Regarding robotic learning, the standard practice is to use datasets tailored to the particular robot and job at hand to train policies. Starting from scratch in this manner necessitates a substantial amount of data collection for every activity, and the policies that are produced typically display little generalizability. Theoretically, data gathered from previous robots…
The sun’s surface is a brilliant display of sunspots and flares driven by the solar magnetic field, which is internally generated through a process called dynamo action. Astrophysicists have assumed that the sun’s field is generated deep within the star. But an MIT study finds that the sun’s activity may be shaped by a…
Microsoft hosted the Surface AI event last night during which the company made several announcements about artificial intelligence (AI) technology. Microsoft also launched new generation of Surface laptops and Copilot Plus PCs with built-in AI hardware. While the Copilot Plus PCs included several advanced AI features, one such AI feature that caught everyone’s attention…
The UK government said it would use a major summit in South Korea this week to make a fresh push on reducing the risks around artificial intelligence, putting an onus on firms to develop AI responsibly. “There will be some agreements that we broker,” Britain’s secretary of state for science, innovation and technology, Michelle…
