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MIT computer scientist who studies natural language processing and machine learning wins $625,000 prize.
Faculty, friends, and family pay tribute to an intellectually generous scholar.
MIT professor Kieran Setiya’s book “Midlife” aims to smooth out the rocky road of middle age.
NEET pilot initiative centers around interdisciplinary projects to prepare students for the practice of engineering.
D-Lab founder Amy Smith teaches MIT students to tap into the heart of international development.
Awards support high-risk, high-impact biomedical research.
Prof. Regina Barzilay has been named a MacArthur grant recipient for her work in computational linguistics and with applying machine learning to the field of oncology, reports Ellen Gamerman for The Wall Street Journal. “I firmly believe there is a lot of really important information and patterns that are hidden in the data of cancer patients,” said Barzilay.
Prof. Richard Nielsen writes for The Washington Post that while women in Saudi Arabia have been granted the authority to issue state-sanctioned Islamic legal rulings, this move will probably not improve women’s rights. “It is likely that the fatwas coming from female Salafi muftis will be just as restricting to women as those from their male counterparts,” writes Nielsen.
Prof. Max Tegmark writes for NPR about how to ensure that the future of technology augments humankind. “I'm optimistic that we can thrive with advanced AI as long as we win the race between the growing power of our technology and the wisdom with which we manage it. But this requires ditching our outdated strategy of learning from mistakes.”
Project reveals benefits of communicating with industry when conducting research.
Recently discovered phenomenon could provide a way to bypass the limits to Moore’s Law.
Ingestible devices could diagnose gastrointestinal slowdown or monitor food intake.
Using smartphone cameras, system for seeing around corners could help with self-driving cars and search-and-rescue.
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