MIT’s Center for Constructive Communication takes aim at the ...
2023年5月10日 · The MIT Center for Constructive Communication (CCC) and the closely affiliated nonprofit Cortico today announced the launch of a broad-based effort that draws on expertise in face-to-face human dialogue, digital networks, and machine learning to develop safe and trusted spaces for meaningful, nonpolarizing human connection and civic impact.
Method for decoding asteroid interiors could help aim asteroid ...
2022年10月19日 · Now MIT researchers have a tool that may improve the aim of future asteroid-targeting missions. The team has developed a method to map an asteroid’s interior structure, or density distribution, based on how the asteroid’s spin changes as it makes a close encounter with more massive objects like the Earth.
“Life is short, so aim high” - MIT News
2024年3月29日 · Caption: “I’d say life is short, so aim high,” Jaramillo says. “As scientists and engineers that means tackling the hard problems because the easy ones have been solved and, besides, there’s little satisfaction in them.”
Providing hands-on photonics education across Massachusetts
2022年4月21日 · The national manufacturing institute AIM Photonics and the Massachusetts Manufacturing Innovation Initiative, a state grant program managed by the MassTech Collaborative, allocated a combined $11.3 million to build labs across Massachusetts. Under the leadership of MIT Microphotonics Center Director Lionel Kimerling, professor of materials ...
Despite its impressive output, generative AI doesn’t have a …
2024年11月5日 · Large language models can achieve incredible performance on some tasks without having internalized a coherent model of the world or the rules that govern it, MIT researchers find. This means these models are likely to fail unexpectedly if they are deployed in situations where the environment or task slightly changes.
Explained: The 1.5 C climate benchmark - MIT News
2023年8月27日 · In 2015, in response to the growing urgency of climate impacts, nearly every country in the world signed onto the Paris Agreement, a landmark international treaty under which 195 nations pledged to hold the Earth’s temperature to “well below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels,” and going further, aim to “limit the temperature ...
Generative AI imagines new protein structures - MIT News
2023年7月12日 · “The aim, with respect to this new capacity of generating synthetic protein structures, opens up a myriad of enhanced capabilities, such as better binders. This means engineering proteins that can attach to other molecules more efficiently and selectively, with widespread implications related to targeted drug delivery and biotechnology, where ...
Math enthusiasts take aim at STEM glass ceiling - MIT News
2022年10月24日 · A good math problem is like a walled, secret garden, according to Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) head and MIT Professor Asu Ozdaglar, who was addressing an audience of middle and high school female-identifying mathematics contestants at the 14th annual Math Prize for Girls (MP4G) event.
Mathematicians take aim at 'phantom' traffic jams | MIT News ...
2009年6月9日 · Mathematicians take aim at 'phantom' traffic jams. New model could help design better roads. Anne Trafton ...
First-ever Climate Grand Challenges recognizes 27 finalists
2022年2月14日 · Twenty-seven bold, interdisciplinary research projects have been selected as finalists in the first MIT Climate Grand Challenges competition. A subset will make up a portfolio of multiyear projects that will receive additional funding and other support to develop high-impact, science-based mitigation and adaptation solutions on an accelerated basis.