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June 24, 2021
by Raleigh McElvery
A lifelong interest in teaching brought Mandana Sassanfar to MIT, where she has established programs to engage diverse students and forged partnerships with institutes across the country.
Of all the offices in...
A lifelong interest in teaching brought Mandana Sassanfar to MIT, where she has established programs to engage diverse students and forged partnerships with institutes across the country.
Of all the offices in...
June 9, 2021
ISSNAF, the Italian Scientists and Scholars in North America Foundation, annually awards the Young Investigator Awards in various disciplines to outstanding, early-career Italian researchers working in the United States or...
May 24, 2021
The correct answer is: squishiness
Story by Ben Dickson
Since the early years of artificial intelligence, scientists have dreamed of creating computers that can “see” the world. As vision plays a key role in many things we do...
Story by Ben Dickson
Since the early years of artificial intelligence, scientists have dreamed of creating computers that can “see” the world. As vision plays a key role in many things we do...
May 11, 2021
Simultaneous measurement of neural rhythms and spikes across five brain areas reveals how propofol induces unconsciousness.
David Orenstein | Picower Institute for Learning and Memory
In a uniquely deep and detailed look at how...
David Orenstein | Picower Institute for Learning and Memory
In a uniquely deep and detailed look at how...
May 10, 2021
by Ben Dickson
Welcome to AI book reviews, a series of posts that explore the latest literature on artificial intelligence.
Since the early years of artificial intelligence, scientists have dreamed of creating computers that can...
Welcome to AI book reviews, a series of posts that explore the latest literature on artificial intelligence.
Since the early years of artificial intelligence, scientists have dreamed of creating computers that can...
May 2, 2021
Computer models that mimic humans’ extraordinary hearing abilities could improve treatments for hearing loss.
Anne Trafton | MIT News Office
The human auditory system is a marvel of biology. It can follow a conversation in a...
Anne Trafton | MIT News Office
The human auditory system is a marvel of biology. It can follow a conversation in a...
April 12, 2021
Memory permits the reuse of past cognitive computations
Psychologists and neuroscientists have long studied memory using experimental tasks in which people or animals are presented with some information and then later asked...
Psychologists and neuroscientists have long studied memory using experimental tasks in which people or animals are presented with some information and then later asked...
March 30, 2021
The purpose of play — for children, monkeys, rats or meerkats — has proved surprisingly hard to pin down. Scientists continue to toss around ideas.
By Chris Woolston
Anyone who has ever chucked a tennis ball in the general...
By Chris Woolston
Anyone who has ever chucked a tennis ball in the general...
March 29, 2021
Jarrod Hicks (MIT) and Dr. Mengmi Zhang (Children’s, Harvard) have been selected as semifinalists in the 2021 Reach Out Science Slam Communication Challenge, which is jointly sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF...
February 2, 2021
Prof. Amnon Shashua, CEO of Intel Mobileye and CBMM External Advisory Committee member, will speak as part of the MISTI MIT-Israel's Breaking Boundaries: Israelis in Science, Technology and the Economy series. CBMM's Director,...