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MIT’s latest in Computer Science and AI Lab news, where groundbreaking tech meets practical application.

March 30, 2025  04:00:00
Ana Trišović, who studies the democratization of AI, reflects on a career path that she began as a student downloading free MIT resources in Serbia.
March 27, 2025  19:45:00
The American Association for the Advancement of Science recognizes six current affiliates and 27 additional MIT alumni for their efforts to advance science and related fields.
March 25, 2025  17:20:00
The Tactile Vega-Lite system, developed at MIT CSAIL, streamlines the tactile chart design process; could help educators efficiently create these graphics and aid designers in making precise changes.
March 19, 2025  20:40:00
Stuart Levine ’97, director of MIT’s BioMicro Center, keeps departmental researchers at the forefront of systems biology.
March 18, 2025  20:30:00
“Xstrings” method enables users to produce cable-driven objects, automatically assembling bionic robots, sculptures, and dynamic fashion designs.
March 13, 2025  20:30:00
The Exo 2 programming language enables reusable scheduling libraries external to compilers.
March 7, 2025  05:00:00
New research could allow a person to correct a robot’s actions in real-time, using the kind of feedback they’d give another human.
March 4, 2025  16:40:00
A first history of the document security technology, co-authored by MIT Libraries’ Jana Dambrogio, provides new tools for interdisciplinary research.
February 20, 2025  18:40:00
Annual award honors early-career researchers for creativity, innovation, and research accomplishments.
February 19, 2025  05:00:00
A new study shows LLMs represent different data types based on their underlying meaning and reason about data in their dominant language.
February 13, 2025  22:10:00
Whitehead Institute and CSAIL researchers created a machine-learning model to predict and generate protein localization, with implications for understanding and remedying disease.
February 11, 2025  19:50:00
New “Oreo” method from MIT CSAIL researchers removes footprints that reveal where code is stored before a hacker can see them.
February 7, 2025  21:00:00
New faculty member Kaiming He discusses AI’s role in lowering barriers between scientific fields and fostering collaboration across scientific disciplines.
February 7, 2025  05:00:00
MIT researchers developed a new approach for assessing predictions with a spatial dimension, like forecasting weather or mapping air pollution.
February 3, 2025  18:55:00
The consortium will bring researchers and industry together to focus on impact.
February 3, 2025  05:00:00
By automatically generating code that leverages two types of data redundancy, the system saves bandwidth, memory, and computation.
January 29, 2025  21:00:00
MIT CSAIL Principal Research Scientist Una-May O’Reilly discusses how she develops agents that reveal AI models’ security weaknesses before hackers do.
January 23, 2025  15:00:00
Starting with a single frame in a simulation, a new system uses generative AI to emulate the dynamics of molecules, connecting static molecular structures and developing blurry pictures into videos.
January 17, 2025  05:00:00
Rapid development and deployment of powerful generative AI models comes with environmental consequences, including increased electricity demand and water consumption.
January 9, 2025  05:00:00
Inspired by the human vocal tract, a new AI model can produce and understand vocal imitations of everyday sounds. The method could help build new sonic interfaces for entertainment and education.
January 8, 2025  19:40:00
The Thermochromorph printmaking technique developed by CSAIL researchers allows images to transition into each other through changes in temperature.
January 2, 2025  19:00:00
Using this model, researchers may be able to identify antibody drugs that can target a variety of infectious diseases.
December 20, 2024  22:00:00
Biodiversity researchers tested vision systems on how well they could retrieve relevant nature images. More advanced models performed well on simple queries but struggled with more research-specific prompts.
December 19, 2024  22:00:00
Five MIT faculty and staff, along with 19 additional alumni, are honored for electrical engineering and computer science advances.
December 17, 2024  05:00:00
With models like AlphaFold3 limited to academic research, the team built an equivalent alternative, to encourage innovation more broadly.
December 16, 2024  21:10:00
Researchers at MIT, NYU, and UCLA develop an approach to help evaluate whether large language models like GPT-4 are equitable enough to be clinically viable for mental health support.
December 16, 2024  15:00:00
The MIT senior will pursue graduate studies in the UK at Cambridge University and Imperial College London.
December 13, 2024  22:00:00
Five MIT faculty members and two additional alumni are honored with fellowships to advance research on beneficial AI.
December 12, 2024  22:00:00
The “PRoC3S” method helps an LLM create a viable action plan by testing each step in a simulation. This strategy could eventually aid in-home robots to complete more ambiguous chore requests.
December 12, 2024  21:25:00
In a recent commentary, a team from MIT, Equality AI, and Boston University highlights the gaps in regulation for AI models and non-AI algorithms in health care.
December 11, 2024  05:00:00
A new technique identifies and removes the training examples that contribute most to a machine-learning model’s failures.
December 9, 2024  22:00:00
MIT CSAIL director and EECS professor named a co-recipient of the honor for her robotics research, which has expanded our understanding of what a robot can be.
December 9, 2024  15:10:00
Researchers develop “ContextCite,” an innovative method to track AI’s source attribution and detect potential misinformation.
December 4, 2024  22:45:00
First organized MIT delegation highlights the Institute's growing commitment to addressing climate change by showcasing research on biodiversity conservation, AI, and the role of local communities.
December 4, 2024  05:00:00
Researchers propose a simple fix to an existing technique that could help artists, designers, and engineers create better 3D models.
November 21, 2024  21:15:00
The Tree-D Fusion system integrates generative AI and genus-conditioned algorithms to create precise simulation-ready models of 600,000 existing urban trees across North America.
November 19, 2024  19:50:00
MIT CSAIL researchers used AI-generated images to train a robot dog in parkour, without real-world data. Their LucidSim system demonstrates generative AI's potential for creating robotics training data.
November 17, 2024  03:00:00
Yiming Chen ’24, Wilhem Hector, Anushka Nair, and David Oluigbo will start postgraduate studies at Oxford next fall.
November 6, 2024  14:00:00
A new design tool uses UV and RGB lights to change the color and textures of everyday objects. The system could enable surfaces to display dynamic patterns, such as health data and fashion designs.
October 29, 2024  19:40:00
The new Tayebati Postdoctoral Fellowship Program will support leading postdocs to bring cutting-edge AI to bear on research in scientific discovery or music.
October 28, 2024  04:00:00
Inspired by large language models, researchers develop a training technique that pools diverse data to teach robots new skills.
October 28, 2024  04:00:00
“MouthIO” is an in-mouth device that users can digitally design and 3D print with integrated sensors and actuators to capture health data and interact with a computer or phone.
October 21, 2024  15:40:00
By allowing users to clearly see data referenced by a large language model, this tool speeds manual validation to help users spot AI errors.
October 16, 2024  20:10:00
A new method can train a neural network to sort corrupted data while anticipating next steps. It can make flexible plans for robots, generate high-quality video, and help AI agents navigate digital environments.
October 10, 2024  04:00:00
By using a 3D printer like an iron, researchers can precisely control the color, shade, and texture of fabricated objects, using only one material.
October 4, 2024  04:00:00
Associate Professor Julian Shun develops high-performance algorithms and frameworks for large-scale graph processing.
October 2, 2024  15:50:00
MIT CSAIL researchers created an AI-powered method for low-discrepancy sampling, which uniformly distributes data points to boost simulation accuracy.
September 30, 2024  13:00:00
New dataset of “illusory” faces reveals differences between human and algorithmic face detection, links to animal face recognition, and a formula predicting where people most often perceive faces.
September 16, 2024  20:30:00
“Co-LLM” algorithm helps a general-purpose AI model collaborate with an expert large language model by combining the best parts of both answers, leading to more factual responses.
September 9, 2024  20:25:00
“ScribblePrompt” is an interactive AI framework that can efficiently highlight anatomical structures across different medical scans, assisting medical workers to delineate regions of interest and abnormalities.