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Ellen Roche and Justin Solomon named Edgerton Award winners

The award recognizes exceptional distinction in teaching, research, and service at MIT.

Drones navigate unseen environments with liquid neural networks

MIT researchers exhibit a new advancement in autonomous drone navigation, using brain-inspired liquid neural networks that excel in out-of-distribution scenarios.

Yael Tauman Kalai PhD ’06 awarded 2022 ACM Prize in Computing

The MIT EECS adjunct associate professor and CSAIL member has been recognized for her outstanding contributions to cryptography.

MIT CSAIL researchers discuss frontiers of generative AI

Experts convene to peek under the hood of AI-generated code, language, and images as well as its capabilities, limitations, and future impact.

An easier way to get bugs out of programming languages

Developed at MIT, D2X is a new tool that makes it easy to debug any domain-specific programming language.

Robotic hand can identify objects with just one grasp

The three-fingered robotic gripper can “feel” with great sensitivity along the full length of each finger – not just at the tips.

A four-legged robotic system for playing soccer on various terrains

"DribbleBot" can maneuver a soccer ball on landscapes such as sand, gravel, mud, and snow, using reinforcement learning to adapt to varying ball dynamics.

Jacob Andreas and Mingda Li honored with Junior Bose Award for Excellence in Teaching

Award is given each year by the School of Engineering to an outstanding educator up for promotion to associate professor without tenure.

Speeding up drug discovery with diffusion generative models

MIT researchers built DiffDock, a model that may one day be able to find new drugs faster than traditional methods and reduce the potential for adverse side effects.

A method for designing neural networks optimally suited for certain tasks

With the right building blocks, machine-learning models can more accurately perform tasks like fraud detection or spam filtering.